copper_curious

regular · Miami, FL

Esthetician who fell down the GHK-Cu rabbit hole and then tore something in her thumb. Interested in collagen and scar quality.

Joined Jul 2026 · 32 posts

Collagen is a process, not a purchase.

Recent posts

• Throbbing pain the day after GHK-Cu injections, no redness or swelling

  Gonna try separating the pins and spacing sites out more, thanks all. Will update if it actually helps.

  5d ago

• Throbbing pain the day after GHK-Cu injections, no redness or swelling

  Been running GHK-Cu mixed with BPC for about two weeks now and I'm doing everything right as far as I can tell. I dilute with extra BAC water, let the vial warm up to room temp before drawing, go slow and deep into the fat in the upper glute (never the stomach, never the muscle). No reaction in the moment. No redness, no bump, no instant sting. I go to bed thinking it went great. Then I wake up the next morning with this deep throbbing ache at the site that lasts two or three days. No surface signs at all, just deep tissue pain. I'm running out of fresh spots to pin because half my backside is still sore from the last round. Is this normal for anyone else or am I doing something wrong?

  5d ago

• Scar healing peptides before a mole excision with a pending biopsy

  That's fair, I'll hold off on the GHK-Cu until pathology comes back. Honestly the incision itself is tiny, I think I was more anxious about missing training than actually thinking through the angiogenesis angle. Appreciate the reality check.

  9d ago

• Scar healing peptides before a mole excision with a pending biopsy

  Getting a mole taken off my back next week, derm wants it biopsied because it started itching and I've had a BCC before. I lift 5 days a week and I'm already mourning my next few sessions. I've got GHK-Cu, ipamorelin, BPC-157, and CJC-1295 no DAC sitting in my fridge from other stuff and I'm wondering if any of them make sense here for scar strength and faster closure so I can get back under the bar sooner. My worry is GHK-Cu pushing angiogenesis while they're still trying to figure out if this thing is cancerous again. Is that a real concern or am I overthinking the timeline here.

  9d ago

• Back instability after starting ghk-cu, no pain though

  Did the spasms track with dose timing or just random through the day?

  18d ago

• Where to pin for achilles tendinopathy when there's no skin to pinch near the tendon

  Sub-q or IM for the thigh shots?

  25d ago

• Stacking bpc-157, tb-500, ghk-cu and a secretagogue for a serious injury, worth it?

  Following this, same question honestly. I know the collagen signaling in skin but tendon is a different beast and I don't want to overclaim what I don't know.

  25d ago

• DHT crashed to 7 on subq GHK-Cu, anyone else seeing this

  I've only ever gone topical, never seen anything like this. Subq sounds like a different animal.

  1mo ago

• Has anyone used TB-500 for hair loss?

  This is interesting to me because GHK-Cu gets talked about for hair too, the copper peptide stuff has actual old data on follicle size in vitro. Curious if anyone's tried stacking the two specifically for hair rather than just tendon stuff as a side bonus.

  1mo ago

• GHK-Cu for hair loss, anyone tried it?

  Yeah that's basically where I landed too. Going topical directly on scalp for a few months and just tracking shedding loosely, not expecting a transformation but the mechanism at least isn't nonsense like some of the stuff marketed at hair loss forums.

  1mo ago

• Can you take BPC-157 orally or does it have to be injected?

  random tangent but is GHK-Cu the same deal, oral vs topical vs injection, or is that a totally different situation

  1mo ago

• GHK-Cu for hair loss, anyone tried it?

  Same active ingredient, copper tripeptide-1, usually 1 to 3 percent. A lot of hair serums just repackage the skincare formulation with different marketing copy. The skin data is legit, they've shown it boosts collagen and helps healing in actual trials on people, not just petri dishes. The hair specific stuff is thinner, it's more extrapolated from what we know it does at the tissue level plus some cell culture work showing it can flip on genes tied to follicle cycling.

  1mo ago

• GHK-Cu for hair loss, anyone tried it?

  So I know this board is mostly tendons but I use topical GHK-Cu on my face for work all the time and started wondering about the hair angle. There's actually decent human data on GHK-Cu for skin and collagen, way more than most peptide-for-hair claims can say. The theory for scalp is that it helps blood flow to follicles and calms down the inflammation that causes miniaturization in male and female pattern loss. Anyone actually running a copper peptide serum on their scalp, or thought about injecting it for this reason? Curious what's real experience vs wishful thinking here.

  1mo ago

• Cream versus pinning it, does the delivery method actually matter for GHK-Cu

  That's basically where I've landed too. Keeping the cream for skin and scar work where I know it's earning its keep, and if I go injectable for the thumb I'm doing it with my eyes open that it's speculative, not proven.

  1mo ago

• Cream versus pinning it, does the delivery method actually matter for GHK-Cu

  So I've been deep in GHK-Cu for skin stuff for years now, face serums, scalp stuff, the whole thing, and it's genuinely great for that. Then I tore something in my thumb and started reading tendon threads here and everyone's talking about injecting it instead of using the cream. Is that actually necessary or is it just people wanting to pin something because it feels more serious? The skin data I know is solid. I have no idea if any of that holds up once you're talking tendon or joint.

  1mo ago