Growing frustrated and in need of some help

[sheilarae74]

I’m a couple of weeks in now, just at 2.5mg this time, but again I’m feeling nothing. And now I’m growing a little frustrated that it’s either harder to find legitimate Reta than it was 6 months ago, or I’m doing something wrong. In my mind, one or more of the following scenarios has to be true:

a) both products I’ve bought recently are fake

b) my body is taking longer to respond second time around

c) I need a much higher dose this time around

d) I’m somehow storing and / or injecting it wrong

I’m just not sure how I arrive at the true answer. How do I troubleshoot the possibilities?

It feels like option a) is the most likely answer, and perhaps I simply got lucky first time around. But I don’t know that for certain, and even if it turns out to be true, I’m not sure where to turn next as I’d tried to be fairly diligent in my sourcing on every occasion.

Would appreciate your collective thoughts and experiences, as I’m getting increasingly disheartened. Thanks!

Any questions, please ask.

I feel the frustration part. I have spent the last week trying to figure out who has what I need in stock and who is legit and testing ok. My eyes hurt from all this damned research.

So the premium sponsors of this forum, is it safe to say it is ok to buy from them? I'm not even concerned about getiing the best deal anymore. I just don't want to get ripped off. At this point, I will take my chances with the endotoxins.

 

[lessthanhalf]

There is never going to be a guarantee of not getting ripped off, several months ago a lot of the most popular , reliable sellers just stopped due to crackdowns in china and lots of people lost money. Do not buy from anyone who contacts you. Pick the seller who has the most views on their posts? popularity is as good a guide as anything as to whether other people like them. Pick sellers who have been around a while? The vendors , premium or otherwise are not tested and verified, as the person who runs the site thinks the process is so easy to be corrupted it just will not work for long, and just gives false confidence.

Ideally find a seller that shows lots of COA's and much better still if you can find any third party test results on a sellers products, that should give you more confidence that they sell what they say they are selling. Weirdly people seem to get what they pay for way more often than I would guess - nearly all the time. All it takes to tank a vendors orders is a few complaints or one bad independent test result to cost them thousands or hundreds of thousands in lost revenue and that seems to be enough to keep them honest, assuming you are not buying from some random seller on tiktok who set up yesterday. Given that I think every second supplement sold on Amazon US is dodgy, it is amusing that anonymous Chinese internet drug dealers are much more reliable.

If you want to be as safe as possible pay lots of money to get what you buy tested, it is the only way to be certain.

Make smaller purchases so if you do get ripped off the costs are lower, work out how you want to pay, if you do not want to use crypto your choices are much more limited. Given you are in the US pick a seller who ships locally to save issues with customs seizures, so long as it is not much dearer it is worth paying a bit extra for that, and will usually be quicker. If they do not have what you want in stock despite advertising it on their lists , try someone else, a lot of vendors put everything on their lists whether they have them or not, but if you are buying from a US warehouse don't expect them to have stock of less common items.

If you make enough purchases sooner or later something will go wrong, the worst I got was someone getting me to pay through bank transfer who did not know what they were doing and then had me reverse the transaction that cost me $100 aud. Other than that as far as I know all the peptides have been as advertised out of 8 or 9 orders. Sort of thankfully tirzepatide causes my tinnitus to get louder as a side effect so I can instantly tell that it is legit.

 

[MFGamesta]

I would say most of the suppliers that advertise on this site are pretty good or they would be getting killed by bad reviews here.

Find one you like and stick with them. The cheapest is not always the best but all of the prices are pretty compatible.

 

[ContainHer]

I feel your frustration and I understand it! It's a new world for me too! I bought 1 vial for 150$ ( yeah! When you don't know, you make mistake!!) and no change at all in my body since 3 weeks. Probably that I am injecting my body with baby powder hahahah! I am here to educate myself and not make mistake again. I take all advices and help!

Reta takes about 5 weeks to hit efficacy - for me, I didn't see a weight change for months , I did however notice a reduction in inflammation and food noise around week 6. At 3mg/week about 6 months in I started to loose inches, but not lbs. At 4.5mg - 5mg I started to lose a few pounds. I've tried the big 3 GLP's and for the most part - am a non responder to weight loss and fluctuate between the same 5-10 lbs. I look completely different though, it's wild.

(to the peanut gallery, YES, I was in a calorie deficit, I spent months writing down every single thing I put in my mouth... yes, everything.