Severe Reaction of semi celeb

[lessthanhalf]

I started with name brand Zepbound at the standard starting dose. Unfortunately, I had some of the same effects although not quite as severe. I did have to wash my unders and pants once and there were a few times that I only made it because our house is so small. That side effect faded over the next few weeks and even restarting after a break on an accelerated titration schedule hasn't triggered it again.

I do agree that she's more than a little "the sky is falling!" here. Glp1s can be so tremendously beneficial to so many. Accounts like hers can do a lot of damage if she starts trotting out that people should only use them if they are the last resort.

Eli Lilly really needs to release their stranglehold on the dosing IMO. 2.5 mg-5mg-7.5mg-10mg titrating up every month is just way too much way too fast for so many and many insurance and prescribing patterns basically force people to go up whether it's medically indicated or not. My dad was very nervous about starting the meds and opted to start at 1 mg and go up 1mg each dosage increase. Impressively it's already improved his IBS symptoms.

The problem the drug companies have with the pens and dosing is the less choices they give you , the more idiot proof it is, and the more options and variations, the more likely people are going to stuff it up and get doses wrong. I think the tirzepatide dosing schedule is probably the best one, reasonably slow and consistent and way less problematic than the ozempic one of 0.25, 0.5, 1, 1.7, 2.4mg. At least with the multidose pens you can count clicks and adjust dose that way. With grey peptides you can use any dose you like and people do make dose errors more often.

 

[sheilarae74]

Now this story is ALL OVER social media now and people have been telling their ozempic horror stories. 🙄

 

[Jilla]

I started with name brand Zepbound at the standard starting dose. Unfortunately, I had some of the same effects although not quite as severe. I did have to wash my unders and pants once and there were a few times that I only made it because our house is so small. That side effect faded over the next few weeks and even restarting after a break on an accelerated titration schedule hasn't triggered it again.

I do agree that she's more than a little "the sky is falling!" here. Glp1s can be so tremendously beneficial to so many. Accounts like hers can do a lot of damage if she starts trotting out that people should only use them if they are the last resort.

Eli Lilly really needs to release their stranglehold on the dosing IMO. 2.5 mg-5mg-7.5mg-10mg titrating up every month is just way too much way too fast for so many and many insurance and prescribing patterns basically force people to go up whether it's medically indicated or not. My dad was very nervous about starting the meds and opted to start at 1 mg and go up 1mg each dosage increase. Impressively it's already improved his IBS symptoms.

I completely agree! I think Eli Lilly designed their doses for maximum weight loss to make the highest weight loss claims while making it just slow enough that they wouldn’t have a high drop out rate. These medical trials are so expensive I doubt they have any inventive to try experiment with slower dosing schedule which could offer a better experience for most patients.

It’s super frustrating as if I told my pharmacy I’m only taking a 1.25mg dose on a 2.5mg pen they'd stop prescribing me. It’s just hilarious I’m trying to take LESS of a drug not more it should be safer. It’s frustrating as it’s clear from reading in these forums the ideal dose and titration varies considerably from person to person. The side effects can be terrible for some of us. I wish mayim discussed this rather than dismissing the drugs completely.

 

[Jilla]

There does seem to be a community of people who aren't comfortable with compounded or gray (or perhaps their insurance has strong coverage), but are transferring doses from brand-name injectors into sterile empty vials, as a means of further controlling their dosing schedule.

The kwikipens we have in Europe are so good for this! You twist the pen 60 clicks for one dose so you can twist it say 30 clicks for half the dose.

It’s a shame they don’t have these in the US, but I wonder if they do it to make more money by preventing short dosing (buying a cheaper 15mg pen to take say a 5mg dose so 1 pen lasts 3 months).

 

[anotherusername]

Yes , 10 grams reconstituted with 1ml Bac. Looking at my syringe here it's a 1ml 100 U. I dosed the whole barrel . Am I screwed or not. I feel great. I was at 50 mark wich is .5 ml half 1ml syringe. The ones my guy gave me graduate from 10 to a 100 units within the 1ml tube. So you're correct I have to drop a zero off each unit example: 10 is actually 1 on this type of insulin 💉. Ya got me thinking now and I appreciate it , no lie.

