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For me, at around the 18-month mark I stopped losing weight, but I still felt a fair degree of appetite suppression along with things like having zero desire for alcohol, so while my body had definitely adapted in some way, it also was definitely still doing "something". Like so many other...

I originally started on OEM MJ before exploring alternatives, and continued to fill that script for several months even after I found "they way" (mainly to have them available for travel before I realized it doesn't matter). One of the first things I noticed was that often doses from...

I'm actually surprised there are any domestic vendors left that are even able to continue to accept card payments. Between Reddit Karen's filing disputes because they don't comprehend the nature of what they're buying, and the banks and card networks cracking down on research vendors...

Not the least bit surprising. If you look at the vendor requirements in the vendor connection section you'll see that one of the things they are required to disclose is what type of vendor they are. There are a lot of what they call "trading companies" (essentially resellers in English), many...

My experience is limited to the US and Canada, but normally payment of any taxes and/or duty due for a parcel does not involve a request for a copy of my passport or anything else (obviously that differs from duty and taxed levied at a border crossing, airport, etc. when clearing customs is a...

You are clearly better off sticking with a "proper" pharmacy. That's OK, the grey market isn't for everyone. Perhaps things could change somewhere down the road as you become more familiar with how things work when dealing with underground sources and gain a more realistic perspective of the...

I would ignore it and presume I'll never see the package, and learn to accept the financial loss.

Huh? Asking for or expecting medical advice from a salesperson seems rather peculiar, and if anything scares me, it's that anyone would. I don't expect the cashier at my local supermarket to be helpful or knowledgeable about food safety even though they sell raw meat and poultry products all...

It seems like Gemini is having a bit of a hallucination, perhaps relying a little to heavily on CSI and such for its info. 🤪 Full-scale federal investigations of individual consumers over their online shopping habits for small personal-use quantities are pretty rare, even for many sch. 1 or 2...

I'm definitely looking forward to seeing reviews as well as test results. Any time a new vendor appears on the scene it's always a bit of a risk and a waiting game to see how things are going to turn out. I'm also hoping that part of the transition to paid advertising is going to motivate...

Same here. Allergies are a funny thing to me. For my first 26 years on this planet, I had pretty severe seasonal allergies, but when I lost ~120lbs after my second divorce I also lost all allergies along with it which nobody has ever been able to explain to me. Even having put more weight back...

Amen to that. It really wasn't until after turning 50 that I've been able to stop caring about a lot of those kind of issues (to some degree at least). Appreciate the info. Now starts the monthslong internal debate over convincing myself to chisel open my 401k to that degree.

Don't be, and there's nothing wrong with lurking. I can't count how many forums I've belonged to where I never post but read and absorb things regularly. While a lot of questions have been asked, there are still countless ones that haven't, and mostly as long as your questions don't start with...

I've still got an old-school frame of reference when it comes to any kind of cosmetic surgery that if they need to cut more than 2-3cm it's a minimum of $10k. 🤪 I looked at lipo when I lost 100+ lbs the first time in '96 and the price back then was around $7k and they said I'd still probably...

I know basically nothing about HGH, IGF-1 or anything along those lines, but what I do find fascinating that's been brought up here is how a lot of conventional wisdom regarding injecting IM or SC seems to be under renewed scrutiny. A buddy who has been on TRT for many years recently changed to...

Part of me will always be fascinated by what kind of processes take place behind the scenes at big pharma companies making these kinds of decisions. I suspect it's pretty chaotic and and never-ending battle of countless "experts" one-upping each other's expertise and the biggest decisions coming...

There's definitely a lot less regular chatter about it for sure. I started Lipo C from Defy sometime around May of 24 and ran it for about a year. I never really noticed any major change or improvement to anything besides the vitamin B levels in blood tests being off-the-charts. I had...

I'm sorry, but every time I see KLOW my brain goes straight to KLOWN. 🤪 That's all, carry on.

I think a lot of it may depend on how the patent system impacts things. Obviously they will want to maximize their exclusivity window on every product, so I have to imagine they have entire teams of statisticians, financial analysts, etc. looking at every possible permutation to decide on the...

It's definitely a lot quieter here and across a lot of the peptide and GLP space since the beginning of August. It seems seasonal as I remember it being similarly quiet this time last year. I suspect between back-to-school, Labor Day, people getting in those last minute trips and vacations, etc...

I've honestly never even considered the issue of sterility regarding pens. I've always been a pen skeptic except for some very specific situations so that's probably why, but it makes me curious to see if there are any studies etc. suggesting an increased possibility of risk when using...

This exactly. IMHO, they are going to slow-walk reta to market in order to milk every last penny out of tirz that they can since it's almost guaranteed that the minute reta is FDA approved and available that everybody is going to want the new and shiny thing and demand for name-brand tirz is...

