From tr to rt journey

I would push to 2 mg and hold there for three or four weeks or longer provided the food noise stays manageable. 2.5 mg is probably fine but unnecessary since full titration already takes about a month.

Retatrutide needs four to five weeks to reach full saturation so raising the dose after only one week leaves you unsure whether the current level is working yet. Better to remain at each dose for at least three or four weeks before moving up.

Not sure why switch to retatrutide if tirzepatide worked well. Since the switch involved grey-market sourcing, tirzepatide must still have been obtainable.

Any new compound takes time to settle in. Same question as the previous poster though: why move away from tirzepatide after such strong results? The old rule still applies: if it is not broken, do not fix it.

I made the same switch about three or four months ago. Retatrutide feels fully active now and I occasionally add a little tirzepatide back for joint inflammation. If starting retatrutide again after tirzepatide I would begin at 2 mg instead of 0.5 mg and stay longer at each step. I lost a couple months of scale progress. The main goal was the liver and visceral-fat reduction shown in trials. Looking back I probably should have stayed on tirzepatide until it stopped working. Retatrutide is mostly fine so far and body recomp is visible, though that may just be from the weight loss itself. Tirzepatide controlled food noise strongly; retatrutide does not, yet total food volume is still limited. Everyone responds differently.

Did not plan to share this but here is what happened. Tirzepatide worked well except for the cost, so after reading about retatrutide and similar compounds I decided to try grey-market options. I contacted several sellers and chose one that offered delivery with payment on arrival. I ordered tirzepatide first because I wanted to avoid changing compounds despite the reading on retatrutide. A week later I also ordered retatrutide. The tirzepatide arrived two weeks later right before a trip. After running out of branded product I reconstituted and tried it, first with a small amount then a full 5 mg dose. Nothing happened, like injecting water. The retatrutide arrived right after the trip so I had no choice but to start it. This week another order arrived through a friend who knows the process well.

Quick update: the scale finally moved down a bit this week on 1.5 mg. Training stayed hard, food noise is low enough to manage, and I can follow the diet without forcing food the way I had to on tirzepatide. Reaching protein targets feels easier. The downside is noticeably worse sleep even though resting heart rate has not changed on my tracker. Work stress is high so it is hard to blame the compound alone. Cannot tell any other difference yet.