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Hi all! Ordered with the bridge code I got from Mitch(?) a couple weeks ago to fill in the gap as my regular provider was running a little behind. Will this renew on its own? And if so, does anyone know the total price with any taxes and everything? I was impressed with the service and may just stick with it another month or 2 if it renews at the $149.

Please. I’m so tired. You cannot get legitimate tirzepatide in pill form, compounded or name brand. If someone is advertising it, they are scamming.

I passed a sign today of a local “wellness clinic” offering tirz gummies 🙃 and came across a post in another unrelated sub from a redditer who said she gets compounded tirz in pill form. I tried to ask if it was actually semaglutide and she was mistaken, but she swears it’s tirz from an online telehealth “but that it’s not working very well.” Yeah no shit, lady.

Anyway. If I am wrong, please correct me and I will be happy to edit or admit my mistake.

Happy 4th! When I started my journey into tirzepatide I did what most sane people would do seeking medical advice, turned to Reddit. Glad I did, it's been life changing and this forum was part of that. Like most here, I've felt the need to help others, friends, family, so I created a neutral pricing tool, free, no ads no sponsors. The site keeps the provider information up-to-date much like the original resources passed around on this forum. Providers are still being added and there's a filter for Reddit Community. Feedback welcome, hope it helps you on your journey too.

My cousin has been on tirz for a bit over a year now and has had great success losing over 100lbs. She’s also been very open with her journey to friends and family. I have learned from that mistake, at least when it comes to our family. Growing up she was thin and athletic one, and gained a lot of weight after each of her 2 pregnancies. Our family gossiped about her constantly. “Did you see how much weight she’s gained” etc etc. I was the only one who ever shut it down. she tried everything under the sun to lose weight, and tirz has been the only thing that helped move that scale more than 15-20lbs.

Tonight at a family wedding, my uncle (her dad) and I were chatting in the buffet line. He asked if I had seen her yet tonight, I said yes. He said, did you know she’s been on those shots for a year now and has lost 130lbs lbs? I said yeah, that’s so great for her! He goes yeah maybe, I think she looks awful. I wasn’t about to start a fight at a wedding, and said, oh I know it can be a little jarring seeing a totally different face, but it just takes time to settle in. (I know he means how her face looks a little gaunt now in comparison, and loose skin on her neck.) He just nodded and walked away.

When she was fat, they gossiped. Now that she’s at a healthy weight, they still gossip. I’m beginning to think they just want us to be miserable so they have someone to gossip about.

Happy to say I woke up to an email from my credit card bank this morning that I won my chargeback with Gimme from April and that the amount will be credited to my account! 🎉

It was obvious that they mistakenly ordered me a starter pack when that was not what I ordered. They doubled down and said that was what the Dr decided to prescribe me and that I would have to speak to the provider. The Rx was written for 2 weeks at 1.5mg and 10 weeks of 3mg, which is WILD and obviously meant to take people’s money and not because it’s “what the doctor decided was the best treatment.”

They sent ONE 10mg/ml bottle that I was told to use for all 12 weeks. After no response from the doctor, I spoke to support and said listen I’m not asking for a refund, but cited the 28 day rule and that going a little over (or a patient deciding for themselves to use it for longer) is one thing, but a provider should not being writing it for 3x the recommended usage, and asked for at least 1 more vial to be sent. They tripled down and said their standard starter plan (which is again not what I ordered) is indeed one vial for all 12 weeks. I again spoke of the 28 rule and they basically told me to prove that it was even a thing. I included an email another Redditer had posted from BPI about it (which is where my Rx was from), and that’s when they ghosted me.

The tried to post in their sub and they rejected it. I tried to message Chloe and I was ignored. I finally emailed one last time asking for some sort of refund or compensation and got no further response. So I compiled all my evidence and screenshots and started the chargeback. It’s not what I wanted to do, but ultimately I had no other recourse.

Just venting I guess.. feeling super left out. We work hybrid schedules at work, in the office every other day alternating with work from home. One of the supervisors in my unit made sure to invite everyone to a potluck today in the office, so we could switch our day if we wanted to. I decided to try and be social, so I made a dish and switched my day to come in today.

I got recently got married, and so did one of my coworkers. We all walk into the break room for the potluck, and there’s bridal shower decorations and wedding banners. Turns out it was a surprise bridal shower for my coworker…. But not for me. I had a brief moment of excitement as everyone knew I was out the week of my wedding, but only one or two people even said congrats. They all started talking about the wedding, and I quickly realized I was one of the only ones in the room that was not invited. She was invited to my wedding, but was unable to come as she was out of town. I guess I thought we were closer than that, being that we have worked together for 3 years and often text and go to lunch, etc. at the time I was not offended that I wasn’t invited as my wedding was small and I figured maybe hers was too, but it was over 150 people including probably 20 from the office.

