What the hell am I doing?

krsct

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I am 68 yrs old, a highly trained medical professional, who is getting this white powder in an unmarked glass vial that (I presume but can't be certain) comes from a certain repressive country half way around the world that is paid for in crypto (which I otherwise have no use for.)

Then I dilute it and inject it into my body hoping for the expected good effects and hoping not to be harmed.

Yet, the results are fantastic and I am in the best shape of my life!
 
I’m still surprised when I see that a lot of the other people doing this aren’t just a bunch of jacked gym bros 🤣

How long have you been on Reta? Is it a secret or it commonly known/practiced among other medical professionals you know?
 
I too have a medical degree, though it is a long time since I worked in that area, and am happily injecting Chinese peptides. Without them I don't think there is any reasonable chance that I could maintain a 54% weight loss, at least in the longer term , and I do not think there would be a longer term to worry about if I put the weight back on, or at least not a very pleasant one.
It is bizzare that I have been ripped off on about half my supplement purchases on Amazon US, that weigh less than the contents advertised, yet due to the whole weird little ecosystem around peptides I actually believe it is really uncommon for the Chinese drug dealers to rip us off or poison us.
 
obeyGLP said:
I’m still surprised when I see that a lot of the other people doing this aren’t just a bunch of jacked gym bros 🤣

How long have you been on Reta? Is it a secret or it commonly known/practiced among other medical professionals you know?
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Actually, I first heard about reta from my gym bro personal trainer. But I keep the whole GLP-1 journey to myself and my wife.
 
krsct said:
Actually, I first heard about reta from my gym bro personal trainer. But I keep the whole GLP-1 journey to myself and my wife.
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Welcome to the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" club. 😆
I'd be interested to hear if Retatrutide is your first GLP-1 and why you chose it over Semaglutide or Tirzepatide.
 
I'm also in healthcare (not patient care, mostly operational) and still feel so bizarre about what I'm doing. I'm not the kind of person who would do this, and when I first heard about it and was in compounding, I thought "Ok, well that's full on insane, and definitely not something I will be doing, god people are dumb." Then I found this forum and read it out of morbid curiosity...and found that an enormous number of the posters sounded thoughtful, reasonable, smart, and sane. Then some other stuff happened and I became a peptide hoarder, and I still sometimes look up and think "Hold up I did WHAT?"

I DID stop injecting a ridiculous number of different mystery powders all at once, though. I committed to my ma that I would lay off and agreed that there was way too much going on, and quit that. One non-GLP1 at a time.
 
krsct said:
I am 68 yrs old, a highly trained medical professional, who is getting this white powder in an unmarked glass vial that (I presume but can't be certain) comes from a certain repressive country half way around the world that is paid for in crypto (which I otherwise have no use for.)

Then I dilute it and inject it into my body hoping for the expected good effects and hoping not to be harmed.

Yet, the results are fantastic and I am in the best shape of my life!
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I wanna be like you when I grow up
 
RetCurious said:
Welcome to the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" club. 😆
I'd be interested to hear if Retatrutide is your first GLP-1 and why you chose it over Semaglutide or Tirzepatide.
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Started on brand name tirz 3 yrs ago. Lost 65 lbs then went on maintenance. But saw weight slowly creeping up and hard to lose the last 5-8 lbs that I want to. Heard about reta so 2 months ago started reta and cut back dose of tirz. Doing well. Not sure yet if I will stay with both or convert completely to reta.
 
Welcome Doc. I started on compounded Sema 18 months ago. I responded well the first two months and then poof. No appetite suppression so no weight loss, and nothing to show for it except a $500 debit every month for six months. After that debacle, I was talking to a friend of mine and mentioned I was interested in Tirzepitide, knowing she was on a GLP1. She said don't bother with that, there is something even better available now and I learned about Reta. I have degrees in computer science and mathematics and am entirely data-driven. I set out to prove to her why this was a really bad idea. Two weeks later, I went back to her and said ok, how do I get some and I got her CN vendor info.

Now I have that and I have spent way too much time on various sites researching the other peptides I think might be beneficial to a 67 year old male. I am now looking for a bigger freezer case. I settled on ~10 of them. They haven't all had the expected response, but it's been interesting research so far, and as of last month my labs have never been better. I'll never look back.
 
One of my best friends is a medical doctor. Would you believe he turned me on to peptides? I was on Zepbound with a 30lb goal and as soon as he realized I was losing weight fast, he called me out on it and put me on a peptide protocol starting with CJC/Ipamorelin and then wolverine + GHK-CU. Since he's not "my doctor" he suggested I let my PCP know of most of what I'm doing so he can order appropriate blood work so insurance would cover it. Most of his healthy doctor friends are on some kind of peptide regimen. He even uses the peptides I get from PRC.
 
krsct said:
I am 68 yrs old, a highly trained medical professional, who is getting this white powder in an unmarked glass vial that (I presume but can't be certain) comes from a certain repressive country half way around the world that is paid for in crypto (which I otherwise have no use for.)

