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Ok so I missed my usual pin that I do on Monday because of supply issues and I was told it’s ok to take it Wednesday instead so that’s what I did. Well then my next question was if it was ok to pin again on Monday like I usually do and my other researcher friends said yes. Well now I’ve been sleeping for 16+ hours a day since Monday. When will this go away? Did I just over do it? I’m on 2mg. I legit cannot keep my eyes open when the sleepiness overtakes me. I even tried to drink coffee and I feel like it made the tiredness worse. I work tomorrow so I’m crossing my fingers I feel normal tomorrow.

Looking for some input from people who have experience with Retatrutide.
I’m a 25-year-old female, 5’3”. I started Retatrutide on May 4th and weighed around 165–167 lbs. Since then, my weight has come down to about 158–160 lbs, but I’ve been stuck there for weeks and feel like I’ve completely stalled.
My dosing schedule has been:
Week 1: 0.5 mg
Week 2: 0.5 mg
Week 3: 1.0 mg
Week 4: 1.0 mg
Week 5: 1.5 mg
Week 6: 1.5 mg
Week 7: 2.0 mg
The reason I’m confused is because the medication definitely seems to be working. My appetite suppression is strong, especially since reaching 1.5–2 mg. I’m eating much less than before, getting full quickly, and have had some nausea and mild constipation along the way.
Even so, my morning weight has been bouncing between about 158–160 lbs for nearly 2 months. I’ll see a pound or two up or down, but no real downward trend.
A few questions for those who have been on Reta longer:
Did anyone else lose a few pounds initially and then completely stall for weeks?
Did your weight loss not really start until higher doses like 2.5 mg, 3 mg, 4 mg, or higher?
Can constipation and water retention realistically hide ongoing fat loss?
At what dose did you personally notice the biggest difference?
Other context:
I work an active job and often get 9,000–12,000 steps on longer shifts. As for the gym it’s a rare occurrence because I’m a mom to a toddler and go to school alongside my job and I honestly prefer my hot yoga sessions. I always get my steps in though.
My measurements have changed slightly, but the scale hasn’t reflected much progress.
Just trying to figure out whether this is a normal early experience with Reta or if I should be seeing more movement by now.

I drink 102oz or sometimes even 136oz of water and I’m still constipated. I’m used to having a BM daily or even twice a day so going from that to only going once every 2 or 3 days is really messing me up. My stomach gets all hard and bloated too and the fact that I can’t burp doesn’t help at all, I feel like a ballon. What’re you guys doing to avoid constipation? I would like to try more natural alternatives first before jumping to laxatives because to my understanding you can become dependent on them to have a BM and I don’t want that.

My fiancé (27M) and I (25F) have been together for about 5 years and have a one-year-old daughter together. I need honest outside perspective on whether this relationship is salvageable or if too much damage has been done.

When we first started dating, I found out he was interacting with other women’s nude content on Instagram. We were still in the early, vulnerable stage of building trust, and it hurt me deeply. He apologized and we tried to move forward, but I think that moment planted the first real seed of insecurity and mistrust in our relationship.

For context, I also have a long history of infertility and stage 4 endometriosis. I eventually had laparoscopic surgery to remove endometriosis and an ovarian cyst. While I was recovering from surgery — physically vulnerable, emotional, scared about my fertility, and in pain — I discovered he had been purchasing OnlyFans content from other women. That completely broke me emotionally because it felt like, during one of the hardest moments of my life, his attention and sexual energy were still going elsewhere.

That situation caused a massive breakdown in trust and eventually we broke up. During the breakup, I ended up having a short fling with another man for about a month. I’m not proud of it, but I also know it came from a place of deep emotional hurt, confusion, wanting validation, and feeling unwanted after everything that happened between us.

Despite all of this, we reconciled.

