我的Reta故事开始了！

[ambot88]

Welcome!! I was SO EXCITED and proud of myself when I made my first big girl sketchy drugs from the internet purchase. Big thrills. I've been on the reta for 5 months now, down 60lbs, (205-145) very pleased, love drugs, love the grey market, love being thin.

 

[PineCone99]

Love this post — and I guarantee it’s helpful for more people than you think. A lot of us had the exact same “what in the world am I doing?” journey before that first injection.

The progression you described is almost a rite of passage around here:

Reddit → confusion → weeks of reading → realizing normal people are doing this → learning reconstitution → the crypto panic → the “did I just send money into the void?” moment → the mysterious package appearing on your doorstep → the first jab

Your story about the vial sizes made me laugh too. Everyone imagines these big medicine bottles at first and then the package arrives and it’s like… “wait… THAT’S the vial?” The first time you see how tiny 10 units actually is, it suddenly makes sense.

Huge respect for pushing through the needle phobia as well. That first injection is always the hardest psychologically, and after that it usually becomes very routine.

Also sounds like you’re approaching this in a really thoughtful way:

• Starting low with 1 mg

• Already exercising and staying active

• Watching muscle mass with a smart scale

• Being mindful of thyroid meds

• Adjusting food timing if appetite changes

That’s honestly a great foundation for success.

And you’re already ahead of the curve starting at 175 with a goal of 140–160 . Reta seems to work particularly well for people who are closer to the “last stretch” of weight loss compared to some of the other GLPs.

Most importantly — congratulations on getting through the entire learning curve. The research phase can honestly be more stressful than the injection itself.

Welcome to the experiment, and definitely keep posting updates. A lot of newcomers will read posts like yours and think, “Okay… maybe I can actually do this too.”

Thanks so much for all of this, I agree, now that the first injection is done, I expect subsequent ones to be less sweaty lol. And who knows, maybe with this forced-exposure-therapy, I can eventually rid myself of the phobia entirely. Amazing what the right motivator can get you to do!

It is a bit funny the way the world's tiniest vials suddenly appear on your doorstep, silently, after ALLLL of that preamble. Surely there should be a marching band parade coming from down the street with drums and cymbals to announce such a monumentous arrival??!

 

[PineCone99]

Great writeup! I lacked the bandwidth to learn about everything all at once so my first vial came from a local reseller. Accepting the fact that I was going to be injecting myself with drugs probably for the rest of my life was just as much of a hurdle as learning crypto. I am a big chicken so I started with 1mg as well. I felt it within 3 hours and the effect was profound, for the next 3 days I felt as if I had just eaten a big burrito. My first shot of reta was on Jan 7th and I am down 20lbs so far. I hope you reach your goals!

Thanks! I'd love to hear how long you stayed at 1 mg and if/when you titrated up, as well as any sides you experienced. That's awesome that you're down 20 pounds already!

 

[PineCone99]

Day 2 Observations

Yesterday, about an hour after injecting I did feel a slight headache, but I figure that's probably from the needle-phobia-anxiety from earlier and probably not the Reta itself.

Felt decent all day and evening, had a few seconds of "dizzy-headedness" and very mild nausea here and there but only for a couple seconds. I did notice I was thirstier than usual, and I am again today, so I've been drinking more than usual water, which is a win regardless.

Slept fine and woke up feeling fine. No issues, feeling great!

I had been doing intermittent fasting (23/1) so it's not unexpected that I'm not very hungry during the morning/aft, but 4/5 pm onward will be more telling as that's generally when the appetite kicks IN. I did make myself have a little protein and fibre so far, as I'm wanting to phase away from intermittent fasting (that was only ever a mechanism to control my overall consumption).

I'm using that app - "MeAgain" to track my dosing. It shows medication level as 0.81 mg currently.

And I have a home blood pressure cuff that I've been using the past 3 weeks so that I can see any change to heart rate/blood pressure. My normal is about 110/63 and 57 pulse. We'll see if that changes going forward.

 

[Mayostardayonnaise]

I feel you on both the hypothyroid AND the needle phobia. I just finished a weird anxiety about injections out of nowhere, after doing injections for months and months. I was psyching myself out or something, it was so strange. I second the pens, all the way. The 4mm pen needles really did make a difference for me

 

[Peptidesearch]

How about a Caravan?

Odyssey?

 

[ivelweyz]

23/1断食，我的天！我已经断食大约12年了。通常是18/6或20/4，甚至还尝试过几次完整的21-28天断食，但我尝试23/1的时候完全坚持不下来。佩服你！

 

[Peptidesearch]

这是我力所能及的。这是我脑海里第一个蹦出来的词，但我立刻就觉得不行。“故事”这个词还是有点俗气，但我绞尽脑汁也想不出更好的替代品。

说真的，我读过的帖子里，有多少都是以我的睾酮替代疗法、GLP疗法或者减肥历程开头的，好像我们尝试的每件事现在都算得上是一段“历程”似的？以前只是简单地尝试一下，现在这种精神都去哪儿了？

 

[BBA1969]

奥德赛？

我喜欢奥德赛！我脑海里第一个浮现的就是《奥德赛：探索》

 

[Mayostardayonnaise]

我觉得我开始跟自己紊乱的荷尔蒙作斗争了。它们跟我闹翻了！

 

[JA$$E]

第二天观察：

昨天注射后大约一小时，我确实感到轻微头痛，但我认为这可能是之前对针头的恐惧和焦虑造成的，而不是瑞塔本身引起的。

一整天和晚上感觉都不错，偶尔会有几秒钟的“头晕”和非常轻微的恶心，但都只持续了几秒钟。我注意到我比平时更 渴 ，今天也是如此，所以我比平时喝更多的水，无论如何，这都是好事。

