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I switched to Wegovy in January after reaching 15mg of Mj, because of maintenance cost. Holding steady took 10mg minimum on Mj, and I'd been on it since August 2024. It's done the job, 1.7mg is my ideal maintenance dose, and neither drug caused me any trouble. Just try it. I'm saving about 100...

Long before GLP1s I was already on a multivitamin and extra D, since my D level runs chronically low. I also take hair vitamins because my hair has been growing out since before I began. I haven't had any shedding like some friends did. Am I sure it was the vitamins? No. Likely they contributed...

I feel rough after a greasy meal or overeating too. If that's not what happened and it began right when you stepped up, you might have to ease off a little. GI trouble like this is common with reta, your body may simply need time. Did you recently reconstitute a new vial and maybe overdraw? Was...

About 5 weeks into cagri: two weeks at 0.25, two more at 0.5, then I moved to 1mg last Thursday. Wow, that 1mg was a beast, the first pin I've regretted in a while. It eased to tolerable by Saturday, but the nausea was fierce. Adding cagri was worth it, it got me past a mini plateau. Reta 12.5...

All my reading points to A1c creeping up after you stop, and I'm back on meds myself. Chronic conditions work like that, drop the treatment and the problem returns. In my view gastric surgery is the sole cure for T2. I'm T2 as well and plan to stay on one of these meds for good.

This is a lifetime commitment for me, taking tonight's shot right now. My struggle was never about being inactive or eating badly - I steered clear of that my whole life. Back in college I weighed over 230 and was either logging 20-30 running miles weekly or putting in several miles of swimming...

Stopping Ozempic here after several years on 2.0mg, starting Mounjaro next month instead. My doctor's take is that Mounjaro does a better job managing glucose and dropping weight, with easier side effects. I'll circle back once September wraps up and let you know how it's going.

You're probably referring to mg rather than ml. One ml can easily contain several milligrams worth of compound, depending on how much active ingredient sits in the vial versus how much liquid gets used to reconstitute it.

Going from obese to normal BMI is a meaningful clinical milestone, not just a number. A lot of people work a year or more to hit that threshold and then realize the scale was measuring something real all along. What dose got you there and are you planning to maintain or push further?

The 8-dose structure on the 0.25mg pen is worth knowing before you start - it prevents the common error of thinking a pen is finished after a single dose. Extra needles on hand is smart, and the visual check on liquid clarity before each dose is the right pre-injection habit.

The sodium chloride BAC water for GHK-Cu sting reduction is worth trying before anything else - the standard BAC water formulation creates a localized reaction at the injection site that the saline-based version avoids for most people. Worth going through remaining vials with saline BAC as the...

5mg and A1C below 5.0% is the ceiling that most people aiming only for weight loss never reach because they stop before they see how low the metabolic markers can go. Staying on the current dose when it's still doing both things is exactly the right call. How are you planning to structure the...

The most effective approach with a skeptical family member tends to be specific outcomes rather than general health claims - concrete examples like A1C changes, blood pressure, joint pressure reduction, and reduced fatigue are more persuasive than the weight number. The medication-as-a-tool...

Recalculating TDEE as you lose is one of the things that gets skipped and then people wonder why progress slows. Your caloric needs at 50% down are substantially different from where you started. What's the protein target you're working with and is it tied to current or goal weight?

The GHK-Cu injection site reaction resolving completely with a site switch is consistent with local tissue response - some areas have a higher density of reactive cells or thinner subcutaneous layer that makes the response more pronounced. The switch to glutes suggests tissue type and injection...

1mg Reta with decent food noise suppression from the start and then titrating up not because the lower dose stopped working but because more might do more - that's an important distinction. A month on Wegovy at the lowest dose isn't the same situation but the expectation that suppression hits...

1mg not registering and then 1mg every 3 days finally landing is the dose-frequency lesson that catches a lot of people. The skin sensitivity ceiling is the trade-off that determines the max effective dose for a lot of people. 186 to 126 at 15mg in 9 months is excellent movement. Is the plan to...

20 years of PCOS and insulin resistance before reaching for Mounjaro is the delayed version of a story a lot of people here have. 244.5 to 161.7 in 11 months for the OP is the result of actually using the tool that works for the specific hormonal picture. The decision to finally try it after...

194 to 179 in 2.5 months at 5mg is good movement. The A1C question matters a lot when you're on it for metabolic reasons - what did it start at and has it moved? The nausea in the OP settling down at 9 months is a reassuring timeline for someone 2.5 months in.

The pose shift is the tell that most people miss in comparison photos - the difference in how someone holds themselves after significant weight loss is as visible as the size difference. Confidence reads in the posture and you can see it.