Please read some more. Again I will assume you meant 10 milligrams and not actual grams. With that assumption what you’ve said is that you’ve injected 10 mg of Reta on your second dose. 12 mg is the highest dose studied. I hope you’re doing well, it appears you meant to take 10 units (1mg at that dilution)

 

[alphaskunk65]

No I injected 0.25 first time then moved to 0.5 ml for several months was losing 4lbs. a week steady . Hit the wall so I upped to 0.75 ml for 1 month hit the wall quicker upped to 1.0 ml . You should see in my reply post earlier that these particular syringes read powers of 10. I misquoted. It's still a 1 ml max dose syringe but says 100 units on side.Its actually 10 max. Thanks for your concern GLP brother or sister. Not sure what the 100 units is of it doesn't confront me.

 

[randompersonrandom]

I'm not mad at Balik, she's had a hard go of it and mostly just wrote what happened to her. But can we talk about how shitty "The Big Bang Theory" was? I'm usually pretty good about just letting people enjoy things and not being one of those people who has to yell about what they hate like a totally unparented eight year old in the grocery store, but I'm getting on in years and that show is so relentlessly speed-stupid, just a constant stream of noisy, clowning dumb. It's like Teletubbies for very stupid adults. I hate it so much, and I'm angry every time someone reminds me it exists.

 

[CandyCap]

No I injected 0.25 first time then moved to 0.5 ml for several months was losing 4lbs. a week steady . Hit the wall so I upped to 0.75 ml for 1 month hit the wall quicker upped to 1.0 ml . You should see in my reply post earlier that these particular syringes read powers of 10. I misquoted. It's still a 1 ml max dose syringe but says 100 units on side.Its actually 10 max. Thanks for your concern GLP brother or sister. Not sure what the 100 units is of it doesn't confront me.

ML an units are not really ways to measure how much you are taking. You need to know how many mg you are taking. How many mg is in your vial? How much BAC? Those are the important number to start with. It is also very important to understand the difference between a gram and a milligram. Can you please clarify how many milligrams are in your vial? How much BAC was used?

 

[alphaskunk65]

20 MG with 2ml of Bac. So 1 full syringe at 1ml. should be 10mg dose I believe. Since there's only 1ml. Bac per 10 MG of Reta maybe I said gram instead of MG. Either way I started with 1/4 of 1ml syringe upped respectively to 1/2 then 3/4 and now to 1 full ml. Worded different same dose . My nomenclature may need polished a bit. Don't get me started on decimal points tho I understand it's important in case newbie like me reads my post as gospel.

 

[alphaskunk65]

Did it again. .1ml

 

[BrightCandle]

So you definitely took 10mg then. That is very near the maximum dose (12mg) from the trial. Most start in the 1-2mg range.

 

[alphaskunk65]

Yes worked up to that over 7 month period. My syringe however says 1ml not .1ml . The one I reconstitute with says 3ml/cc.

 

[alphaskunk65]

If go to your calculator and add 0.5 to 0.5 it will equal 1.0 ml hope that makes sense. So I'm close to max dose , wich I know one crazy guy is dosing over that , I think his is Tirz.

 

[alphaskunk65]

So you definitely took 10mg then. That is very near the maximum dose (12mg) from the trial. Most start in the 1-2mg range.

Sorry I didn't direct reply to you answer is in this thread. I'm still honing my skills.

 

[Month]

No I injected 0.25 first time then moved to 0.5

So you definitely took 10mg then. That is very near the maximum dose (12mg) from the trial. Most start in the 1-2mg range.

kind of fast but not that bad, as far as I understand his first dose was 2.5mg, that's not far off the 2mg dose, and then he increased the next dose to 5mg, now that's the biggest and quickest increase, in just 1 week he got 6.25mg(5mg + 2.5/2 from half-life), but some people are genetically resistant to it, and then he kept it normal and increased it to 7.5 and then to 10, which in studies its usually 6 to 8 to 10 so again a little fast but not too crazy.

 

[alphaskunk65]

kind of fast but not that bad, as far as I understand his first dose was 2.5mg, that's not far off the 2mg dose, and then he increased the next dose to 5mg, now that's the biggest and quickest increase, in just 1 week he got 6.25mg(5mg + 2.5/2 from half-life), but some people are genetically resistant to it, and then he kept it normal and increased it to 7.5 and then to 10, which in studies its usually 6 to 8 to 10 so again a little fast but not too crazy.

Yes I was told by my suppliers contact. I then hit up the search bar for Reta dosing from start to maintenence dosing. It recommended what you said above. Remember from 2nd week until 2 months ago I stayed at 0.5 MG or ml it's the Same because of how I reconstituted. Also took a peak at dosing calculator. Some sites I read if a person is severely obese skip 2.5 gr and try .5 for first stick and see how it works. None of this is in any way my recommendation. Do you! !

