The retatrutide phase 2 paper and why phase 2 is not phase 3

Started 14 November 2024 · 18 replies · 218 hearts · read 3k times

PetuaKampala, UG · 14 November 2024

1.7 years ago

A question rather than an update: The retatrutide phase 2 paper and why phase 2 is not phase 3

I have read the paper and I am not sure I have understood it.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

OskarWarsaw, PL

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

HattieExeter, UK

the opening post — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

10me too 8

NissaHaifa, IL

Reading the opening post, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

SunilFacilitatorBirmingham, UK

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

PádraigGalway, IE

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

12me too 3

NkemPort Harcourt, NG

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

EphraimBrooklyn, NY

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

PrunellaBury St Edmunds, UK

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

BeaDublin, IE

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

JuniperMachynlleth, UK

#10

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

JunoBrighton, UK

#11

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

TarqWindsor, UK

#12

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

12me too 2

IzoldaVilnius, LT

#13

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

GilTel Aviv, IL

#14

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

StellanMalmö, SE

#15

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

GwilymCaernarfon, UK

#16

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

SunilFacilitatorBirmingham, UK

#17

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

25me too 9

CasperOdense, DK

#18

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.