I was so embarrassed, I ate my food as quickly as I could and left. I have never been well liked in my life- have never had many friends, and I get it now that it’s because I’m the weird girl. But I’m not going to lie, this one hurt a little 😔

My little guy will be 12 months old in about a week. He’s 22 lbs and although he has not outgrown it, I can no longer carry him in his infant seat. So we are looking for his first convertible! Space is not an issue, my husband and I are both 5’7 and under. We have a Subaru Forrester, babe is currently in a Graco GoMax infant seat and is about 28” tall.

Are the turning car seats worth it? We were eyeing the Graco turn 2 me and comparing it to the Graco forever, or 3-in-1. Budget is not an issue, but I tend to gravitate towards Graco because they are safe but not overpriced, and I am happy to pay more if it’s worth it, but not one to pay more just for a name. Thank you!

I guess I’m mostly just venting but I’m just feeling so sad and rejected right now. I only recently joined Reddit a few months ago after being completely jaded and fed up with Facebook. I was in several moms groups on there and they always got so judgemental and just mean. I thought I had found a little village in one of the mom’s groups here on Reddit. Their number one rule is to “be kind” so I summoned up the courage to post.

I was looking for advice on how to handle my mother, mostly in her role as grandmother to my kids. She constantly buys my kids gifts, but not to be nice, to control the situation, or show me up. It’s like she’s a toxic coparent. She doesn’t like the clothes I buy my daughter that she picks out herself, so my mother buys ones that she wants her to wear, and they are usually 2 sizes too big. Or she will notice that my daughter needs new shoes, and I will mention that I’m going to get them second hand from a store like kid to kid (like Plato’s closet) because she outgrows them so quickly, and I like the idea of recycling and no contributing to waste. She will show up the next day with brand new sneakers for my daughter, because she didn’t want her to have “old shoes that belonged to someone else.” If I ask her for something specific that my daughter wants, she will ignore it and get what she thinks is best.

She also speaks to me like I’m an idiot who hasn’t been a mother for 10 years. I’m 40 years old. We went to my nieces birthday party a few weeks ago, and she handed me a wrapped gift in secret, and said it was for my niece. I said, why? She said she didn’t think I would have brought a gift. To a child’s birthday party. This was not her being helpful, it was about her fear of me messing up and making her look bad. And the unsolicited advice is unreal. I mentioned my son had a fever, and she said I should have given him Tylenol and fluids. Which I had already been doing.

I will say she and my father are the only ones who help babysit my kids. It usually comes at some sort of emotional cost, but her and my daughter are close. If I ask her first instead of her offering, she is frequently “busy.” One time she told me she was busy, so I hired a nanny. It somehow got back to her, and she called me to tell and scream that I should have asked her first and how could I leave her grandkids with a stranger. I said that I HAD asked her first and she said she was busy, but we needed childcare for that night.

My therapist has floated the idea of no contact. But that’s truly not what I want to do. I had always wanted a relationship with my mother, but anytime I do try, I am always disappointed and she is her old self.

Anyway, I asked for advice in one of the mom subs on how to handle her in a way that didn’t make me crazy. They were… so unkind. I was ripped apart. It was like mean girls from high school. I was so taken aback. They called me ungrateful. They said I was only using her for free babysitting. One simply said “YTA.” I usually don’t let internet strangers get to me, but I went out on a limb and I was so grossly misunderstood, which is one of my worst fears. I tend to grossly over explain because I am so afraid of being misunderstood (look how long this post is). I deleted it and blocked some of the meaner people, I even left the sub. But I am STILL getting notifications, as people are still commenting on their existing comments. I went to the bathroom and cried. I try to go out of my way in these mom groups to be kind and lift people up, and they were just so mean.

For context, my mother and I have never been close. I was the oldest daughter, and my younger brother was the baby of the family who could do no wrong. He got into drugs and alcohol, and they just continued to enable him. Paid his court fees when he got arrested for drug possession, let him move back home when he lost his apartment and flunked out of college. He was a jerk to me most of his life. Sometimes purposefully caused issues and then blamed me, and my parents always believe him. Well when he was 21, he was completely unchecked, and drove drunk right into a tree, wasn’t wearing a seatbelt, and died. That was 15 years ago, and I don’t think she ever recovers. His room is still the same. She has not gotten rid of any of his things. But after that happened, she suddenly realized oh, I have another kid. She attempted to foster a relationship with me, but it was too late.

A few years ago after getting my graduate degree in psychology, I mentioned that I thought maybe my little brother had ADHD. She said oh yeah, he did. They had him tested, but they didn’t want to medicate him and become a zombie. I was floored. He could have gotten treatment and become a productive member of society instead of a degenerate, and maybe would still have been alive. They didn’t even try a diagnosis or therapy for me. I suffered for years, and when I finally got my AuDHD diagnosis, she dismissed it and said I was “fine” as a kid.

Anyhow, this ended being way too long of a post. I’m just tired of being misunderstood and rejected. Especially on the rare occasion that I ask for help.

