Dr.AddMedPHL said:Oral semaglutide is absorbed in the stomach with the help of SNAC, which locally raises pH and protects the peptide long enough to cross.
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.
Happy to go further on any of that.
Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number. A figure without its method cannot be checked, and an unchecked figure is how this community accumulates folklore.
Dr.KarenChen said:I do not accept that the fasting window is a minor inconvenience.
Coming at Dr.KarenChen’s question from a different direction. Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it. The narrow version usually has an answer; the broad version usually does not, and answering the broad one is how a thread stops being useful.
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View ResultsFollowing on from BariatricNurseD — and this may be the naive question:
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.