"Degradation" of peptides, especially GLP-1s, is usually quite exaggerated. A lot of testing has been done regarding degradation, and while there certainly are certain peptides more prone to degrading over time, GLP-1s are quite hardy (très fort). There will be occasionally be tests showing...

Looking great, congrats! That's actually surprisingly "affordable" compared to what I expected something like that to cost. Keep us posted on your recovery!

FWIW, anyone thinking about using Zelle for anything beyond small P2P payments between close friends & family should do a little more research into EWS/Early Warning Services, the company that owns and operates Zelle. EWS at its core is a specialty credit bureau that a majority of US banks...

Don't buy drugs with Zelle.

It's just a temporary status for vendors that are slated to be deactivated at the end of the month and are restricted from posting, nothing to worry about.

Real quick because I don't have a lot of time... For legitimate vendor problems and complaints, naming the vendor is fine, even for brand new members as long as it's not in the Introduce Yourself section. Brand new members (going entirely by post count, not join date) naming vendors in a...

No joke. A good friend who is American but married to a Canadian and lives in Quebec commutes back and forth to the states weekly got pinched for DUI back in 1976 still gets hassled every so often even though he's got a waiver from the Canadian govt and the charges in the US were expunged 20...

Most peptide vials are 3mL so 2mL of water is fine, and about the max you'll want to try to get in there while leaving room for enough air to keep draw resistance under control.

The CBSA in Canada has a slightly different priority list: 1. Collect duty and taxes. 2. Guns. They really don't like guns (but will still collect duty and taxes on them). 3. Consumer products. (That 80" TV that was half price in the states? Yeah, they'll be collecting duty and taxes on it...

You're conclusion is likely correct. In all of my air travel, and the countless amount of time I've spent in TSA lines, I've never seen anyone specifically hassled for having syringes and vials. Guy I used to work with a few years ago was type 1 and always traveled with insulin and such and...

Traveling for that long I can definitely see how folks might want to figure out how to keep some kind of routine. It's the one or two week trips that are a head-scratcher for me.

This raises an important distinction that I think is often overlooked. TSA and customs in the US are two completely different agencies and functions. Anyone traveling internationally with peptides should be planning well enough ahead that dealing with US customs upon returning from an...

Group buys in the peptide world are fake. While early group buys were mostly legit and similar to the typical types of group buys that leverage the collective buying power of group of people to purchase a high enough volume of product to negotiate lower prices and favorable terms, the current...

I can definitely see that happening with tablets/capsules more frequently than injectables, given the opioid abuse epidemic and such. With injectables I think 99% of the time a simple "it's my insulin" is more than sufficient if actually asked.

FWIW, any time I traveled outside North America for 2-3 weeks, I only did so with real Mounjaro pens and a copy of my prescription (which I maintained for the first year after I went off-brand for exactly those situations). Some of the countries I was visiting are very strict about certain...

I literally just replied to someone on Reddit about this earlier, so I'll do a copy-and-paste and add a little more commentary that the Reddit people don't deserve... I traveled a lot for work over the past three years, and early on I went through all the hassles of trying to find the perfect...

IMHO, 31-gauge syringes are stupid. They take forever to draw and dose, and certain fluids can make that even more difficult, and they bend very easily. Somewhere a few weeks ago I posted the math showing the difference in size between needle gauges was less than the thickness of a human hair...

Batch numbers for all intents and purposes are pretty meaningless unless the vendor is relying on them as part of a guarantee for mass and purity.

Is it ok for you? That's a question only you can answer. Me, I have no issue using expired bac mainly because it's ingredients don't expire. Ever. We would all be dead if they did. Plus they are sealed in a sterile container/environment so until that first puncture there is no reason it...

At some point later today/early tomorrow. I have to flick some switches and adjust some knobs and dials.

Unfortunate indeed. Hopefully it all works out.

This would be a better choice than Amazon imho, but you'll want to try to source USP grade BA, or consider filtering everything after you've finished mixing.

Yup.

There was some clinical trial data showing that a certain percentage of people did develop allergic reactions to tirzepatide. My recollection that it didn't reach a severity that caused anything like anaphylaxis, but that it did cause some people to discontinue use. At the same time it...

Sounds like a win to me.

Edited to remove full WA numbers so nobody else finds themselves in a similar situation. Time to forget about Sue and just find another supplier.

I was going to suggest the same thing. Ultimately this is one of those situations where just accepting the financial loss and throwing everything in the garbage and starting over may be the best and safest option. Even testing would be pretty useless since you would almost have to have every...

Some of the translation software has really become quite good, especially with AI integration, but they will likely never be perfect since language is an ever-evolving part of our existence and can be very nuanced. Sometimes there are just words and phrases that don't have an equivalent in the...