Still relatively new to this and have settled into a stack and developing new habits.

I thought I would share process to date and planned going forward and let those with more experience throw some rocks (or polite suggestions) at my stack, dosage, injection sites, supplements, etc.

History of the rabbit:

Given a life expectancy of 10 years (and I am shooting for 100 personally), the rabbit is 6 1/2 years old.
Extensive knee, and probably hip and back, injury at early age
Torn "shoulder" bits at approximately mid-life
Recent "elbow" tendonitis - debilitating, almost complete loss of left forearm
Ongoing foot (plantar fasciitis or heel spurs?) issues
Other than the shoulders, this is all predominantly left side of body

Loss of elbow functionality occured on tax day this year, followed by 6 weeks of limited to no functionality.

Began PT late May - focus on hips and rebalancing of general body mobility, icing and stim on specific injuries.

Also began researching peptides.

Peptide Research:
June 6: Began BPC157 and TB500
BPC157 - .2mg daily SQ elbow, titrated to .5mg over 4 weeks
TB500 - .75mg (day one) SQ abdomen twice weekly titrated to 1.5mg over 3 weeks

Elbow functionality began returning mid 2nd week, large reduction in pain while resting, noticeable reduction in pain under load.

July 6: Addition of GHK-Cu and Cartalax, Mod of BPC to cover elbow and left knee/heel.
BPC-157 - 0.5mg daily SQ elbow (Sun, Tue, Thur, Sat); knee (Mon, Wed, Fri)
TB500 - 1.5mg SQ abdomen Sun and Wed
GHK-Cu - 0.7mg daily SQ abdomen, will titrate to 2mg daily (1mg wk 2, 1.5mg wk 3, 2mg wk 4) assuming no adverse reaction.
Cartalax - 1.0mg daily SQ shoulder (Sun, Tue, Thur, Sat), hip (Mon, Wed, Fri), will titrate to 2mg daily (1.4mg wk 2, 2.0mg wk 3)

Plan is to reach a plateau beginning of August with (summary):
BPC-157 - 0.5mg daily (split between elbow and knee)
Cartalax - 2.0mg daily (split between shoulder and hip)
GHK-Cu - 2.0mg daily (abdomen)
TB-500 - 1.5mg 2x/week (abdomen)

Will run through September then pause for 4 weeks and evaluate.

Any thoughts on dosages, injection sites?

I have seen a variety of dosage recommendations for Cartalax, some bigger and some smaller than what I am planning, same with the GHK-Cu.

I plan to have my vet do bloodwork that includes tests for copper and zinc - anything else I should have him look for?

My motivation for splitting elbow/knee and shoulder/hip is to deal with the elbow first, but also start on the knee and heel issues. With all the left side issues, the rabbit looks like a NASCAR driver. Pining Cartalax in shoulder and hip with the thought that gravity will suck it down while providing coverage for those joints as well.

There have been no side effects thus far other than slight pin-sight itch (10-15 minutes at most) and slight bruising plus a very vague almost headache or eye-itch about 30 minutes after injection, either goes away or becomes unnoticeable after about 10-15 minutes.

Big glass house - throw some rocks.

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