⚠ AliExpress semaglutide — July 2024

BethLabQueen said:

The mechanism that matters here is not stomach emptying, it is central.

This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. The trial means are being read too generously in this thread. STEP populations were selected, supported, and titrated by protocol, and the real-world curves are consistently a few points worse. That difference is not noise, it is what happens when you remove the study infrastructure.

The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. Worth knowing that the injection site changes very little. Abdomen, thigh and upper arm are bioequivalent for semaglutide, so a site change is not a plausible explanation for a bad week.

labquiet_amy said:

The trial means are being read too generously in this thread.

Coming at labquiet_amy’s question from a different direction. There is a difference between no evidence and evidence of no effect, and this subject is one where the two get swapped freely in both directions.

Following on from KarenAZ_mom — and this may be the naive question:

What did you change at the same time, and can you separate the two now?

Reporting back.

Update since I posted: I held at 1.7mg for a further twelve weeks and lost another 4kg slowly, which settles it for me. I was escalating because the number was available, not because I had stopped responding.