i have not posted on this board in some time. i am here because i just did a search for "riptropin numb hands" on google and this is the first link that came up.
first let me say that i am glad to hear that others are having the same experience as me in terms of the sides from the rips. this is how it has been for me:
i had been on hyges for about 8 months, trying various different dosing methods. i eventually settled on 4iu ED, taking sundays off. i got very good results from this personally- tremendous fat burning especially. this gave me very little sides, other than lots of sweating and the occasional numbness in my fingertips.
so i switched to the rips when they became available. i started them at 5iu ED just to see what it would be like, and i can tell you that from my experience it was unbearable. i got a great deal of water retention, severely swollen fingers, wrists, ankles, and knees... joint pain. my feet would swell so much that i would often have to loosen my shoes at work by the time the afternoon came. however the worst was the pain and numbness in my hands and forearms. i woke up every morning that week (i could only stand it for a week) with completely numb/burning hands and what felt like a stake through my right forearm.
this was just too much. i can take some pain, but that was too annoying. oh yes and my grip strength went in the shitter. my right hand would go numb all hours of the day. i was also groggy as hell, falling asleep at work right and left. not good.
i then went down to 3.3iu every day, and everything subsided a bit, but it was still too much- the mornings were just too annoying. i eventually settled on 2iu ED and that seemed to get things where they were tolerable for me.
i don't know if i just reacted strongly to the rips or what, but in my experience they are very, very strong as i experienced gh sides in spades on them compared to the hyges, which i liked very much.