Continuing Mounjaro...part 19

[ObsidianTree]

Pointers for newbies:

Please note: Mounjaro will only be be prescribed initially if your BMI is above 30. If you have additional health conditions you can get the medication with a BMI 27. (Prediabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol or heart problems)

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Trying something new this thread. Wallywobbles kindly made a site to hold all info including pointers for newbies, links to past threads, recipe ideas and other useful things. Have a look newbies and oldies 😊 (thanks Wallywobbles :) )

Site with all the info :
https://wattnext.notion.site/e880d9342b7a4bab94c244b34e0e5841?v=cc1edc3f1c2b41dab3011c8d9063df0a

Thanks for the 10mg advice at the end of the last thread! I've ordered my second pen of 10mg and I take my second dose on Friday. Was going to count the clicks and take a bit less, but will stick with it to see if week 2 is a bit easier on me. I do have some cyclizine if the nausea is too much!

Ooh as a new thread, will do a very quick update for the newbies.

Started mounjaro at the end of March. So about 18ish weeks - 4 months. I'm 40lbs down so far. I have quite a bit to lose, so will be here for another year at least! (Wonder how many threads we will have then!)

@BeautyPageantDropout yup! They are so good for protein and low calories too!!

Another good one is turkey breast!

Checking in too!

SW 210lbs (3/5/24)
CW 166lbs
GW 154lbs

I'm so happy with my progress and so grateful to everyone on this thread. I don't post often but I read every day. It's been such a good support.
I can't believe I'm so close to my target 🙏
I'm on 4mg because I decided to slowly titrate up and have added some days in here an there when necessary.

It's a pity the media can't report some of the success stories on here instead of scaremongering 😥

That could be a blessing in disguise @Vamozz Imagine the supply problems if it was widely hailed as a miracle solution.

I never think of turkey. Must have a look!

Which type of magnesium did you use as there are different types. Magnesium citrate is a laxative for constipation so might be good to check which one you have.
Magnesium glycinate and l-threonate are the ones that tend to be used to assist with sleep.

@Addictedtobeauty That's a very good point!

Hi. I'm down 18lb in five weeks, but have stalled.
However, I look thinner, and my clothes are getting too big, so I must be losing inches.

I'm desperate to see the scales telling me I've finally got below 16st. I'm 16st 8lb at the moment.

week 8 completed today and im
13.2lbs down.
Im planning on using my second 5mg pen to do 6mg doses before starting 7.5.

@TheShellBeach define stalled? How long has it been? Where are you on your cycle - that could affect weight big time.

@TtheC - I am EXACTLY the same. I owe the hangover gods so badly, I'm terrified they're going to call in their debts one day but it hasn't happened yet! No matter what I drink - no hangover!

I've not caught up yet with this new thread. We got a ring doorbell and dog cam at the weekend and omg I'm horrific, I'm so fat, I was standing at the front door looking at the position of the camera and all I could focus on was this big baw face! If I wasn't already motivated and focused to lose this weight, I'm going for it now! X

@WeKnowFrogsGoShaLaLaLaLa it's weird isn't it.

When I'm not on MJ I'd feel like complete shit after the best part of a bottle of wine.

But then some people feel sick after 1 glass?!

MedExpress price matching - I ordered last Friday, forgot to say anything about a price match. Got an email from them on Sunday advising that they were experiencing delays in prescribing, and they'd let me know when it was approved.
I emailed them on Monday with a screenshot of the pricelist from Family Chemist (£159 compared to £189.99).
Prescription approved and despatched today, and I've just had an email saying my account has been credited with £31 off my next order.
I'm happy with that, though will see what happens with price matching for the next pen - the credit is technically for this order not the next, but I can see them arguing that I've had a credit so no price match.

Wednesday weigh in. Two pounds gone this week. Only a pound off three stone down 🙂

SW: 13st 10
CW: 10st 11
GW: 9st 7

Start weight 13st 10
After 1 week: Feb 28th 13st 2 (- 8 pounds)
After 2 weeks: March 6th 12st 12 (- 4 pounds)
After 3 weeks: March 13th 12st 9 (-3 pounds)

Moved to 5mg
After 4 weeks: March 20th 12st 9 (-0 pounds)
After 5 weeks: March 28th 12st 8 (-1 pound)
After 6 weeks April 3rd 12st 4 (-4 pounds)
After 7 weeks April 10th 12st 3 (-1 pound)
After 8.5 weeks April 22nd 12st 2 (-1 pound)
After 9 weeks April 23rd 12st 0 (-2 pounds)

Moved to 7.5
After 10 weeks May 1st 11st 12 (-2 pounds)
After 11 weeks May 8th 12 St (+2)
After 12 weeks May 15th 11st 12(-2)

