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Hello everyone, instead of continuing to water down the other thread I'm making my own, so what follows is simply a copy/paste of what I posted over there, I hope that's OK.....

OK then, my ARA-290 has arrived, and since my avatar states 'no source discussion', I'm not going to name where it came from.

I'm not sure whether you mind me jumping onto your thread, so if it's not OK just say so and I'll will start a new one. A part of me thought it made sense to keep it all in one place, but I'm easy either way

30x 10mg vials came my way, and it's unbuffered, so after quite a lot of reading and research my approach for the first vial is as follows.....

To hold the neutral pH I'm using PBS (Phosphate Buffered Saline), along with 1% pure Benzyl Alcohol. The solution will be vortex mixed, then run through a 0.22 micron PES filter.

Reconstitution will be done with 1ml of that solution, meaning 0.4ml delivers my 4mg dose.

Should it sting, then it stings, that doesn't bother me in the slightest.

My plan is 4mg daily for a month, followed by a month off, then repeat.

Subcutaneously is how I'll take it, into either my abdomen or upper thigh.

To give more background on where I'm at - I'm a 48 year old male, Type 2 Diabetic. The diagnosis came probably 18-20 years ago, and for the vast majority of that time I've left it completely uncontrolled (aside from the occasional 'fad'). Thanks to my own stupidity (and a previous life of absolute debauchery!) my condition is now really bad, as you can probably imagine!

The diabetic neuropathy I have is terrible and has crept in gradually over the last 5 years, to the point where it now consumes my life. There's no stretch of time where it isn't somewhat at the front of my mind. My pain tolerance happens to be very high, so annoying is probably a better description than painful, though the pain is definitely there!

Gabapentin has been part of my routine for a while and takes the edge off it somewhat, but since my doses are relatively high I only take it in the evenings - my commute is 50 motorway miles each way and I don't want to feel compromised behind the wheel.

Dihydrocodeine is prescribed to me as well, which helps with some of my other pains but doesn't really touch the neuropathy stuff.

For a few months now I've been trying to sort out some of my health issues. Reta is part of that, along with several other peptides including Tesa & BPC/TB. Dieting is happening too, and I'm more or less alcohol free these days anyway.

Exercise is a struggle at the moment because my neuropathy is bad. On top of that I have suspected arthritis in my knee (x-ray results still pending), and there are very early indications of possible foot ulcers which I am desperate to avoid worsening (right now it's just uncomfortable calluses on the balls of both feet). Next month I have an initial consultation at the 'foot clinic' (pod).

So I'm stuck in a vicious cycle/circle (of my own making, I hasten to add!). These days I want to walk but struggle to, and if I had to pick the 2 main issues from my long list of shit then my knee and my neuropathy would be the ones, both of which have completely taken over my life.

My hope is that something can be done about the knee, even if it's just a cortisone injection to get me by for now. Some immediate relief is coming from the BPC/TB so I'm cycling it to see whether it can help at all over a longer period.

The Neuropathy is sheer misery as I have never seen any light at the end of the tunnel, and have been told that once it's done, it's done. I get this, and I am managing my expectations in terms of trying ARA-290, but I'm also desperately hopeful of any respite at all.

Thanks for reading, and sorry to bore you all, there's a whole stack of other shit that I will save for other, more relevant threads.

I will hasten to add - Please don't read my post as if I'm in some pit of despair. In general I am fine (mentally), and I fully accept all the dumb shit that I have done to myself. I live a normal life in that I work, I drive, I have hobbies, I own a house, and I have a partner of 18 years. I'm just [finally] at a point where I want to try and fix any bits and bobs that I can with a view to drastically improving my health situation.

Jon
 
Any and all ARA-290 talk is welcome here, since it will help cover the long stretches between my updates. So go ahead and bring up dosing, reconstitution, side effects, anything you feel like 😆
 
Yep - neuropathy was something I dealt with - it began in my feet at night - tingling & pain - a genuine pita - going on for the last 2-3 years now. Eating like shit made it worse. I was 270+ - an older male.

Reta has been my protocol for the last 3.5 months - I lost a lot of weight - and the neuropathy vanished completely - I honestly didn't expect that - I assumed that once the damage was done it couldn't be reversed - my view on that has changed. These days my diet is far cleaner - plus I train, which contributes - cardio especially.

