Continuing Mounjaro... Part 20

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Huge thank you to ObsidianTree for all prior threads, and congratulations on your hard earned losses, you've been a huge inspiration to us and we're excited for your maintenance updates.

FYI to any newbies please visit previous threads, they are full of invaluable advice from our wonderful community, the threads are full of gems of information and loads of peer support.

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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Linking Wallywobbles site, as theyve very kindly compiled all threads so far, pointers for newbies, weightloss tracker, links to discount codes, tips and tricks and high protein recipes.

Site with all the info :
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Been out today (my birthday) had gone a bit off plan but not too bad hopefully as I've done 18000 steps, and chose gin and diet tonic, and had a caesar salad for lunch. Hoping it won't have too much effect as I was 2lb down this morning after staying stagnant all week. Dose 4 of 2.5mg tomorrow and official weigh-in on Monday. Not doing the bonus dose, I'm moving up to 5mg next week (I will do the bonus dose of 5mg as I'm hoping to stay on 5mg for a few months if it works well).

@Forevafatty thanks for posting your experience and sorry it has caused you stress! Care was the top of 'switch to' list but has slipped now partly due to your experience but also because they have t replied to an email for over 24 hours!
@Ifyounevergiveup There is so much I like about Oushk but I cannot bear the constant 'you're so wonderful', 'oh you're amazing' messages in their group. Puts me right off 😂

@SnacklessWonder if you have any syringes, maybe try drawing the extra dose as you may have a decent 'bridging dose'/enough to use a tiny bit of your new pen to make up a 5mg dose. Don't waste it!

Oh, me too! I went on the FB support group and was pretty overwhelmed too.

@SnacklessWonder happy birthday! Look, calorie-free cake 🍰

Also party time for 2lb off 🥳💐

Finally (tightwad genes here) you could always finish off your fifth 2.5 dose and top it up with clicks from your 5mg pen, rather than waste it?

But you’re the birthday girl and you can do exactly whatever you like 😆!

Aww thanks @Ifyounevergiveup my favourite type of cake 😆

Hmm maybe you're all convincing me. I might get a syringe and see what I get out.

This is what I did. I didn’t want to waste my bonus dose but wanted to go up to 5mg, so I got out what I could with a syringe then topped up to 5mg with my next pen.

@OrangesAndLemonz I'm at the end of week 1 and on Sertraline. I had a day where I went extremely low, to what I'd say was a dangerous place. I don't know how much if any was due to MJ, rather than life (difficult day), but it wasn't a place I've been in for a very long time. I'm over it now, but it was worrying (although typically, at the time it didn't feel like something I could rationalise).

@OrangesAndLemonz I'm on Sertraline and Quetiapine for clinical depression and EUBPD. I've felt okay and actually quite calm on MJ. I can get a tad highly strung even on my meds and I feel good and positive. I'm good with life at the moment though. I've also recently had my HRT changed so that will make a difference too. I started on 2.5mg on the 5th of August and I had no mood side effects at all, just physical. Xx

@QueenOfHiraeth I read your point about discarding your pen at 30 days and last month I didn’t go up in strength even though I purchased a higher strength pen, felt my suppression was enough, so delayed this, with less clicks. I’m now probably this week around 30 days again and have the bonus left. Does anyone know what happens after you’ve opened the pen for more than 30 days as does it stop working or does it go off. last month I didn’t feel sick or any real change. Next pen I will start using the full dose.

@Tireduk I have read several different things about the 30 day rule (like most discussions about MJ!😂)

Some say it's because of the risk of infection if the seal is broken too many times🤷‍♀️

Some say the efficacy of the meds wears out after being open for 30 days🤷‍♀️

Some say it's to maximise profits 🤷‍♀️

I used my last pen for 35 days. The last dose worked as well as the first and I am still here to tell the tale. So whilst I am not telling you it's fine and you should use it, I can only tell you my personal experience.

@Tireduk i think it’s effectiveness is unknown after 30 days and there is apparently a risk of contamination. I’ve seen very few posts about people saying they continued using longer than 30 days and still had suppression etc, they must be out there though - I can’t believe nobody has.

