Mounjaro August thread 2

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Hi here's another thread.

Why do you think you didn't get the full dose? did you dial all the way to 1 and inject?

Appetite suppression reduces at the end of every week for me. That's when we try to learn how to eat better. It doesn't always work but with practice you will get better at it. But if you have minimal side effects on 2.5mg then you sound ok to move up to 5mg for your next pen. And 6kg in three weeks is an amazing loss. What's the most you have lost in 3 weeks of dieting before?

Does anyone else weigh daily? I decided that I would due to the fluctuating nature of weight loss. I have "weight loss is not linear" stuck to the wall by the scales as a reminder. I have also shifted to kg as I mentally cannot lose the same stone again. Anyway thought id attach my weigh ins for the last 3 weeks to show what I mean. Have marked it sensitive for those that ain't into daily weigh ins.

That’s exactly it. Doing the hard twist and then clicking to 1 will get you 2.5mg. There will be 10 to 20 clicks worth of medication left in your pen, which you could take using a new needle if you wanted to.

Nearly at the end of Week 4 on 2.5ml and my appetite suppression has been actually far stronger than it was in week 3, so who knows? Have been away this week so made some terrible (tasty) choices with bread / cake / booze - only small amounts, but enough to upset the system; also not enough water (probably the bigger factor). I have a 5ml pen waiting in the fridge when I get home, but might now do it as 3.75ml instead (or even 2.5 again...)

MJ is also in my dreams. I had a dream last week that I'd accidentally injected myself twice in one day and was panicking. Then last night I dreamed I was at a shop trying on clothes, and could suddenly fit into (and look good) all of the styles I don't feel ok about now. Hopeful that the second dream is my soothsaying powers in action!

I'm definitely ready to move up to 5mg

Decided that because of the voy/bolt cock up im going to start doing a "top up" halfway through the week to nitrate me up to 5mg as im just not feeling many effects anymore of the 2.5mg. My body is handling it well so im definitely ready

My bolt pen was delivered on the 18th, I think that means I can reorder it next weekend?

@doodles55 Sorry to hear that, my fingers are crossed for your whoosh!! 🤞

@JohnCravensNewsround I do weigh pretty much every day, but I don't log it every day, but as with every weight loss journey, we have to expect fluctuations however annoying they are. I've now lost 13lbs in 28 days and in that time, I've had a weight gain and whole week with no loss at all. But overall, it's certainly heading in the right direction thankfully.

@TheShellBeach I'm not that fussed about injecting the bonus dose straight from the pen, it's going to be around 3.75mg so that's fine by me. I'm either brave or stupid or a bit of both but I'm certainly not wasting this liquid gold! 🤣

@NeedSomeAnswersPlease are you the poster who was turned down by a provider. If so, I only ask because when you were posting about your experience I didn’t comment because there are two sides to every story and if you had had an eating disorder in the past you were hardly going to admit to it when trying to get the medication. But here you are saying you’re now going to top up half way through the week and I’m not convinced you never had the eating disorder the first provider suspected you’d had. There’s something about your posts that ring alarm bells with me.

Why?

I used to overeat - everyone did or they wouldn't be at this weight. The "counsellor" was pushing me to say that I was bingeing 3+ times a week, which I never was.

I've been on Mounjaro for around about four weeks now, if I was with voy I'd have been put up to 5mg by now so I think I can move up, I'm eating 1400 calories a day so I'm hardly starving myself

Hi, regarding extra dose head to ‘Continuing Mounjaro’. Informative links there.
I was planning to use the extra dose but had a mishap with a bent needle and some of it trickled out, so that’s probably my extra dose gone. Maybe I’ll make the last 2.5 dose a little higher instead

My second dose was due on Tuesday but was planning to tough it out until tomorrow. I checked the scales and I’ve stayed constant, maybe lost a teeny tiny bit. But I had a panic this morning and worried I was sabotaging Mounjaro, so jabbed.

So back to bent needle. I used an insulin pen needle. These are the ones I have. You can see in pic they’re the same size. The insulin needle is on the left.

https://amzn.eu/d/3CMIiXO

For some reason I thought the insulin needles were great big things! Bolt send an extra needle with the pens so I'm assuming providers know about the extra dose and some want us to use itv

We're all over over-eaters, aren't we?

