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[shiloshabadu]

Just joined up.

Not sure what all to put here. I'm female, in my 50's. Most of my time is spent in the home gym I've set up, out on nearby urban trails, or down at the beach. I also enjoy working with glass, power tools and torches, making different stained glass projects, and I have some medical background.

I've been in the peptide world for roughly 9 months now. That said, years back I was already buying injectable aminos such as MIC. At the moment I'm only on reta, though I've run a few others in cycles.

Our household deals with autoimmune issues, among them RA, Lupus, type 1 diabetes and hEDS, and we take peps. Some of us have grown tired of doctors who either can't or won't help.

 

[TxUt777]

Has anything worked for you on the heds front?

 

[shiloshabadu]

TxUt777 said:

Has anything worked for you on the heds front?

For hypermobility, what's worked best for me so far is a solid weight training program that keeps joints moving inside a normal arc, mostly working the middle 90% and avoiding the very end of my range. On the recovery side, I lean on compression, blocking and massage rather than stretching — stretching has to stay very gentle because of my bleeding disorders, otherwise I end up looking like I've been beaten. One massage approach I like: hold pressure on a single point of the muscle while moving the limb or joint through a range, then pause there for a few seconds. My rig has safeties set, and for heavier loads I use the Smith bar so I can't hyperextend, particularly on anything involving my shoulders. Dumbbells get lighter weight, slower and more controlled, with higher reps. I've also just begun adding movement patterns into exercises — front lunge with a twist, planks with twists or shoulder taps or renegade rows, multiplanar step downs, multiple narrow lunges. The reason is that for me hypermobility also brings poor awareness of where my body is in space and slow reactions to unexpected movement or perturbation, like a misstep, rocks or sand shifting underfoot, or something thrown at me such as a ball.

That routine has done more for my hypermobility than any peps so far. My pep experience is still limited to BPC, TB, Ipa, Mots, CJC, sema and Reta. Up to now I've used them mainly for fat loss, workout recovery, and trying to heal a splayed meniscus plus joint damage from an untreated bleed — that happened after a fall on a sidewalk where a step up was hidden in the shade and I didn't see it.

Coming up I want to try ghk-cu to see what it does for my connective tissue (I've heard it may help thicken connective tissue) and KPV to see how it affects the auto-inflammatory stuff. Then ss-31 before my next mots cycle.

I need to be in a good state before cycling mots again, since it gives me a significant histamine response. And stupid me went for a flu and covid shot (the last time we visited our kid, my husband caught it on the plane, so we only got 2 days with our kid before we were cootie ridden and couldn't visit). That set off an autoimmune reaction — my body overreacted to vape and fog machine exposure at a concert and I ended up on prednisone and steroid inhalers.

These days I no longer need braces or tape to jog and hike. I do still hyperextend my ankles and knees just from standing, but less severely — only an extra 3-7 degrees of hyperextension.