Trial dosing is wild - 8mg and 12mg weekly.
I tried slowly ramping up the dose to "activate the glucagon mechanism" over a 3-4 month period but had to stop after 3-4mg made my RHR way too high. Stopped for 6 weeks and RHR and HRV are back to normal.
Tried Triz (small dose, 1mg) as an alternative with the idea that I will get appetite suppression without the cardiac and sympathetic activation. Unfortunately I had a legit anaphylactic reaction to it. Injection site swelled up immediately within minutes, itchy and red, whole body was itchy and over the next 8 hrs developed hives all over my body and facial/lip angio edema. I tried to control it with prednisone and benadryl and cirtirizine over a 4-6 hr period but I assume it was slowliy leaking into my blood stream and it kept getting worse and worse. About 10 hrs after injection it peaked, I was 5 minutes away from going to the ER due to my oral angioedema when I decided to just bite the bullet and use the epi pen. Slammed it into my thigh, It worked, took two doses spread apart by about 15 mintues but stopped the reaction. I can never touch Tirz again.
Would like to try Reta but I am going to start super low, 0.5mg a week and slowly dial it in from there. I can't imagine taking 12mg a week.
What's your Reta dose?
I tried slowly ramping up the dose to "activate the glucagon mechanism" over a 3-4 month period but had to stop after 3-4mg made my RHR way too high. Stopped for 6 weeks and RHR and HRV are back to normal.
Tried Triz (small dose, 1mg) as an alternative with the idea that I will get appetite suppression without the cardiac and sympathetic activation. Unfortunately I had a legit anaphylactic reaction to it. Injection site swelled up immediately within minutes, itchy and red, whole body was itchy and over the next 8 hrs developed hives all over my body and facial/lip angio edema. I tried to control it with prednisone and benadryl and cirtirizine over a 4-6 hr period but I assume it was slowliy leaking into my blood stream and it kept getting worse and worse. About 10 hrs after injection it peaked, I was 5 minutes away from going to the ER due to my oral angioedema when I decided to just bite the bullet and use the epi pen. Slammed it into my thigh, It worked, took two doses spread apart by about 15 mintues but stopped the reaction. I can never touch Tirz again.
Would like to try Reta but I am going to start super low, 0.5mg a week and slowly dial it in from there. I can't imagine taking 12mg a week.
What's your Reta dose?
