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I literally cannot eat more than 3 bites help — anyone have experience?

Dr.DermMIA Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 6:24 PM 37 replies 2,114 viewsPage 1 of 8
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Dr.DermMIA
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Oct 18, 2024 at 6:24 PM#1

Putting this up for argument rather than for agreement. I have read it twice and I am still not certain what it supports.

Holding genuinely reduces total burden rather than redistributing it, because the gastric-emptying component adapts. Receptor-level tachyphylaxis to the delayed-emptying effect develops over weeks while the central appetite effect persists, so the same dose is materially more comfortable at week six than at week two. A slower ladder therefore reaches the same dose with less cumulative nausea, not the same nausea spread thinner.

Where I think it is weakest: the comparator does most of the work in how this gets reported, and it is not the comparator most people think they are citing.

So the question, as narrowly as I can put it: what distinguishes the nausea you can titrate through from the nausea that means stop. I have searched first, so if this is covered somewhere point me at it and I will read it.

Note on sourcing:
Figures above are from the primary publication rather than the press summary. If a number here disagrees with one you have, post yours and we will work out which of us is reading a secondary source.
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Oct 18, 2024 at 7:06 PM#2
Dr.DermMIA said:
Holding genuinely reduces total burden rather than redistributing it, because the gastric-emptying component adapts.

Dr.DermMIA has the substance of this right. The condition it depends on is worth stating. The line between titrate-through and stop is not severity, it is trajectory and what else is present. Nausea that peaks and improves within a week is the expected pattern. Nausea that is escalating, or that comes with severe upper-abdominal pain radiating to the back, or that prevents fluids for more than a day, is a different conversation and belongs with a clinician the same day.

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Oct 18, 2024 at 7:48 PM#3
Dr.DermMIA said:
Holding genuinely reduces total burden rather than redistributing it, because the gastric-emptying component adapts.

I dislike how confidently this board tells people to push through. Incidence figures around 20 to 25% at the higher doses are class-typical, but the trials also had a discontinuation column, and "manageable with protocols" is not the same as manageable for everyone.

I would rather be corrected than agreed with, if it comes to it.

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Oct 18, 2024 at 8:30 PM#4

Answering the narrow version, because the broad one does not have a single answer. The practical protocol is dull and it works: smaller meals, stop eating at the first sign of fullness rather than at the end of the plate, drop the fat fraction of meals in the two days after dosing, and do not lie down straight after eating. Most of what people call unmanageable nausea is a meal-size and meal-composition problem interacting with a stomach that is emptying slowly.

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Oct 19, 2024 at 12:24 AM#5
Dr.ObesityMed said:
The line between titrate-through and stop is not severity, it is trajectory and what else is present.

This matches mine closely enough to be worth saying so out loud. The detail I would add is minor and it is already implied above.

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