r/compoundedtirzepatide

What are your thoughts on this perspective? As a newer user, my dose is relatively low, but anhedonia is a concern for me. I do feel a little bit dull emotionally, But the benefits of losing weight and feeling better about myself seem to outweigh this. IDK.

I have been overweight my whole life.

I started the medication 3 weeks ago because I was mentally exhausted trying to lose weight and failing time and time again.

My problem is that I feel nothing, literally nothing. I’m still starving all the time, overeating, binging at night - all the things that kept me at 30% bodyfat.

My insurance won’t cover the meds so I have to pay out of pocket and it’s a lot of money for me. I see other people have great success at 2.5 so I’m confused.

Is my experience normal or am I just destined to be fat. If it matter my meds come from Hallandale.

And if so have you noticed any differences?

2.5 mg, you were bigger than the whole sky. This dose has lasted me since starting last November, but with an almost two month stall and going into psychosis fighting the urge to go buy a 24 ct ferrero rocher box, or two, it’s time to move on up!!

You were the wind beneath my wings, humble 2.5 mg. I’ll never forget you.

started compounded tirz about 2 months ago. was expecting weight loss (down 12lbs so far, cool) but nobody told me about the mental clarity.

like i used to have this fog that i thought was just normal. hard to focus, constantly tired, needing coffee just to function. within like a week of starting, that just lifted? im getting through work way faster, not needing my afternoon coffee anymore. feels like i was running on 70% before and now it's 100.

no idea if it's the appetite suppression meaning less blood sugar swings or something else. but it's noticeable.

anyway just curious if other people experienced this. feels like a side effect nobody warned me about

I’m following the plan given to me by the doc which was 1.5mg for 2 weeks, then 3mg for 2 weeks and yesterday I did my week 5 shot at 6mg (I was slightly concerned about jumping up so much) and since then I’ve felt so nauseous and have barely eaten. I got home from work and threw up the handful of ruffles I ate when I got back.

Does this sound normal? I feel better since throwing up but I’m concerned about feeling like this going forward, the weight loss has been going so well but I can’t deal with feeling nauseous all the time.

So far, I've been really happy with BEWT. I had my consultation on Sunday morning. I recently had bloodwork done, so I sent that to the doctor that day. She did say the prescription would most likely come from Apothecary or Halldale, but I'm getting it today from QuakerRx. FedEx created the label this morning and it's coming this afternoon - less than 3 days from my initial consultation. I'm nervous and excited, so here we go. Anything I should prepare myself for?

I see so many people talking about therapeutic dose with Tirzepatide and I'm not certain what that means. I've been on 2.5 mg for 8 weeks. I still have no food noise, no cravings, can eat but don't overeat and my pain from severe degenerative disc disease is gone. I split my dose between Tuesday and Friday and no longer get queasy. I'm losing weight, slowly but steadily and was down 13 pounds a few days ago. Yet, I've seen some people say the dose isn't therapeutic. If it's working for me, why should I increase it?

I’ve been on tirzepatide for two months, and I started the first month at 2.5mg and I did well after the first two weeks, had a good gym routine and started eating better immediately. When I upped my dosage to 5mg I did have issues in the beginning where I would vomit every morning for the first few days and was losing energy. It went away after the second week but these dose increases are actually unbearable and I don’t know what to do. I just increased to 7.5mg 5 days ago and I didn’t feel too bad the first couple days but now I can’t eat anything. If I drink water I have acid reflux and I will vomit and have stomach issues especially if I eat after 6pm I usually wake up vomiting and the past couple days I’ve started to eat in the morning to at least have something and then I wake up with hunger pains and still nauseous and just gag when I wake up. I know this is temporary but it’s so frustrating. I’ve tried everything, zofran, pepto, and Dramamine and I still end up throwing up. I’m getting to the point where I just don’t want to eat anything but I do and it’s just a cycle. I also started feeling dizzy since yesterday when I wake up or stand up too fast. I reached out to my provider to see about lowering my dosage as I don’t want to quit the medication as I’ve gotten great results. I’ve already lost 25lbs and that’s halfway to my goal. I also just don’t know if there are other ways to keep the nausea down? I know this is a lot, but anything will help. I know I need to give it time but I don’t want to just not eat.

I was microdosing for three months and lost 15 pounds. I stopped because the hair loss scared me and I have since maintained my weight loss, but I really liked the way I felt on tirz and decided to go back on (I bought a beautiful wig lol!). I do have some more weight to lose, and while maintaining my 15 lb weight loss was not a big deal, there’s no way I could lose more weight without the tirz. I did four weeks at 0.5mg, four weeks at 1mg, and pretty much three or four weeks at 1.5mg then stopped. Now back on 1.5mg, I had a great first week, but the second and third week I felt absolutely nothing. No control over my appetite and cravings. My weight has not changed. I’m headed into my fourth week of 1.5mg knowing it’s not going to do anything. I plan to bump up to 4mg for week 5 (that’s a 2.5 mg increase just like 2.5 to 5mg is). Lavender Sky Health has me doing 2mg to 4mg but I went to 1.5mg first because that’s where I started, but I’m ready for 4mg. I am fearful that even 4mg won’t do anything, as I’ve read that restarting causes you to sort of become immune to the peptide (not sure how this works, I’m not a doctor).

Anyways, just wanted to see if there was anyone out there who could share some encouraging words about life after a restart. I feel like going off the med messed everything up and I lost my chance to get to my goal weight.