If I can point you toward anything it's reta - reta - reta - get the weight off & overhaul your diet - on reta my intake shrank a lot - a whole lot less - try it and watch whether some of your pain fades - a few months may be needed, but what a dietary shift did for my neuropathy was remarkable.

About the foot ulcers & related problems - are you running ghk-cu ? That one helps enormously. I am - my feet got noticeably softer - not baby-soft - but a major improvement - pinning it hurts- buttocks are the best spot. My dose is 6.5mg/day.

Knee problems are part of my picture too - arthritis - I inject bpc/tb near the knee daily- there is benefit - though not a cure - along with aod. I have some cartalax on the way & intend to combine it with bpc to test whether that pairing performs better.....

ara290 I have never used - sorry - still, my belief is that once your diet changes and the weight comes down, the neuropathic pain will ease- by how much I can't say- all I know is that mine did - and I was thrilled when it happened- it genuinely frightened me. Should you manage any cardio at all - a stationary bike counts - that too will do wonders. And yes, cutting the alcohol matters- I did that as well - god I feel so much better.

Imho, as things stand - reta, ghkcu and bpc/tb are the strongest choices you have, paired with a diet change (go low carb) - and a bit of exercise - and there should be light at the end of the tunnel.
 
Riviera said:

Yep - neuropathy was something I dealt with - it began in my feet at night - tingling & pain - a genuine pita - going on for the last 2-3 years now. Eating like shit made it worse. I was 270+ - an older male.

Reta has been my protocol for the last 3.5 months - I lost a lot of weight - and the neuropathy vanished completely - I honestly didn't expect that - I assumed that once the damage was done it couldn't be reversed - my view on that has changed. These days my diet is far cleaner - plus I train, which contributes - cardio especially.

If I can point you toward anything it's reta - reta - reta - get the weight off & overhaul your diet - on reta my intake shrank a lot - a whole lot less - try it and watch whether some of your pain fades - a few months may be needed, but what a dietary shift did for my neuropathy was remarkable.

About the foot ulcers & related problems - are you running ghk-cu ? That one helps enormously. I am - my feet got noticeably softer - not baby-soft - but a major improvement - pinning it hurts- buttocks are the best spot. My dose is 6.5mg/day.

Knee problems are part of my picture too - arthritis - I inject bpc/tb near the knee daily- there is benefit - though not a cure - along with aod. I have some cartalax on the way & intend to combine it with bpc to test whether that pairing performs better.....

ara290 I have never used - sorry - still, my belief is that once your diet changes and the weight comes down, the neuropathic pain will ease- by how much I can't say- all I know is that mine did - and I was thrilled when it happened- it genuinely frightened me. Should you manage any cardio at all - a stationary bike counts - that too will do wonders. And yes, cutting the alcohol matters- I did that as well - god I feel so much better.

Imho, as things stand - reta, ghkcu and bpc/tb are the strongest choices you have, paired with a diet change (go low carb) - and a bit of exercise - and there should be light at the end of the tunnel.
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Hey man, thanks for your inpu!

I'm sitting at roughly 280lb, and for the past 2-3 months I've been on a health kick. It started after a GP visit that doesn't happen often, where I found out how much I'd been letting slide. Some of it I already knew or had guessed at, and some of it was news to me!

Just before that moment of clarity, I'd begun Ret, since I could see it coming. So far, though, Ret hasn't given me much. There are plenty of possible explanations for that, and I'll lay them out....

So because of a bunch of problems (knee pain, neuropathy, painful/uncomfortable feet, sciatica, being fat, etc), there's a limit on what I can do for exercise. To be fully open about it: I'm a card carrying ADHD person who struggles with executive decision making, and my job is sedentary. Some of this is surely an excuse (by now I know myself well enough, diagnosis or not!).

I've been attempting some resistance and [seated] weight work, but a piece of me is panicking about my feet. October 14th is my initial appointment at the 'foot clinic'.

Right now I'm in a calorie deficit, largely because of the Ret, so that side of things isn't an issue.

I'm also dealing with high blood pressure at the moment (it's on my doctor's list of woes needing immediate attention). Hopefully that's more or less under control now.

There was actually a time I was a healthy weight, though it was only a brief spell about 15 years ago, so I didn't have all the bells & whistles (like neuropathy) that I have now.

Don't get me wrong, weight loss is actually my number 1 priority, but day to day my focus is (unavoidably) my knee, my legs, and my feet.
 
In my view, ozone therapy may be useful for keeping diabetes symptoms in check, and beyond that too. A keto or carnivore way of eating as well.

