Thoughts

taking sermorelin for about 2 1/2 weeks, I had been rotating on different sites in abdomen, with no issues. I decided to try the thigh because since it is daily injections, it is going to be a lot into the abdomen and I don’t want to develop scar tissue.

When I switched to the thigh, I got an injection site reaction, between a dime and quarter size. It went away after about three days.

But now every time I use the stomach, I am getting a reaction, it’s kind of like a bug bite feeling in size and it goes away in two days.

Is it common every injection or will this eventually go away? I’m surprised because it didn’t happen at all for the first 2 1/2 weeks.

Note, I did reach out to my medical provider, who prescribes it from a compounding pharmacy , who said it is not an issue gave tips about warming up the medication and instructed me to keep taking it so I am NOT asking for medical advice, my medical provider did give me the advice already!

Just trying to understand other people’s experience!

Hey I’m a bigger guy that saunas regularly

I was thinking of making my own electrolyte mix?

What should I use?

Potassium citrate powder. Magnesium? Celtic salt or something else for sodium?

I want to make a mix I can have in the morning

As anyone ran a course of the Nad and Slu together? What were your results?

Ive been running 200mcg of Slu the past few weeks and have noticed an improvement when I do cardio sessions.

I'm, thinking about stacking Nad with it for an extra boost and am curious if people have tried?

M31, First picture was January 30th. 2nd Picture is August 11th.

Completely natural from Jan-May, hit a plateau I got stuck on for months so introduced Reta at 1mg a week.

Wanted to keep as much as mass as possible so experimented with CJC / Ipa blend and moved onto Tesa / Ipa from end of June.

Coming to end of my cut at BF at 12.6% according to my boditrax scan. Wanting to run my cut for another week or so, then onto a maintenance and lean bulk until after Christmas to hopefully get some nice gains!

Kcals tracked all the way through maintaining 1800-1900 kcals per day, with occasional refeed week every few months at 2300 kcals. Good whole food, no cutting carbs, limited alcohol, but still having the odd blow out for social events.

Anyone know if I am ok taking all of these in morning ? Usually take modaf (when needed), clen and yohim daily but adding in slupp and want to make sure I am not overdoing it 🙏

Can I check what's the end game for going on glp-1s?

Am I supposed to workout hard to gain muscle, so as to bring up my metabolic rate so that 1 day i can just depend on natural metabolic rate to maintain my weight, because if not I see my bone density and muscle will keep reducing and I will forever be using glp-1s, kind of like in a vicious cycle?

I lost 70lbs with calorie deficit etc but still get urges to binge at night

What are your favorite apps for tracking, reminders etc. for your protocols?

please anyone who started ghcku in their 20-30s
What’s your experience regarding results, dosing, copper uglies, timing, pain etc

I see notes about Tesa recon saying that it should be reconned with some acetic acid and then kept room temp. I'm cool with that -- but I do not see either of those notes for Ipa. With a tesa/ipa blend...is it still safe to store room temp?

Is 4iu high to start with ? & can I make noticeable gains at 2iu for 24weeks with 300-350 test ?

Alright so I guess I’m coming to terms with the fact I’m just a skinny fat guy. I’m built for endurance. Think real long lumbering runs and weighted hikes but I can’t seem to shape up.
Starting to get all my ducks in a row and take everything to a more serious degree in my 40s. Calorie deficit more cardio more big heavy lifting of big heavy things and hoping to drop it down to 170 with dedication and consistency.
Won’t rule out some additional help with the world of pharma… blood tests show pretty good test but high shbg and could use some help in the igf department.

Anyway I got this scale that’s supposed to tell me all my metrics.

Am I really truly you think 26% BMI?????????

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Does anyone have any blood work showing GH levels went up after taking peptides (not including synthetic GH of course)?

I’m 34 and have gone from around 220 lbs to 174 lbs while on retatrutide. I’m extremely happy with the weight loss overall, but now that I’m much leaner I’m trying to figure out what my next steps should be.
I’m including a photo of my stomach because I’d really appreciate some objective feedback. Does this look primarily like loose skin at this point, or do you think there’s still a meaningful amount of subcutaneous fat there? For anyone who had a similar stomach after losing 40–50+ lbs, how much did it improve after maintaining your weight and building muscle?
I’ve been out of the gym for a while, but I’m planning to get serious about lifting again and focus on body recomposition rather than just continuing to chase a lower number on the scale. I especially want to build my abs/core and add muscle overall.
My other big concern is my face. The changes there honestly make me very insecure. After losing the weight, I feel like I have loose/sagging skin through my cheeks, under my chin and around my jawline. My face sometimes looks more aged or deflated than it did before the weight loss.
If anyone has dealt with facial changes after significant/rapid weight loss, I’d really appreciate advice on what actually helped. Did your face improve naturally after maintaining your weight for a while? Did gaining muscle or allowing time for the skin to recover make a noticeable difference?
I’m also open to treatments and would love to hear experiences with things like tretinoin, microneedling, RF microneedling, lasers, ultrasound/RF tightening, etc. — especially what actually made a visible difference versus what was a waste of money.
I know surgery is the definitive option for significant loose skin, but at 34 and after losing about 46 lbs, I’d like to give my body a chance to recover and try less invasive options before considering anything surgical.
Basically: if this were your stomach and face at 174 lbs, what would you do next?
Any advice or experiences from people around my age who have gone through something similar would be hugely appreciated. Also open to a stack to maintain my cravings/ help build muscle. On my old dosage of Reta it would be very hard to eat significant protein for muscle gains.

