I think you're confused about what harm reduction means. The purpose of this forum is harm reduction. We all take risks, but encouraging reckless behavior won't be tolerated. That kind of dose escalation can easily put someone in the hospital or worse.
Yeah I totally could be conflating Harm reduction with Harm avoidance(Risk aversion? I need sleep, finals week).
What's wrong with pinning subq in your thigh? That's a pretty standard place on the Mounjaro docs, for testosterone replacement etc.
I don't see why, my thigh has plenty of skin + fat on it. Regardless, subq is only supposed to break through to just under the final layer of the skin. It's why most subq needles are only 5mm. If you're using a 8-12mm needle that you brought mistakenly I can see it maybe hurting. But for even practical reasons (like being better able to visualize where I'm going to pin it), my thighs are way easier than my stomach for me. Lots of people report less side effects as well (I haven't experienced that), but that could just be placebo so who knows.
Thigh is usually not recommended for IM anymore because ventroglute and lateral delt are so much better. But its fine for subQ, especially if you're not very lean.
Much of it isn't responsive to my actual question, but what is seems pretty good, and I'm grateful for it.
Interestingly, my resting heart rate wasn't higher than normal, even when I was most agitated. Still, if I ever experience elevated heart rate, I'll consider atenolol, of which I happen to have some. Thanks!
Betaine for backed up? How much?
Interesting. The geometric mean of the %gCV (or do we use arithmetic?) for all 3 injection sites is like 5x the AUC concentration, so I'm not even sure we can conclude it matters. That's a lot more noise than signal.
Yes, this is the correct conclusion. Is there a difference, probably. But it's not enough to matter for the majority of people.
Quicker weight loss isn't necessarily the best thing for your body. I myself need to lose nearly 200 pounds, so I absolutely understand the appeal of quick results. Triggering more severe side effects isn't worth it though. Especially when some of them can be very serious. Personally I want a slower loss to minimize loose skin as much as I can. There are many other reasons but I think the one that you would likely be most interested in .. rapid weight loss damages your metabolism and I haven't seen a single bit of research on how that can be fixed.
I only pin in my thighs, subq. I was doing belly injections as that was easy and recommend for Mounjaro auto-injectors. I got heavy nausea for 2 days. My doctor gave me an Rx for Zofran, but isn’t in general a fan of treating drug side effects with another drug, it can become an endless cycle. He suggested using the thighs, as it is absorbed slower. The glutes would be the slowest, and would probably fine, but it is not an approved injection site for Mounjaro. And it’s harder to self inject back there. But guess what? That simple change of injection location to the thigh significantly reduced the amount and duration of the nausea. Even tho I rarely get nausea now, I still only do thighs.
