Hey thought i would post saying i received the first part of my melanotan II order last night and started my 1st melanotan II cycle.
 
I have choosen to take a weaker dose of .02mg/kg instead of the clinical standard of .025mg/kg. It's only a reduction of 20% per dose and from what i've read it shouldn't effect the tanning results but may help eliminate side-effects, which would be nice.
 
An hour after taking the dose last night i noticed a complete loss of appetite but wasn't really nauseated. I got an erection as well but it only lasted half an hour or so, and i got another one an hour later but it only lasted 20 minutes or so; went to sleep and woke up today with a erection but it only lasted 30 minutes after i woke up so it wasn't a big deal at all. Today i feel normal as best i can tell. So the side-effects weren't a big deal at all, and i expect them to diminish even more with continued usage.
 
After a week or so of taking the melanotan II i will start getting some sun, if the weather is nice i'll lay out instead of using a tanning bed.
 
I'll also be sending out the cycles to those who ordered threw me, unfortunately my order was broken into to seperate synthesis batches, because it's size wasn't big enough for a large scale synthesis but was to big to do on a normal synthesis so two batches needed to be done. I believe i still will have a few cycles left over on the second batch to be sent to me in the next week or two. And i also will get my melanotan II(version bremelanotide (PT-141)) with the second batch so i get to test out the nasal spray and see if that works in arousing me.  
 
By the way i have type I skin and auburn hair(that looks brown but got stuck with the red head skin...)
 
If any big progress in color is made i'll post otherwise i will post results after the first cycle.
 
Rubbersoul@hushmail.com

Can Nasal spray be used for tanning purposes or is the injections the only alternative?
Thanks

well said endymion.
 
Just to add to it, i wouldn't be suprised that with bremelanotide (PT-141)(which is still for the most part melanotan II) that there may still be some mc-1 receptor stimulation with the nasal spray but it probably isn't enough to make it a clinically viable effect or side-effect.

I forgot to add that i'm getting the best results from the "bronzer beds" the beds that have a higher percentage of uva and a lower percentage of uvb.
 
The reasoning behind this is that it is my understanding that the uva rays are the main rays that brown the pigment that your skin creates, and uvb are the rays that are most important in stimulating your cells to produce the pigment, they are also the rays that cause the skin to burn/turn red. So it is my understanding that the melanotan II would stimulate the skin enough that a large amount of uvb wouldn't be needed, but having the uva rays to brown the pigment created due to the melanotan II stimulation may produce a quicker/darker tan.
 
 
 

Rubbersoul,
 
Wow! That's great news! Such an exciting report. That's funny to hear that you are actually getting 'too dark'. I'm curious, have you been sharing the facts of your experimentation with your friends/associates (who must be sitting there wondering about you..hehe)?  I trust that all signs of side effects are completely gone now (with maybe the exception of an increased labido). Have you been taking photos of your progression and keeping a journal?
 
Thanks!
 
-Scott

Hey rubbersoul,
 
   I believe Scott was asking if you have told your friends about Melanotan, or if they just think you've been going to the beach or something

I haven't told any of my friends/family about the melanotan II
 
I did continue right to the second cycle and now into the 3rd cycle because my goal wasn't to see how effective one cycle was, my goal was/is to get a good tan. And from reading the clinical trial results done with 1 cycle only; i felt that 1 cycle wasn't going to be enough to get good color for my skin type I skin. And since i was planning on getting some sun i wanted to make sure i would see results.
 
doing continuous cycles like this is probably similar to the stimulation you will get from the implant. If i remember correctly the implant last for 1 month and is constantly stimulating your skin during that period, which is why it is so much more effective then subQ injections.
 
I will stop taking the melanotan II soon, i'm curious to see what kind of maintenance will be needed to keep the tan.
 
 

I think doing daily injections with a lesser amount would probably work well, but it is more trouble to have the amounts further divided and doing the injections everyday ect...
 
Also i wonder if it would be effective to mix the melanotan II with the saline for a 2 week period and store it in the fridge, this way you wouldn't need the melanotan II divided in microscopic amounts for your daily injection.  
 
I have a suspicion that the melanotan II could last for the two weeks in the solution in the fridge. Look at bremelanotide (PT-141), it is essentially melanotan II and it is in a liquid form that stays potent in the fridge for a reasonable amount of time.
 

Hey well i guess i should post another update:
 
I have finished my 3rd cycle probably 10 days ago and wont start my maintenance cycle until my next batch is finished.
 
I haven't gotten to the tanning beds in about a week, because i didn't really want to get any darker and i wanted to see how my tan would fade. And so far it  has faded some but is still a very nice medium tan, well not on my feet they are still pretty pale. But i guess i can't complain
 
I do think however, for me being a skin type I to maintain a good medium tan i will probably have to do a cycle every month or so which is roughly just 1 dose a week, followed by 1 tanning bed session or some sun bathing... i think this is realistic to maintain a good tan.
 
In my experience my results didn't start kicking in until my 2nd cycle and the use to tanning beds, i started with the beds during the end of the 1st cycle, and tried to go to the beds the day after a dose, to get really good color. I did my 2nd cycle on a every other day dosing. With my 3rd cycle i did every 3rd day or 4th day and used the tanning beds once or twice a week. But my face started getting really really dark,to dark for my other features,  during my 3rd cycle so i cut down on the tanning beds and haven't gone in a while now.  
 
My face/neck tanned the quickest and best, followed by my stomach/back and arms(whose color was only slightly lighter, followed by my legs and hands and then upper-chest/shoulder(noticably lighter but still looked good), and then my feet got only slight color.  
 
So i am very happy with my melanotan II expierence, honestly it worked better then i had expected, my feelings where that if i was able to get a light tan with this stuff i'd be happy, because from some of the clinical trials i studied it sounded like melanotan and melanotan II where much less effective on skin type I people, so i was a bit worried, but then again these clinical trials never used tanning beds or sun bathing, and this is what made my results go from hardly noticable to as dark as i could possibly want. Needless to say I plan on using it to maintain my tan until melanotan becomes available to the public.  
 
Now my 2nd melanotan II order could have gone a lot smoother but my source says everything should be fine with this new batch... i expect it to be. And obviously i plan on placing future orders.
 

justken,
 
glad my updates are appreciated,
 
I know many of you must be super anxious to try this stuff out
 
and i think some of the other members didn't get a chance to test out as many cycles as i did.