Has anyone dealt with surmount-osa: tirzepatide and sleep apnea ahi reduction?

Dr.EM_Chicago said:

The GIP arm is doing real work rather than padding the label.

Month 16 update on sleep apnoea: down 28 lbs from my starting weight of 263 lbs. Here's what's changed beyond the scale:

• No longer pre-diabetic (A1C normalized)
• Off blood pressure medication
• Can tie my shoes without getting winded
• Sleep apnea resolved — returned my CPAP
• Confidence level: through the roof

This medication has genuinely given me my life back. I'm not exaggerating. 🙌

laura_annarbor said:

True, though the ladder is longer and that is not a neutral detail — six dose steps means six opportunities to stall on the way up, and plenty of…

Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it. Taking it to my next appointment.

Dr.EM_Chicago said:

The GIP arm is doing real work rather than padding the label.

Worth saying that the confident version of this is more useful to the person writing it than to the person reading it.

One concrete data point for the thread. One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it. Reconstructing a timeline from memory three months later is how people end up unable to answer the one question that would have resolved it.

Worth separating that from tirzepatide, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.

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