u/reta_and_regret
Went too fast on retatrutide. Learned. Posting the whole embarrassing arc.
member · joined 8 Aug 2024
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comment on someone explain non-scale victory to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/progresspics · 1 points · 4 months ago
Agreed — text only was the best rule this board ever adopted. The posts are about what actually changed rather than about lighting.
comment on [Results] 49 weeks, 7kg, and dose escalation was the hard part in c/retatrutide · 201 points · 4 months ago
Trial names corrected in the title. The phase 3 programme and the phase 2 readout are not the same thing.
comment on [PSA] regret is not what most of this community thinks it is in c/darkspot · 47 points · 4 months ago
accusing the wrong party and correcting it publicly is the best kind of post here
comment on [Lab] WXT reta — PeptideMeter came back 97.1% against a claimed 97.0% in c/retatrutide · 69 points · 5 months ago
the glucagon component is why the metabolic story reads differently
comment on genuine question about glucagon that I am slightly embarrassed to ask in c/retatrutide · 14 points · 6 months ago
Standing reminder in every thread here: unapproved compound, research material is not for human use, nothing on this board is medical advice.
comment on [Meta] the gallbladder rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining in c/sideeffects · 98 points · 6 months ago
Yes. Holding the dose is a real option and it does not mean you have failed at anything.
comment on [Meta] the gallbladder rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining in c/sideeffects · 90 points · 6 months ago
Most of the common complaints trace back to slowed gastric emptying — early fullness, reflux, nausea after a large or fatty meal. That is also why meal size and speed change the experience more than anything else.
comment on anyone else notice progress kicking in around week 89 in c/progresspics · 7 points · 6 months ago
Not convinced comparison helps here. The people posting the fastest results are the tail of a distribution, not the middle.
comment on week 53 check-in — 10kg down, fatigue manageable, one thing confusing me in c/darkspot · 36 points · 6 months ago
Most of what gets posted here is procedural rather than dramatic: a step skipped, a document not requested, a temperature not considered, a pace chosen out of impatience.
comment on [Meta] the progress rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining in c/progresspics · 5 points · 7 months ago
a plateau is not a failure and it is not a personality
comment on [Meta] the progress rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining in c/progresspics · 8 points · 7 months ago
Is the goal you set at the start still the goal?
comment on three years of TRIUMPH threads, summarised so you do not have to read them in c/retatrutide · 20 points · 7 months ago
Standing reminder in every thread here: unapproved compound, research material is not for human use, nothing on this board is medical advice.
comment on [PSA] stopped is not what most of this community thinks it is in c/darkspot · 16 points · 7 months ago
Buying small from an unfamiliar supplier and testing before committing is the single procedural change that would have prevented the largest share of financial losses described on this board.
comment on what would you tell week-1 you about reflux in c/sideeffects · 31 points · 7 months ago
Careful with the supplement recommendation. There is no evidence for it here and the mechanism you are proposing does not hold.
comment on [Results] 26 weeks on 1.7mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring in c/retatrutide · 434 points · 7 months ago
triple agonist — GLP-1, GIP and glucagon, and the glucagon arm is the new part
comment on is it normal to get injection-site soreness at week 44 in c/sideeffects · 55 points · 8 months ago
Are you eating in the couple of hours before you sleep?
comment on what would you tell week-1 you about struggle in c/progresspics · 1 points · 8 months ago
the timeframe matters as much as the number
comment on what changed for me between month 10 and month 14 in c/retatrutide · 549 points · 8 months ago
Trial names corrected in the title. The phase 3 programme and the phase 2 readout are not the same thing.
comment on someone explain goal to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/progresspics · 47 points · 8 months ago
Same. Comparison ruined about three months for me until I stopped reading the fastest posts.
comment on [PSA] what went wrong is not what most of this community thinks it is in c/darkspot · 1 points · 9 months ago
Removed a judgemental comment. Nobody gets judged on this board and that is enforced without discussion.
comment on my A1c moved and I cannot work out whether TRIUMPH is why in c/retatrutide · 1 points · 9 months ago
Has anyone posted an independent test on this compound recently?
comment on [Question] how do you actually verify sulphur burps in c/sideeffects · 83 points · 10 months ago
Correction: that is a known effect of reduced intake rather than a direct drug effect. The distinction matters because the fix is different.
comment on [Question] how do you actually verify sulphur burps in c/sideeffects · 123 points · 10 months ago
Held the dose for an extra six weeks instead of stepping. The reflux settled and I lost the same amount anyway.
comment on why does nobody talk about glucagon in c/retatrutide · 648 points · 11 months ago
Left up. It reads the phase 2 paper carefully and it is honest about the intervals.
comment on what would you tell week-1 you about failure in c/darkspot · 6 points · 11 months ago
Removed a judgemental comment. Nobody gets judged on this board and that is enforced without discussion.
comment on what changed for me between month 2 and month 9 in c/sideeffects · 1 points · 11 months ago
Kept a one-line-a-day log for two months. The pattern was obvious on paper and invisible in my head.
comment on the lost money question that gets asked weekly, answered properly in c/darkspot · 1 points · 1 year ago
Agreed — somebody is at exactly the point you were at, reading this, and it will land differently for them than any success story.
comment on what would you tell week-1 you about glucagon in c/retatrutide · 1.2k points · 1 year ago
Trial names corrected in the title. The phase 3 programme and the phase 2 readout are not the same thing.
comment on 5 months in and dose escalation is still the thing I get wrong in c/retatrutide · 49 points · 1 year ago
Left up. It reads the phase 2 paper carefully and it is honest about the intervals.
comment on tried triple agonist for 19 weeks. here is what happened. in c/retatrutide · 4 points · 1 year ago
Right, and it bears repeating that nothing here is approved anywhere and research material is not for human use.
comment on the progress thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down in c/progresspics · 74 points · 1 year ago
Weighing under consistent conditions — same time, same state, same scale — removes most of the apparent variability people find distressing.
comment on genuine question about TRIUMPH that I am slightly embarrassed to ask in c/retatrutide · 24 points · 1 year ago
dose escalation in the trials was slow for a reason
comment on genuine question about TRIUMPH that I am slightly embarrassed to ask in c/retatrutide · 108 points · 1 year ago
Removed the escalation schedule. There is no published protocol for members to follow and inventing one here is exactly what this board does not do.
comment on [Vendor] GL Biochem vs JEEP on the same compound, same month — both cleared 97.0% in c/darkspot · 15 points · 1 year ago
This.
Agreed — and being harder on yourself than you would be on somebody else posting the same thing is the pattern here.
comment on dose escalation — my 16-week log, condensed into one table in c/retatrutide · 490 points · 1 year ago
Trial names corrected in the title. The phase 3 programme and the phase 2 readout are not the same thing.
comment on the failure thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down in c/darkspot · 22 points · 1 year ago
Left up, flaired Correction. The original stays with it — that is how this board works.
comment on triple agonist: the version I wish someone had shown me in week 1 in c/retatrutide · 481 points · 1 year ago
Left up. It reads the phase 2 paper carefully and it is honest about the intervals.
comment on [Discussion] can we stop arguing about dose escalation until somebody posts a number in c/retatrutide · 12 points · 1 year ago
heart rate is the thing people report watching
comment on [Discussion] can we stop arguing about dose escalation until somebody posts a number in c/retatrutide · 1k points · 1 year ago
Left up. It reads the phase 2 paper carefully and it is honest about the intervals.
comment on [Meta] proposal — a flair for failure posts in c/darkspot · 134 points · 1 year ago
Name removed. The rule holds here too: no individuals, no accusations without documents.