I have been on MJ since the end of March and apart from one one pen, have always used the bonus dose and not had any issues with lack of suppression from the bonus dose.

managed to get the last dose out with a hard twist only on the 2.5mg pen. Despite my very strong hubby managing to twist on the other pens, unfortunately the plunger has only depressed slightly every time so reverted to using a syringe to extract. Too bloody expensive to waste!

Weigh day for me, on holiday last week so had a week of eating and drinking as I wanted to and lost one pound still! Very happy with that. Also did three days over when I was due to inject. The food noise started to come back (could be due to bad habits when on holiday/travelling home) but the hunger didn’t. So I’m feeling more confident about how I’ll manage if/when I’m ready to stop. No side effects at all last week, so I’m going up to 12.5 this month to see how it goes. Does anyone know what happens after 15? Are they stopping at that dose or is a higher dose in the works?

I used my first 5mg pen on day 42 and had exactly the same effects as previous weeks. I just used my second 5mg pen on Thursday which was day 35 and again the same effects.
I have good suppression and steady weight loss. I've been counting the clicks and using between 3 and 4mls to get the most out of the pen. I don't want to go past 5ml as long as the lower does is working for me.
SW 210lbs
CW 162lbs
48lbs loss in 17 weeks.

Just done my first jab of 7.5mg. Bit nervous as I used the bonus dose in my last 5mg pen to do an in between dose and I felt rubbish for a couple of days. I hope 7.5mg works well as I've ended up with a couple of pens thanks to early ordering.

@Tireduk I used the bonus dose from my 2.5mg pen after 42 days and it seemed to work fine. This was back in April so not recently. I had no consequences.

@GlueNoGlue 15mg is the top dose. There won't be more. I started it this week and it's a strange feeling to think that this is the maximum dose so you need to make it work. I guess the bonus dose might be 18-20mg in a 15mg pen so I need to think about how I am going to take that when the time comes.

Has anyone found their blood pressure has gone up on MJ? I had a health check at work and mine was a bit high. It’s normally v low. Everything else was good, and I was quite stressed at the time, so I’ll probably get another one done sometime on a more restful day. But just wondered if anyone else had this? My Fitbit has consistently had my heart up about 10 beats which I think is a fairly common thing with MJ. I’m planning to start tapering in a couple of weeks anyway so hopefully it will resolve

@Secretslimmer the opposite, now I’ve lost so much weight it’s finally coming down and I’m back to normal levels.

To be honest I've not checked but I need to because I have chronic hypertension (not weight related as I've been at my optimal weight and had the same blood pressure!)

@GlueNoGlue @Choux hi guys, spotted that you’re up there on the higher doses so thought I’d ask when you started to feel the effects? Did you go straight up or have there been stops at some doses for more than a month? You know why I’m asking, I’m sure…sitting on 7.5mg (well, first dose on Thursday) and frankly feeling very little effect at all…wondering if I’m the one person in the whole thread who’s not going to have this work!

I’ve just ordered my first 12.5 pen.

Don’t seem to see many people on the higher doses in the chat

I have found that I have needed to move up each time right away as the effects don’t last for me

I haven’t posted on the main thread for a bit, but wanted to update here for a wider audience as it were to show this really does work. I started back in February on thread one. It’s now six and a half months. I’ve gone from 14.1/3 to… 9.9. I’m on my final titration off and will be MJ free in three weeks. Keep faith and remember stalls are normal. We are humans not machines and it’s not linear.

Best wishes from Flappy, who is now swishing round in a size 10, feels a million times healthier and finally feels free.

And despite my doubts for me…I couldn’t be more thrilled for you. It’s been a pleasure reading your posts and watching your success x

There was a short thread on the MJ and depression topic a little while ago, which I posted on at this link.

A month on I feel absolutely fine (currently on 7.5) and my mood is probably better than it has been in years. I don’t however take anti-depressants, but hopefully it’s some reassurance for you.