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

I started late July and have done 8 weeks of 2.5mg and have lost 16lbs and I’m pleased with that. The appetite suppression has started to reduce so I’ve ordered 5mg this time so will be starting that next week. Hopefully I’ll have no bad side effects and continue losing, I’m hoping for around another 10lbs loss

I've decided to stick on 7.5mg and have just ordered another pen, the side effects wore off after a couple of days and the suppression is still there, hopefully I won't get the bad stomach when I inject on Sunday.

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I did my weekly weigh in this morning

SW 18st 1
CW 14st 14
GW 13 st

Total lost 3st 2lbs which according to my Voy app is 17.6% of my weight.

Cannot believe I'm in the 14's! Woo! Also another big win is my BMI is now 34.9, which is below the 35 cut off for which I'm allowed IVF should we decide to try for a sibling. Not sure that something I want, but now I feels like a decision that's under my control rather than one that is caveated by my loosing weight first!
The side effects haven't been fab last week and a small touch of them this week, but I'm going to persevere because the benefits are worth it!

Congratulations @Lumirubin !

I'm peeved today, not gonna lie. I really wish I'd not gone for that second 5mg pen, and when I've got some caffeine in me, I think I'm going to work out what's left in this pen so I can up my dose next week and then order a 7.5mg pen.

Well done Lumi. 🙂

Congratulations Lumi!

I weighed myself this week even after saying I wouldn't (I don't know why I bother making big pronouncements about my future actions, I always flip-flop and change my mind!), I only lost 400g. But it was period week, and my clothes are getting looser, so I'm not sure why the numbers barely shifted. I don't really understand the mechanics of losing cms but not weight. I tried on my tailored wedding suit (civilly partnered 2 years ago) and it's much looser on me than it was on the day, so I'm definitely healthier than I have been in several years. Still obese BMI but I feel like I look a lot trimmer and fitter these days, so there is that.

If anyone knows how one can lose cms and not weight, I'd be interested to learn more.

Just checking in. I started beginning of July and have lost just over 1.5 stone now. I did one month of 2.5mg with no side effects and then increased straight to 5mg and had sulphur burbs and diarrhoea but seems to have settled down now.

SW - 14.0.2
CW - 12.6.5
TW - not sure, initial target was to lose 2 stone so 12.0.2 currently.

How long did you find it took for the sulphur burps and upset stomach to settle down on 5mg @Casablanca1 and others?

i did one week at 5 (after 2 x 3.75) and had bad gastro effects so went back to 3.75. Tried again at 5mg and have done two doses now. Both times had bad effects, probably not quite as bad as the first time but 1-1.5 days of sulphur burps then 1 day of diarrhoea. I can’t really have that every Wednesday and Thursday going forward. Wondering whether to persevere at 5 and trust they’ll settle, or am considering doing 4mg or 4.15mg (50 clicks) this week. Am losing steadily but not super fast at all but happy with that.

@User364837 week one on 5mg was ok and then week two I had horrendous diarrhoea (literally going all day and night) for about 3 days. Week three I had 3 loose movements in total and week four only one or two. So it’s definitely improving as my body is getting used to it. Sulphur burps I get for 1-2 days each week but can handle those (although lot pleasant! Actimal has helped!) I’m persevering as obviously weight loss has been great!

Ah ok thanks
im really struggling with the burps from a social point of view. Peppermint capsules have helped but I think they still smell bad when they’re out.
i inject Tuesday Eve. i have to be in the office Wednesdays which is when they hit (wfh Thursdays thankfully when the diarrhoea seems to happen).
i literally can’t stop them sneaking out even silently and last week my colleague at the next desk commented on a funny smell she kept getting wafts of (luckily I don’t think she realised it was me but so embarrassing!) plus I avoid seeing my boyfriend while I have them. It’s a night mare 😆
so I think I might try slightly lower to see if I can get to the sweet spot of no/minimal side effects but still weight loss.

@BamberGirl I am planning to get down to 10st 7 then start maintaining on a 2.5mg dose for a few months.

@Lumirubin I have had a similar week to you. I moved up from my 5mg pen to 7.5mg last week. I decided to only do 6mg (48 clicks) as a bridging dose. I did my jab on Saturday, then on Tuesday evening had stomach pains followed by two days of diarrhoea. It was grim, with lots of running to the loo and restricting how far I went those days.

I am due to do my next jab today, but I am so nervous about further side effects. I will only do 5mg and then keep my fingers crossed. I took 6 Imodium tablets on Tue/Wed/Thurs, so I will probably next go to the loo in October!!

It still seems that some people are having a rough time, really hoping that things improve quickly.

Weigh-in day and I have hit my first mini-target of losing 10kg Yay! Hoping to lose another 10kg by Christmas. I bought myself a new dress (well new to me as it was secondhand on vintage), which I am hoping to wear on my next birthday. My appetite suppression is starting to wane but my side effects are virtually zero. This has been good as I can enjoy my food without feeling the need to snack between meals. I think I may need to move to 7.5mg next time and I am a little worried about possibly side effects, so I will definitely do it gently by slowly increasing the dose.

Week 1 loss 1.6kg
Week 2 loss 1.1kg
Week 3 loss 1.2kg
Week 4 loss 1.4kg
Total loss on 2.5mg = 5.3kg

Week 5 loss 0.8kg
Week 6 loss 0.9kg
Week 7 loss 0.6kg
Week 8 loss 0.7kg
Week 9 loss 0.9kg
Week 10 loss 0.4kg
Week 11 loss 0.5kg
Total loss on 5.0mg = 4.8kg

Total weight loss = 10.1kg (or just over 22lbs).

