DanielChem_CHI said:The OASIS programme put 50mg oral in the same territory as 2.4mg injectable — around 15% mean weight loss — but it needed a dose 20 times larger to…
I do not accept that the fasting window is a minor inconvenience. Adherence data on daily orals with timing requirements is consistently worse than weekly injections, and a drug you take imperfectly is a lower dose than the one on the box.
Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. If you are comparing against somebody else’s result, check that you are comparing the same measurement taken the same way. Most of the apparent contradictions in these threads dissolve at that step.
Dr.AddMedPHL said:I do not accept that the fasting window is a minor inconvenience.
Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion. Almost every disagreement here turns out to be two people measuring different things and comparing the numbers anyway.
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Browse GL BiochemA narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:
Whether the fasting requirement is as strict in practice as the label implies, and what people actually see when they get it wrong?
OP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.
Follow-up: moving the tablet to the moment I wake, before anything else, was the whole fix. The dose never changed.