Reta Hunger

[ussop]

I recently started taking Reta, and I’m noticing a significant increase in hunger, specifically intense cravings for sweets.

This is unusual for me because I also take Adderall, which typically suppresses my appetite.

Additionally, I am on Keppra and Lamotrigine. Does anyone have advice on managing these cravings or insight into how these medications might be interacting?

 

[Abrakebabra]

Were you on Tirz or a Sema before starting Reta? Odd for your hunger to increase if not but everyone responds differently. Some people find the appetite suppression much less on Reta so will add Cagri (or sometimes Tirz) to help.

 

[RJ760]

I recently started taking Reta, and I’m noticing a significant increase in hunger, specifically intense cravings for sweets.

This is unusual for me because I also take Adderall, which typically suppresses my appetite.

Additionally, I am on Keppra and Lamotrigine. Does anyone have advice on managing these cravings or insight into how these medications might be interacting?

What dose did you start with?

 

[DragonOfTheSea]

I recently started taking Reta, and I’m noticing a significant increase in hunger, specifically intense cravings for sweets.

This is unusual for me because I also take Adderall, which typically suppresses my appetite.

Additionally, I am on Keppra and Lamotrigine. Does anyone have advice on managing these cravings or insight into how these medications might be interacting?

What is your current dosage, and what does recently mean in length of time?

I don’t have any specific knowledge on any contraindications between Keppra and Lamotrigine, but I can say anecdotally that many experience an increase in hunger from lower dosages of Reta. This can often alleviate/resolve for those individuals as titration increases, but also remember that one of the functions of Reta is an increase in metabolic function with lower focus on appetite supression receptors, contrary to the other two main GLP meds with stronger focus on said receptors.. this is why it can often take higher dosages for the effect of supression to present itself. As such, instead of titrating up, many also add an additional peptide more specifically focused on supression such as Cagrilintide, Semaglutide, or Tirzepitide.

 

[ussop]

What dose did you start with?

so i bought 12 mg and i added 2 bac ml water and then i think i did 50 or 100 mcg ?

 

[CheesyPotato]

This is exactly what I'm going through. I was never a sweets person, didn't experience this on Tirz, but since I started Reta and titrated completely off of Tirz, I'm craving chocolate, and waking up very hungry. I slug down the H20, and have a chocolate protein shake when the urge gets real strong, it's helped some. I'm going to bump up this week to see if it subsides.

 

[Superduty67]

I don’t eat sweets but I too craved chocolate for the first 2 weeks I was on. Started at 1mg and hunger started tapering down about a month in. I do still get hungry which I’m ok with because it’s hard enough to get my daily protein in

 

[Estarossa19]

so i bought 12 mg and i added 2 bac ml water and then i think i did 50 or 100 mcg ?

That’s a joke of a dose. How are you surprised it isn’t working…

 

[DragonOfTheSea]

That’s a joke of a dose. How are you surprised it isn’t working…

A little aggressive, no? They obviously just need a little guidance.

@ussop with the current dilution of your single 12mg vial, I would suggest starting with a 25unit injection- this will give you a 1.5mg dose. It is a bit on the lower side, but will be a significantly larger impact than any mcg amount.

Also, you “think” you did 50-100mcg… how many units did you inject, we can tell you for sure the dosage so that you can properly understand what is and isn’t working.

 

[BNLFL]

A little aggressive, no? They obviously just need a little guidance.

@ussop with the current dilution of your single 12mg vial, I would suggest starting with a 25unit injection- this will give you a 1.5mg dose. It is a bit on the lower side, but will be a significantly larger impact than any mcg amount.

Also, you “think” you did 50-100mcg… how many units did you inject, we can tell you for sure the dosage so that you can properly understand what is and isn’t working.

Seems to be a bunch of scientist and chemical engineering degrees here lately based on their ultra impressive replies. Bunch of wanna be somethings in my opinion.

 

[DragonOfTheSea]

Seems to be a bunch of scientist and chemical engineering degrees here lately based on their ultra impressive replies. Bunch of wanna be somethings in my opinion.

Because I can do some math? I thought this was supposed to be a place of support and education.

 

[BNLFL]

Because I can do some math? I thought this was supposed to be a place of support and education, apparently you don’t think so.

