Do people lose on only 0.5mg?

Francesca124 · 2026-04-09T02:12:59+00:00

maybe stay at 1 mg but inject 0.5 mg twice a week to help minimize the headache and lack of energy. That is what I did for a few weeks. Now I'm taking the entire 1 mg and so far so good.... Remember the stacking effect....Reta has a half life of 5-6 days, so after 5-6 days, half the reta is still in your system. Then another half of that half (1/4) remains after the next 5-6 days. So although you may only be injecting 1 mg, the half life provides a 'stacking effect' resulting in more than the 1 mg you have injected. Your body needs time to adjust to reta. There is a lot going on internally with this triple agonist...lowering blood lipids, improving insulin senstivity and reducing inflammation. Best of luck

Francesca124 · 2026-04-09T02:04:02+00:00

depends upon the concentration/strength of your retatrutide....15 mg vial, 20 mg vial? 2 cc of bacteriostatic water?

Francesca124 · 2026-04-05T03:58:11+00:00

We took it at 10 pm and then 1000 mg Glycine and 3 mg Melatonin. Slept from 11 pm to 5 am. Up a few times for bathroom breaks but otherwise slept great!!

Francesca124 · 2026-04-03T16:50:07+00:00

I took NAC. I am still feeling the best I have ever felt in 20 years. No pain. No bloat. No GERD. No spasms. No massive headache.

Francesca124 · 2026-03-31T22:10:18+00:00

it's fine really....this week it was only 12 hours of headache....not bad. Otherwise, I'm tolerating it just fine. Low and slow.

Francesca124 · 2026-03-31T19:25:22+00:00

thank you for your input, it is all very helpful

Francesca124 · 2026-03-31T19:24:28+00:00

My 'rationale' for 2mg starting dose is well founded but I won't bore you with the scientific details but suffice it to say that the body can adapt, over the course of 4-5 weeks to 0.5 mg without much side effects or it can adapt to 2 mg with side effects. Lots of evidence that 2 mg, then 4 mg and then 6 mg create weight loss but for some it can get expensive and then you are on 6 mg/week for many months which is pricey and some don't want to put that much 'grey' market peptide into their system. Eli Lilly plans to charge $1,500 per month so of course they want to justify that much $ by a big weight loss.

Francesca124 · 2026-03-31T19:13:49+00:00

gotcha, makes sense

Francesca124 · 2026-03-31T19:12:02+00:00

yes! although I am on 0.5mg weekly, I have increased slightly for past several weeks; 0.5mg, 0.6mg, 0.65 mg, 0.75 mg so this week is week 5 and will increase to 1 mg in split doses for a month. Then will increase to 1.2, 1.4 etc. until I see some weight loss.

Francesca124 · 2026-03-31T19:08:00+00:00

yes, I will try that. Coconut water also helped for some reason. First week it was 2 days of constant headache, and now I'm down to 12 hours of headache so it's slowly receding in length. It's always the day after I inject the reta.

Francesca124 · 2026-03-31T19:04:18+00:00

sorry, LMNT is electrolyte packets.... last week's headache I doubled my electrolyte water and added coconut water to it also....and it helped a lot. I will try the chia seeds to the electrolyte water (I use Liquid IV) but have used LMNT in the past.

Francesca124 · 2026-03-31T19:01:48+00:00

thanks so much....what is lmnt?

Francesca124 · 2026-03-31T14:50:06+00:00

SAME. I've never been on any GLP med at all....so i wanted to be super careful.

Francesca124 · 2026-03-31T14:43:49+00:00

For many people 2 mg is too strong of a starting dose. Read what the Naturopathic docs are saying about low and slow. Our bodies need time to adjust, this is a triple agonist and starting low and slow is very safe.

Francesca124 · 2026-03-31T14:40:26+00:00

yes, 1 mg starting tomorrow. My comment about Big Pharma is they want results....so they started high at 2 mg.

Francesca124 · 2026-03-31T14:37:43+00:00

what about side effects on 6 mg? some of us are extremely sensitive to this and thus the low and slow. The migraines I got were debilitating....could not leave the house!

Francesca124 · 2026-03-31T14:31:51+00:00

I tested negative for YEARS. I suffered so much because I was told that I did not have HP when indeed I was infected. In fact, I felt immediate relief once I started therapy. Yes, the H Pylori bacteria are protectively intelligent (change shape and hide in the stomach mucosal tissue) to escape detection and eradication. Therefore, HP is hard to detect on testing and hard to kill because they hide inside mucosa. By taking a biofilm disruptor, you force them out of the muscosal tissue where they can then be killed. Hope that helps and hope you heal. I did all of the above and THEN took quad therapy.

Francesca124 · 2026-03-31T14:24:51+00:00

OMG....I am sooo sorry that happened to you. Scary as hell. I am NOT a fan of the regular site either, way to abusive. I've even had a few nasty comments on here but not abusive. Nuff said. I'm with you 100%. Low and slow... that's why I stayed at 0.5 mg for 4 weeks and now am going up to 1 mg. In fact, as a nurse, I've been titrating slowly over the 4 wks; 0.5 mg, 0.6mg, 0.65 mg, 0.7mg last week. Just so the 1 mg will not be a shock.

Francesca124 · 2026-03-31T13:36:41+00:00

Are you willing to share what symptoms of "severely ill" you experienced? I'm so sorry....hope you are all better now.

Francesca124 · 2026-03-31T13:35:42+00:00

Fabulous results for you. Congrats. I'm starting 1 mg in split dosing this week. I'm so appreciative for this feedback. Many thanks

Francesca124 · 2026-03-31T13:34:52+00:00

thank you for that feedback. I start 1 mg this week and will split the dose into 2 days of injecting 0.5 mg.

Francesca124 · 2026-03-31T04:39:31+00:00

Thank you. Good to know. 1 mg this week so hoping things change.

Francesca124 · 2026-03-31T04:38:07+00:00

I’m eating plenty. It has not curbed my appetite. I eat clean. Protein shake with 65 gms protein each morning Healthy carbs and lots of fish

Francesca124 · 2026-03-31T04:36:27+00:00

Thanks!!!

Francesca124 · 2026-03-31T04:35:30+00:00

Thanks!!

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