So I mixed my 5mg ghrp 6 with 3ml bacteriostatic water and injected .09ml so exactly 150mcgs.
I mixed my 5mg ghrp 2 and 5mg cjc 1295 with 2ml bacteriostatic water and injeces .08ml which is 200mcgs each.
I did this yesterday but ended up getting so hungry i could not sleep the whole night. I read that you are not supposed to eat while taking the shots so i waited 4 hours to sleep but couldnt so i wound up getting something to eat. The thing is though i felt weak and tired the following day.
I injected Monday night couldnt sleep much and felt pretty weak and tired all tuesday.
Did i inject too much? I decided to not inject tuesday and next time i inject ill inject half the amounts i injected on Monday.
How do u guys dose peptides? Steroids is very straightforward but peptides throw me a curve ball if that makes sense. Can u guys please post your dosing regimens? I can't have what happened on Monday happen again. I need to be really careful going forward.
I have done a ton of research into peptides over the years as I find them absolutely fascinating. I've provided a detailed writeup below for you that should be helpful.
The hunger isn't a dosing issue and I don't think the tiredness/lethargy is either. It is actually due to the peptides you are using and the way they work.
For your info, GHRP-6 is a first generation ghrelin mimicking peptide, GHRP-2 is a second generation, and Ipamorelin is a third generation ghrelin-mimicking peptide. This is why ipamorelin has the least side effects, researchers have refined it over the years to make it more targeted to only act on the receptors we want and
only trigger the release of GH rather than cause hunger and other side effects. This is the magic of peptides--
extreme accuracy as far as exactly what the peptide is doing in the body!
The hunger issues are the
absolute worst with GHRP 6. This can be good for some people who struggle to eat enough while bulking, however usually people find it to be too much to handle. GHRP 6 simply causes extreme hunger because it is literally mimicking ghrelin (the hunger hormone) in your body when you inject it. Due to this, the hunger will not go away and it will not get better. Dosing less may cause slightly less hunger, but then you are not really getting the benefits. GHRP 2 is not supposed to cause as much hunger, but anecdotes say otherwise. Ipamorelin does not cause
any hunger in my experience, and by that I mean it doesn't affect your appetite AT ALL, your appetite is just NORMAL.
My protocol I have used on and off for the last few years is this: I use an ipamorelin/MOD GRF blend, currently using 200 mcg of each at night right before bed, but I have gone as high as 375 ipa and 300 MOD GRF which put me into supraphysiological levels of IGF-1 during the day the next day (so my levels at night were certainly much higher, see my recent post on peptides vs growth hormone).
I literally inject right before sleep. Like I usually read a book before bed, so I have a pre-filled pin on the nightstand next to me (covered by something to protect the peptides from light, I may just be paranoid, but I do this as they are light sensitive). I read my book first, go take my last piss, then as I am about to lay down down for sleep, I do my pin and put the cap on then leave the empty pin on my nightstand. I will even do it while laying down in bed so I can just roll over and go right to sleep. This is the best way to dose GHRP/GHRH, because of the way they work in the body and the half life of the substances.
The lethargy and tiredness you felt could partially be from not sleeping very well, but I need to know this:
Do you know if your CJC 1295 is "normal"--meaning with DAC (a.k.a. drug-affinity complex)?
If so, this has a higher likliehood of causing lethargy/tiredness, because the DAC causes the CJC 1295 to have a super long half life, basically making it last multiple
days, (half life up to
8 days) as opposed to CJC w/ no DAC (a.k.a., MOD GRF, which I mentioned I take) which has a short half life of about 30 minutes and you get all the benefits at once.
This study found no benefit to sleep for GHRP-2, but did find benefits to GHRH. In my experience ipamorelin alone also provides sleep benefits, however it is a newer peptide. It's possible some hunger issues from GHRP-2 interfered with any potential sleep benefits--we don't really know.
In general, people say that CJC w/ DAC is better for females and MOD GRF is better for males due to the way the different genders release GH.
Lastly, don't mess with pre-workout peptides or anything like that, it just doesn't do much, the real benefit is in the recovery and recovery happens during sleep.
My recommendation for you is as follows:
1. Just toss your GHRP 6 and CJC 1295 out (if the CHC 1295 is w/ DAC). These are not the peptides you are looking for.
2. Try using the GHRP-2 on it's own and see if that causes any hunger issues for you. If it does, consider tossing it.
3. If your current CJC 1295
is with DAC, then replace it with MOD GRF 1-29, which is just CJC 1295 without DAC.
4. Next you have two options:
a. If the GHRP-2 doesn't cause hunger issues for you, then you could try continuing on with GHRP-2 + MOD GRF, pinned immediately before sleep as I mentioned above. Dose 200 mcg of each before bed.
b. If the GHRP-2 did cause unmanageable hunger issues for you, then toss it OR if the hunger is there but it isn't TOO bad, save it for a bulk cycle when you don't mind eating a ton. Consider replacing the GHRP-2 with Ipamorelin, which is a third generation GHRP that doesn't cause the hunger issues.
5. Whether you go with GHRP-2 + MOD GRF or decide to go with Ipamorelin + MOD GRF, you should be pinning immediately before sleep and at a minimum the MOD GRF will improve your sleep quality and the peptides will work together to improve your recovery and growth.
Feel free to ask any questions. Unfortunately, I would say you simply bought the wrong peptides (and you are NOT the first person to do this) simply because you weren't familiar enough with the science of peptides, how they work, and the different generations of refinements of the GHRPs.
