| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Tesamorelin 🤔
Read in another place people complaining about weight gain on Tesamorelin how? Why? Anyone experience this? | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-02-09 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Tesamorelin question
Is it necessary to run Ipamorelin with Tesamorelin? I get that it can enhance and speed up the effects of Tesa but it is truly necessary? Would just like to hear opinions on either side of the argument. Thanks!! | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-02-09 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Is 0.5mg of Tesamorelin effective?
I went to get checked out before jumping on tesa. I was advised I would be a good candidate but recommended at a 0.5mg dose once a day 5 days on 2 days off. Will this dose be worth it? | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-02-07 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Tesamorelin Storage
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7\_ajSR8-S8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7_ajSR8-S8)
Should Tesamorelin be stored at room temperature, rather than refrigerated? | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-02-01 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Tesamorelin Storage
Should Tesamorelin be stored at room temperature, rather than refrigerated?
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DULlZo9EtKz/?igsh=ajkwaXdzcTY0b2dm | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-02-01 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Tesamorelin and ipamorelin
I’m starting a cycle of of Tesamorelin and ipamorelin, I’m currently on creatine I know the peptides will make retain water as well as the creatine should I cut the creatine or I’m I good to continue while on peptides | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-31 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Tesamorelin
I’ve read 2mg/day is the proper dose. But most the sources sell 2mg vials… does this mean 1 vial a day??? Is it really that expensive? | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-31 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | GLOW/TESAMORELIN/RETATRUTIDE STACK
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| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | GLOW/TESAMORELIN/RETA STACK
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| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Body and joint aches after starting Tesamorelin - 3 weeks now
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| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Tesamorelin+ cjc(noDAC)& Ipamorelin stack questions + general enquires
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| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | I was mainly curious about the muscle gain peptides, which from what I can tell all involve some sort of cell proliferation unfortunately. CJC-1295, IGF-1 LR3, BPC-157, TB-500, Tesamorelin, and Ipamorelin are all the ones that I am aware of so far and they all have an involvement in cell proliferation as far as I can tell | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-28 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Retatrutide and tesamorelin. Research them both yourself but they should work very well for you | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-28 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Well personally I’d rather do tesamorelin for this, but yeah it’s «safe» for you if you know what peptides are and do and you just generally know what your doing.
But again peptides are research chemicals and nothing can be guaranteed.
Also I’d do it for 8 weeks not just 3 | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-28 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Run Tesa OR CJC.
Tesamorelin and CJC-1295 are basically doing the same job: they’re both GHRH analogs hitting the same pituitary receptor to release GH. Tesamorelin is already strong, so adding CJC on top doesn’t magically double your GH, the receptor response just kind of caps out. You don't get double the benefits, you double the cost and potential sides (water retention, insulin | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-28 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | The "one vial" dream is real, but the math on that specific **6/3/3 blend** is actually working against your goals (specifically the visceral fat loss).
Here is the conflict with that **2:1:1 ratio**:
* **Tesamorelin effective dose:** Usually ~1mg/day for fat loss.
* **CJC/Ipa saturation dose:** Usually ~100mcg (0.1mg) to 300mcg max.
**Scenario A: You dose for the Tesa (1mg)**
You would be | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-28 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | You don’t have to take any precautions. This doesn’t look like reta though. It looks gelled up which is typically either tesamorelin or AOD | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-28 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Retatrutide works well but will significantly increase your heart rate if that is a concern.
Tesamorelin will help a little, but not dramatically, and over at least six months. You're probably not going to lose much more than 4-5 lbs from it unless you have an unusually large amount of intra-abdominal fat.
Cagrilintide will probably not add much more to Tirzepatide. Mots-C is also not a weight | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-28 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | hi do you have any dosage recomendations for the tesamorelin for just starting out and weighing around 125lbs looking to just burn the stubborn stomach fat | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-27 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Just to clarify, HGH (and GHRH/GHRPs) do not target abdominal fat like your belly or love handles, specifically. Tesamorelin has been shown to reduce *visceral* fat which is below the subcutaneous layer and sits around your organs.
They will increase your body’s tendency to use fat for fuel, though. But where that comes from and in what order is essentially just genetic.
Agree with other | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-27 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Depends on what your goals are- I'm personally taking GHK-Cu, MT2, Reta, tesamorelin, and DSIP. All for different purposes. To be honest, a lot of it is just marketing. | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-26 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | I’d run the tesamorelin until you’re out of it since you have it definitely | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-26 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Ha! Great example. Got it! Thx. Ok. So, should I start with Tesamorelin only? Save the HGH for later? | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-26 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Tesamorelin will only work with a non shutdown pituitary | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-26 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Tesamorelin is a waste of money to run alongside HGH and it’s even more of a waste of money if you have HGH to run instead | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-26 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Tesamorelin relies on your pituitary for producing growth hormone signals. You can’t use tesamorelin along with growth hormone as HGH will suppress your pituitary while you are using it | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-26 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Take a before blood test to see where your IGF-1 levels are. I would first start with a secretagogue, like Tesamorelin. You will retain water the first couple weeks. Check your levels again and if they are still good incorporate Ipamorelin. Check levels again after this. HGH has more side effects than secretagogues. | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-26 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Hgh, Tesamorelin &/or Ipamorelin
Hi everyone. I am looking to decrease abdominal fat (which I know Tesa excels at doing) and in general increase sleep quality, youthfulness, recovery and energy. I am considering taking HGH in the AM & Tesa at night before bed. My thinking is using HGH for a significant boost to IGF during the day while using Tesa to stimulate my own GH production at night for | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-26 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | The confusion in the comments is real because "units" depends entirely on how much water you add.