Then something happened that honestly felt impossible to me after my infertility journey: I got pregnant. My pregnancy was very hard physically. I had hyperemesis gravidarum and gestational diabetes, and mentally/emotionally I was already carrying a lot of unresolved pain from our relationship. Still, I truly believed becoming parents together might help us heal and rebuild trust.

Instead, old wounds reopened.

Fresh postpartum — while I was recovering physically, breastfeeding constantly, sleep deprived, hormonal, and emotionally overwhelmed — I found out he had once again been buying sexual content/nudes from other women online. Around the same time, I also discovered he had lied to me financially in ways that made me feel unsafe and unable to fully depend on him.

One of the biggest issues in our relationship has become that I no longer feel emotionally secure with him during the moments I need him most. The repeated betrayals always seemed to happen during periods where I was physically vulnerable: after surgery, during infertility struggles, postpartum, etc. That pattern has affected me deeply psychologically.

Things escalated badly emotionally after the postpartum situation. I became extremely distressed and overwhelmed. I was crying constantly, emotionally spiraling, saying hopeless things, and struggling mentally, but I did not have an active plan or intent to hurt myself. He ended up calling services on me, which resulted in me being placed in a psychiatric hospital.

To this day, I feel conflicted about it. Part of me understands he may have genuinely been scared or unsure what to do. Another part of me feels traumatized and deeply betrayed by the experience because I felt like my emotional breakdown was treated like danger instead of pain.

What hurt even more was that later, during an argument where I expressed that I felt like my daughter and I could not fully depend on him emotionally or financially, he threw my hospitalization back in my face. He told me that while I was “locked up,” he was the one there for our daughter. That comment honestly shattered me because it took one of the lowest and most humiliating moments of my life and weaponized it against me.

At this point, our relationship feels full of love, resentment, attachment, betrayal, guilt, dependency, and unresolved trauma all mixed together. There are moments where we genuinely feel connected and function well as a family. There are other moments where I feel emotionally unsafe, deeply resentful, and unsure whether we are staying together out of love or because we’ve become attached through pain, history, and having a child together.

I also recognize that I’m not innocent in everything. The breakup/fling complicated things further and created additional hurt and distrust between us. I know we have both contributed damage to this relationship in different ways.

I guess my question is: can relationships actually recover from this level of repeated betrayal, resentment, and emotional damage? Or does there come a point where too much has happened for a relationship to ever truly feel safe and healthy again?

I started Reta 4 weeks ago at 167lbs 5’4. I did 0.5 the first 2 weeks followed by 1mg for two weeks with little to no side effects. I’m now at 159 and my supplier/friend is recommending I up it to 1.5 for the next two doses. Correct me if I’m wrong but if a low dose is working for you, shouldn’t you just stay at that low dose until it no longer works and then keep going up? I’m reading mixed advice so far.

Hey everyone, I wanted to ask if anyone here has experience with Best American Healthcare University and whether I have any options at this point.

Back in 2020 during peak COVID, I enrolled in their CNA program. I didn’t realize when I signed up that it was going to be completely online. The “classes” were basically just YouTube video after YouTube video, and I got really discouraged and stopped for a while. They told me there wasn’t really a timeline to complete the program, so I figured I could come back to it later.

About a year later I tried to continue, but a lot of the YouTube videos had been deleted or made private. I kept having to email the school every time just to get modules fixed or unlocked so I could move forward, and eventually I gave up again because it became such a hassle.

Now I’m wondering if I should contact the school and ask if they would let me switch into their in-person CNA classes instead, or if asking for a refund at this point would be unrealistic.

Has anyone dealt with something similar with this school or another CNA program? I’m mostly wondering what my chances are and how I should approach the conversation with them.

I’m looking for advice because I feel like I’m being brushed off by my OBGYN. I’ve been bleeding/spotting for over 2 months straight and it still hasn’t resolved. Sometimes it’s light spotting, sometimes more like actual bleeding. It’s not just random one-day spotting anymore.

