Think Ima lay off hoarding reta.

Jelly of y’all with your big stash 🤣 I am clearly a pauper with my mere 1 year of Reta, cagri and tirz….

Makes me feel better
 
Thistley said:
Jelly of y’all with your big stash 🤣 I am clearly a pauper with my mere 1 year of Reta, cagri and tirz….

Makes me feel better
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With oral dual agonists on the way (VK2735 and Amycretin) by 2029/2030, and Lilly already working on oral mazdutide (and almost certainly an oral retatrutide), the market demand will eventually shift away from injectables. Insurers and doctors may take time to catch up, but this peptide era of GLP-1s will morph into a small molecule one with daily pills.

Even now, I expect most people would prefer oral Wegovy, despite the results being less efficacious than injectable Tirzepatide. The fear of needles is just so pervasive.

But reta could cost $1,000+ per month without insurance or a discount, and most insurers will want step-therapy long before approving coverage. And many people seem to plan on taking a maintenance dose, even after hitting their goals.

So, the instinct to hoard is understandable.
 
Thistley said:
Jelly of y’all with your big stash 🤣 I am clearly a pauper with my mere 1 year of Reta, cagri and tirz….

Makes me feel better
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To make you feel beter, I had a new R50 show, and ordered 3 R30 kits from another of my favorite vendors. I will have 9,080mg of Reta if my math is right.
 
For now, I’m happy with a few-year supply of Reta. We have 2 generics (Ozempic) just approved in Canada & several more on the way. That’ll drive prices down. So in a few years, we may something even better. 🤷‍♀️ Either way, I don’t wanna have too many years stock cause I’ll probably have a power outage when I’m out of town and lose everything at some point lol
 
sheilarae74 said:
Lol...I'm over here with only 8 months worth of reta and 4-5 years worth of GHK-CU. 🤣
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I'm only on my second vial of GHK-cu (60mg) which has me at about 7 weeks along with daily pins. I've got another kit in the freezer, and I'm anxious to give it at least 3 months, maybe 6 to see I really notice results. If yes, then I'll jump in and stock up on the blue devil and add to my tirz collection. But if I don't really get any affect, I may just use these 2 kits and call it a day on the copper.
 
I had to stop mounjaro cold turkey after 11months on it when my insurance decided to no longer cover it for anyone and the savings card didn’t work with my insurance…it sent me into a spiral. I’d lost 90lbs and felt the best I’ve ever felt in my adult life. Had a baby in the meantime so about 2 years after stopping mounjaro I learned about going grey and haven’t looked back. Postpartum is terrible and gained 90% of the weight back in that year postpartum unfortunately. In a year now I’ve lost 70lbs and almost back to my lowest.

All that to say, it was devastating to lose my mounjaro access. I’d worked so insanely hard to get strong and lose weight with the food noises gone for the first time in my life. I have at least 2 years stash right now and am hoping to buy 2 more kits in the next few months. I am terrified of losing my supply if things ever shut down, but I also know there’s more and better coming soon, just learned about Eloralintide this morning which sounds promising so it’s a balance knowing every year we seem to get a new one in the pipeline, but that drive to protect yourself in the long term is so strong. I never want to get back to where I was and plan to stay on some sort of maintenance for a long time. I have no idea what the right move is, but they’d have to take this from my cold dead hands to get me to stop and maintain my health. It’s crazy how becoming a parent puts longevity and health in the forefront.
 
ThatNextGril said:
I'm only on my second vial of GHK-cu (60mg) which has me at about 7 weeks along with daily pins. I've got another kit in the freezer, and I'm anxious to give it at least 3 months, maybe 6 to see I really notice results. If yes, then I'll jump in and stock up on the blue devil and add to my tirz collection. But if I don't really get any affect, I may just use these 2 kits and call it a day on the copper.
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That's probably what I'm gonna do, just wait and see.
 
I was on the same boat with insurance, and I'm still stocking up on both
 
CrimsonTaco47 said:
I had to stop mounjaro cold turkey after 11months on it when my insurance decided to no longer cover it for anyone and the savings card didn’t work with my insurance…it sent me into a spiral. I’d lost 90lbs and felt the best I’ve ever felt in my adult life. Had a baby in the meantime so about 2 years after stopping mounjaro I learned about going grey and haven’t looked back. Postpartum is terrible and gained 90% of the weight back in that year postpartum unfortunately. In a year now I’ve lost 70lbs and almost back to my lowest.

