Mounjaro July 2024 - continued

[Lumirubin]

The first thread was almost full, so I thought I'd start a second so we can carry on the fab support!
I don't think I could manage tagging everyone!! But here is the link to the first thread https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5101435-mounjaro-july-2024?page=1

Thanks @KeepinOn - not great still. I contacted Asda who advised that most people find side effects settle as they adjust to the new dose but that it's also fine to drop back down to 2.5mg and if the illness continues even with dropping down then to come off the medication altogether. It's just so frustrating to feel so wretched and not be able to eat or work or exercise, just waiting for it to pass and trying to stay hydrated!

I am doing my fourth injection on Friday evening, really pleased with the weight loss and hugely decreased food noise so far!

I used asda for my first pen and already got my second through cloud. Can anyone recommend a supplier where I can select Saturday delivery please? I am going back to the office full time from next week so will need it to be delivered on a weekend!

@WeepingInASunlitRoom i hope you are feeling better soon. There are quite a lot of bugs doing the rounds at the moment so you may have a bug ontop of some side effects maybe?

I’ve still got regular loose stools this morning, over 24 hours now. My whole extended family have tested positive for covid and this is how I presented with it last time. So I’m thinking it’s probably linked to that rather than the medication. It’s working well for me and I really don’t want to stop taking it, but these gastro symptoms just don’t work with my job!

I'm quite sure mine is side effects @Lumirubin because I don't have a fever or - thankfully - nausea like with a normal stomach bug. I just can’t seem to keep any food in my body - it comes out one way or another if I try to eat, though I have had some plain crackers this morning and plenty of water and electrolytes.

Covid sounds really likely for you, so I hope you get better soon! I know what you mean about wanting to stay on MJ. The steady, reliable weight loss is like a miracle.

On my second attempt at going up from 3.75 to 5mg, I did have those awful burps pretty much the whole day yesterday although peppermint oil capsules did really help. Thankfully today (I injected Tuesday evening) they have gone and the diarrhea I was bracing myself for, based on the pattern last time, has not appeared so perhaps my body is adjusting. If no further effects (I tend to feel fine from Friday up to when I inject again on Tuesday), I will stick at 5mg but not consider going up again any time soon!

Glad you have medical support with it. These medicines are very powerful! Not to be underestimated.

Just wanted to add a small NSV. I bought a new winter coat ages ago before the start of the summer, I bought a size 22 as that was the size of my old coat. But, I'd had my old coat for many years and I was fairly sure it had relaxed and loosened over the years. Sure enough when the new coat came, it was really a bit too small - tight across the back and top of the sleeves and I couldn't do it up properly. Rather than return it and have to face up to buying a bigger coat, I kept it. Normally I kid myself that I'll have lost the weight by the autumn.... except this time I actually have!

I wore it today as we had torrential rain, not only does it fit but it is verging on loose! I am amazed and chuffed.

Well done @SilenceInside I love those moments!

Brilliant NSV. I try mine on every month, can get in it but it's snug, I'll keep trying and hopefully it fits by winter!

Thanks all. @Mounjaroooooh I'm sure your coat will fit soon too.

Slightly concerned I might have to buy a smaller one by the time I get to the depths of winter!

I must be one of the lucky ones.
No side effects at all.
But you have to alter your diet.
No fried/ high fat etc.
Some people on FB think they can eat what they used to but just less.
Peppermint oil capsules for the burps/wind.
Ginger root capsules or tea for sickness.
If you're type 2 it doesn't give you as many side effects.

I didn't get side effects for two months (apart from fatigue when I very first started taking it). I have completely changed my diet and have been eating healthy, fresh food with plenty of protein throughout - this was the thing I mainly enjoyed about Mounjaro, the discovery of new recipes and lovely flavourful salads. Also, once the early fatigue passed, the energy to exercise, which has been a real source of joy. The horrific gastro symptoms that have hit me like a truck this week happened because I went up to 5mg, not because of what I've been eating. And ginger tea has helped me as much as it did when I had hyperemesis in pregnancy eg not at all.

Great NSV @SilenceInside - I am really looking forward to getting out a beloved winter coat I put away as too small, I think it will fit nicely over a jumper this year!

What you’re doing sounds like the most sensible way I’ve read to have weight loss and develop healthy habits that can be maintained long term!

I love a good NSV, you’ve inspired me to get some of my coats that spent last winter in the loft down for a try. I tried on two ball gowns I wore when I was the slimmest I’ve been in recent years and I can zip both up but they are tight. I have a ball in November and I think I’ll probably end up buying a new dress anyway, but SO good to know I have options that fit. Also ordered a smaller work uniform today which feels like a huge win.
on the not so win side, just been for dinner with friends and there was absolutely nothing on the menu that wasn’t deep fried (think small street food style menu) so I know it’s going to prolong my suffering with gastro symptoms! I had to drive home quicker than the speed of light and run straight to the loo! Odd because MJ is supposed to slow digestion whereas this is literally straight through. Sorry for TMI

So, next weekly check in

SW - 13 stone
Week 1 - 12 10
week 2 - 12 7
week 3 - 12 6
week 4 - 12 4
Week 5 - 12 1
Week 6 - 11 12

so finally dropped below 12 stones for the first time since 2015!