I am starting to feel healthier. I even went to a beginner dance class this week and didn’t collapse in a heap afterwards, in fact I quite enjoyed it.

Well done everyone for continuing this week….

I’m very late with this weeks update.

weighed myself on Thursday and was 11 10 which is 18 pounds down from my starting weight on 23rd July.
i have the 5mg pen but have been taking 3.75mg doses (or as close to as I can) so I think I still have 2 doses left. I don’t want to increase as it’s enough for me right now. The sulphur burps come and go and I’m still disinterested in food and struggling to eat much so I need to get to a point where I can manage decent amounts of the right things.
im now with Health Express so hoping I can ask for another 5mg pen and make it last 6 weeks as that works better for me I think.
Frustratingly most of my wardrobe is still too tight which has made me realise I weighed a lot less than I thought I did for most of the last 10 years but I’m heading the right way and that’s what matters.
I have felt utterly exhausted this week, light headed, sniffly and generally rough but I think there are lots of bugs around and a friend said the atmospheric pressure was askew (I’ll take her word for that - science isn’t my strong point!) so that may also be the case.

onwards and upwards - or downwards in this case 😀

Well I've put two pounds on this week. In the week of d&v, I lost four pounds but in the week since I've gained two of them back so that means that disastrous week actually slowed my weight loss down. I usually lose 2lbs a week pretty steadily, but in September so far I'm actually only down 2lbs overall and I feel pretty depressed about it this morning. I hoped that the silver lining of being so ill might at least have been a boost to the weight loss rather than the opposite.

Sorry you're feeling depressed @WeepingInASunlitRoom , but don't forget this is a long-term change and there will be inevitable bumps in the road.

How are you feeling generally? Any NSV you can focus on?

Can I ask? . Have you made a pen last 6 weeks before? . So using it after the 30 days? . I am interested if this is a thing people do and just risk it not being as effective or not working? .
I'm all up for trying, but just read so much that you shouldn't use after 30 days!!.

I used mine after 38 days; it still worked fine. (And it was out the fridge, in a suitcase for much of this time. I took it on holiday to Asia and tried the hard twist for the bonus dose, but it jammed. I extracted the last dose with an insulin syringe when I got back, which was day 38)

It's a charter flight hold case!

I like butter as a measurement - I am down 59 blocks and like to imagine that in a supermarket trolley! I have also finally hit a number that starts with an 8. I am moving much more freely. Having to throw a lot of clothes out.

@SilenceInside 20kg is amazing…especially when you put it in suitcase terms!!

I tend to use bags of sugar or potatoes so am 2 bags of spuds (10kg) down…I would defo know about it if I had to carry those around all day!

I’ve just injected again today. I’ve stayed on 2.5 mg since I started but ordered a 5 mg pen this time…I’m planning to use it for 3.75mg doses though so I tend to use beyond the 30 days. I think the main risk is that it might lose its efficacy beyond this. I have used a previous pen at 5 weeks for the bonus dose and it hadn’t been in the fridge, I’d also been on holiday and it was warm and it still worked.

For today I counted 40 clicks, which I think is 3.33 mg according to the charts on here. If I carry on then I should get 6 doses out of the pen. Does anyone know how the extra dose(s) would work…I used the hard click for the final one successfully, will this still work for a sixth dose? If not I can buy the syringe needles, but how much ml will I need to extract to be equivalent to the 3.75mg?

if it works then will be a cheaper way to use MJ as more doses per pen.

0.6ml in the syringe is a full dose of mounjaro whatever the dosage is in the pen I believe.

so if you were hoping to syringe out 3.75mg from a 5mg dose pen then you would need 0.45ml

(*not a pharmacist so feel free to fact check!)

I’m on injection day today. I’ve done 3 weeks of 5mg and it’s not been great, total suppression, having to force myself to eat, terrible acid reflux (was prone to that anyway) and last week 3 days of diarrhoea. And not even much weight loss to speak of. 2.5 by comparison was great, just enough to take the edge off and really kickstarted the loss.

I’m definitely hungry again today but am considering leaving the injection for 24 hours and then maybe only giving myself a 2.5mg dose. That would just be clicking halfway to the 1, right? Is it any more complicated than that? If that’s OK will prob risk the second 2.5mg next week and then possibly stop altogether.

I’ve lost a stone and have another stone to go.

@HotCrossBunplease 30 clicks would be 2.5mg

I was wondering if people that are taking more than 5mg have found that they are getting hungrier earlier in the week?

I have a 7.5mg pen at the moment and have been moving up doses from 5mg by counting clicks as I had some side effects on 5mg and didn't want to move up to 7.5mg straightaway. Friday was my 3rd injection with this pen and I did 50 clicks for a 6.25mg dose. I'm finding that today I am feeling hungry pretty much all day, although I didn't feel like eating loads when I did eat. It's a little strange.

I'm hoping that moving to the full 7.5mg will help. Has anyone had anything similar?

How much have you lost overall though?

I’d say that the overall feeling for me has been a vague hunger/empty type feeling in the stomach but not fancying any food and then feeling full up quickly when I make myself eat. That’s on 5 and 2.5. It’s not that pleasant.