Why Am I Losing Weight So Slowly on a GLP-1?
The Downsized — Why Am I Losing Weight So Slowly on a GLP-1?
Channel: DOWNSIZED · Our label: Patient-experience channel — GLP-1 journey, daily · Source: youtube.com/watch?v=jR8QVOoKtJk
What this video covers
Are you a nonresponder or is it just bad care? » Hello, I’m Lorraine Durham » and we are the downsized and this is our regular series we like to call Ask the Downsized. But first, let us tell you a little bit about ourselves. I’m currently on a 50 milligram dose and have been for more than a year and a half in maintenance.
Summary drawn from this video’s own transcript (banked in our research library, pulled 2026-11-07). Claims below are the speaker’s — attributed, not endorsed. This site publishes no dosing, protocol, or sourcing information.
Key points, in the speaker’s own framing
Yeah, as of course we always have to say, we’re not doctors, so these are prescription medications.
- I honestly I never really saw there was a little bit of a bump in side effects when I went from 2.5 to five, but I’ve never had any significant side effects.
- So assuming the prescriber knows your history, knows your side effects, [snorts] knows, you know, is really treating you medically, then there should not be any dangers to that than any other dose.
- Can I skip the middleman and buy directly from the compounded pharmacy?" I don’t have any local doctor that I know that will prescribe me a prescription to a compounded pharmacy in another state.
Well, so what I would say is the reason compounding is a legal thing is because your doctor should be writing a personalized prescription for you.
- So talk to your doctor about your health, your side effects, all of those things, and they should be able to write one of these additives that could help you.
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