brilliant a1c
#wins 2025-10-03
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Highlights from this day
- chlorhex — good instinct. share the number, leave the medication decision with the person who prescribed it 21:02
- ghk_gia — the careful phrasing in this channel is genuinely one of my favourite things about it 23:58
- retention_time — when the scale does the flat thing for five weeks the list is the only thing that keeps you honest about whether its working 23:58
- VialBot — today, 2 years ago in #wins: @retention_time posted about buying a coat off the rack for the first time. 41 reactions, still the most-reacted line in this channel. 23:58
half a stone in 9 weeks sounds slow written down and felt enormous while it was happening, we shall see
my milestone was tying my shoes sitting upright. it is not an endpoint in any trial, from memory
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thats the win
careful with the claiming though, mine could easily be the weight rather than the drug and i cannot separate the two
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slightly off topic but is it bad form to say i havent had a single side effect
nearly quit at week three, the nausea was awful, somebody here told me to hold rather than push. month 1 now
30 down in 23 months and honestly the stairs were the bit that got me, not the scale, i have it written down somewhere
thats not showing off
keep going
went up two flights of stairs without stopping and then had to sit down for a completely different reason
my knees stopped hurting around 42 down and i had assumed that was permanent damage, happy to be corrected
size 22 to size 14 over about eighteen months. sizes are not consistent between shops so i only use the one shop, for what its worth
i keep a pair of jeans from 2015 in the wardrobe as a measuring device and it is the only measurement i trust
does anyone have a milestone they were embarrassed to admit mattered
first time under a number i havent seen since 2016, what did people do at that point
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slow is fine
genuine question kept 24 of it off for 17 months now and that is the number i am actually proud of
my wedding ring went on this morning. first time since 2019
oh thats a good one
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the ring thing gets me every time someone posts it
i had it on a chain for four years like an idiot
not an idiot. you know what i mean
mine was the seatbelt extender. binned it in march and havent thought about it since
seatbelt, aeroplane, turnstile. nobody puts those on a graph and they matter more than the graph
im three weeks in and down basically nothing, this channel is either motivating or unbearable depending on the hour
three weeks is titration. you are not seeing the drug yet, you are seeing the on-ramp
my BP came down before the weight did. that was the odd part
was sitting mid 150s over mid 90s at home. now high 120s over high 70s on the same cuff, same time of day
same cuff matters?
hugely. i stopped comparing to the pharmacy machine, different device different story
did your GP change anything
she halved one of my tablets and told me to keep logging. thats her call not mine, im not telling anyone to do that
good instinct. share the number, leave the medication decision with the person who prescribed it
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my one this year was the CPAP
pressure came down from 14 to 9 after the retitration study and the mask stopped leaking because it isnt fighting me
wait the machine pressure is a thing that changes
yes, its set to whatever it takes to hold your airway open. less soft tissue, less pressure needed
that trial is tirzepatide and im on sema, so mine is an anecdote, not a result. but the direction is not a surprise anymore
the careful phrasing in this channel is genuinely one of my favourite things about it
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knees. thats mine. i can go down stairs facing forwards
sounds like nothing. i had been going down sideways holding the rail for two years
not nothing
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ok this is the motivating hour then
keep a list. not weight. a list. rings, stairs, seatbelts, shoelaces
when the scale does the flat thing for five weeks the list is the only thing that keeps you honest about whether its working
today, 2 years ago in #wins: @retention_time posted about buying a coat off the rack for the first time. 41 reactions, still the most-reacted line in this channel.
oh god the coat
the coat is canon
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the coat is pinned for a reason