Just got my Sema! Any tips?

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Novo reaching out to patients directly is the defensive play before the patent cliff - retention outreach is cheaper than competing on price later.
 
The 30% body weight loss framing is the most honest way to look at the long-term commitment question. If that's your target, you're looking at years of therapy, not months - and the idea of stocking up accordingly is just rational planning rather than panic.
 
having sema on hand and knowing it worked before is actually the best position to be in when stalled on reta. the stack approach versus sema solo is a real question - adding the second mechanism tends to push things past a plateau better than switching. what dose of sema are you thinking and how long have you been stalled on reta?
 
Might be worth looking into tirzepatide as an alternative? I made that switch myself after stalling out on wegovy for a couple years, that was the only option my insurance would pay for, and started dropping weight again even on smaller tirzepatide doses.
 
Saw the news that regulators signed off on a stronger option for the branded semaglutide shot, genuinely not that shocking given the timing. Curious how that plays into the patent situation, my guess is it effectively resets the clock on these higher amounts. Makes me wonder whether tirzepatide's sitting similarly far under its real ceiling too. Haven't come across anything solid yet on the higher tirzepatide doses supposedly in trials. Some speculation floats around 20 or 25mg, though who knows, could end up being considerably higher than that. Guess it's time to consider bumping my own dose.
 
Got it. Going to mix up the fresh larger reta vial and try injecting from that to see how it goes. My wife's about to start reta herself, moving over from sema, want her starting on an unopened vial as well.

Yeah, definitely strange. Only got the one brand to compare against so far. A 10mg kit is arriving tomorrow, might just mix and use that right away to figure out if the issue's the product or just me.
 
Even reading the dosing from those big sema trials makes me queasy, since 0.8mg ozempic made me sick for a whole year. Novo isn't doing great, since tirz beats it on both effectiveness and side effects, and unluckily for them, tirz at 15mg still outperforms 7.2mg and even 16mg of sema from their other trial. The side effect numbers from those higher-dose studies weren't pretty.
 
Lilly really should contact the Super Trips and run a new clinical trial specifically on them lol. No two ways around it, 60mg is a 'shocking' dose to many, but I think that's less true when you consider the FDA genuinely approved 7.2mg Wegovy dose, up from the earlier 2.4mg max. If they personally can triple semaglutide, there is no reason not to triple tirzepatide... er, quadruple it.
 
Definitely bring up a higher dose or switching to Tirz with your provider. Ozempic tops out at 2mg, that's the catch. Wegovy is the same semaglutide, though approved for higher doses.
 
I cover the cost myself, so hoping 1mg holds up long term. Im only at .5 so far and my doc would like me to stay there for now. Two pens a month is technically within budget, though barely. I hope generics keep getting cheaper as more get approved, and that higher dose pens reach the market eventually like the wegovy model. Sevmia was just approved but isnt out yet, and it also tops out at 1mg. Fingers crossed the doses go up and the prices go down.
 
needles aren't really my thing either, going up a dose this weekend and already dreading that it'll feel bigger or drag on longer, but it's gotta happen. and yeah getting back into losing after a break is rough, i've had my own string of short-lived progress because of that. the pill version sounds appealing down the road, saw it mentioned too, but with about 5 stone to shift i figured starting with the needle made more sense for now.
 
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