bnl1944
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Hi
44F, writing from the USA.
Over roughly the last 10 years, my weight has crept up by 10-12 lbs each year. The pattern: I'd put on 0-1 lbs per period and it never came off.
A friend of mine had dropped 80lbs within a year, so I reached out and asked her straight up whether she was using a glp (I figured she'd be honest if I just asked). She confirmed it and walked me through compounding. My plan was to get it covered by insurance, but that doesn't happen when your only issue is being fat. At the time I was pre diabetic, and I remember thinking fine, NEXT BLOOD TEST WILL SHOW DIABETES and then HELLO GLPS THAT INSURANCE WILL PAY FOR. So I put on even more weight, and I even drank a bit of coffee before the blood draw. Turns out I wasn't even pre diabetic anymore.
So I ended up going the compounder route, but I can't resist a good deal - which is how I landed here.
Starting point: 290, female, 5'10". I was still cramming myself into XLs and size 16s. Tirz has taken 35 lbs off me across close to 6mo, going from 2.5 up to 7.5. This past month though I've stalled - not a single pound lost.
I'm currently taking prednisone for a contact dermatitis, so I'm hoping that plays a role. Rather than titrating tirz from 7.5 to 10, I stacked 2.5 Reta on top of my 7.5 tirz. Honestly I want to move over to Reta.
I've also begun glow, and I'm thinking about switching to Klow. Epithalon has my curiosity too.
My mom is in her 80s. She spent around 1.5 years on ozempic and it made her extremely nauseous, so she moved to tirz. She takes glow as well and insists it eases her foot pain! On tirz she's no longer spending 2 days a week feeling sick the way ozempic did, and her weight is trending down again.
And yes, cats are part of my life. I also teach group fitness. Simply from the 35lbs coming off, my blood pressure is out of that range where - you're probably going to need medication for this - used to apply. It sat in the 140s/80-90 constantly. These days I read 120-something/74.
Teaching group fitness is easier too - breathing and talking while I demo no longer wind me
200lbs would suit me fine, but 186 was my high school weight. At my last dexa scan my lean mass came in around 146lbs, so 186 would put me near 21% body fat.
Anxiety used to give me panic attacks, and those have completely gone away. I don't feel on edge anymore. I'm also an ADHD person (my oversharing in this post probably gives that away). I believe the tirz has helped with that too - it just calms me down somewhat.
One side effect I do get: occasional heat in my joints. Reta worries me because my HRV is already crappy and I figure a higher resting heart rate would only make that worse?? Not sure though
44F, writing from the USA.
Over roughly the last 10 years, my weight has crept up by 10-12 lbs each year. The pattern: I'd put on 0-1 lbs per period and it never came off.
A friend of mine had dropped 80lbs within a year, so I reached out and asked her straight up whether she was using a glp (I figured she'd be honest if I just asked). She confirmed it and walked me through compounding. My plan was to get it covered by insurance, but that doesn't happen when your only issue is being fat. At the time I was pre diabetic, and I remember thinking fine, NEXT BLOOD TEST WILL SHOW DIABETES and then HELLO GLPS THAT INSURANCE WILL PAY FOR. So I put on even more weight, and I even drank a bit of coffee before the blood draw. Turns out I wasn't even pre diabetic anymore.
So I ended up going the compounder route, but I can't resist a good deal - which is how I landed here.
Starting point: 290, female, 5'10". I was still cramming myself into XLs and size 16s. Tirz has taken 35 lbs off me across close to 6mo, going from 2.5 up to 7.5. This past month though I've stalled - not a single pound lost.
I'm currently taking prednisone for a contact dermatitis, so I'm hoping that plays a role. Rather than titrating tirz from 7.5 to 10, I stacked 2.5 Reta on top of my 7.5 tirz. Honestly I want to move over to Reta.
I've also begun glow, and I'm thinking about switching to Klow. Epithalon has my curiosity too.
My mom is in her 80s. She spent around 1.5 years on ozempic and it made her extremely nauseous, so she moved to tirz. She takes glow as well and insists it eases her foot pain! On tirz she's no longer spending 2 days a week feeling sick the way ozempic did, and her weight is trending down again.
And yes, cats are part of my life. I also teach group fitness. Simply from the 35lbs coming off, my blood pressure is out of that range where - you're probably going to need medication for this - used to apply. It sat in the 140s/80-90 constantly. These days I read 120-something/74.
Teaching group fitness is easier too - breathing and talking while I demo no longer wind me
200lbs would suit me fine, but 186 was my high school weight. At my last dexa scan my lean mass came in around 146lbs, so 186 would put me near 21% body fat.
Anxiety used to give me panic attacks, and those have completely gone away. I don't feel on edge anymore. I'm also an ADHD person (my oversharing in this post probably gives that away). I believe the tirz has helped with that too - it just calms me down somewhat.
One side effect I do get: occasional heat in my joints. Reta worries me because my HRV is already crappy and I figure a higher resting heart rate would only make that worse?? Not sure though
