sarah.morrison 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.
One concrete data point for the thread. 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.
DanielChem_CHI said:I do not accept that the fasting window is a minor inconvenience.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion. Almost every disagreement here turns out to be two people measuring different things and comparing the numbers anyway.
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View ResultsA narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:
Whether the fasting requirement is as strict in practice as the label implies, and what people actually see when they get it wrong?
Reporting back.
Update — I went back to the injectable. Not because the tablet did not work, but because the fasting window and my mornings were never going to agree.