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comment on [Discussion] units are doing more work than we give it credit for in c/reconstitution · 28 points · 5 months ago

reconstituting at a round concentration makes every later dose easy

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comment on the private prescription thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down in c/glp1uk · 88 points · 5 months ago

That is Scotland’s arrangement and the post is asking about England.

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comment on unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about COA is guesswork in c/coa · 75 points · 5 months ago

Net peptide content is the fraction of the powder that is actually peptide once counterion, water and residual solvent are accounted for. A 99% pure acetate salt can still be about 85% peptide by mass.

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comment on why does nobody talk about dead space in c/reconstitution · 4 points · 5 months ago

reconstituting at a round concentration makes every later dose easy

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comment on three years of fatigue threads, summarised so you do not have to read them in c/sideeffects · 175 points · 5 months ago

Severe or persistent abdominal pain sits outside the pattern this board can usefully discuss. The honest answer there is that it needs someone who can examine you.

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comment on three years of fatigue threads, summarised so you do not have to read them in c/sideeffects · 1 points · 5 months ago

That symptom is not the one being described upthread. Two different things with similar names and the answers are not interchangeable.

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comment on [Meta] the Zepbound rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining in c/tirzepatide · -5 points · 7 months ago

stepping every four weeks is a ceiling on speed, not a schedule you must hit

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comment on [Meta] the Zepbound rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining in c/tirzepatide · 35 points · 7 months ago

Sulphur burps for the first eight days after each step, then nothing. Predictable enough that I planned my week around it.

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comment on the dual agonist thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down in c/tirzepatide · 8 points · 7 months ago

It is a dual GIP and GLP-1 receptor agonist, and the GIP arm is the part that has no equivalent in the semaglutide threads. That is why the side-effect profile reads differently rather than just milder.

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comment on reading REDEFINE threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly in c/cagrilintide · 65 points · 7 months ago

Monotherapy arm or combination arm?

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comment on [Question] how do you actually verify fatigue in c/sideeffects · 4 points · 7 months ago

Same pattern here. It settled at a stable dose without me doing anything clever.

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comment on the packaging question that gets asked weekly, answered properly in c/intlshipping · 7 points · 8 months ago

How many shipments does your figure cover?

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comment on the packaging question that gets asked weekly, answered properly in c/intlshipping · 12 points · 8 months ago

A lane is an origin, a destination, a carrier and a season.

Agreed — and the decomposition matters. Most people are blaming the international leg for a last-mile problem.

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comment on the packaging question that gets asked weekly, answered properly in c/intlshipping · 12 points · 8 months ago

Origin, destination, carrier and month?

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comment on [Question] how do you actually verify heart rate in c/sideeffects · -6 points · 8 months ago

A symptom that begins the day after the shot and fades by day four tracks the exposure curve. One that appears at random in week 20 probably does not, and that is worth saying to a clinician rather than to us.

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comment on private prescription — 20 things I got wrong before I got it right in c/glp1uk · 2 points · 8 months ago

I would not read a supply notice as a shortage in your pharmacy tomorrow. They are not the same thing.

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comment on reading bacteriostatic water threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly in c/reconstitution · 1 points · 9 months ago

Is that a U-100 syringe? The barrel markings change the answer completely.

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comment on [Meta] proposal — a flair for cagrilintide posts in c/cagrilintide · 5 points · 10 months ago

Are you comparing against a GLP-1 monotherapy result? They are not comparable.

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comment on [Meta] proposal — a flair for cagrilintide posts in c/cagrilintide · 10 points · 10 months ago

read the combination arms separately from the monotherapy arms

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comment on [Meta] proposal — a flair for cagrilintide posts in c/cagrilintide · 9 points · 10 months ago

How many separate lots has anyone here tested?

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comment on [Discussion] we are measuring lane at the wrong time and calling it noise in c/intlshipping · 18 points · 10 months ago

Packaging is assessable on arrival with no equipment: rigid outer, no movement inside, the cold element sized to the transit rather than to the box.

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comment on is it normal to get constipation at week 87 in c/tirzepatide · 11 points · 11 months ago

The four-week interval in the label is a minimum. Nothing about the pharmacology requires you to step on schedule, and the trials stepped on a calendar because trials have to.

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comment on why does nobody talk about pricing in c/glp1uk · 22 points · 11 months ago

England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are four different pathways

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comment on unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about dead space is guesswork in c/reconstitution · 1 points · 11 months ago

Agreed — units are volume. Once that lands, the rest of the arithmetic is one division.

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comment on [Question] MHRA — what am I missing here in c/glp1uk · 6 points · 1 year ago

Read the MHRA notice rather than the news coverage and the actual scope was much narrower than the panic threads suggested.

Adding the practical bit — ask what happens at discharge before you start, not after.

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comment on someone explain COA to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/coa · 128 points · 1 year ago

The document I was worried about turned out to be a re-issue with a later creation date. Asked, got the original, entirely ordinary.

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comment on someone explain reflux to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/sideeffects · 287 points · 1 year ago

Nothing in this thread is medical advice, including this comment. I am describing a mechanism, not telling anybody what to do about their own week.

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comment on [PSA] units are not what most of this community thinks it is in c/reconstitution · 24 points · 1 year ago

That only works if the fill weight is exactly the label weight, and it usually is not exactly anything.

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comment on [PSA] units are not what most of this community thinks it is in c/reconstitution · 6 points · 1 year ago

Asked QYB what volume they reconstitute to for their own stability testing and they answered in one line. Useful thing to know.

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comment on [PSA] units are not what most of this community thinks it is in c/reconstitution · 14 points · 1 year ago

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.

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comment on [Meta] proposal — a flair for SURMOUNT posts in c/tirzepatide · 257 points · 1 year ago

Appetite effect for me is flat across seven days. On sema it was a wave. Same person, different molecule.

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comment on [Meta] the shipping rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining in c/intlshipping · 44 points · 1 year ago

Cosigning the seasonality point. February and August on the same lane are different animals.

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comment on [Meta] the shipping rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining in c/intlshipping · 5 points · 1 year ago

customs clearance time is not carrier time and they get conflated

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comment on stalled for 6 weeks at 15mg and I refuse to panic this time in c/sideeffects · 8 points · 1 year ago

Bought four different things to fix my nausea. What actually worked was eating half as fast.

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comment on how much of what we believe about tier 3 actually comes from UK threads in c/glp1uk · 7 points · 1 year ago

A private prescription is an independent route: it does not affect NHS list position, and it is not a step in the same pathway.

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comment on why does nobody talk about Zepbound in c/tirzepatide · 71 points · 1 year ago

What step are you on and how long have you been there?

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comment on [PSA] gallbladder is not what most of this community thinks it is in c/sideeffects · 15 points · 1 year ago

Yes. Holding the dose is a real option and it does not mean you have failed at anything.

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comment on [Question] is 93.7% actually fine or am I being sold a rounding error in c/tirzepatide · 42 points · 1 year ago

the appetite effect is blunter than sema, in a good way, most weeks

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comment on the reconstitution thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down in c/reconstitution · -25 points · 1 year ago

Bacteriostatic water contains benzyl alcohol as a preservative, which is what makes repeated entry into the same vial reasonable. Plain sterile water has no preservative.

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comment on the batch question that gets asked weekly, answered properly in c/coa · 34 points · 1 year ago

Yes — and the reason to ask for the whole page is that the interesting parts are the ones people crop out to fit a screenshot.

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