Let's do the math on your plan:
* **Vial:** 10mg
* **Water:** 2ml
* **Concentration:** 5mg/ml
If you pull to **10 units** (0.10ml), you are injecting **500mcg (0.5mg)**.
As others mentioned, the standard protocol for Tesamorelin is often **1mg (1000mcg)** daily. To get 1mg with your current mix, | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-26 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Tesamorelin assistance.
37M 205lbs
Currently on
Reta 10 units weekly
TB/BPC 5 units daily
So I’d like like to begin introducing Tesamorelin to my stack. I have a 10mg vile plan on reconstituting with 2ML of BAC and taking 10 units nightly (no 2 day break).
Just wanted to hear out if any other protocols have been used by the group with success. I understand everyone responds differently | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-26 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Nah, it’s made up nonsense. Go look at the clinical trials for tesa. They ran that for a year straight in clinical trials with no loss in efficacy. In fact if you look at the pk study that was done for it (paywalled https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25895899/) they actually appeared to find that tesamorelin not only didn’t cause a loss in efficacy but that it actually appeared to *improve* | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-26 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | If you mean “more of a waste of money” then yeah. There’s more research and studies on HGH and there’s more high quality research on HGH. As long as they’re not using body builder levels like 6iu+ and using the “equivalent” iu they get from tesamorelin and ipamorelin which combined is roughly 1.3-2.6iu then they wont experience anything more dangerous if anything it’s safer and more predictable | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-25 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | optimizing hormones first which at 27 is not really a concern usually, tirzepatide and tesamorelin would be a good start. glp1’s can be rough on people at the beginning or if your diet is not clean but can make huge difference especially the first 6 months! | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-25 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Running tesamorelin/cjc1295(no dac)/Ipamorelin. 6/3/3 safe to add reta?
Just curious im running 10 weeks (currently at week 3) of thr 6/3/3 for tesa and been looking at reta. Was wondering if its safe to add or is that something id run after this stack | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-25 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Tesamorelin become jelly/gel like?
Hi all,
Took my retatrutide & ghk-cu as normal, about to take my tesamorelin,
(20mg vial, I mixed 3ml sterile water, I take 0.3ml each time for 2mg dose)
thought maybe it’s too cold in the fridge, although them 3 vials stored in the same small box, in the same place of the fridge.
So waited 20 mins (home temperature is 18c, tried to warm it in my palm, it | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-25 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Honestly ive been a bit of a guinea pig the past couple years and tried many. My current cycle is reta, motsc, tesamorelin, klow. Those are also some of my favs. | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-24 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Tesamorelin and AOD-9604, but it’s going to take cardio and good diet to get results | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-24 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Starting Tesamorelin next week. Advice needed
Recommended to me by the place I go to and it was described to build lean muscle and burn fat. Gave me the overview of how and when but wanted to hear any results or lessons learned. Work out 4 days a week. Not overweight but could lean out 15-20 pounds. Insight would be appreciated | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-24 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | would tesamorelin or semorelin show up and affect the tests at all? | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-23 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Experience with Retatrutide, Tesamorelin, GHK-Cu & MT2 (fat loss phase)
I’ve been overweight my entire life. I had never seen abs, real definition, or felt actual control around food before.
Current stack:
Retatrutide 6 mg once weekly
Tesamorelin 2 mg, 5x per week
GHK-Cu daily
MT2 every other day
In about 2.5 months I went from 85 kg down to 73 kg. Appetite control honestly feels unreal. | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-22 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | It's an incredible stack if dosed right. Tesamorelin will make you gain water weight but all that is literally shed in the week after you end your cycle. Idk why people get hung up on this. Mots-c is one of the top peptides in my book. The energy is incredible, smooth and clean. You need to take 5mg per dose though, otherwise you won't feel a thing. It's still working on a cellular level, but if | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-22 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Currently - tirz, Klow, NAD.
Past- Tesamorelin, Ipamorelin, GLOW, KPV, GHKCU. | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-22 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Thank you very much! 🥰
I had no side effects whatsoever from any of the peptides I was taking, aside from maybe some *ahem* bathroom issues when I first started Tirz. But nothing that lasted or seemed significant to note.
I would attribute a great deal of the fat loss to the peptides, mostly because I had been trying my “normal” routines to lose it before I started Tirz and little to nothing | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-21 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | I’m running tesamorelin, retatrutide and testosterone. No negative side effects thus far. | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-20 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Realistically how effective would it be to add Tesamorelin and Ipamorelin to Retatrutide? What about MOTS-C on top of it all?
First of all this isn’t something I’m considering doing.
Just doing some reading about Tesa, Ipa, and MOTS and I wondered how much they additional benefit they would have with stacked all together. Obviously there is not any actual scientific literature in the 4 being | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-20 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Wolverine, Reta, and Tesamorelin
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| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | Tesamorelin stinging & hurting
I just hopped on tesamorelin today. Put 2.5mL BAC water in a 5 mg tesaM vial and injected 0.6 into my abdomen. The last few hours it’s stung and the injection site hurts. I feel a weird tingling in my body as well. Just seeing if this is normal for anyone else | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-20 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | How much do you dose Tesamorelin & BPC 157? | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-19 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | My suppliers bac made my tesamorelin gel up. Hospital works perfectly | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-19 |
| INDEPENDENT-REVIEW | review | I’ve tried the “with DAC”. I kind of regretted it after I paid for it because I like to pin right before my workout and while I felt like occasionally using it with the DAC might be a good idea I don’t like the vague “5-8 days” because maybe for my last workout of the week it’s all gone. But…no side effects other than the same flushing I get from the “no DAC”. I might try using a half dose twice | COMMUNITY | — | 2026-01-19 |