r/Retatrutide: rules, karma requirements and posting culture

About 180,000 people tracking their progress on retatrutide, a weight-loss drug still in clinical trials. Busy, supportive, photo-heavy, and strict about vendor names.

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Members: 180k
Created: 2022
New posts a day: 97.2
Comments on a typical post: 14
New posts removed: 39%

The short answer

r/Retatrutide publishes no karma or account age requirement, but Reddit's own filters remove about a third of new posts before anyone sees them. The only two written rules are about vendors: naming one, abbreviating one or linking a vendor site gets you banned. What is left is a fast room, close to 100 posts a day, made of progress photos and plain questions about side effects, switching from other GLP-1 drugs and what to expect. Post from an account with some history and keep anything about where the drug comes from out of it.

Who posts here

Knowledge levelMixed

Regulars write in shorthand: reta, tirz, pin, titrate, food noise, BAC water. Nobody explains it. But first-week questions and worries about a first injection get kind, practical replies and are not told to search. A beginner question stays up, it just competes with a lot of others.

People with a lot of weight to lose posting before and after photos and monthly updates.
Gym-goers and bodybuilders using it to cut fat while trying to keep muscle.
People switching over from tirzepatide or semaglutide after a stall or bad side effects.
Newcomers about to start who want to know what the first weeks feel like.
A smaller group following the trial results and news about the drug itself.

Karma and account requirements

What it takes to get a post through in r/Retatrutide.

Karma	Not stated publicly. No AutoModerator message names a threshold, but about 35% of posts are removed by Reddit's filters, so an account with no history is at a real disadvantage.
Account age	Not stated publicly.
Vendor names	Banned outright, including abbreviations and hints. The rule says the ban is immediate.Mods' wording: “Naming vendors or abbreviating their names will result in a ban.”
Links	No links to vendor websites. Other links are allowed but rare: about 2% of posts and 2% of comments.Mods' wording: “Do not link or name any vendor websites.”
Flair	None. The subreddit has no post flair, so nothing to pick.
Post types	Text, link and image posts are allowed, polls are not. About 79% of posts are text and 19% are images, almost all progress photos.

What you can post

Post type	Subreddit setting	Share of recent posts
Text	Allowed	79%
Link	Allowed	3%
Image	Allowed	19%
Video	Allowed	0%
Poll	Not allowed	0%

What happens to a new post

Where the most recent posts ended up. Sample size: 400.

Stayed up59%
Removed by Reddit's filters35%
Removed by moderators4%
Deleted by the author3%

Reddit counts a removal by the subreddit's own AutoModerator rules as a moderator removal, so that share is not all human. Held by AutoModerator means the post is waiting in the mod queue.

The rules, in the mods' words

1
Discussing/linking sourcing information will result in a permanent ban
Do not link or name any vendor websites.
2
Do not mention vendor names, this will result in a immediate ban.
Naming vendors or abbreviating their names will result in a ban.

These are the rules as archived in January 2025. Rules change. Check the sidebar before you post.

The culture

r/Retatrutide is a progress log and a help desk for people taking a drug that has not been approved yet. The sidebar is one line, the rules are two lines, and the community runs on personal reports. It is busy, about 97 posts a day with a typical post getting 14 comments, and the tone is warm. People cheer each other's numbers and answer the same first-week questions over and over without getting short about it.

Two formats dominate. The top of the subreddit is almost all progress photos with a short caption: starting weight, current weight, how many months, and sometimes the routine behind it. The rest is short text questions, about 76 words, a third of them phrased as a question in the title: a strange side effect, a stall, appetite coming back, how to move from tirzepatide or back again. Side effects get discussed in plain detail, from sleep and heart rate to constipation and mood.

The fault line is where the drug comes from. Most members are plainly not getting it through a trial, news about deaths linked to black-market product gets posted and argued over, and comments regularly say quality varies. But the rules ban any naming of sources, so that talk stays vague on purpose. A second, quieter argument is about the mental side: some posters report flat mood or anhedonia, and those threads draw long, serious replies.

What lands

Before and after photos with the numbers written out: starting weight, current weight, height, months on it.
Long updates that give the routine as well as the result, such as diet, lifting and how the dose changed over time.
Honest progress that is slower than the headline posts, which gets a lot of encouragement.
Trial results and news about retatrutide or the drugs competing with it, which start the longest comment threads.
A clear description of an unusual side effect, asking if anyone else has had it.

What gets removed or ignored

Any vendor name, abbreviation or hint. The rules make this a ban, not just a removal.
Links to vendor websites, which carry a permanent ban.
Reddit's own filters take about 35% of posts, the single biggest reason a post disappears. The reasons are not shown.
Moderators remove about 4% of posts by hand. The removed posts are blanked, so the reasons are not visible.

