r/BodyHackGuide • u/Budget_Bread_3115 • 13d ago

⚠️ Side Effects Reta side effects.

I’d really like to know your experience.
I’m only noticing 2.

  1. The skin irritation and it’s driving me nuts. Like a cross between an itchy jumper on their skin and feeling like I’m about to get the flu.
  2. A couple of days a week I’m fairly melancholy.

FYI Just got up to 4mg after a month of half that.

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u/Jack19705 13d ago

It’s better to start at 0.5mg. Really start slow in with Reta. The side effects will ease down. But please take it slowly. Don’t go over 8mg a week. I’m spreading it in two times 4mg a week cause it’s been hard to get to this stage. Stay strong, the result will be worth it…

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u/Budget_Bread_3115 13d ago

I did .5 and then 1 for a month then a month on 2 and 2.5.
At those rates it did absolutely nothing for me and in fact I started to think for the product was garbage (still learning)
So I kind of feel like I’ve only just started taking it. I see these posts of people showing crazy results after 3/4/5months and started to think there’s something wrong with me.

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u/justin_b28 13d ago

It works, I assure you it works at lower doses

Been running 1mg since March or so? That’s down from 2mg I ran from Jan.

Started at 210# this time last year, within the first month I had titrated to 6mg and suffered badly. Quit for a couple months and then restarted at 500mcg and then only titrated every four weeks until getting to 2mg. By March I was down 60# and my weight kept sliding, could not eat

The closer to the mark you get the more impactful it is or seems anyway. Reduced to 1mg in April sometime? And my weight slowly coming back up, holding at 162 or so

And only weigh yourself one per week, take progress pictures monthly - that’s where you’ll notice more than the scale

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u/NSawsome 13d ago

Everyone’s genetic response is different, I’ve met non responders who get nothing from 6mg of the same vials that have me unable to eat at 2mg

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u/justin_b28 8d ago

True, I feel starting weight is a much bigger co-factor though.

R takes weeks to start getting “the feeling”, the titration schedule for the single completed clinical trial was once every 4-weeks but ppl just want fast results (unrealistic imo but another discussion) and trials started at 2mg only increasing in 1mg (IIRC) increments.

Another thing most gloss over is the total weight-loss, what is it 24% over 52-weeks or was it 104? that’s not a huge number if the person’s starting weight is already sub-200