 

[alphaskunk65]

kind of fast but not that bad, as far as I understand his first dose was 2.5mg, that's not far off the 2mg dose, and then he increased the next dose to 5mg, now that's the biggest and quickest increase, in just 1 week he got 6.25mg(5mg + 2.5/2 from half-life), but some people are genetically resistant to it, and then he kept it normal and increased it to 7.5 and then to 10, which in studies its usually 6 to 8 to 10 so again a little fast but not too crazy.

Yes thank you

 

[CNCCurrency]

Yes I was told by my suppliers contact. I then hit up the search bar for Reta dosing from start to maintenence dosing. It recommended what you said above. Remember from 2nd week until 2 months ago I stayed at 0.5 MG or ml it's the Same because of how I reconstituted. Also took a peak at dosing calculator. Some sites I read if a person is severely obese skip 2.5 gr and try .5 for first stick and see how it works. None of this is in any way my recommendation. Do you! !

 

[lastresort]

To be fair to her, she seems to have gotten a legitimate BS degree, but that was many years ago. I suspect her primary work as a "scientist" was being an actress on an over the top parody of "nerd" culture that was written to appeal to a mainstream audience, which is to say any rigor beyond "I can use sciency words on a TV show" may have been lost to that period. Or as Nietzsche would say, "if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you." 🤣

I assure you, having a degree in one science field doesnt make you proficient in another field.

But I dont want to brush off her claim as a total bs. I also had a severe pain that resembled gallbladder attack with a compound wegovy from a weightloss clinic

 

[alphaskunk65]

Lol

Ha ha. Love it. I did as much research on it as I could before pinning. Some folks forget about half lives on substances. I promise I didn't overdose on Reta.

 

[rmhla]

I take these with a grain of salt. Every person gets sides different. Luck of the draw at worse. Incentivized detractors at best.

Was not so long ago last year I think the place called SRY from China issued green top Semaglutide and everyone was getting sick from them, was a big issue atleast over on the meso board.

 

[lastresort]

Was not so long ago last year I think the place called SRY from China issued green top Semaglutide and everyone was getting sick from them, was a big issue atleast over on the meso board.

Big pharma evil
Takes chinese made drug

The irony

 

[rmhla]

The irony

All do respect to that comment ... look around you at all the obese and sick people that big pharma has created and all the addicts and they openly admitted it.. paid the billions in fines and judgements and stayed in business.

Peptides are far different from big Pharma crap fyi..

Coming on a glp board to plug big pharma wont get you far these days.

 

[quicksilver80]

Was not so long ago last year I think the place called SRY from China issued green top Semaglutide and everyone was getting sick from them, was a big issue atleast over on the meso board.

Im somewhere between. I can clearly see the writings on the walls that corporations are becoming too powerful for their own good and the people are starting to break under the weight of everything getting more expensive. In doing so people are starting to work around those systems in place created to hold a boot at our backs . I also see that this is a crutch in the meantime.any time this all could be shut down in seconds. Highly doubt it since we can get anabolics in 2026 with no issue.
I will counter argue however.. when in your life have you tested medicines in your day to day use bought from our pharmacies? which are coming from those same countries ? If anything this "crutch" has made this community hyper aware of qualities they are using. Everything i buy is atleast tested once by us and once before questionably by the vendor. I remember seeing news flashbacks to the tylenol poisonings back in the day. pharma fucks up more times than i can count. Recalls. Destroying families with the oxy epidemic. Lawyers defending them so they dont have to be held accountable. What makes that system any less nefarious than some chinese telegram account calling you honey?
realizing these same cheesedicks are buying api's from the same place and reselling it at a massive profit gives me atleast a shred of critical thought.
Hay. They cant be that bad...
Hey. Why would they be buying these compounders out eli just did if they were dangerous?
In retrospect I had friends take grams of blow to their face and popped countless triple stack supermans without any regards of safety. My double tested same drug, same api, same compounders in some cases shot is negligible compared.
Its not a distrust of our pharmaceutical quality. Its a breakdown of the morality of charging sometimes a months rent for a drug that are changing peoples lives. If you come into this space understanding the risks involved and do your homework. The costs savings is STAGGERING. The gas i put into my tank was eating a days wages for every day i went in. I refuse to think anything happening currently is normal. Abnormal situations call for abnormal solutions. I know im no revolutionary. And none of this rant really matters. Lifes a risk. Time to be a little more risky