My boomer mom drives me absolutely insane. I honestly would be no contact with her if it were not for my children as my parents are the only people are willing to help with babysitting, and my mom and my 9 year old daughter are close, as we lived with them when she was a baby as her father left us before she was even born. I had another baby last year with my now husband, and since then my mom has been even more insufferable.

Anytime I mention it to other friends, even those who have known her for years, they say I seem ungrateful or “oh but I like your mom, just let her help, it makes her feel wanted.” The issue is that my mother’s help and suggestions are her way of asserting control when she thinks I am not doing a good enough job. Like my daughter told me her sneakers were getting a little small, so I planned to get her some from the thrift store, as she outgrows them so quickly. She came home from being with my mother (who picks her up from school once a week or so) with 2 brand new pairs of sneakers, and mentioned that she “wasn’t sure if I had the money for new shoes for her.” Which is ironic because she doesn’t have the money.

She buys my children clothes that she wants them to wear, but they are often too big or too small, or impractical. We have bins and bins of clothes that I end up giving away. She puts them all on her credit credits. She has no income besides social security and will most likely pass away deep in debt. I have asked her to please stop buying them things she doesn’t need, and she gets upset and says she is “just trying to help her grand babies.”

But her “suggestions” are what has really gotten out of hand. I have tried ignoring it. I have tried being blunt about it, and nothing changes. She is on an information diet the best I can. My daughter is going to spend the night there tonight as my husband and I are going to a wedding. I told her I am having a babysitter come over for the little one as he hasn’t been feeling well so we decided not to bring him. (Childfree wedding but infants were welcome.) She asked what was wrong, then sends a laundry list of suggestions, some of which are old wives tales and could be downright harmful. Then she also said that when she watched him the other day (for about an hour during my daughter’s choir concert) he liked when she gave him his sippy cup, so I should try that. I said yes I am aware he likes his sippy cup. She said “well I am just trying to help.” I said I did not need any suggestions and that we were fine. She said she “wasn’t suggesting was just saying what she would do.”

Sometimes she will drop my daughter off, take a long look at my front lawn, and then leave. Only to text me maybe 15 minutes later to say I “may want to water my front garden” or that our “front lawn is getting awfully long and I should think about cutting it.”

I have no idea how to make this any better. Going no contact is not an option as I would lose the only help I have as my husband only has his mother left, and she lives an hour away, and is in poor health. The rest of my family would definitely shun me if I went no contact, even though they themselves are never available to babysit or help in any way. My husband and I both work full time and my daughter is in several activities and my husbands job often has late hours. I don’t know what else to do.

I rarely wear makeup (because new mom life) and I have never put on false lashes by myself, but I have to wear them for a wedding I’m in tonight. (Well I don’t HAVE to but I will look terrible without them and all the other girls will have them on).

Do I put on eyeliner first? Or after? Same as mascara? And do I like paint the glue on or just dot it? I’ve watched a few tutorials and I’m still lost 😭

Details should be out soon, but I’m being told that the eboard voted YES, almost unanimously, to pass this contract on to the members.

I’m offering no further opinion or guarantees. (Feel free to downvote if I’m wrong).

So my health insurance sent out an email and said we that eligible for a free membership for Noom. I’ve heard that they sell tirz (and are not recommended for that) but what does the membership do? Is it like a support and tracking thing? I guess it’s no harm to try it but I didn’t know if anyone else uses it or if it’s a waste of time.

Hi! I have ordered from other telehealths/ pharmacies, but was interested in doing the wave plan at I think it would be 13.5mg by the time I start this next lot, in the $399 drug crafters. My recent lab work showed my b12 is low, so I was interested in the version that has it added. Has anyone used it yet? What are the BUDs, as I was going to order a month or so ahead to be safe? TIA!

So a bizarre thing has been happening to me lately. When I get up in the morning, I have my iced coffee with a protein shake as creamer. Then I’m rarely hungry and typically wait until late morning to eat, or else I get woozy. But once I do eat, I feel like I’m constantly hungry the rest of the day. Yesterday was the day after shot day, and I didn’t eat until 1:00 as I simply wasn’t hungry and was busy working. Around 2:00 and until dinner, I felt like I was starving. I try to have snacks with high protein and healthy fats, and it just did nothing.

If anyone has an upcoming Alaskan cruise and had trouble finding a hotel room near the port in Vancouver, check again! The pan Pacific and several others just released a bunch of rooms that they were holding for FIFA that did not get filled! We stayed at the pan Pacific for our Alaskan, but I can’t tell you how easy embarkation morning was to just walk downstairs and board.

Word is that the state was so mad about those FB posts that they stopped all negotiations and threatened to remove all telework if the posts were not taken down. If a contract is not decided today, the last day of session, we (PEF) will not see any raises until at least January.

(Not on the contract team, just a PEF steward with contacts in both the state and PEF who are in meetings today. Don’t take my word for it, YMMV, not a doctor and don’t play one on TV.)