Wishing you all the best, my friend.

Whenever you're able, please share some updates with us — we truly value the effort and time you're putting into this!
 
Slaine said:

In my view, ozone therapy may be useful for keeping diabetes symptoms in check, and beyond that too. A keto or carnivore way of eating as well.

Wishing you all the best, my friend.

Whenever you're able, please share some updates with us — we truly value the effort and time you're putting into this!
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I really appreciate the support, man — this is a great forum, really down to Earth 🙂
 
Riviera said:

Yep - neuropathy was something I dealt with - it began in my feet at night - tingling & pain - a genuine pita - going on for the last 2-3 years now. Eating like shit made it worse. I was 270+ - an older male.

Reta has been my protocol for the last 3.5 months - I lost a lot of weight - and the neuropathy vanished completely - I honestly didn't expect that - I assumed that once the damage was done it couldn't be reversed - my view on that has changed. These days my diet is far cleaner - plus I train, which contributes - cardio especially.

If I can point you toward anything it's reta - reta - reta - get the weight off & overhaul your diet - on reta my intake shrank a lot - a whole lot less - try it and watch whether some of your pain fades - a few months may be needed, but what a dietary shift did for my neuropathy was remarkable.

About the foot ulcers & related problems - are you running ghk-cu ? That one helps enormously. I am - my feet got noticeably softer - not baby-soft - but a major improvement - pinning it hurts- buttocks are the best spot. My dose is 6.5mg/day.

Knee problems are part of my picture too - arthritis - I inject bpc/tb near the knee daily- there is benefit - though not a cure - along with aod. I have some cartalax on the way & intend to combine it with bpc to test whether that pairing performs better.....

ara290 I have never used - sorry - still, my belief is that once your diet changes and the weight comes down, the neuropathic pain will ease- by how much I can't say- all I know is that mine did - and I was thrilled when it happened- it genuinely frightened me. Should you manage any cardio at all - a stationary bike counts - that too will do wonders. And yes, cutting the alcohol matters- I did that as well - god I feel so much better.

Imho, as things stand - reta, ghkcu and bpc/tb are the strongest choices you have, paired with a diet change (go low carb) - and a bit of exercise - and there should be light at the end of the tunnel.
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Also, thank you — you gave me the push to get out and walk today. I made it 2km, which is quite a distance for my legs and feet at this point. They're sore now, but I'm glad I did it.
 
14 days in, taking 4mg daily for sciatica. There's been some overall improvement, but the following day I'm incredibly sleepy. I'd planned to run it for a month and then stop, though now I'm considering ending it early. Sleeping more than 8 hours a night isn't possible for me. Even drinking plenty of coffee doesn't seem to make a difference.
 
954456 said:

14 days in, taking 4mg daily for sciatica. There's been some overall improvement, but the following day I'm incredibly sleepy. I'd planned to run it for a month and then stop, though now I'm considering ending it early. Sleeping more than 8 hours a night isn't possible for me. Even drinking plenty of coffee doesn't seem to make a difference.
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That's too bad.

My sleep is already wrecked, so any change would probably go unnoticed — right now I'm waiting on a sleep study for apnea.

On a good night I manage 8 hours, though the quality is pretty much worthless. According to my Garmin band, my sleep score sits around 38/100 on average, and my 'body battery' never moves off flat 😆

I believe I'm roughly 6 days in, but I'll verify. My plan is to stick with it for a month and then evaluate....
 
littlerestraint said:


Hi all, rather than keep diluting the other thread I am starting my own, so this is just a copy/paste of my post from the other thread, hope that's OK.....

Right, so I got my ARA-290, my avatar says 'no source discussion', so I won't say where.

I don't know if you're OK with me piggybacking your thread, so no problem if not then just shout up and I'll will start a new one. Part of me figured it'd be worth keeping it together, but I'm easy

I got 30x 10mg vials, and it's unbuffered, so after a fair bit of reading and research I am going this way on the first vial.....

I'm using PBS (Phosphate Buffered Saline) to maintain the neutral pH, and using 1% pure Benzyl Alcohol. I will be vortex mixing the solution then filtering through a 0.22 micron PES filter.

I will reconstitute with 1ml of the above solution, so 0.4ml will give me my 4mg dose.

If it stings then it stings, I don't mind that at all.

I plan to take 4mg a day for a month, then taking a month off, then repeat.

