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Hair falling out at month 4 - freaking out

AmyNC_wife Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 8:41 PM 29 replies 993 viewsPage 1 of 6
AmyNC_wife
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Apr 13, 2026 at 8:41 PM#1

The nausea I get is not really nausea, it is an aversion. Food I want in the abstract becomes repellent in front of me, which no side-effect list describes.

Trial-level incidence runs roughly 20 to 25% for nausea at the higher dose tiers and 12 to 17% for diarrhoea, with most events mild to moderate and concentrated in the weeks after each escalation.

What I am trying to establish is whether holding at a lower dose for longer actually reduces total side-effect burden or just spreads it out.

I would rather have one careful answer than five confident ones.

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Apr 13, 2026 at 10:43 PM#2

Short answer first, then the reasoning. The line between titrate-through and stop is not severity, it is trajectory and what else is present. Nausea that peaks and improves within a week is the expected pattern. Nausea that is escalating, or that comes with severe upper-abdominal pain radiating to the back, or that prevents fluids for more than a day, is a different conversation and belongs with a clinician the same day.

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Apr 14, 2026 at 12:45 AM#3
PurityPaulOR said:
The line between titrate-through and stop is not severity, it is trajectory and what else is present.

Agreed on adaptation, with a caveat: adaptation applies to gastric emptying and not to everything. If your problem is the aversion rather than the fullness, waiting does less, because the aversion is central and it is the mechanism working as intended.

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Apr 14, 2026 at 2:47 AM#4
AmyNC_wife said:
The nausea I get is not really nausea, it is an aversion.

Can confirm the pattern AmyNC_wife describes. The practical protocol is dull and it works: smaller meals, stop eating at the first sign of fullness rather than at the end of the plate, drop the fat fraction of meals in the two days after dosing, and do not lie down straight after eating. Most of what people call unmanageable nausea is a meal-size and meal-composition problem interacting with a stomach that is emptying slowly.

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Apr 14, 2026 at 2:50 PM#5

Clinical perspective, offered as context rather than as advice. The useful move here is to separate what is established from what is widely repeated. Those two sets overlap less than the confident tone of most write-ups suggests, and the second set is where nearly all the disagreement on this board comes from.

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