Hi all. I’m a 64 year old male. I’m on TRT and went on Keto a year and a half ago. I dropped from 240 to 160lbs. I slowly added in walking and started going to the gym last June. My weight has gone between 165 and 158 depending on whether I tell myself that I’m cutting or bulking, but body comp scale just seems to tie body fat and lean mass to overall weight, so it still says I’m at about 17%body fat.

This is despite having visible muscles for the first time in my life. My arms and legs have leaned out, no more moobs, and I can almost see abs.

I’m excited to try peptides, initially to address nagging pain and injuries (Wolverine) then bringing in Reta to address remaining visceral fat and food noise. If this hasn’t killed me, I may try a course of Tesamorelin & Ipamorelin next. I placed my first order yesterday from Orbitrex.

Dang! That’s a lot of yapping! I’m looking forward to learning from you all. Thanks.

Day one using V4 pen with 29x1/2” pen needle. Warmed with microwaved eye pillow. The weight of the pen pretty much did all the work pushing the needle into my quad. Injection was as quick and painless as a SubQ peptide shot. HUGE SUCCESS

Local injection could be perilous.

Well lookee heere. . . .
https://youtu.be/oYZiau3riCA?feature=shared

Is this a clone or a ripoff? At least it is a source for the video if it had been lost.

@ResearchCat I started a thread about my adventure. It should be pretty close to the top of recent posts. Long and short of it is I now am short one internal organ and am lying on a hospital bed posting the hell out of PC.

I’m a new guy here and have developed a bad habit of hijacking other people’s threads. This time I’ll start my own.

As I mentioned in the Supplements thread, I started feeling pain in my upper right abdomen that slowly got worse over the course of the week. This coincided with starting Reta and foolishly titrating from .5ml to 2ml in less than three weeks. I saw my primary care on Tuesday and she ran labs and scheduled an ultrasound for Monday (tomorrow). At the time, the pain was moderate and I thought that would be fine. Unfortunately, it got bad enough that I ended up in the ER on Thursday evening. The diagnosis was gallstone pancreatitis. They admitted me to the hospital and ran a bunch of tests. (X-ray, Ct, MRCP, HIDA, etc) Today they took out my gallbladder.

I had already attributed this to Reta, and planned on eliminating it from my routine, but the doctor mentioned that my liver still had quite a bit of fat. (Kind of surprising since my abdomen has shrunk so much. That being said, direct eyes-on of the liver is probably superior to a lot of scans, so I should be grateful for the intel.).

Since I no longer have a gallbladder for it to fk with, perhaps I can continue Reta; perhaps at a reduced dose.

I’m pretty bummed that I may not be able to tolerate big, fatty ribeye, as they make life worth living on Carnivore. We’ll see how that goes. I hope to be discharged tomorrow but am restricted from lifting more than 15 pounds for the next six weeks. This will make caregiving for my 90 year old mother-in-law a real challenge, not to mention screwing up working out.

Currently, I take Wolverine (2mg), KPV (.5ML) and Testosterone Cipionate (.5ml) Monday thru Friday. I was planning on reconstituting and starting a Tesamorelin/Ipamorelin blend tomorrow.

I’d love to hear some insight regarding whether to continue Reta, perhaps after a pause, and other peptides or things you might suggest.

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(This group sure loves its acronyms)

This is a vicious, vicious crowd.

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I’m home. No lifting or stressing abs for six weeks. Walking, working arms & legs are all okay.

@mrjoshua44 said:

@SpaceGhost I would try using a 4mm length pen needle and you're really going to have to pinch the area real good. Unfortunately, the more lean you are it's going to leave much more of a welp or "bubble" under the skin.

I was using a 4mm and was getting the bumps. I read on here to go with a longer needle and that generally has helped,

Very inspirational! Keep it up!

Thanks, Bronz. I purged the air after filtering into the cartridge and putting it into the pen, per Randy’s video. Yesterday was only five units while today was ten.

@diegoc I actually interjected that point with the GI doc, but the old geezer was firmly entrenched in his position.

@peptidepete You are correct. No sugars or fruit juice. The minimal carbs I get are usually from the zero sugar creamer in my coffee and sweetener in my protein shakes. All told, about 10 grams a day.

@researchcat I probably manufactured those puppies doing keto/carnivore the past year and a half. Reta may have just added the squeeze necessary to shove one into the duct.

Edited to add: Ya bastid!

Wow! I just tried warming up the syringe before my injection and it flowed MUCH better! Thanks to all who suggested it.

I war trying to think of how I was going accomplish this, whether to buy a wipe warmer or Hot Hands, but the I realized I have a buckwheat eye pillow in my drawer next to me. 30 seconds in the microwave then folded it around the syringe for. A few minutes. Voila! Should work on the pen as well. (Which should be here today)

@jackiee said:

@SpaceGhost said:

@jackiee said:

Have you tried an auto injector pen like the Gansulin or ConviPen? They are much easier to inject in the tush, for me.

I failed with the Gansulin this morning with my KLOW. Reaching around to pinch must have caused me to not get good penetration. I have really started to hate the Zulins because they are so hard to depress. The V4 is awesome.

Who knew my 10 unit Test C IM into my quad every morning would be my easiest pin of the day!

I don’t pinch the rear. I just reach back and stick the needle in. Then press. It is much easier with the auto injector, because it doesn’t require much pressure.

I only pinch when I use my tummy (I’m pretty lean, too)

Thanks. When I’m done with this cart of KLOW, I’ll repurpose the Gansulin for my largest injection.

@Randy ya bastid!

I’ve been doing a week’s worth in a syringe then using a new needle each day. Like this: https://youtu.be/boONIoioizM?is=IRe6uQBPI_ZFWg5N. Have a V4 on order to try with this.

My cipionate is from Walmart. Don’t know what the oil is. Penzoil? MCT would be great.

@jackiee said:

Have you tried an auto injector pen like the Gansulin or ConviPen? They are much easier to inject in the tush, for me.

I failed with the Gansulin this morning with my KLOW. Reaching around to pinch must have caused me to not get good penetration. I have really started to hate the Zulins because they are so hard to depress. The V4 is awesome.

Who knew my 10 unit Test C IM into my quad every morning would be my easiest pin of the day!