Are all pens created equal?

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Just that really. I’m titrating down from a top does of 12.5 and maintaining. The 7.5 pen was weird. Not that much suppression and food noise returning etc. still moved down to 5 though as ideally I want to get off/be on a very low dose.

Took the first 5mg dose on Friday night and wow!!! Felt sick and nauseous through the night, had a massive poo at 3am, more toilet action in the morning and gave barely been able to eat since.

Really weird that such a low dose has affected me like this. This is how I felt when I first started 13 months ago.

Yes all pens are equal unless you have one that’s degraded.and a lower dose is always less strong than a stronger dose.

I have noticed though if I consume Sugar the drugs don’t work as well, I guess they are busy dealing with it, so it maybe depends on what you were consuming,

Could it be because your 7.5mg pen was the tricky post Christmas period? I have struggled in January the last two years with no change of dose and around end January it kicks back in.

Yes I went on a two week all inclusive, and had to use willpower to stop consuming crap, it was about two weeks later I felt the suppression kick in again. And thought to myself oh the drugs working suddenly.

That would make much more sense.

I have noticed the same but not straight away. Over Christmas and when I was on holiday, I ate more sugary and general junk food. I was actually quite restrained over the actual Christmas period but really struggled to stop eating that stuff again afterwards.
As soon as I made an effort and got back to healthy eating again, the hunger went away again. I knew upfs were designed to make you eat more of them but now I've seen it for myself. Quite scary actually.