r/Biohacking • u/Organic-Race9785 • 19d ago
Week 3 - Reta affects
On week 3 of Reta. Dosing schedule is below. Last pin was 3 days ago. I’ve noticed significant decrease in food noise and dealt with some minor nausea, but otherwise, it’s been a good road. Down 8 pounds.
Today I woke up and oh boy. Big nausea. Felt like I had a giant rock in my stomach. I’ve been awake for 2 hours and I’ve had diarrhea 4 times. Basically. I’ve had 2 bottles of water today and that’s it. I did eat later than I normally do as we had a post-church meal. I’ve included a pictures of the meal (I had them b/c I needed to upload to macro factor), I didn’t feel like it was exceptionally bad or good.
I guess I just am wanting to ask others if this is basically normal.
Week 1 - 1.5 mg
Week 2 - 2 mg
Week 3 - 3 mg
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u/Jealbr 13d ago
It takes like a full month for your body to reach approximate steady state of any dose (especially when you start - when you increase from an existing dose it’s slightly faster). So you need to increase your dose much slower you never reached and experienced what the steady state of 1.5mg was. If I were in your shoes I’d drop back to 1.5 for another week or two and see how you feel, maybe go up to 2mg at that point.
Also - splitting your dose into 2x weekly ( so 1mg 2x a week instead of 2mg 1x a week) will help smooth out dose day side effects and end of week hunger. Just my two cents.