I should be ecstatic but I’m not and I’m really angry with myself that I’m not. I don’t know how to explain it. I’m almost embarrassed to be heading for an acceptable weight, like I don’t deserve it. I’m so glad that nobody has mentioned it and that it appears to have gone unnoticed. I guess that just confirms that my friends and family were equally ashamed and disgusted about how fat I’d become. To be honest I’m beginning to feel like a complete freak. I’m almost wondering when I’ll be fat again. It’s really all I’ve ever known and I think I’m so conditioned to being the “could make more effort” person that I don’t feel I can ever be any better than that.

Im rambling and not making any sense. I just feel a fraud and a cheat. Maybe tomorrow I’ll feel better!

Just entered 8th week (4th week on 5mg).

SW 19.4
CW 18.1

The loss has been slow but steady. I'm happy with the progress but I'm really struggling with fatigue. I'm tempted to stay on 5mg and not increase to 7.5mg purely based on my fatigue levels.

Other than magnesium tablets, does anyone have tried & tested tips for fighting this constant exhaustion?

@mounjarorookie I really relate to this. About twelve years ago I did a (retrospectively quite terrifying) VLCD and went to my lowest ever weight and it made me feel terrible and I could never understand it. It brought up so much shame and I think for me, I still had such low self esteem but I had always directed that at my body. So of course I hated myself because I was fat - but if I could be slim then I would feel worthy and happy with myself at last! Except I didn't, and that made me feel that if it was something more fundamental in me that was the problem. Without fat to hide behind, everyone would be able to see how defective I was as a human being. I felt exposed and embarrassed and so precarious - because of course I couldn't survive on that diet for longer, and of course I did regain that weight and more and in a way there was a comfort in going back to how I was and back into the more familiar refrain of self blame that I was used to.

Weight loss brings up a whole host of feelings and it can get really complicated and difficult. I get used to thinking of things I'll do when I lose the weight which translates to 'I don't deserve those things now' and then I still don't think I deserve them if and when I do get there. I think of myself as a failure, because I've failed so many times to have the body I wanted and I ignore all the professional and personal successes I've had. I think of myself as weak for not being able to stick to diets, ignoring how strong and determined and motivated I am in all other areas of my life and all the things I've achieved. I can tell myself none of it matters because in all the photos of those proud moments, I only see a fat person and think she doesn't deserve any of it and I think everyone else will think that too.

But thinking all those things doesn't make them true. The only thing we really don't deserve is how hard we are on ourselves. We deserve to treat ourselves with a lot more compassion and see ourselves as more than a number on a scale or a BMI category. I hope you can be kinder to yourself, and don't feel bad about how you feel.

Didn't feel any difference when went onto 5mg... long may my no side effects last.
My diabetic nurse did tell me those with type 2 have less.
I'm on holiday in the Greek islands and only bought one new dress in a smaller size. Wish I'd bought more.. but l wanted to go down a bit more before l start buying new clothes.
Probably sell and buy on vinted.

10th weigh in done today.

SW: 13st 6.8lbs
CW: 12st 2lbs

1st 4.8lbs down.

A lot a slower than others but least it's coming off.
Done on 2.5mg never moved up doses may get moving up this week.

Congratulations to everyone on their losses this week. It really helps to read everyone's updates and to feel that group momentum!

Weigh-in day for me today too, it's now been 9 weeks on Mounjaro.

SW: 139kg (21st 12lbs)
CW: 121.4kg (19st 1lbs)
GW: 112kg (17st 9lbs)

That's a total of 17.6 kg down, or 39lbs, and a loss of 1.4kg/3lbs this week.

I was kind of hoping to get to 19st 0lbs, because I am super impatient! I really want to see the start of the 18st bracket. Maybe next week. A loss of 3lbs/1.4kg in a week is a good loss, I need to remind myself.

I've lost 2lbs this week, bringing me near as dammit to a 10% total loss since beginning of July.

I think I'm going to stop weighing weekly soon, though. I'm finding it a bit tedious, there are lots of other ways I can track progress, and I know I'm not eating the way I was before so I'm just generally feeling healthier and better. I'm 7.4kg away from a mere 'overweight' BMI so maybe I'll stop weighing weekly when I reach that goal.

Irritatingly, I'm starting to feel hungrier sooner in the week all of a sudden. I'll give it another couple of weeks to be sure, but if this is the pattern I may need to move to 7.5g. 😬

Congrats to everyone sticking at it, regardless of scale numbers. We're in this for the long haul and a permanent change to our eating habits!💪

@KeepinOn I have the jab on a Sunday morning and by Tuesday/Wednesday the suppression is waning and I'm looking for things to eat, starting 7.5 this Sunday so hoping it abates.

Great results by the way

Ah keep us posted @Mounjaroooooh - 7.5g seems like a big jump for a lot of people. And thanks. :)

Anyone else following the general chats about MJ in the main board? I think I might stop looking at any threads about it because the vitriol is depressing! Almost religious in tone - fatties must repent in sack cloth and ashes to receive absolution (become thin), and cheaters aren't deserving of forgiveness! gah.

Yeah I've posted on it, apparently we're all lazy and cheating and shouldn't be congratulated on our losses as the meds have done all the work 🙄