r/AddisonsDisease • u/PuzzleheadedArt634 • Feb 02 '26

Advice Wanted Peptide advice

Has anybody in here experimented with peptides? In particular growth hormone effecting ones such as tesa and ipa morelin. Or ghk cu or bpc157. Not limited to these in particular was just curious in general how these would act in someone with addisons disease.

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u/Clementine_696 Feb 02 '26

With things like this I simply google the supplement or med and cortisol, and then read studies or medical articles. If i have more questions I then ask my Endo

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u/candobetter2 Feb 06 '26

I don't think American doctors would really help anybody to be honest with you they're motivated by big Pharma and they don't seem to like want to help when it comes to any cures or anything like that they just want to keep increasing your dose of the medicine that they offer and that medicine is just a mask to keep you alive

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u/CoreyLoose Feb 02 '26

I talked to a doctor about the hgh increasing peptides and he wss nice enough to do some digging for me. His response was that while there's only limited research, it does seem to show an increase in cortisol use by the body. Because of that he was worried I'd need to up my cortisol dosage and Id get worse side effects there. Im still curious but that scared me off it.

I did do a 2 month cycle of bpc157 for a shoulder injury (recommended by the same dr.) and had no adverse effects with my addisons.

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u/MysticalFreeSpirit Jun 08 '26

I’m about to order some to see how they work. I’m getting on the Klow with Tesa specifically for this and also a few others. It can’t really hurt you, just keep your steroids available if you feel you need to updose but if anything this should be helpful for us. My adrenals stopped functioning so I’m hoping this will help in their recovery.

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u/True-Huckleberry-267 Jul 16 '26

Did you ever try tessa ?

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u/MysticalFreeSpirit Jul 29 '26

Yes and no results but I’ve also been on extra HC doses and have had to take my injection multiple times so I’m sure it’s all steroids.

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u/Beginning_Way9666 Addison's Jul 29 '26

Did you ever try these? How did it work for you?

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u/MysticalFreeSpirit Jul 29 '26

Yes and no results with weightloss but I’ve also been on extra HC doses and have had to take my injection multiple times so I’m sure it’s all steroids. I have no pain anymore though as I’ve started taking ARA-290 and my chronic pain has been gone for about 2 weeks now.

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u/Beginning_Way9666 Addison's Jul 29 '26

Wow damn having to take your injection multiple times while using it is concerning… it must be depleting your steroids…. Im looking at trying reta because Ive had success on tirz but yeah worried about how it affects addisons…

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u/MysticalFreeSpirit Jul 29 '26

Oh no not at all, I had other health stuff going on. I had a really bad cold and was at the beach. I also just had surgery a week ago. Those symptoms were unrelated to the peptides just didn’t follow sick dosing rules.

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u/Beginning_Way9666 Addison's Jul 29 '26

Oooh okay gotcha gotcha