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The escalation schedule in the trials existed to keep people on the drug.

ravi_bergstrom is describing the standard shape here and it matches the trial data better than most anecdotes do.

The lyophilised cake displaces a small volume, so the true concentration is very slightly lower than the arithmetic suggests. It is a fraction of a percent and it is dwarfed by fill tolerance.

Same. I got this wrong once, caught it because the units looked absurd, and have written on every vial since.

Cosigning. The appetite change and the scale change ran about three weeks apart for me too.

Yes — the interval is the finding. A point estimate with a wide interval is a hypothesis in a nice font.

What did the confidence interval look like?

This. Showing the working is the fastest way for somebody else to spot the mistake.

Cardiovascular outcome trials are powered for events, not for weight, and are typically run in a different population with different inclusion criteria. Reading a weight number out of one is reading a secondary endpoint.

check who the comparator was before you compare anything

What dose and how many weeks at it before this started?

Dropped my injection day by two days once because of travel. Nothing happened. The panic was worse than the effect.

Did the clothes change before the number did for you too?

sema is weekly for a reason, the half-life does the smoothing

Show the arithmetic — where did the unit figure come from?

That reads like a titration plan and this board cannot give you one. Somebody who actually knows your history has to.

Yes, and the dead-space point is worth repeating: it is small, it is real, and it is the same for every draw.

First month I lost almost nothing and nearly quit. Month two and three were where it all happened.

The weekly interval comes out of the half-life — roughly a week — so you are on a smooth curve rather than a series of spikes. That is also why moving your day slightly does very little.

Open-label extensions lose their randomisation. Anybody still enrolled at week 104 is a selected group and the numbers describe that group.

Small fix — a U-100 syringe is 100 units per mL. If yours is marked differently it is not U-100 and the whole calculation changes.

Why comparing across trials almost never works, with the specific failure modes.

Adding the check nobody runs — the registered protocol is public and takes two minutes to compare.

week 70 plateau is the most predictable thing in this entire board

STEP-1 ran 68 weeks and landed just under 15% mean body weight change on 2.4mg. It is an average of a wide distribution, not a target you have missed.

Cosigning the round-number approach. Reconstituting to something awkward is how you end up drawing 27.5 units at six in the morning.