The unwritten rules

Give your numbers. Age, sex, height, start weight and how long you have been on it get far better answers than a vague question.
Talk about the drug, never about the seller. Even a hint at where you got it puts your account at risk.
Comments are short, around 18 words, and almost never carry a link. A link in a reply stands out.
Be kind about weight and bodies. The posts are personal and the room is supportive, so a dig at someone's size or pace reads badly.
Frame questions around what happened to you. Replies are mostly people saying what they did, and a question that asks for the one right answer gets a dozen different ones.

Self-promotion

There is no general self-promotion rule. The two rules that exist are both about vendors, and both end in a ban. In practice anyone selling the drug or anything near it has no way in, and a brand or founder has little reason to be here at all. Posts that are clearly personal, with real numbers and no product, are the only kind that get traction.

How people write here

Typical post length: 76 words
Typical title length: 5 words
Titles phrased as a question: 34%
Typical comment length: 18 words
Comments that include a link: 2%

When people post

0:00 UTC, 15
1:00 UTC, 27
2:00 UTC, 13
3:00 UTC, 16
4:00 UTC, 14
5:00 UTC, 9
6:00 UTC, 15
7:00 UTC, 18
8:00 UTC, 8
9:00 UTC, 7
10:00 UTC, 11
11:00 UTC, 10
12:00 UTC, 12
13:00 UTC, 16
14:00 UTC, 14
15:00 UTC, 25
16:00 UTC, 20
17:00 UTC, 22
18:00 UTC, 31
19:00 UTC, 26
20:00 UTC, 24
21:00 UTC, 17
22:00 UTC, 19
23:00 UTC, 11

New posts by hour of day, UTC.

The regulars

The accounts that showed up most in our sample. Worth reading before you post: they set the tone, and they are usually the first to reply.

Most active commenters

u/Specialist-Product455 comments
u/Kiwip0rn5 comments
u/Boring_Adeptness_3344 comments
u/Unfair_Attitude_59954 comments
u/Pancake-JelloSalad4 comments

Top keywords

The words and phrases that show up far more often here than in other communities, from recent posts in r/Retatrutide.

reta 183 posts
dose 66 posts
weight 64 posts
retatrutide 28 posts
taking reta 19 posts
lbs 42 posts
effects 38 posts
appetite 29 posts
lost 43 posts
side effects 31 posts
starting reta 13 posts
body 35 posts
taking 41 posts
starting 42 posts
pounds 23 posts
side 44 posts
eating 29 posts
losing 26 posts
pin 15 posts
eat 29 posts
reta journey 6 posts
muscle 18 posts
suppression 15 posts
fat 20 posts
journey 22 posts
hunger 15 posts
hungry 16 posts
dosage 17 posts
wondering 32 posts
vial 17 posts
deficit 11 posts
appetite suppression 12 posts
body fat 10 posts
nausea 16 posts
loss 23 posts
calories 14 posts
water 22 posts
gym 14 posts
noticed 24 posts
weight loss 16 posts

Posts that did well

68lbs down793 upvotes · 74 comments
My reta journey, 80lbs down726 upvotes · 112 comments
8 months 💉 -117 pounds666 upvotes · 28 comments
Progress update: I finally see the difference624 upvotes · 41 comments
2.5 months on Reta as a Petite —It’s not just for major weight loss, it’s a great boost!608 upvotes · 188 comments
My Reta journey.577 upvotes · 57 comments
2 years natural, 2 years TRT and finished off with 8 months of RETA559 upvotes · 129 comments
9 months. From 282 to 179544 upvotes · 64 comments

Common questions

How much karma do you need to post in r/Retatrutide?

No number is published and there is no AutoModerator message about karma. But Reddit's own filters remove about a third of new posts here, so a new or empty account is much more likely to vanish. Comment for a while before you post.

Can you name where you get retatrutide in r/Retatrutide?

No. Both rules are about this. Naming a vendor, abbreviating its name or linking a vendor website gets you banned, and the rules describe the ban as immediate or permanent.

Can I promote a product in r/Retatrutide?

Not in any way that will last. There is no general self-promotion rule, but anything that looks like selling the drug runs into the vendor ban. The posts that do well are personal progress reports and questions, with no product in them.

What kind of posts do well in r/Retatrutide?

Progress photos with the numbers written out are the most popular posts by a wide margin. Long text updates that explain the routine behind the result, and news about the drug's trials, also draw big threads. About 79% of posts are text and 19% are images.

Data as of October 15, 2026. Numbers come from public Reddit data (the Arctic Shift archive and GummySearch) sampled on this date. Removal share counts posts taken down by moderators, AutoModerator or Reddit's own filters. Banner and icon belong to the community. Moderators change rules without notice, so treat the sidebar as the final word.