Growth hormone secretagogues, honestly assessed

Started 23 December 2025 · 17 replies · 132 hearts · read 2.2k times

WellsChester, UK · 23 December 2025

7 months ago

Growth hormone secretagogues, honestly assessed — putting it in its own thread so it does not get lost in the check-in.

I have read the paper and I am not sure I have understood it.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

MableBolton, UK

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

10me too 8

AbramAmsterdam, NL

Gently disagreeing with the opening post, or rather adding the other half of it.

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

IvorLlanelli, UK

What the opening post described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

SunilFacilitatorBirmingham, UK

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

TamarPlymouth, UK

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

IdrisCardiff, UK

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

FabianBasel, CH

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

TobinCork, IE

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

FlossieShrewsbury, UK

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

TacitaRome, IT

#10

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

PolaGdańsk, PL

#11

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

NevGrimsby, UK

#12

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

BunnyWeston-super-Mare, UK

#13

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

WellsChester, UK

#14

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

MableBolton, UK

#15

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

7me too 7

SunilFacilitatorBirmingham, UK

#16

Noticing out loud that this conversation has drifted into comparison. That happens without anyone intending it and it does not help anyone. Let us come back to the person who asked.

IvorLlanelli, UK

#17

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.