1mg/Week and Sleepless: How to Manage This Side Effect

[damy2604]

At doses of around 1mg per week, it has been keeping me awake. I sleep very little and take a long time to fall asleep. Does anyone have advice on how to fix or at least ease this bothersome side effect?

 

[mercutio]

of what?

 

[damy2604]

of what?

Reta

 

[Maximus]

Reta

The following have helped me: zinc, magnesium (the sleep kind), and glycine. I take them at bed time.

 

[Celestar62]

Have you considered DSIP ? and/or a Tesa/IPA combo? I take both and they have improved my sleep quality.

 

[brettbierjunkie]

Pin in the mornings, take magnesium and if that is still not enough, maybe some other peps like DSIP or epitalon can help.

 

[Grogu]

Just out of curiosity, how was your sleep before starting reta?

A lot of the side effects with glp-1s are worse when you first start and when you are titrating up. So, it could be that you just need to give it more time for your body to adjust to the medication.

When I first started tirzepatide and was titrating up to therapeutic doses, my bad sleep got worse, I had headaches when I hardly ever get headaches, and my vision was blurry. What has been constant is constipation. The other sides effects have faded over time. Stay the course.