When I went in, they basically chalked it up to “not OB related” because I happened to have a UTI at the time and because I’m still breastfeeding. But this doesn’t feel normal to me, especially for it to be going on this long.

For context:
- I’m 13 months postpartum and still breastfeeding regularly
- I am not on any medications or birth control
- My baby nurses well and my supply seems normal
- I did have a UTI, but I don’t understand how that would explain 2+ months of vaginal bleeding
- I’m getting frustrated because I feel dismissed instead of actually evaluated

Has anyone else dealt with prolonged bleeding/spotting while breastfeeding? Did it end up being hormonal, retained tissue, your cycle returning, polyps, etc.? I’m trying to figure out whether I should push harder for imaging/testing or seek a second opinion.

I work noc caregiving shifts and had a weird interaction with a coworker recently that’s still sitting weird with me, and I genuinely can’t tell if I mishandled something socially or if this was just passive aggressive behavior.

For context, this was during a long shift and I had already been working/answering call lights throughout the night. Earlier on, I asked if I could take my break around 2:30am. She basically implied that probably wouldn’t work, so I said “okay, I’ll just take it at 3 then,” and she confirmed that was okay.

Important context: from around 2:30–3am SHE was on her own break, and during that time I was still answering call lights/pull cords by myself without issue.

Then at 3am I went on my break like we had agreed on. I drove to Taco Bell and came back around ~30 minutes later. When I got back she immediately kind of pressed me and said something along the lines of:

“Hey, when people call/pull cords can you answer them? I’ve been the only one answering them.”

That caught me off guard because I had literally been on my legally allowed break the entire last 30 minutes, which she already knew about because we had specifically discussed and agreed on the time beforehand. So I reminded her I had been on break.

Then she responded with “but still it’s been like that.”

That part is what bothered me most honestly, because it felt unfair. Before my break I HAD been answering multiple calls throughout the shift, including covering while SHE was on break earlier. So it felt like she was acting as if I hadn’t been contributing all night when that just wasn’t true.

Also right before I left for break, she randomly started telling me to handle laundry that had literally just been put into the washer and obviously wasn’t even close to done yet, which added to the feeling that she was already irritated with me for some reason.

I’m younger than a lot of my coworkers and still learning how to navigate healthcare/caregiving work dynamics, especially on noc shifts where people can get stressed, territorial, or burned out. So I genuinely want honest opinions:

Does this sound like I actually dropped the ball somehow, or does this sound more like one of those passive aggressive coworker situations where someone gets resentful the second they have to cover alone for a break?

I started reta recently at 0.5mg and honestly I didn’t expect it to affect me this much this fast. I’m 25, 5’3 and in the 160s. Before pregnancy I was naturally on the leaner side basically my whole life. I never really struggled with obesity growing up and was usually at a healthy BMI without having to obsess over food.

But pregnancy completely changed my body. I had severe hyperemesis and gestational diabetes, and afterward I felt like my hunger cues, inflammation, energy, and weight regulation were just… different. Although I didn’t gain more weight postpartum than I was weighing more than what I was used to carrying and mentally it’s been strange living in a body that doesn’t feel like my normal baseline.

What’s surprising me most about reta isn’t even the appetite suppression itself, it’s how “quiet” food feels now. Not in an unhealthy way, but more like I’m not constantly negotiating with myself about eating anymore. I can eat a meal, feel satisfied, and move on instead of thinking about food all day.

I’ve also already dropped a few pounds very quickly and my body looks noticeably less inflamed/puffy even this early. I know some of that is water weight and inflammation, but it’s still surprising.

I’m trying to stay realistic and not chase extreme loss because my goal is honestly just to feel like myself again physically after everything pregnancy put my body through.

Did anyone else who was previously naturally lean experience postpartum body changes like this before starting reta?

It’s been a little less than a week now since I pinned and I am weighing 162lbs midday. Last week I was averaging 166/167lbs midday. How much of this is water weight vs actual fat loss?