睡眠很好，醒来后感觉也很好。没有任何问题，感觉很棒！

我之前一直在进行间歇性断食（23/1），所以早上/下午不太饿并不奇怪，但下午4/5点以后的情况会更明显，因为通常这个时候食欲会开始旺盛。目前我还是摄入了一些蛋白质和纤维，因为我想逐渐停止间歇性断食（它之前只是我控制总摄入量的一种方式）。

我用“MeAgain”这款应用来追踪我的药物剂量。它显示我目前的药物浓度是0.81毫克。

过去三周我一直在用家用血压计测量血压，以便观察心率和血压的变化。我的正常血压是110/63，脉搏57。看看接下来会不会有变化吧。

你说的第二天，我猜是指第二周吧？Reta不需要连续注射。

 

[BNLFL]

我有一个家用血压计，过去三周我一直在用它测量血压，这样就能观察心率和血压的变化。我正常的血压是110/63，脉搏是57。看看接下来会不会有变化吧。

你的血压和心率都很好。这让我想起我老婆，每次给她量血压的时候我都会问她是不是还活着，因为她的血压有时候比你的低一点点。我的血压是120/72，心率72。睡觉的时候心率大概是54。我的血氧饱和度比她高，我100%，她98%。

 

[PineCone99]

欢迎！！我第一次从网上买到货的时候，真是兴奋极了，也为自己感到骄傲。太刺激了！我已经用了5个月的药了，减了60磅（从205磅减到145磅），非常满意。我喜欢毒品，喜欢灰色市场，喜欢苗条的身材。

You must feel like an absolute rockstar at 145!!!! That's a huge accomplishment, I really really hope to get there myself in the coming 6 months-1 year. "Love being thin" <-- cannot wait to say those words too.

 

[PineCone99]

I feel you on both the hypothyroid AND the needle phobia. I just finished a weird anxiety about injections out of nowhere, after doing injections for months and months. I was psyching myself out or something, it was so strange. I second the pens, all the way. The 4mm pen needles really did make a difference for me

Yeah that IS strange! The phobia joining-the-chat after you'd already done it for months, how odd. Thanks for the tip on the pens, a few folks have suggested that and it seems quite a consensus.

 

[PineCone99]

23/1 fasting, holy crap! I've been doing fasting for ~12 years now. Usually 18/6 or 20/4, even did a handful of full 21-28 day fasts, but I couldn't handle 23/1 when I tried. Props to you.

Thanks! Full 21-28 day fasts?? Surely you could easily do 23/1 then. Longest I ever did was a few 72 hour fasts, but phewwww those were ROUGH. Nothing but water & black coffee. Did it for the autophagy benefits, but those definitely took all of my determination.

 

[PineCone99]

when you say day 2, i presume you are meaning week 2? Back to back injections not needed for Reta

Ah, maybe I phrased it in a confusing way. I just meant my " observations " on Day 2, after taking the shot the prior day. But yes, it will only be once-a-week injections, and just 1 mg for the first few weeks.

 

[PineCone99]

Those are good BP and HR numbers. Reminds me of my wife, I ask her if she's alive when I do her BP, it's just a tad lower that yours sometimes. I run +/-120/72 with a 72HR. Sleeping my HR is around 54. I do beat her in O2 levels, me 100% her 98%.

Thanks, I'll be curious to watch now that I've started Reta, what changes might occur. Normally, (pre-Reta) in the evenings watching tv I'm around : 105/59 and 55 pulse.

Lol @ asking your wife if she's still alive! Oh I'd be curious about O2 levels.. don't think I have a device for measuring that...

 

[PineCone99]

Day 6 Observations:

Appetite - earlier, someone said that on Reta they constantly felt like "they'd just eaten a burrito" and I have to agree. Great appetite suppression very early on! I'm eating, but small quantities (prioritizing fibre and protein) and eating more frequently since I'm trying to transition away from intermittent fasting. It feels very weird eating breakfast for the first time in many, many years and I was really nervous about it because that has always made me ravenous 2 hours later and then I'd have crazy cravings to battle all day long. What a shock to realize that isn't happening with Reta. I gave it a few days because I still didn't trust it lol. But now I can eat breakfast (even with some high GI carbs) and still have to remind myself a few hours later to have some protein/fibre for lunch... this is astounding for me.

Burps ! I was delighted to notice this on Day 2, as it tells me it's working. I normally never burp unless drinking a diet pop, so it was noticeable.

Nausea - felt a few spells in Days 1-4 but I don't feel it now anymore.

Super super happy with things so far, and I'll take my second dose on Wednesday morning.

 

[Mayostardayonnaise]

Yeah that IS strange! The phobia joining-the-chat after you'd already done it for months, how odd. Thanks for the tip on the pens, a few folks have suggested that and it seems quite a consensus.

I would say 50% of the time when I go get blood drawn, I almost/do pass out and it is strange that it’s not every time. Maybe it stems from having to do bloodwork fasted - sometimes I’m fine, got enough sleep, didn’t go too crazy on the caffeine, had enough water, ate enough the day before, etc. It’s really annoying that the stars need to align just right for me to have a normal blood draw experience….

 

[BNLFL]

Thanks, I'll be curious to watch now that I've started Reta, what changes might occur. Normally, (pre-Reta) in the evenings watching tv I'm around : 105/59 and 55 pulse.

Lol @ asking your wife if she's still alive! Oh I'd be curious about O2 levels.. don't think I have a device for measuring that...

This is the one I have. Had to get it after 3 weeks in the hospital, two of those in ICU with double/double pneumonia that almost took me out. That's when I got the BP deal for the wrist.

https://a.co/d/01QYy1BK