That's hardly unusual in this group; and as for bingeing, I'm sure that most of us have done that, too.

I thought Voy were being weird, not accepting you.

If you're not feeling suppression by about the fifth day, you can take the whole next dose anyway, and see how you go. The prescribers all say that people can change the day they have their medication, as long as there's been four days since the previous injection.

As you're about to move up to 5mg anyway, I can't see a problem.

I'm one of those who usually weighs daily but only treats the weekly weigh-in as the official one. All week I've been showing a 2lb loss, which is great, then today it went up a lb. This is obviously utterly irrelevant in the grand (or even the small) scheme of things, as my eating has been fine so it's just normal fluctuation. However, my official weigh-in is tomorrow, so I will be piqued if the scales don't play ball! This always happens when dieting, it's like the scales conspire to test you 😀

Insulin needles are tiny.
A lot of diabetics have to inject four times a day. They'd be pissed off if the needles were enormous!

@TheShellBeach they say if you leave it 3 days you can inject again! I'd rather step up slowly - 2.5 twice a week for a week or so than jump straight to 5mg, because autumn is coming and I struggle a lot with winter and autumn and don't want to add potentially awful side effects into the mix too!

Also interesting re the needles, I don’t know why I assumed they were massive!

If you have done 4 weeks on 2.5mg and feel you need more suppression you can go up to 5mg. But why not go directly to 5mg as one dose? Are you having side effects?

Also you probably haven't finished your Voy pen yet and got your Bolt one only 11 days ago. Why the rush to order another pen next week? You have 4 or more 2.5mg doses to hand still.

Sharps bin arrived today by RM
the tiniest of print on the label re open and shutting
for something as significant as that, they should include it in the their paper work in very bold print for aul dolls like me!!

What is everyone doing about telling people? I've just told dsd and I feel extraordinarily guilty now. I've not really told anyone else, the words just flew out of my mouth!

@Choux I want to make sure I don't get any side effects so I'm doing it slowly

Why do you feel guilty?

I've told all my family and my closest friends, everyone has been so supportive about it which I was surprised by!

I've told my husband and our four children.

I talked to my husband about it before I placed the first order. It's a lot of money and he needed to know. But I also wanted his support, which I got. He's been great, especially now he can see the results.

Only my dh knows and I'm not planning on telling anyone else, I don't want to.
My cover if anyone mentions my weight loss is that I've given up drinking and started calorie counting again which is true.

I'm not ashamed or feel guilty, it's just no one else's business.

Okay. Medexpress sent four so I used another to save the last two.

I mentioned it to OH a few months back and he categorically said no - so he doesn't know

My DS knows but thinks i'm stopping after 1 pen and it was just to give me a starting boost

I am not massive but clinically Obese and have been trying but spectacularly failing at losing weight for the last 3 - 4 years, I am also perimenopausal so it was creeping up and up

I am only 5'3" and was weighing in at between 81-82kg, but I have a small frame and osteoarthritis in my foot so the weight was exacerbating it .

I am on week 4 and the scales say 76kg and there has been a lot of up and down, I have however measured and there is 2 inches off my waist and I am noticing a difference in being more comfortable in my skin if that makes sense. If I can get to under 70kg that will be great - If i could get to nearer 60kg that would be amazing

Improvements to health I have noticed - clearer skin, very limited alcohol due to not wanting it (I used to drink wine nearly every night now it doesn't interest me), i stopped smoking before and started vaping - now I don't even want that, more energy, drinking lots more water and conscious of what food I am putting in my body - there is a lot of protein going in which I never did before

i now have a slightly brighter outlook - I just hope i keep it up, i panic if the scales don't move, have i wasted money, am I also going to fail at this etc

I discussed it at length with DH before I started so he knew. When I was ill in the first week I told my boys otherwise they would have worried. Then I have mentioned it in passing to a few good friends and will do so to anyone who asks how I am loosing weight. I have nothing to be ashamed of (other than getting to the size I am now) so I don't feel the need to keep it a secret.

Thanks for all the wise words. I wish I hadn't told her, but here we are. Fingers crossed it works well for me.