Women-Specific

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.

Peri-Menopausal…anyone else have a heavier period while being on Reta? Trying to figure out if it’s the Reta or another cause.

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.

I'm not here to argue about whether the peptide "really" caused this. I'm just telling you what happened to my body, in order. five days of BPC + TB-500. that's all I ran. within two weeks: I couldn't have a normal bowel movement, nausea so bad I kept a trash bag next to the couch, and a panic attack severe enough that I took a Valium for the first time in years. then both knees, not one, BOTH, flared with what feels like tendonitis. muscle twitches. heart rate at 120 just lying in bed waking up. four hours of sleep a night for two solid weeks. and the part nobody warned me about as a woman: I had three periods in one month. first one normal, second one brown with cramps I never get, third one red with no cramps at all. like my hormones got picked up and shaken. I have zero scientific proof it was the peptide. I only know I was fine before the injection and a wreck after, and three weeks out I'm finally leveling back to normal. take that for whatever it's worth.

down 71 lbs on reta over 9 months. A1C from 7.2 to 5.1. BP from 148/95 to 118/72. also: lost my period for 4 months, lost 40% of my hair, lost the ability to enjoy food i used to love, lost three friends who think i'm "doing too much." worth it. ask me again in five years.