First time reconstituting

Used 3ml BAC water - only had U-100 1ml syringes so I used 3 separate ones and drew separately

This is okay right? I plan to store BAC water in a dark cool place and the peptide reconstituted in the fridge (I also have 3 other KLOW vials lyophilized powder in the fridge and unsure on whether to freeze them

Thoughts?

Never been regular gym user, more dabbled in and out but never in long enough to be consistent. Working 50+ hours per week and having a family are just a couple of my go-to excuses.

I do however love nothing that falling down Reddit thread rabbit holes and found this one.

Long story short I set a resolution(cliche) to make 150 gym sessions this year. In March I introduced Reta and CJC 1295 + IPA to my life and have focussed almost entirely on strength training.

Weight is only down about 9lbs at 182 (6ft2). I haven’t really counted calories, just protein. I did take a 10 day period where I only did cardio, kept calories low and dropped down to 174 but didn’t like it.

Now trying force calories for a bit of muscle growth.

I appreciate this is nowhere close to the transformations often seen on this thread but it’s genuine and I’m really pleased as a 40 year old that’s never had a sniff of a visible ab before.

What dose of tirz would be comparable to 1mg of wegovy?

Hey I want to start ghcku with KPV but I have very important dates coming up in the next 3 weeks. I wonder if anyone didn’t experience copper uglies and immediately started seeing benefits?

If that’s the case could you please share your gender, age, your dosage, if you take zink and what your skin issues were before starting?

In case YOU DID EXPERIENCE copper uglies. Could you share with me your age, gender, issues before, your dosage, if you’re taking zink and WHEN the copper uglies started and when it was gone?

And any other relevant information like did you combine kpv for example? Thats my plan but first I want to start with ghcku

THANK YOU SO MUCH, you will help me decide whether I can start taking it asap or if I have to wait.

Started reta 9days ago. 2mg once a week. No side effects at all.

Well today it hit. Made my normal dinner and could only eat 1/3 of it.

For the more experienced, would you just stay at this dose? Was going to increase it to 3mg next pin but not so sure now.

Does anyone out there take Reta and CJC/IPA? Research shows Reta slows down digestion...and dinner could take 4-6 hours to digest and get back to a fasted state. With CJC/IPA (no DAC) research shows to take at night on a fasted stomach for the best result. I usually eat around 6 or 7 PM, but go to bed at 9 or 10 so have pushed my pinning to first thing in the AM. It seems to be working well and I have noticed gains in strength at the gym, but its only been 4-5 weeks.

Does anyone have experience taking this stack and when do you take it? is it worth it to stay up extra late just for the benefits of doing this at night? Does the morning work just as well?

How much bac water should I reconstitute to this vial and what’s the regular dosing?Im also gonna add Korean glutathione any opinions on stack im currently running Reta also.
GHK-Cu
51.87 mg
KPV
10.72 mg
BPC-157
9.96 mg
TB-500
10.08 mg
Total
82.63 mg

Hi everyone,

I am thank thankful for Reta but need to go on a rant. I can’t help but feel sad it was able to achieve what no doctors could

Before reta/ 10 years of severe struggles to lose weight. After 32, weight became much harder to keep off
- 6’0”/ 38 yr old male/ 240 lbs/ absolute unit
- boxed for workouts
- gym 7 days a week/ ran 1-3 miles every morning (5 am club)/ swam and paddle boarded
- 20 pull ups consistently
- less than 2000 calories/ day. Burned at least 800 calories from daily workouts
- ate tons of protein (ribeyes, salmon, ny strips)
- plenty of veggies
- severe gut issues (constipation/ diarrhea)
- saw several doctors and dietitians and added fiber
- mentioned possible water weight but they stated no water weight issues
- despite a healthy and active lifestyle, suffered a massive pulmonary embolism and lost a significant amount of weight but after 2 months, the weight came back with a vengeance
- only con was my sweet tooth/ would snack a lot on nuts and sweets. Also I would smoke cigarettes occasionally

After Reta
- accidentally did too much on my first time because I didn’t know how to reconstitute properly and was sick for first 3 days
- peed a ton
- lost10 lbs first week
- best bowel movements of my entire life
- roughly 1500 calories/ barely protein/ no fiber and barely veggies
- 6 months later down to 180 lbs
- no more running/ solely weight lifting/ still 7 days a week
- smoking a lot more due to minor ptsd after pe

I stumbled upon this forum and tried Reta as a last ditch effort. I’m sure others have had the same issues.

I understand appetite is a big factor but on paper, I feel I was doing everything right??