Picking up post #5: that is the part I would want checked first. Reported effects on taste and on food preference are common and interesting and unstudied in any detail. They are also the ones people find most disconcerting.
Why side effects reset at each escalation and that is not a failure — that is the question, and I have not found it answered plainly anywhere I have looked.
The question about side effects that I actually want answered is the second one below. The first is context and I have kept it short.
Both are stated with units, and I have said what I already checked so that nobody repeats it.
Gastrointestinal effects in this class are dose-related and escalation-related. Both are true simultaneously, which is why symptoms typically return at each step and then settle again.
The right answer here may simply be that it has not been measured.
Staff rationale: Hidden by community flags. The substance was fine; the framing attributed motive rather than error, which is R1.
Worth separating two things that post #2 runs together.
Effects that improve with time and effects that improve with dose reduction are different findings. Working out which you have requires holding the dose steady long enough to see.
The corresponding entry is in the public moderation log. Hidden posts are never deleted.
Nausea: the most common side effect and the most dose- and titration-dependent one. It is usually most prominent in the first 24 to 48 hours after injection and attenuates as the dose is held stable. At each escalation step it often resets briefly before attenuating again.
That is all the detail I have. Someone else will have more.
On post #7 — agreed on the reasoning, with one qualification.
Delayed gastric emptying: the mechanism behind much of the gastrointestinal side-effect profile. At extreme magnitudes, severe gastroparesis is a rare but serious complication. Distinguishing ordinary gastrointestinal effects from the rare severe end is a clinical judgement.
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