Not you, relax. I actually like sea dragons. It was a general statement about a few others who seem to like confrontation and not you.

 

[Waterheater]

Read more and pin less. If 50-100mg is the dose you take now you should 10x. But get your math right first please. If you mess up you are in for a long week

 

[WLBLD]

Same here. I didn't have any appetite before starting any of these. Reta made me feel hungry for the first time in forever. I think it turned my metabolism back on.

I did add Tirz also because that was helping me with pain/inflammation & that took the hunger back away

 

[Estarossa19]

A little aggressive, no? They obviously just need a little guidance.

@ussop with the current dilution of your single 12mg vial, I would suggest starting with a 25unit injection- this will give you a 1.5mg dose. It is a bit on the lower side, but will be a significantly larger impact than any mcg amount.

Also, you “think” you did 50-100mcg… how many units did you inject, we can tell you for sure the dosage so that you can properly understand what is and isn’t working.

Agreed, your reply was informative and actually provided guidance.

I'll take that into consideration for future replies as I tend to forget I was a newbie in the game at some point.

 

[tendency]

I recently started taking Reta, and I’m noticing a significant increase in hunger, specifically intense cravings for sweets.

This is unusual for me because I also take Adderall, which typically suppresses my appetite.

Additionally, I am on Keppra and Lamotrigine. Does anyone have advice on managing these cravings or insight into how these medications might be interacting?

I developed a wicked sweet tooth when first starting Reta, seems to not be that unusual. What fixed it for me was deliberately eating more simple carbs, bread, rice, potatoes etc. Up those carbs!

 

[DragonOfTheSea]

Not you, relax. I actually like sea dragons. It was a general statement about a few others who seem to like confrontation and not you.

I’m all for the absence of drama, especially over the internet- it’s most often adolescent and unnecessary. I don’t care to be one of those people.

The fact that you quoted my post to make your comment, it seemed quite direct. All good

 

[sheilarae74]

This is my experience.

At the beginning of the year I started reta at 0.5mg and for the first 3 weeks appetite suppression was EXCELLENT. But I also wanted to sleep all of the time and the sulfur gas buildup in my stomach was HORRID! The weeks following, as I was titrating my way up I just had decent food noise suppression and that was it. I was hungry a lot. Now that I am up to 5mg this week my appetite is so controlled, I am struggling to get enough protein. Also, the side effects are almost non-existent now. I feel that slowly titrating up was the right call for me.

I think you just have to ride it out until you work your way up to the dose that is right for you. That's just my opinion. I am by no means an expert. I'm purely going by my own personal experience.

 

[deleted.user.16]

This is my experience.

At the beginning of the year I started reta at 0.5mg and for the first 3 weeks appetite suppression was EXCELLENT. But I also wanted to sleep all of the time and the sulfur gas buildup in my stomach was HORRID! The weeks following, as I was titrating my way up I just had decent food noise suppression and that was it. I was hungry a lot. Now that I am up to 5mg this week my appetite is so controlled, I am struggling to get enough protein. Also, the side effects are almost non-existent now. I feel that slowly titrating up was the right call for me.

I think you just have to ride it out until you work your way up to the dose that is right for you. That's just my opinion. I am by no means an expert. I'm purely going by my own personal experience.

Wow it's crazy how differently people respond to Reta! It didn't make me want to sleep, I couldn't sleep right for a week lol. I was up 48 hrs straight after my first dose, and after that could only get 6 hrs a night every week that I took it. Which I honestly don't mind because I usually average 9-10 (occasionally up to 13) hours a night and have always wished I needed less.

 

[FlowerFairy]

Wow it's crazy how differently people respond to Reta! It didn't make me want to sleep, I couldn't sleep right for a week lol. I was up 48 hrs straight after my first dose, and after that could only get 6 hrs a night every week that I took it. Which I honestly don't mind because I usually average 9-10 (occasionally up to 13) hours a night and have always wished I needed less.

I was thinking the same. The whole reason I started using Reta was because on Tirz I was sleeping all the time unless I was working or doing requires things. And I mean literally- got up at 7, worked 7:30-4, fed my critters, and went to sleep. Woke up at midnight to take the pups out, then back to sleep until 7. It was crazy. On Reta I’m back to 7-8 hrs of sleep.