I will be taking it subcutaneously in either my upper thigh or abdomen.

To expand on my situation - I am a 48 year old male with Type 2 Diabetes. I was diagnosed probably 18-20 years ago, and have left it completely uncontrolled for the vast majority of this time (barring the odd 'fad'). As a result of my own stupidity (and previous life of absolute debauchery!) I am now in really bad condition, as you might assume!

I have terrible diabetic neuropathy which has gradually set in over the last 5 years to the point that it now consumes my life. I cannot go for any amount of time without it being somewhat at the forefront of my mind. Luckily my pain tolerance is very high, so it's probably more annoying than it is painful, but the pain is definitely there!

I have been on Gabapentin for a while, which takes the edge off it a bit, but my doses are relatively high so I only take it in the evenings as my commute to work is 50 motorway miles each way and I don't want to feel compromised when driving.

I have Dihydrocodeine prescribed as well, which helps some of my other pains but doesn't really touch the neuropathy stuff.

I am currently trying to sort some of my health issues out, and have been for a few months now. This involves taking Reta and several other peptides including Tesa & BPC/TB. I am also dieting and I am more or less alcohol free these days anyway.

I struggle to exercise at the moment as my neuropathy is bad. I also have suspected arthritis in my knee (waiting for x-ray results), and I have very early indications of possible foot ulcers which I am desperate to avoid worsening (I just have uncomfortable calluses on the balls of both feet at the moment). I have an initial consultation at the 'foot clinic' (pod) next month.

So I'm stuck in a vicious cycle/circle (of my own making, I hasten to add!). I now want to walk but struggle, and if I had to choose the 2 main issues with my long list of shit then I would choose my knee and my neuropathy, both of which have completely taken over my life.

I am hopeful that something can be done with the knee, even if it's a cortisone injection to get me by for now. The BPC/TB is giving me some immediate relief so I'm cycling it so see whether it can help at all over a longer period.

The Neuropathy is sheer misery as I have never seen any light at the end of the tunnel, and have been told that once it's done, it's done. I get this, and I am managing my expectations in terms of trying ARA-290, but I'm also desperately hopeful of any respite at all.

Thanks for reading, and sorry to bore you all, there's a whole stack of other shit that I will save for other, more relevant threads.

I will hasten to add - Please don't read my post as if I'm in some pit of despair. In general I am fine (mentally), and I fully accept all the dumb shit that I have done to myself. I live a normal life in that I work, I drive, I have hobbies, I own a house, and I have a partner of 18 years. I'm just [finally] at a point where I want to try and fix any bits and bobs that I can with a view to drastically improving my health situation.

Jon

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It'll be interesting to see what ARA does for you. For a good while now, I've occasionally been getting burning feelings in my feet, and I'm only pre-diabetic. Adding this to my stack has crossed my mind, so hearing about other people's experiences with it is useful.
 
sheilarae74 said:

It'll be interesting to see what ARA does for you. For a good while now, I've occasionally been getting burning feelings in my feet, and I'm only pre-diabetic. Adding this to my stack has crossed my mind, so hearing about other people's experiences with it is useful.
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Wow, I just caught sight of your weight — brilliant job!! Nicely done!

Now, the feet.....

Something I've come to realise recently is that my feet have been neglected. I'm a bloke, they're feet, and my attitude was that you simply walk around on them without giving them much thought (same as most blokes). Trim the toenails now and then and you're sorted.

After I got calluses on the balls of both feet and started getting awful shooting pains, I began looking after them more carefully, and honestly, the way they feel overall has improved.

Plenty of cash has gone on all sorts of creams and products, and these days I moisturise my feet every night. A decent cream with a high Urea content makes a big difference, though you might already be doing all of this, since women tend to look after themselves better. If that's not already your routine, start now! 😂

Being barefoot at home has always been a bad habit of mine, pretty much constantly. That certainly hasn't helped matters. I've begun wearing slippers, and now that my feet are softer and less knocked about, they feel much better overall. I wish I'd started this years ago lol.

Honestly, I can't recall how my neuropathy first presented, but even though I can still feel it when my toes are touched, they frequently feel hard, almost like wood. The shooting pains strike at any moment, and now and then they take you by surprise and hurt a great deal, as though someone stabbed your foot while electrocuting you at the same time! Nights are when they're worst, so I try to keep dosed up on my Gabapentin, which does take the edge off it.

