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Cortisol and GLP-1 — need advice

NurseLeah_Nash Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 8:41 AM 43 replies 1,438 viewsPage 5 of 9
labquiet_amy
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Feb 4, 2026 at 5:10 PM#21
PharmacoVig_BOS said:
Give anything pharmacological four weeks before you judge it, and give anything measured weekly a four-point rolling average before you call it a…

I am going to disagree with the direction of travel here. The thread has converged on the tidiest answer rather than the best-supported one, and those are not the same thing.

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Feb 5, 2026 at 2:26 AM#22
PharmacoVig_BOS said:
Give anything pharmacological four weeks before you judge it, and give anything measured weekly a four-point rolling average before you call it a…

Agreed on the substance. I would put less weight on the timescale, because two months of anything is not enough to distinguish a trend from a wobble.

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Feb 5, 2026 at 11:42 AM#23
PharmacoVig_BOS said:
Give anything pharmacological four weeks before you judge it, and give anything measured weekly a four-point rolling average before you call it a…

Bookmarking. The distinction being drawn above is the one nobody else makes. Taking it to my next appointment.

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Feb 5, 2026 at 8:59 PM#24

Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third retelling.

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Feb 6, 2026 at 6:16 AM#25
Dr.KarenChen said:
Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third…

This is my experience too, for whatever a second data point is worth.

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