Moun-June-ers 2024 continued

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Continuation thread for the June 2024 Mounjaro starters.

Have just watched the whole two hours of this episode of Diary of a CEO. Absolutely fascinating!

Also, I am very happy to report that my stomach seems much better today! 🎉🎉
I didn’t take anything in the end and I think it’s happening because I was eating a very light breakfast and drinking a lot in the mornings. Today, I have had a bigger breakfast (scrambled eggs, smoked salmon and rocket 😋) and things seem much more stable!

Where do you turn to when you're using a 5 dose pen but just want to do a 3 dose?

3mg, do you mean? That would be easier with a syringe and needle.

In a pen that contains 5mg in 0.6ml tirzepatide, a 3mg dose would be 60% of 0.6.
That's 0.36ml.

But why do you want a 3mg dose?

@KittenSitten there’s a chart pinned at the top of the main thread with the different number of clicks - on a 5mg pen it looks like 40 clicks to get to 3.33333 which is the closest on there!

I love red wine but am having the same things, fine with white though x

I know there are some concerning posts about side effects on 5mg, but there are as many, if not more posts of those experiencing only minor side effects too.

I am due to move up to 5mg in another week, and must admit the posts sometimes worry me too when I read them. I had some side effects yesterday on Pen 1/3rd dose/day 6 of 2.5mg without any move up (hunger, cramps and stomach upset), but ok today.

I try to think of it as the regime has been tested as the best way to progress up the doses with steps already factored into the doses. My ZAVA information says 5mg, 10mg and 15mg are the licensed maintenance doses and 2.5mg, 7.5mg and 12.5mg are the intermediate step ups to these doses. 15mg is the full dose, so I am already progressing up them slowly moving 2.5mg to 5mg to 7.5mg etc.

The maths is (3mg dose/5mg pen)*60 clicks = 36 clicks

I love booze but have really struggled with it since starting MJ which can only be a good thing tbh! I think the most I’ve drunk is 4 beers and I felt absolutely horrendous the next day.

However I still want to be sociable so I’ve worked out that for me having charcoal tablets before and after drinking helps. I don’t fancy wine at all but fruity cider with loads of ice, or a weak rose spritzer with soda water and ice in a big glass is good.

@Greyrockin I am finding my wine intake is dramatically reduced. I still want some but can stop which is (sadly) a new thing. I overindulged last Saturday and, bloody hell, I felt awful the next day😩

I am kind of hoping that as I titrate up, I will stop even wanting any!

I’m going to a Wimbledon party tomorrow and will be trying pimms so I’ll report back on that too

So I’m 3 hours post first 5 jab and whilst I don’t feel a bit queasy like I did on my first 2.5 there is just NO urge to eat. The thought of even having a snack is just ‘no thanks’. Early days obviously but I think if it stays like this I’d not want to go up another strength because… I need food to live!

Also someone had mentioned a few pages back about injecting the whole thing being hard using a finger. I have tiny hands and the struggle is real 😂i need to readjust my hold halfway through

Haha! That was me - I panicked and took it out and then jabbed myself again! 😂

@Lynsey14 same, first 5mg this morning. Had a few crackers for lunch and now I need to cook for the kids and everything is making me go "eugh no".

@Greyrockin I bought a pack of fruit ciders about three weeks ago as I saw them and really fancied them. They're still there and I kind of just look at them now and again and say "oh yeah" and move on.

We need to start a “my hands are too small for MJ” support group 😂

I've got 12 cans of Coke in my store cupboard.

I'd forgotten all about them!

I know this had already been answered but to work out the clicks for any dose/pen the formula is:

(desired dose/full dose of pen) x 60

so in this case (3/5) x 60 = 36 clicks

I intend to titrate slower too (as long as still getting some suppression on lower dose) - and see how it goes rather than follow a fixed plan. I did 3.2 mg (bonus dose from 2.5 mg pen) this week - I will definitely go up again next week but probably not the full 5 mg dose. Thinking 3.75 mg or 4 mg. Will gauge it on how my suppression is this week.

Thing is, I think I have fairly hefty paws so how the chuff I buggered that up is beyond me! I sort of pulled the needle out and scratched my stomach. I’ve bruised myself. I bled quite a bit and I even bent the needle trying to remove it! Honestly. I’m not safe! 😂🤣😂
I had a bit of left over Chinese for lunch, probably about half a normal plateful. No breakfast. Then I took the jab when it arrived. Since then I’ve had some dark chocolate. I don’t feel very hungry but feel like I should have something. Surely the jab wouldn’t have kicked in yet?

Gosh I’ve been reallly hungry today and had a couple of biscuits at 3pm which I hadn’t touched in a month. Up to 1900c I’ve logged today. I’m due to inject tomorrow. It does worry me a lot that the minute this stuff wears off ALL the food noise is going to come racing back. I’m super tired too.

I found it kicked in almost immediately.
And the appetite suppression comes and goes a bit.

I think a lot of people have that experience.

Is it a better idea to have something even if not hungry or just not eat please?

My lord the sulphur burps have hit me bad today , thought I’d done a discreet burp in the car til my husband went ewwwwww what is that smell has the dog farted 😂

I find it I don't eat, I start having cravings for biscuits etc. So I eat something healthy, even if it's small.

This was me yesterday @Summerheels . It was week 3, day 1 and I was really hungry and had 1,728 cals. It’s only because I found the red wine I was drinking so awful that I didn’t go over 2,000 cals. Today’s a better day though, it will all pan out over the week I’m sure. Looking at Nutracheck I can see that day 1 is always more calorific for me but I average out at around 1,350 cals per day by the end of the week, which is slightly lower than the 1400 that Nutracheck recommends.

We went to a bbq today and I’m not sure if it was the jab working or the fact it’s the first time I’ve left my daughter with anyone apart from her daddy but I hardly had any appetite! I had a plain burger in a bun and a fish skewer with two cans of beer. I couldn’t face anything else! Very unlike me as I’m normally the one going for seconds and thirds.

I’ve also got my first period since giving birth and immediately feel a lot lighter with that coming on so will be interesting to see what the scales say on Monday.