All that to say, it was devastating to lose my mounjaro access. I’d worked so insanely hard to get strong and lose weight with the food noises gone for the first time in my life. I have at least 2 years stash right now and am hoping to buy 2 more kits in the next few months. I am terrified of losing my supply if things ever shut down, but I also know there’s more and better coming soon, just learned about Eloralintide this morning which sounds promising so it’s a balance knowing every year we seem to get a new one in the pipeline, but that drive to protect yourself in the long term is so strong. I never want to get back to where I was and plan to stay on some sort of maintenance for a long time. I have no idea what the right move is, but they’d have to take this from my cold dead hands to get me to stop and maintain my health. It’s crazy how becoming a parent puts longevity and health in the forefront.
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This happened to me with ozempic. It stopped it's pap program if on Medicare. I didn't know what I was going to do. I actually looked and felt better than I ever remember. I've always been the fat kid.
One advertisement on Facebook got me to researching. Spent way more than I should have for single vials. Then the lady I was buying from mentioned grey market. Needless to say she lost a customer.
The grey market saved me and my wallet.
 
randompersonrandom said:
Of course not. I plan on using one or the other, or possibly some third one they come out with later, for a total of THREE TIMES that length of time, assuming I live to see ninety.

But I have reasonable faith that in the next fifteen years, the prices of not-grey will go down enough that I won't have to live under a risk of "some day, I might find myself in a situation where my finances are too tight to afford the meds that keep me from gaining back all sixty-seventy pounds I lost and then some, and I might be looking down the barrel of white-knuckling through life against that kind of issues with food that I fought so hard with in the first forty-five years and always ultimately succumbed to."
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Do. you test all of them or are you going to test when you get "closer" to using?
 
Chocolate Boy Wonder said:
Do. you test all of them or are you going to test when you get "closer" to using?
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I'll give my deal on this. I'll have 232 vials when my GB show up. That's about 11-13 years worth. It's all been tested, but not by me. Two of my main guys have testing. All the GBs I've done have testing, Janoshik. That includes Endo testing. Pin away.
 
Kadeeglp123 said:
Only both? Lol, I am stocking up on three either way I look I'll have something when I'm 110 yrs old ,can't ever be to prepared,
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I keep wondering if i stroked out or died, my wife would be on fb marketplace "three 2 gallon igloo thermos stuffed with various glp1s.... 2k or best offer."
 
Beardboost said:
I like your style, if I had the money id do exactly the same! So far I have to purchase every 2-3 months to hoard, preserves very well so I don't see why not!
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You don’t think there will be something better than Reta in the next couple years?
 
BNLFL said:
I'll give my deal on this. I'll have 232 vials when my GB show up. That's about 11-13 years worth. It's all been tested, but not by me. Two of my main guys have testing. All the GBs I've done have testing, Janoshik. That includes Endo testing. Pin away.
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I feel like I am missing something in the logic of having that much product...1) How do you store all of that? 2)Aren't you concerned with it "going bad"? I know that they say it can just be put in the freezer, but I don't think anyone has done tests on the efficacy (a word I have found since being in the pep word for a short time) of stored product? 3)Isn't this product going to be "obsolete" in a little bit? It feels like me going out and buying an 8 track player. Sure, I can find SOME items I can play on it, but not many.
 
Youarewhen said:
Pretty sure none of us are poor and the cost of peps on the gray is pretty minimal. A decade seems like a safe bet.
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Late teens - early 20's me, cringes at how flagrantly I throw down my money to buy research drugs on sketchy apps from women calling me dear. Spending the extra dollar on ground beef not in a tube used to feel like a luxury, it also meant sacrificing 10 packs of top ramen that week... risky business.
 
randompersonrandom said:
I did actually try it, a single vial, and I titrated up a bit fast. I mostly wanted to see "am I going to have should-not-take-this side effects and will it have any effect on me?" The answers were "nope, just some allodynia that's worse than tirz but not unbearable" and "yes, some, though probably not as much as it would if I'd titrated reasonably."

I actually plan to wait til it's not just approved but in common use to consider switching, and even then, I might as well stick with my tirz stash for the ten years plus (I doubt I'll ever get all way up to max dose; I've been on just under 9 mg and I'm almost in maintenance). I won't need to and don't plan to continue losing weight for that time, so maintenance SHOULD be fine with just tirz. But I'd so much rather have reta and not need it very badly than badly wish I'd bought it when it was available and not have it.
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Did you have any sides? I tired Tirz and I felt like I got hit by a bus for the next two days, even at low dose. My energy was super depleted and I felt like dog poo. Is there something that can counteract that feeling?
 
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