newstart_MO said:

Phantom hunger vs real hunger on food noise: learning to distinguish between the two has been a revelation.

Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it. Taking it to my next appointment.

Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads.

Rebound hunger after missed dose of food noise: I missed my injection by 3 days due to a shipping delay and the hunger came ROARING back. Like a switch flipped. It was eye-opening to feel the difference.

This experience actually reinforced my understanding of what the medication does — it's not just "suppressing appetite," it's normalizing dysregulated hunger signaling. When the drug wears off, you feel the full force of what it was managing.

Dr.PathRoch said:

NicoleRaleigh said: ...regarding food noise mechanism of action...

Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. Pushing back on the anecdote-stacking. Twenty people reporting the same thing is twenty samples from the same self-selected pool, not twenty independent confirmations.

One concrete data point for the thread. Keep the original post as written when you update it, and add the correction underneath. An edited-away mistake is invisible to the next person who makes it.

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