Elora vs GLP-1 anhedonia
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A lot of folks have been talking about stacking elora and what it can do.
I'm wondering whether this could actually work. Right now the main obstacles are the price and the string of recent setbacks in the market.
My guess is that any effort along these lines would stand a better chance once supply settles down.
Tirz and cagri both gave me anhedonia, but at 1mg of elora I had none at all. That 1mg dose also helped me drop roughly another 6% on top of the 30% I had already lost. Hopefully that's useful.
When you say multiple failures in the market recently, what are you referring to? For me it has done precisely what it should at a sensible 1mg dose. According to their Phase 2 trials, 1mg on its own produced 10% weight loss, while the 9mg dose reached 20%.
From what I've seen personally, adding it to a stack is definitely worth it for getting past plateaus with GLP1s.
A single vendor's elor came back as selank when tested
Endo problems have also hit other people
A big worry across the market is zero-pep affecting lots of products
Elor threads have gone up in the past week alone, and you can dig up plenty about the market in recommended supplier and GB threads too.
Riviera
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Yeah, I'd give it a shot to break through my reta plateau, but I share the same worries as you...way too many COA failures and the price is ridiculous.
So I'll stick with triz.
Perhaps elora in about a year, once the cost comes down and availability goes up
Right now there's just too much money pushing vendors to ship fake stuff or other glp1s and label it elora
Quality should get better quickly, I'd guess. Cost, though, will probably take longer to come down.
Once the genie's out of the bottle and suppliers are everywhere, pricing ought to get more competitive. That could happen within 3-6 months.
Since most folks on elora right now seem to be layering it over a glp1, I doubt you'll get much input on using it by itself. One possible exception (from what I can tell) is @skaylife, who might have switched over completely to eloralintide alone?
Right now I'm running 3mg of elora alongside tirzepatide, and I've brought my tirzepatide down from 20mg to 15mg—and I believe I feel noticeably better. Sleep has improved a lot across the past 6 or 7 weeks. Mood is up too, and I appear a bit more productive.
That said, I usually adjust several things at the same time, so it's hard to say. If I had to pick one factor, dropping tirzepatide from 20mg to 15mg has probably helped overall. After I hold at this dose for a while, I'm planning to lower tirzepatide again, down to 10mg. My reasoning: two meds at lower doses likely means fewer negative sides from each.
Uther is on order for me, though when it arrives and how good it is remain unknown...
That said, I am nearing my target weight, currently on 6mg of reta each week, and I would prefer to keep that dosage steady and add elora on top whenever the need arises. Your approach matches mine, and I suspect this is a big part of what the clinical trials are looking into - whether pairing the two at sub-maximal doses can produce a strong rate of weight loss.
Beyond that, I simply enjoy digging into things. At the moment I am doing 6 weeks of 5A1MQ alongside the reta. I could swear the fat-cell-shrinking effect seen in rodents is happening, but I am also still dropping weight and am now in the final 10-15 pounds, where every couple pounds makes a visible difference regardless, so for all I know the 5A could be nothing but orange snake oil! I have not used it long enough to know whether metabolism gets a boost like in the rodent studies (I log everything, so if that effect exists I should probably be able to spot it by the end).
Before starting Elora at 1mg, I had already been off Tirz for 20 days. I'm now in my fifth week at 1mg and intend to drop to 750mcg, since appetite suppression keeps increasing each week. Over the past week I experienced diarrhea 2 times, along with sulphur burps and bothersome gas throughout the entire week.
At the time I began Elora, my weight was 72 kg. Across 5 weeks of use, I've lost 3kg.
I was under the impression that you were taking eloralintide by itself. Good to hear it's giving you solid appetite suppression on its own and that weight is still coming off (though haven't you already hit your goal weight?).
Too bad about the GI issues. I've had tons of gas recently and figured it was simply my diet
, but now I'm questioning whether elora is the cause.Appreciate the update.
TheAnonOne
Explorer
Man, I'm genuinely excited about elora so I can keep my reta dose down. For me, reta's mental side effects are awful 
My weight has dropped below the target I set. To get rid of a bit of stubborn belly fat, I began 1mg Elora alongside 1,5mg Tesa+Ipa. I know Tesa acts on organ fat. If any is present, I have no problem getting rid of it.Grogu said:
I was under the impression that you were taking eloralintide by itself. Good to hear it's giving you solid appetite suppression on its own and that weight is still coming off (though haven't you already hit your goal weight?).
Too bad about the GI issues. I've had tons of gas recently and figured it was simply my diet
Appreciate the update.
In my previous reply, I said I ought to start tapering my dose down. Sides aren't the only reason. I also intend to come off Elora in a few weeks.