📉 Real Story: When the Doctor’s Plan Fails, and Retatrutide Delivers

[aimanabolic]

Real Story: When the Doctor’s Plan Fails, and Retatrutide Delivers

Just wanted to share something that really made me stop and think this week.

A coworker's wife — mid 50s, like him — had been on Semaglutide (Wegovy) for 2 years, prescribed by her doctor for weight loss. Eventually, she developed pancreatitis. You’d think they’d pull her off everything immediately, but nope… they just swapped her to a weight loss pill instead. Gotta love the system.

She finally started listening to her husband (who listens to me), and I recommended taking a full break — 3 to 6 months off everything to let the body reset. After that, we started her on low-dose Retatrutide (1mg/wk, titrating up).

Now she’s 3 months into Retatrutide at 3mg/week, with an additional 0.3mg Cagrilintide weekly… and just got her bloodwork back.

Her PCP told her it was the best bloodwork she’s ever had — and better than 90% of the women her age they see regularly.

What blows my mind is that this is someone self-prescribing, with no insurance coverage, doing it outside the traditional system… and her bloodwork crushes their average patient results.

Moral of the story:
Do your own research
Don’t assume your doctor knows what’s best — most are handcuffed by insurance and outdated protocols
Take control of your health. Nobody else will do it for you.

If anyone’s curious about Retatrutide or stacking it smart, feel free to shoot me a DM. Happy to help.

 

[Powerhousehb]

Great story!

We are the only ones responsible for our health. Gone are the days when you could trust our doctor to do the right thing.

I just hope Retatrutide & Cagrilintide in the long run have less side effects then the previous weight loss injectable meds. This stack I've run and its great for weight loss and appetite suppression or as a weightloss maintenance medication in the short term.

 

[aimanabolic]

@Powerhousehb I'd say that people need to build healthy habits and not let the drugs do all the work. Been reinforcing people on GLP-1s (especially women) to prioritize their protein intake.

It's unbelievable the amount of women who aren't even eating 1/2 the protein they should be.

 

[tommygunz]

It's unbelievable the amount of women who aren't even eating 1/2 the protein they should be.

This is the case in my house, I don’t think she get even close.

 

[Captain_Furious]

Same as my house. My wife doesn't eat nearly enough protein.

 

[GivePenisaChance22]

I just read recently that women who take GLP-1s, a lot of them complained that their vaginas look "old" and "saggy". Maybe too much fat loss in that area is making everything sag.

 

[Conmike41]

Real Story: When the Doctor’s Plan Fails, and Retatrutide Delivers

Just wanted to share something that really made me stop and think this week.

A coworker's wife — mid 50s, like him — had been on Semaglutide (Wegovy) for 2 years, prescribed by her doctor for weight loss. Eventually, she developed pancreatitis. You’d think they’d pull her off everything immediately, but nope… they just swapped her to a weight loss pill instead. Gotta love the system.

She finally started listening to her husband (who listens to me), and I recommended taking a full break — 3 to 6 months off everything to let the body reset. After that, we started her on low-dose Retatrutide (1mg/wk, titrating up).

Now she’s 3 months into Retatrutide at 3mg/week, with an additional 0.3mg Cagrilintide weekly… and just got her bloodwork back.

Her PCP told her it was the best bloodwork she’s ever had — and better than 90% of the women her age they see regularly.

What blows my mind is that this is someone self-prescribing, with no insurance coverage, doing it outside the traditional system… and her bloodwork crushes their average patient results.

Moral of the story:
Do your own research
Don’t assume your doctor knows what’s best — most are handcuffed by insurance and outdated protocols
Take control of your health. Nobody else will do it for you.

If anyone’s curious about Retatrutide or stacking it smart, feel free to shoot me a DM. Happy to help.

Very interesting . I wonder if they were able to identify a cause of the pancreatitis (besides the semaglutide). Curious as if it was gallstone pancreatitis... Its very common to form gallstones quickly during any rapid weight loss. It happens quite frequently after bariatric surgery, so much so that some bariatric surgeon take out the gallbladder empirically during gastric bypass surgeries

Ive even seen som pharma companies pushing to sell Ursodiol in these patients tep prevent gallstones from forming

Glad shes doing better on the reta & cagrilinitide

 

[aimanabolic]

Very interesting . I wonder if they were able to identify a cause of the pancreatitis

She hadn’t lost a pound in at least 9 months, it was originally prescribed just for weight loss. At that point, the clinic should’ve pulled her off or reassessed the protocol, but they didn’t. She kept taking it without benefit and eventually ended up with pancreatitis.

As for how it happens, GLP-1 receptor agonists like semaglutide can slow gastric emptying and thicken digestive secretions, which may lead to inflammation in the pancreas in susceptible individuals. It’s rare, but possible, especially with long-term use or in patients with other risk factors. Some also speculate that rapid or prolonged appetite suppression without adequate nutrition may play a role, or unrecognized gallstone formation may trigger it secondarily.

Either way, she shouldn’t have still been on it with no progress. Just one of those “if it’s not working, why risk it?” situations.

 

[NY_Angie]

Very interesting . I wonder if they were able to identify a cause of the pancreatitis (besides the semaglutide). Curious as if it was gallstone pancreatitis... Its very common to form gallstones quickly during any rapid weight loss. It happens quite frequently after bariatric surgery, so much so that some bariatric surgeon take out the gallbladder empirically during gastric bypass surgeries

Ive even seen som pharma companies pushing to sell Ursodiol in these patients tep prevent gallstones from forming

Glad shes doing better on the reta & cagrilinitide

I was having some bad acid reflux, I mean shit that yougurt and kombucha wouldnt help. Has an ultrasound and endoscopy they found "gallstones" (I think I did pass one at work, I thought I was having a heart attack because it felt like a fucking buck knife between my shoulder blades and the pain shot down both arms) so right away my "doctor" put me on omeprazole and then sent me to a surgeon to get my gall bladder out. I went for the consulation right after the gastro and I was like "wait this isnt reversible?" without even given me any natural or alternative option they wanted to throw me under the knife. FUCK THAT. I said fuck the omeprazole too, I started taking TUDCA and it was a miracle. No more GI issues (they found gastritis) when I had the MRI with IV contrast for my hernia in October of 24 - my gallbladder was cleared of all sludge and stones. So fuck these doctors, do your own research!!!!!