Then I dilute it and inject it into my body hoping for the expected good effects and hoping not to be harmed.

Yet, the results are fantastic and I am in the best shape of my life!
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Not even medical professionals can afford pharmaceutical prices apparently
 
krsct said:
I am 68 yrs old, a highly trained medical professional, who is getting this white powder in an unmarked glass vial that (I presume but can't be certain) comes from a certain repressive country half way around the world that is paid for in crypto (which I otherwise have no use for.)

Then I dilute it and inject it into my body hoping for the expected good effects and hoping not to be harmed.

Yet, the results are fantastic and I am in the best shape of my
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krsct said:
I am 68 yrs old, a highly trained medical professional, who is getting this white powder in an unmarked glass vial that (I presume but can't be certain) comes from a certain repressive country half way around the world that is paid for in crypto (which I otherwise have no use for.)

Then I dilute it and inject it into my body hoping for the expected good effects and hoping not to be harmed.

Yet, the results are fantastic and I am in the best shape of my life!
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Most people are unaware that the vast majority of the peptides sold by Lilly and Novo Nordisk are manufactured in China under contract by these companies. So you are not the only one who has entrusted your health to them.
 
krsct said:
I am 68 yrs old, a highly trained medical professional, who is getting this white powder in an unmarked glass vial that (I presume but can't be certain) comes from a certain repressive country half way around the world that is paid for in crypto (which I otherwise have no use for.)

Then I dilute it and inject it into my body hoping for the expected good effects and hoping not to be harmed.

Yet, the results are fantastic and I am in the best shape of my life!
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I'm very curious as to what made you finally try it?
I've already decided I would never tell any of my healthcare providers about Reta and vaguely say I'm on a compounded GLP. I have the least amount of side effects and the most energy on Reta than Tirz. or Wegovy which both caused pretty severe fatigue and Gerd.
 
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krsct said:
Because the tirz effect seemed to be waning, and TBH, there is a certain outlaw-ish thrill in operating in the grey market. 😉
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I Knew it! 😎

breaking bad series GIF
 
krsct said:
Are we really sure that this is true? How do we know?
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Yes we are. Just a simple Google search will give you several companies in CN that manufacture for the two big GLP companies. Many of the CN companies were started with venture capital money from the US big pharma industries . It’s a fact.
 
I'm also a physician and when my cardiologist suggested that I consider a GLP-1,vlooked into it. Was going to cost me $875/month for brand as was not covered by insurance. My PCP suggested compounding pharmacy which brought price down to $285/month. After discovering grey market and reading the NEJM article about reta decided to jump into the water. My doc's have been very happy with the results (100lbs) and have been following my progress closely. Now starting to jump down the rabbit hole looking at so many other peptides.
 
Jellybelly54 said:
Yes we are. Just a simple Google search will give you several companies in CN that manufacture for the two big GLP companies. Many of the CN companies were started with venture capital money from the US big pharma industries . It’s a fact.
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And I guess that the legal US compounders get it from these same companies?
 
ghreid said:
I'm also a physician and when my cardiologist suggested that I consider a GLP-1,vlooked into it. Was going to cost me $875/month for brand as was not covered by insurance. My PCP suggested compounding pharmacy which brought price down to $285/month. After discovering grey market and reading the NEJM article about reta decided to jump into the water. My doc's have been very happy with the results (100lbs) and have been following my progress closely. Now starting to jump down the rabbit hole looking at so many other peptides.
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What fantastic progress! Congrats!! 👏 👏
 
krsct said:
And I guess that the legal US compounders get it from these same companies?
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Are there anymore legal compounders or just ones that haven't received a c&d letter yet? But yes, they would get the raws from the same places. There are (or were) some US companies that also claimed to lysophilize the raws themselves, but I don't know how true that is anymore. Some folks here are better plugged into that space and may have a better idea.
 
krsct said:
And I guess that the legal US compounders get it from these same companies?
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They dont state their sources. That being said Big Pharma has said they arent selling them to compounders so it must be coming from somewhere.
 
neo6488 said:
They dont state their sources. That being said Big Pharma has said they arent selling them to compounders so it must be coming from somewhere.
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There is a list with the FDA of FDA cleared manufactures all around the world that are cleared by the FDA to produce pharmaceuticals that can then be imported into the US and be compounded by either a 503a or 503b pharmacy . Drug manufactures like Lily don’t have to be classified as either because their final product has been tested and approved by the FDA . In NC Lily important tons of raw from CN and then tests it, processes it and packages it into the pens and then distributes all around the world.
 
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