Moved to 10mg
After 13 weeks May 23nd 11st 10 (-2)
After 14 weeks May 29th 11st 9 (-1)
After 15 weeks June 5th 11st 8 (-1)
After 16 weeks June 12th 11st 7 (-1)
After 17 weeks June 19th 11st 5 (-2)
After 18 weeks June 27th 11st 3 (-2
After 19 weeks July 4rd 11st 2 (-1)
After 20 weeks July 11th 11st 0 (-2)
After 21 weeks July 18th 11st 0 (-0)
After 22 weeks July 25th 10st 13 (-1)
After 23 weeks July 31st 10st 13 (-0)

Moved to 12.5mg
After 24 weeks August 7th 10st 11 (-2)

41 pounds total loss (2st 13Ib)
BMI down from 35.7 to 28.1
HbA1c down from top of prediabetic to normal
Waist down from 40 inches to 33.5

I've just upped my dose from 2.5 to 5mg and starting to feel really nauseous. I'm going on holiday on Sunday so was wondering if I should miss out a dose or how it works if I inject half the amount? Any ideas?

Evening all - thanks @ObsidianTree for the new thread as always!

I’ve just ordered my 1st 10mg pen with Med Express and they kindly price matched so I’ve got it for £148 which I’m okay with. I’m in a mega stall but if I maintain for the next month I’m okay with that. About to go on an absolutely mega holiday for 24 days …!!!! and would like to come home the same weight. That’s my goal and I’m writing it down here in the hope that I can achieve it. I’ve borrowed travel scales from a friend and they are coming with me!

I'm waiting to hear about my price match from medexpress. I did use a previous price match credit against this order so will see what they say. They initially emailed me back asking for evidence of the lower price.

Time wise I ordered Thursday, prescribed Saturday, dispatched Tuesday arrived today. So not too long a process even though they did email to say they are experiencing delays.

Separately ordered from cloud pharmacy for my relative. They don't ask for photos and you can also tick to say you'll notify gp yourself just in case that's of interest to anyone. I might switch to them for my next pen, they seem to have a 5% off code each month.

Just wanted to share a positive GP (telephone) appointment.

Had my yearly hrt review and mentioned I was taking MJ. GP was interested and asked lots of questions as to how I was finding it etc. Said she has had lots of patients taking it recently but quite a lot of side effects so was glad to hear I was having minimal, and that having good losses on a low dose. She congratulated me on my weight loss and health improvement.

Unfortunately she didn't offer it on prescription

Take some dimenhydrinate.
Go to eBay and look up Equate Travel Sickness tablets. They're about £15 for a hundred and they work really well.

First and most importantly, congratulations on a brilliant decision and please don’t be horrified, you will probably never see that number at a weigh in ever again! Secondly, thank you for the best typo ever… I’m not having the most fun of times at the moment and “scared scales” could be my user name!

On a more general point to celebrate the new thread, I’m still teetering on 11.11 and I have never lost more than a pound in a week, but you know what, that’s fine by me. I haven’t binged once in the six weeks since I started, I never think about food until my tummy grumbles, and it grumbles a lot less and it quietens much quicker with less food than it used to be. If I continue to lose a pound a week I’ll be nine and a half stone by April. The last time I was that weight I was ten years of age…

…and being taken to my first Weight Watchers meeting by my mother 🙄

Just did my 8th jab this morning and so far I've lost a stone. Not bad!

Blimey, I've just left half of my dinner. Week 2 on only 2.5.

I don't think I've ever in my 40 years not cleaned my plate. This is like witchcraft.

I'm not at all happy with Med Express.

I'd already been waiting over a week for my prescription to be approved when they contacted me to say they'd put a hold on my order until I answered some questions (confirm my weight, tell them that I'm eating enough calories, confirm I'm eating enough protein, let them know If I'd had any side effects etc)

I happily answered all of that.

2 days later still not approved so I chase it up and receive an apology and the assurance that a note has been put on to expedite things.

Now today they've contacted me again and said that as there's been an 8 week gap between my last order with them and now, they want me to have 7.5mg and not the 10mg I requested.

So then I've had to explain that there hasn't been a gap in treatment and that I'd bought a 10mg from Zava in the mean time after M.E stopped doing discount codes.

Then they wanted proof of that prescription, so off I go again. Now they've fucked off for the evening so yet another 24-48hrs to wait for that to be acknowledged.

I'm sure this level of faff is reassuring for some folks but I just want my bloody medication. If I didn't already have the 10mg from zava, by the time these knobs get around to sending my meds I would be forced to go back down to a lower dose.

This will be the last time they see any money from me.