Mounjaro February to April 24 starters

[ObsidianTree]

Hi all,

Thought I would start a thread for those that started quite early on and would like a space to chat with others that started around the same time. Like the threads that are dedicated to those starting in May, June, July etc thought it would be nice to have a space for people have have been on for similar amount of time.

@Choux that sounds similar to what I plan to do. A few months of 15mg to lose the last bit and then titrate down to a maintenance dose.

Good luck with the gym

I think I'm half a stone away from bmi 25 and now can't remember what everyone said about continuing to prescribe for lower bmis. I'm with med express currently but may need to switch before I reach bmi 25? Or is it lower.

All these lovely holidays. Glad the holiday weight is coming down @CiderJabs

@PissedOffNeighbour22 yay to weighing less. Totally get that.

I have nothing to report at all. I’m just checking in :)

Re Voy. I over ordered to take advantage of two offers from different pharmacies so still have another 3-4 doses in my current 12.5 pen and then another full one so haven’t ordered since 22 July.

However, Voy have just offered me a whopping 44% off my next order so going to go for the 15mg early. At my reckoning, even if it has a November expiry date I won’t be starting it until the first week in November so should be ok. 🤞

Lowest weight so far this morning. When I started MJ, my routine was to religiously log all my calories & to weigh maybe once or twice a week. My current routine is I rarely log calories - I pretty much eat the same, day in & day out, but in the last two weeks or so, I am weighing daily. That’s the ticket as I am now losing steadily & not stalling.
After my latest hoo-ha with Health Express, I am thinking of moving suppliers. BMI is 28 range so I should be ok. On balance, MedExpress looks like a good option price wise. If anyone has opinion on this, let me know.
Also, if anyone has a discount code, PM me or else I will wander over to promo board & see if I can find one.

PM'd you mine 😊

The date on my 15mg pen is October 2024, the 12.5mg is November.

I'm not sure if they will extend them like they did with the 2.5mg, it seems very weird that they have such short dates but maybe that's why you got a big discount?

Fed up this morning. I've gone up nearly a pound since yesterday. Probably my own fault, I had 5 southern fried chicken flavour breaded goujons and diet coke for dinner. Fizzy drinks and high salt content (but still counted within my calorie allowance). But a pound? Really? So instead of over a pound loss over the week, it's 6 bloody ounces.
I was so chuffed with yesterdays weight, and now I'm cross.
Today I will drink a lot of water, and eat prunes to resolve a blockage. And sulk.

And then remind myself that even a small loss is a loss, that I got into a pair of size 10 jeans this week (OK, M&S size 10, but still), my leather bike jeans fit for the first time in over a decade, and last weekend I was out at the local Blues festival and got a lot of comments about how good I'm looking.

But 6 ounces. 😥

@pinktransit your dinner = processed food = salt and additives = temporary weight gain. It's not real.

A day of water and unprocessed foods will sort it out. It's just a tiny bump in your weight loss road!

I was going to say the same as @Choux. @pinktransit it's not fat you've gained, it's water. It'll go soon. Lots of water today, lots of veg and it'll be gone again.

Thanks @Choux and @KeepingUndercover . I know it's water, but I'm still cross with myself. I went shopping when I was hungry, it was the day before jab day and I gave into temptation.
Today I will go back to my usual unprocessed food. And chuck out the remaining goujons.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/eli-lilly-cuts-cost-certain-zepbound-doses-least-50.amp

Interesting.
They are dramatically cutting single dose pen prices in USA. I wonder if they will extend to here and our multi use.

@montysma1 it's only for the 2.5mg and 5mg doses.

I think it's to compete with the compounders in the US who create a vial of the Mounjaro recipe and add a vitamin to it so it doesn't breach Lilly's patent and sell it for less than the real Mounjaro pens.

Lilly are cutting their own margins so dieters prefer the official drug and not an unregulated compounded version and then they either stay on 5mg or bite the bullet and pay $1k a month for higher doses.

My brother is in the US and has been paying $1k a month for Zepbound as it is called there. He has a friend who has been using a compounded version. I don't know how safe they are - am sure there's reputable suppliers and then people flogging vials of water that they say are a sure fire weight loss drug.

I was vaguely hoping to be able to go down to 5mg for maintenance so I say bring on the price drops!

My BMI hit 23 today. I’ve lost 2lbs on my holiday so far. So weird.

I feel like they have the short date so people doing buy 15mg with plans to take smaller doses from them. Or, to stop people stock piling? There is no other reason I can think of of why they are short dated. I highly doubt there would be a problem with the medication going off or whatever when it was probably manufactured after the smaller doses.

I don't think any price reduction will come over here. We can get 5mg for £150 ISH or less. In the US I think the cut price 5mg is still around $500!

I guess they are reducing the price a bit so those going to compound versions are enticed back in for the lower price.

Not sure why they aren't offering higher doses in vials. Maybe they don't want people getting 15mg vials and taking lower doses so it lasts longer! Probably all about profit.

Madness it costing that much. If it was that price here I wouldn't be able to afford it. Definitely not!

I don't get why we have reasonable prices but the US are having to pay $1000 for theirs!

@Choux your brother would be better off financially if he flew here and collecting like 6 months worth twice a year!

@ObsidianTree I have said this before, but as the NHS has monolithic buying power, they negotiate lower prices for drugs across the board, and this has the effect of keeping drug costs in private sector lower as well. The situation in US is COMPLETELY different. Any US govt efforts to lower drug prices is met with strong resistance by Republicans. It is why I live in the UK & not US!

Why do the Republicans resist it? Masses of shares in drug companies?

Free market, innit? No socialism here thank you.

This is interesting

www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/11/30/12945756/prescription-drug-prices-explained

The United States allows drugmakers to set their own prices for a given product — and allows every drug that’s proven to be safe come onto market.

There is one especially large health insurance plan in the United States: Medicare, which covers about 55 million Americans over the age of 65. But federal law expressly prohibits Medicare from negotiating drug prices or making decisions about which drugs it covers.

@Choux
This exactly!

Just realised a NSV. In Vienna at the moment. It was 33° yesterday. So bloody hot and in the city centre too. We've been doing touristy things. Open top bus, visiting sights, parks etc. I've felt hot but have been mostly fine. Yesterday evening when back in hotel I realised that I didn't sweat at all yesterday! On previous holidays I would take a small towel with me as I knew I would be dripping with sweat!

So that's pretty amazing!

That is! We’re not a million miles from you, cooler but not that much, and I’m also coping far better with heat. A trade off I guess to being perpetually freezing at home.