Member since August 2024

Hal

The other half. Different drug, same fridge.

Cambridge, UK

Conversations they started

Every step up gives me three bad days like clockwork
Slow titrators22 Apr 2026
Splitting the difference — what my prescriber offered instead
Slow titrators4 Dec 2024

Recent check-in answers

16 Feb 2026 — What does your week look like on paper versus in reality?

Working from home, which makes the injection day much easier.

12 Oct 2025 — What is going on with your gut?

Headache for three days and then I realised I had barely drunk anything since Tuesday.

19 Sep 2025 — What did you cook or eat with someone else this week?

tirzepatide week 76 and everything tastes faintly of nothing. Working on it.

9 Sep 2025 — What is the most useful thing anyone has told you about all this?

What the plan is if this stops working. Just the plan. I would sleep better.

Circles

Long covid and fatigue
Pacing, energy budgets, and a very careful approach.
UK and Ireland
NHS, HSE, waiting lists, and the local specifics.
Maintenance
Year two, year three, and the part nobody writes about.
Slow titrators
For people who go up at their own pace, with their prescriber.
Menopause and GLP-1
Three things at once, and untangling which is which.

What is not here

No follower count. No post count. No activity score. No badge. Nothing on this page can be used to rank Hal against anybody, and that is a design decision rather than a missing feature.

If today is hard

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Conversations they started

Every step up gives me three bad days like clockwork

Splitting the difference — what my prescriber offered instead

Recent check-in answers