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I have two insurance plans and neither covers a GLP-1 unless you are diabetic, which I am not. Walmart's pharmacist pointed me to the manufacturer savings offer on the Wegovy website. Both plans said no, so I qualified, and now Wegovy costs me $200 a month.

How'd the last draw look? Hoping the electrolyte mix is finally catching up to it.

Echoing others: start at the standard 0.25 and remain there for a month minimum before slowly stepping up. If side effects worry you, this is the way. Going straight to 1mg is asking for trouble and failure. Listen to the veterans on this forum, or search previous posts at minimum. Plenty of...

A little more than a year with Ozempic, at 1mg. There was a slight stall, then it picked up again and the weight is dropping, plus I can manage side effects better now. Staying on 1mg until I reach goal, then I drop to 0.25mg. Thats my experience anyway.

Zepbound since September for me, currently 7.5mg, and just 20 lbs off in 10 months. It seems to me 7.5mg has stopped holding my hunger down, so should I try Mounjaro? Though I think theyre basically the same drug, similar to how Ozempic relates to Wegovy.

I relate somewhat: obese my whole life, tried countless diets, hit a normal weight more than once, never held it. Across 2022-23 I went from 145kg to 75kg, eating 1600-1800 kcal daily with lots of protein, very little fat, low calorie density, and no high glycemic carbs or rich addictive food...

almond-knitter55 Starting reta, I dropped a few kg too quickly, and forcing food down became a chore. Mornings are my training time, so I hard-boiled 3-4 eggs even when I didnt feel like eating, just to hit protein and calories. Later I adjusted and its fine now. Right now Im waiting on a tesa...

Everyone reacts differently to these meds, so its hard to predict. On a low dose you might have no fatigue or any sides at all. Think positive, the brain is powerful. For me the tiredness lands on days 2 and 3 after the shot, though I began at double the dose, and I have had zero GI issues. What...

Thanks! What I need is 31g x 1 inch for intramuscular. I'll switch to pens for peptides anyway, so its moot; the needles were mainly for TRT, and I keep flipping between IM and subq depending on which doctor I listen to about effectiveness. I'm not putting a 27ga or bigger needle in my muscle...

Ideally the setup would use 30mg vial kits, giving four complete doses with essentially zero degradation risk. Really just a matter of individual taste in the end, weighed against a modest degradation chance and the possibility the later doses, especially six through eight, might feel a bit...

Tirz onset is usually 2-4 weeks versus sema's faster first response - previous sema experience makes the slower start feel like it's not working.

Weeks of radio silence from a vendor usually means one of three things - they've gone dark, had a supply disruption, or are overwhelmed and triaging orders - none of which improves with more contact attempts.

ABC Labs and Diagnostics Research are both used in the community. For tabs specifically, HPLC over just activity assay is worth the extra cost if you're trying to confirm both identity and dose.

switched to mid-afternoon SS-31. running Mots-C 5mg every other day in the AM fasted. second cycle now. first one made me tired. day 11 of 30—already feeling the synergy kick in.

low ferritin isn't a diagnosis by itself, needs explaining. pre-menopausal women usually not a big deal but 60 year old or male? absolutely needs looking into. often requires checking for gut blood loss w/ scoping unless it's diet.