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Follow-up appointments help track your progress and make any needed changes to your plan
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Any autoimmune symptom improvement would likely follow the timeline of significant weight loss and metabolic improvement, typically 12 to 24 weeks of treatment
STEP trials demonstrated dose-dependent weight loss with 2.4 mg weekly producing average reductions of 14.9% over 68-week periods
The mechanisms through which progestins exert their therapeutic effects are the anti-estrogenic effects, anti-vasculogenic action, induction of apoptotic cascade in endometriotic cells, suppression of inflammatory pathways (as production of metalloproteinases), cell proliferation suppression, and also anti-neurogenic effects with inhibition of nerve growth within endometriotic lesions [59, 63, 64]