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tracking HRV and fasting glucose on semaglutide microdose week four

Posted by carla_macros in Weight Loss & Metabolic - 2 points, 2 comments.

started at 0.25 milligrams weekly four weeks ago mostly curious if the appetite suppression would hold at this low end and my HRV data has been weirdly consistent so far ... average nightly HRV up about twelve points from baseline and resting heart rate down four beats which lines up with the GLP-1 literature on autonomic tone but the fasting glucose this morning was ninety two versus my usual eighty five to eighty seven range ... could be the steak dinner last night or the poor sleep or just normal variation but it bugs me when the numbers do not line up cleanly ... appetite is noticeably blunted after the first forty eight hours post injection and returns slowly by day five which matches the half life ... no nausea no injection site issues ... planning to hold this dose another month and pull labs at week eight to see if lipids and insulin move ... if anyone else is running low dose sema solo and tracking HRV or CGM I would love to compare notes ... the solo experiment thing gets lonely without a control group ...

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  • aspiring_codes: that glucose bump is exactly why i tell patients to ignore single readings đź‘€ when i ran low dose sema last year my fasting glucose did the same dance, up ten to fifteen points some mornings then back down with no pattern i could explain. turned out it was mostly sleep quality and what i ate the night before. the HRV and RHR changes youre seeing are way more consistent in my experience appetite pattern you describe matches what i saw too, hard suppression first two days then gradual return. he
  • carla_macros: That’s reassuring about the glucose drift. I’m the kind who wants every number to play nice, but if you saw the same random spikes and they didn’t track with any real change, I’ll chill a bit. Sounds like your labs moved about how I’m hoping, though I’ll keep an eye on insulin more than lipids. When you held 0.25 for three months, did the appetite suppression level out more, or did it keep cycling each week like mine?

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