Mounjaro August newbie

[OlympicsFanGirl]

Just started.

Would be great to hear from others who are just starting.

First injection was was 28th July. No side effects so far. Appetite is decreasing but not as much as I've seen on other threads.

4 stone at least to lose.

I'm going to use this thread to give myself an online record.

@NeedSomeAnswersPlease fair enough, it's just so frustrating for you! I've had nothing like this with MedExpress thankfully

Well I'm not wasting it, I'll get it out!

Just really annoying, each jab will now be in the fridge for a week or two before I use them! This should be part of voy's pre prescription test rather than after

Feeling better now but quite bloated!

In bed now with a peppermint and ginger tea! Early night for me!

Does anyone have any idea how many people are on Thos thread out of interest?

First dose 2.5mg Weds so day 3 today.

Strange taste in mouth almost straight away. And strange kind of "washing over" feeling for a few hours. Had a red mark around injection area in thigh but that was gone by the next day.

Took paracetamol as soon as I felt a twinge of headache, that worked. Had some acid reflex but using peppermint tablets, that worked too

Decided not to follow a specified "diet" but just eat less, I eat quite healthily anyway, apart from Friday nights.

My appetite seems same as normal but I think the food noise has quietened. I can eat as normal but I'm not thinking about my next meal or needing snacks at all.

I've opened a Nutricheck account and logging my meals. Set 1200 cals per day as a target and finding it achievable.

Testing Friday pizza night and had a few glasses of prosecco too. Will have to see how that sits 😂 don't want to miss out on everything!

Not had any feelings of being too full or chronic stomach pains. So far so good. No constipation or diarrhoea as yet.

Funny side effect but someone upthread mentioned ND. I've thought for a while I have undiagnosed ADHD and since my first dose it's not just food noise that has quietened, I feel more calm and composed in general. How strange. Also feeling fewer general aches and pains, may be unconnected but...

4 stone + to lose. Early days but feeling optimistic.

I agree with you. They've whetted your appetite by giving you a taste of MJ and showing you it works. But now they're deliberately withholding it to make you pay for something more expensive. It's the classic Bait & Switch technique. Bastards.

@Arraminta especially after we discussed my motivations and it was all personal things such as family ☹️ just really shit they do this to people

Agree. Was very simple to order on wed. Approved thur and said dispatched and arrived today at 11am

No issues / or video calls etx

Yes I have had that too. I've suspected for a long time that I have been masking something for years. When it clicked so many things about my difficulties in the past made sense.

I had a real sense of calm and peace about six hours after my first injection. I injected again today and it has come back. I'm loving it, but a bit sad that I won't always feel like this

@MissFancyDay glad its not just me. Almost looking forward to my next dose for this reason too.

I had my first dose on Tuesday and today I am hungry for the first time since then.
I am still thinking about food a lot, still because I'm wondering if it's working. I hope that stops soon, although I do find it easy to not eat extra food (more tempted today though).
I am woth Voy, but have had a look at Bolt today, has anyone changed providers part way through?

That is really, really low. Basically using people's weakness as leverage to obtain more money. Totally unethical.

Wondering what to do. I will take my 4th 2.5mg dose on Thursday, and then on Saturday we go on holiday for a week, so I won't be home when my 1st 5mg dose is due. I've ordered my 5mg pen, but I'm not sure it's a good idea to take it with me as taking 5mg for the first time whilst away seems risky. I do have a 5th needle in with my 2.5mg pen, how much is left in the pen? Would it be enough to take a 5th 2.5mg dose?

Night before my 4th injection.

It completely wears off for me by start of day 6 each week.

Normal appetite. Food noise.

So tomorrow am going to do injection 4 plus 5th dose and put myself up to 5mg.

I haven't had any bad side effects and with it wearing off feel am ready to go up a dose.

I'm on dose 2 with very low side effects and, as you say, a return to normal by day 6.

I'm thinking of increasing my 4th dose to 3.5 ml I think, by using the extra in the pen. I presume that you do it by counting the clicks when turning past the 1.

It might lessen the side effects of the big jump up to 5ml

I've just been reading the 'continuing Mounjaro 19' thread and a poster said that the pen locks after 240 clicks, that's four doses, and you have to do a hard twist to carry on. I'd be really interested to hear how you get on if you decide to use your extra dose.

Good morning, I hope you’re all well and happy.

So, 36 hours after taking the injection it’s very obvious that it has indeed been working from just a few hours of taking it.

This is what I ate yesterday. The toast was not my normal breakfast but it was a case of needs must in a hurry.

B - 2 x toast and butter.
L - lamb and potato curry.
D - Paella and some salad.

The lamb curry was homemade and I had more lamb than potato and went without rice. And that was it till I went out for dinner and had some tapas with my family but I had no food satisfaction from them so I gave up on them after a couple of pieces. Normally I’d just have tucked in with everyone else but there was something in my brain saying ‘this is not worth eating so stop’. The Paella was very nice but I had enough after one plateful and didn’t go back for more. I was satisfied. In fact I didn’t experience any food noises whispering in my ear the whole day.

Today

B - 2 boiled eggs, half a slice of seeded sourdough, grilled tomato’s. This is what I’d normally have but it would be 2 slices of bread. I did make a deliberate choice to have less bread but there wasn’t any sense of food panic when doing so.

Interestingly my daughter came round for breakfast and the first thing she said was - where’s your stomach gone. Normally it’s very round from bloating even in the morning but today it doesn’t start from under my bust. It’s like a semi shrivelled ballon instead.

Side effects - none so far.

Can I join? My first dose is hopefully being delivered today - excited, but nervous 😁

Welcome @PositivelyBedevilledEtc ! Good luck 👍

Weigh day today. Wasn't expecting to see much on the scales as AF has arrived which usually artificially inflates my weight, but still 2.5lb down this week. Happy with that!

@MissFancyDay

Just done dose 4 + bonus dose and I had to give a bit of tug but then it twisted quite easily. I had pliers ready but didn't need them at all.

Update - bolt have approved my prescription and it's processing, so I've now contacted Voy to ask them to send me details of how to return the pen. If Bolt isn't here by Monday I'll take a second dose of Voy before returning it and just do six weeks on 2.5mg, which I'm not too bothered about.

Voy's messages have become increasingly condescending though which is really frustrating as I haven't actually done anything wrong

Weigh in day today, 4 lb down this week. Very happy with progress so far.

SW: 209lb
2.5mg
WK 1: -5 lb
WK 2: -4 lb
CW: 199.8 lb

I did dose 3 a few hours ago and oh my I feel newuseous this time ! Definitely convinced last weeks was not injected properly !
is anyone worried about moving up to 5?!