Personal blog on Reta

[AngieHolmes]

Stats:

32M – 174 cm – 95 kg – BMI: 31

Bought two 5 mg vials from a Dutch website. I'm seriously overpaying, but at least I don't have to worry about customs seizing the package.

First dose: 0.5 mg of Retatrutide, injected on Sunday at 9 PM.

I went to bed about two hours later and didn't sleep at all that night. The next day, I skipped breakfast (which is normal for me). For lunch, I ordered something that I would normally finish in a couple of minutes, but I couldn't finish the entire plate. The same thing happened at dinner. My appetite was a little reduced.

The second night, I slept a little better, but still not as well as I should have.

However, by then my hunger had returned to normal. The cravings never really left.

Today, I slept better with some assistance, although I still could have used a few more hours of sleep. Hunger remains about the same, and the cravings are still haunting me.

I'm currently contemplating increasing the dose to 1 mg this coming Sunday.


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I'm doubtful you'll get better appetite suppression by increasing reta. Could you try adding some tirz instead?

 

[ZetsuM]

I'm doubtful you'll get better appetite suppression by increasing reta. Could you try adding some tirz instead?

I could, but tirz already has some of the components/mechanisms that reta has. How would it work better? Or am I misunderstanding something?

I've also been looking into Cagri for hunger suppression.

 

[AngieHolmes]

I could, but tirz already has some of the components/mechanisms that reta has. How would it work better? Or am I misunderstanding something?

I've also been looking into Cagri for hunger suppression.

From my mass intake of comments lol, my impression is tirz offers better appetite suppression compared to reta. That might especially be the case if you want to keep the reta at a relatively low dose. Doubling up on 2/3 receptors provides better appetite suppression, plus the glucagon benefits of reta. I guess I am biased towards tirz vs cagri as it seems less extreme in its effects, and has a greater research foundation. In fact, you might decide tirz gets you all of what you need. It's cheaper, too.

Since it sounds like this is your first GLP1, you may or not be someone who responds to low doses; that seems to be the luck of the draw. I wish you the best.

 

[ZetsuM]

From my mass intake of comments lol, my impression is tirz offers better appetite suppression compared to reta. That might especially be the case if you want to keep the reta at a relatively low dose. Doubling up on 2/3 receptors provides better appetite suppression, plus the glucagon benefits of reta. I guess I am biased towards tirz vs cagri as it seems less extreme in its effects, and has a greater research foundation. In fact, you might decide tirz gets you all of what you need. It's cheaper, too.

Since it sounds like this is your first GLP1, you may or not be someone who responds to low doses; that seems to be the luck of the draw. I wish you the best.

I've been reading multiple perspectives both on and off this forum. There's so much information out there that it's hard to know what's accurate and what's not.

I've never taken anything remotely comparable to peptides or weight-loss drugs before (I tried metformin, but it made me shit my brains out so i stopped after a few days).

So I wanted to be careful with dosing something that basically requires me to trust information from the internet. 🙂

 

[AngieHolmes]

I've been reading multiple perspectives both on and off this forum. There's so much information out there that it's hard to know what's accurate and what's not.

I've never taken anything remotely comparable to peptides or weight-loss drugs before (I tried metformin, but it made me shit my brains out so i stopped after a few days).

So I wanted to be careful with dosing something that basically requires me to trust information from the internet. 🙂

I get it. Given that, you might be better off with a substance that, if you get a pure supply, is well-researched and has a relatively low risk profile like tirz. The info behind it isn't "from the internet," it's from numerous well-done studies.

I'm not on commission for tirz, I swear! For some reason I want to steer you towards the least risky stuff. Going straight to reta . . . isn't that. And adding cagri especially isn't that.

Reta is the strongest GLP1 we have semi-easy access to, and something a lot of people reserve for when tirz stops working, not the first out of the gate solution. Body builders with lots of experience have good results, but it's probably not necessary for GLP1 virgins.

 

[ZetsuM]

I get it. Given that, you might be better off with a substance that, if you get a pure supply, is well-researched and has a relatively low risk profile like tirz. The info behind it isn't "from the internet," it's from numerous well-done studies.

I'm not on commission for tirz, I swear! For some reason I want to steer you towards the least risky stuff. Going straight to reta . . . isn't that. And adding cagri especially isn't that.

Reta is the strongest GLP1 we have semi-easy access to, and something a lot of people reserve for when tirz stops working, not the first out of the gate solution. Body builders with lots of experience have good results, but it's probably not necessary for GLP1 virgins.

I understand what you're saying.

I'll probably finish my current vials first (I paid a lot for them) and see where they get me.

I'll hold off on adding Cagri if the risks outweigh the benefits, and instead consider stacking tirz while keeping the reta dose low.

My girlfriend has taken Mounjaro, but she didn't experience huge effects either. The weight loss seemed to stall after the first week or so, which was probably mostly water weight anyway.

That's actually one of the reasons I decided to make the jump to reta. 🙂