There's a whole pile of related stuff going on with me, sciatica and so on, so my hope is that the ARA does something to help, though I'm keeping my expectations in check — and if it turns out not to work, well, at least I gave it a go 🙂
 
About 7 days back I put this same post up in a different thread. I'm copying it over to this one as well...

Tomorrow I wrap up my very first 28day run of ARA290! For several years I've dealt with severe sciatica. My recon method is 10mg vials using 1ml of PBS plus .5ml of BAC. Reconstituted this way, the pH comes out at a perfect 7.4 each and every time. It goes crystal clear almost right away. Over those 28days I dosed 4mg DAILY. Anything above that just burns money without adding benefit. Stay at 4mg.

As far as hip pain and lower back pain go, my sciatica has nearly vanished entirely. Mine was the standard kind, tracking my left side from the left buttock, around the hip, down the side of the knee, and continuing all the way to the top of my left foot. It was like a million tiny elves jabbing me with little needles every waking hour of the day! My legs ached and throbbed, and that stabbing kept up through the whole night, robbing me of sleep. It was unbearable!!! I have Naproxen 500mg on hand for when I simply can't take it anymore.

From my hip/lower back right down to my knee, the ARA290 has wiped out practically all of the pain. Some pain still flares in my shin and the top of my foot, but the improvement is drastic. I'll let the 28day cycle clear my system for 30 days, then in all likelihood run another 28day cycle. Having this in my freezer is something I will NEVER give up! More than 3 cycles a year is something I will never do. The protocol is fairly simple....1month on followed by 1month off, capped at no more than 12weeks or 3cycles annually. I'm eager to find out what my 2nd cycle will do. Should it work as well as the 1st cycle did, then after my 2nd cycle I'll be pain free!!!! The best cost vs. return peptide buy I've ever made---$70 per kit is worth every single cent! 16mg vials are stocked by VERY few places. Grab those if you can track them down.
 
FLglpguy said:

About 7 days back I put this same post up in a different thread. I'm copying it over to this one as well...

Tomorrow I wrap up my very first 28day run of ARA290! For several years I've dealt with severe sciatica. My recon method is 10mg vials using 1ml of PBS plus .5ml of BAC. Reconstituted this way, the pH comes out at a perfect 7.4 each and every time. It goes crystal clear almost right away. Over those 28days I dosed 4mg DAILY. Anything above that just burns money without adding benefit. Stay at 4mg.

As far as hip pain and lower back pain go, my sciatica has nearly vanished entirely. Mine was the standard kind, tracking my left side from the left buttock, around the hip, down the side of the knee, and continuing all the way to the top of my left foot. It was like a million tiny elves jabbing me with little needles every waking hour of the day! My legs ached and throbbed, and that stabbing kept up through the whole night, robbing me of sleep. It was unbearable!!! I have Naproxen 500mg on hand for when I simply can't take it anymore.

From my hip/lower back right down to my knee, the ARA290 has wiped out practically all of the pain. Some pain still flares in my shin and the top of my foot, but the improvement is drastic. I'll let the 28day cycle clear my system for 30 days, then in all likelihood run another 28day cycle. Having this in my freezer is something I will NEVER give up! More than 3 cycles a year is something I will never do. The protocol is fairly simple....1month on followed by 1month off, capped at no more than 12weeks or 3cycles annually. I'm eager to find out what my 2nd cycle will do. Should it work as well as the 1st cycle did, then after my 2nd cycle I'll be pain free!!!! The best cost vs. return peptide buy I've ever made---$70 per kit is worth every single cent! 16mg vials are stocked by VERY few places. Grab those if you can track them down.
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You just summed up my sciatica perfectly. Only difference is that for me it's the right thigh, where the burning sits beneath the skin.

Honestly, if it turns out to do nothing at all for my neuropathy but still eases my sciatica, I'd be absolutely thrilled

Hoping for the best, and I appreciate you posting this 👍
 
I'm now in week 1 following my very first ARA cycle, which ran 28days. My hips and butt feel ZERO pain! There's still a little stiffness since my job keeps me at a desk at home all day. Every hour I stand up, stretch, and go for a brief walk inside the house or out in the back yard. At night my legs don't hurt, and knee pain plus pain on top of my foot are now very minimal. The ARA is definitely responsible. Apart from the 28day ARA cycle, nothing in my diet or peps has been added or altered.

