Peptide: Experience #795

was on reta for 5 months, started at 1mg/week and got to 6mg. Lost no weight. Had the RHR increase and HRV decrease, and got it from [redacted], so I know it was real Reta. Switched to 4mg tirz 2x/week it’s been 6 weeks and no weight loss. Dexa at the start and end, lost 1lb fat, gained 1lb muscle. Labs show 680+ test and normal thyroid across this time period. Have mixed in mots-c and tesa intermittently for 8 week cycles. Apparently I’m an unlucky non-responder.

Nobody told me tirzepatide can make the pill less reliable. 31F, PCOS, hadn’t had a regular period in 3 years. Month 4 on tirz I had two periods back to back and then none. Took the test in a Target bathroom. She’s due in April.

Possibly tmi but the weight loss on reta has become the least interesting part for me. My periods used to mean sore boobs, horrible bloating, heavy bleeding and cramps bad enough to leave work. taking ibuprofen for days and still hurting. i’d get anxious before it even started because i knew what was coming. Since starting reta, the pain and bloating have eased so much. i’ve actually got through a period without needing painkillers. i don’t know why it changed and i’m not saying it fixes anyone else’s periods, but there must be some type of correlation. anyone else?

Bought Selank for my wife to try during menopause, ended up taking it myself. She hasn’t even tried it yet lol. A week in and I’m sleeping better than I have in years, barely moving at night, waking up rested, completely at peace with my morning coffee. Only problem is I’m 50 and had FINALLY got my testosterone levels somewhere decent and my sex drive back. Now the sex drive seems to have left again. Enjoying the peace. Less enthusiastic about that particular trade.

So here we go, most will call this fake. Started semaglutide in February. By April, didnt lose even 1 pound. Most would say I got scammed or that peptide wasn't the right one, I kept taking it, my feet and joints felt less inflamed within the first couple of weeks. The next month, my wedding ring started getting loose. Then my period came back. I have PCOS. The last one had been three or four years earlier, when I was following strict keto and actively trying to get pregnant. I still wanted the weight loss. Of course I did. But getting my period after years without one made it difficult to look at the unchanged scale and call those months a failure.

This is a crazy one for all the ladies out there. I lose about a week every month to PMS and my period. Cramps, exhaustion, getting very little done. This month, after starting reta, I barely had cramps and didn’t get the usual energy crash. I carried on with my days. I’ve also lost around 10–15 pounds, but honestly this is the change I’m more interested in. Ladies I think I found our solution.

Before I started reta I used to have one single hair on my chin that would grow obnoxiously thick and dark. Perimenopause thing I guess. Never saw it again since I've started pinning. I've lost more sleep than weight on reta so getting rid of the annoying chin hair is consoling. Non scale wins they said.

I didn't even take it to lose weight. I'm a size 4. I took reta for focus and energy because a podcast made it sound like a nootropic. nine weeks later my resting heart rate was 15 beats above baseline, my watch called every night's sleep "strained," and I was sweating through shirts sitting still. dropped 8.5% of my bodyweight I didn't want to lose and skipped a period. quit it. the one thing I'll say: two glasses of wine and I was hungover in three hours with zero buzz. so that's what finally made me understand how people get sober on these.