Over the past weekend I went for a 2mile walk around my neighborhood at a fairly brisk pace, throwing in some short sprints and pausing to jump in place to stretch my calves. The sciatica had kept me from doing this for a long time, so it was my first time in ages.

Oct 13th is when my 2nd cycle begins. I'm eager to find out how I'll feel once a 2nd cycle is done!!!
 
FLglpguy said:

I'm now in week 1 following my very first ARA cycle, which ran 28days. My hips and butt feel ZERO pain! There's still a little stiffness since my job keeps me at a desk at home all day. Every hour I stand up, stretch, and go for a brief walk inside the house or out in the back yard. At night my legs don't hurt, and knee pain plus pain on top of my foot are now very minimal. The ARA is definitely responsible. Apart from the 28day ARA cycle, nothing in my diet or peps has been added or altered.

Over the past weekend I went for a 2mile walk around my neighborhood at a fairly brisk pace, throwing in some short sprints and pausing to jump in place to stretch my calves. The sciatica had kept me from doing this for a long time, so it was my first time in ages.

Oct 13th is when my 2nd cycle begins. I'm eager to find out how I'll feel once a 2nd cycle is done!!!
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That's really great to hear, man — awesome that it's working well for you, and it makes me hopeful 👍
 
sheilarae74 said:

It'll be interesting to see what ARA does for you. For a good while now, I've occasionally been getting burning feelings in my feet, and I'm only pre-diabetic. Adding this to my stack has crossed my mind, so hearing about other people's experiences with it is useful.
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Being prediabetic essentially means you are diabetic, and the consequences tied to diabetes have likely already started affecting you. For many years, doctors have handled this completely wrong. Their response is, "Ah, well, be careful, you're prediabetic." What they ought to be doing instead is going after it and treating it as though you are diabetic. On top of that, odds are good that you have insulin resistance. When I got an insulin resistance test, the result put me right at the borderline, yet the damage from that insulin resistance has already been taking a toll on me. Should you be experiencing burning in your feet, act on it right away. Things will only get worse, progressing to numbness and potentially permanent nerve damage. Nerves that are damaged are very hard to fix, and it is possible they cannot be repaired. If repair is possible, seeing some recovery can take 6 months or a year. People think, "Oh, I didn't see anything after 30 days." You have to think long game. Try to reduce sugars as much as possible.
 
littlerestraint said:

Hey man, thanks for your inpu!

I'm sitting at roughly 280lb, and for the past 2-3 months I've been on a health kick. It started after a GP visit that doesn't happen often, where I found out how much I'd been letting slide. Some of it I already knew or had guessed at, and some of it was news to me!

Just before that moment of clarity, I'd begun Ret, since I could see it coming. So far, though, Ret hasn't given me much. There are plenty of possible explanations for that, and I'll lay them out....

So because of a bunch of problems (knee pain, neuropathy, painful/uncomfortable feet, sciatica, being fat, etc), there's a limit on what I can do for exercise. To be fully open about it: I'm a card carrying ADHD person who struggles with executive decision making, and my job is sedentary. Some of this is surely an excuse (by now I know myself well enough, diagnosis or not!).

I've been attempting some resistance and [seated] weight work, but a piece of me is panicking about my feet. October 14th is my initial appointment at the 'foot clinic'.

Right now I'm in a calorie deficit, largely because of the Ret, so that side of things isn't an issue.

I'm also dealing with high blood pressure at the moment (it's on my doctor's list of woes needing immediate attention). Hopefully that's more or less under control now.

There was actually a time I was a healthy weight, though it was only a brief spell about 15 years ago, so I didn't have all the bells & whistles (like neuropathy) that I have now.

Don't get me wrong, weight loss is actually my number 1 priority, but day to day my focus is (unavoidably) my knee, my legs, and my feet.
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Don't stop pushing, Mate!

Cutting carbs back ought to eventually pull your BP down.. Most likely your Fasting insulin/HOMIR is simply elevated, and once that comes down, your BP should follow it downward. If that doesn't happen, have a word with your GP about whether they can write you a script for a Sartan (Telmisartan) or an ACE inhibitor...

That isn't a fix for the long haul, but chances are your Kidneys have been absorbing punishment for a while now and could use the relief. Every morning I check my readings (Overkill, I'm sure) purely to watch my trends.

Your thinking on the Wolverine blend is on the money too, I run that same stack as a preventive measure, given plain old activity and the wear and tear from a lifetime of manual labor 😆😆😅😅

Keep up the great work!
 
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