Just been declined Mounjaro- advice please

[ANiceSliceOfCake]

Hello.

Please can anyone help.

I’ve applied online to Asda (first time to trying it ) and I’ve had a message straight back saying :

I have reviewed your details. Unfortunatelywe are unable to treat you on this occasion as you don’t meet the minimum weight threshold to start this treatment with us (even if you are continuing treatment started elsewhere). Therefore we cannot accept your order and offer you a prescription for this.

I am 5ft 6 and weigh 17 stone 6 BMI 39.4.

am I too fat to have it? Is that the problem ?

what’s the minimum weight ?

thanks

Yep. I started on ozempic and when that disappeared due to shortages I gained weight. Inevitable perhaps. These drugs are very new. Other types will be developed and prices will drop as supply increases. Treatment programs will change. If maintenance for life is required then so be it. Better than being obese.

I'm going to need to be on this medication for at least a year, it's a long-term thing, not a few weeks and then straight back into old habits. Anyone with half a brain can predict that there will be a challenge when you are at the point when you stop taking the injections. I will have a much better chance of maintaining weight loss if I am at a weight where I feel able to exercise and can enjoy being a healthy weight. If I start to gain again, I will take the injections again if I get into the BMI > 30 category, but I'm not ever going to let myself get back into the higher BMI categories that I have been and am still now. I genuinely don't understand why people feel the need to criticise and catastrophise about this.

Fair enough @Pinkdaisie. I’m guessing your diet was pretty good to start with then.

@Tusktusk - I think people get funny about it as they see it as a form of "cheating" weight loss. I think you're supposed to suffer and feel some kind of moral virtue if you lose weight "naturally". I have friends who have been very sniffy when I've told them I'm taking the injection. One said she "didn't know if she agreed with that".

Frankly I couldn't care less if it's an easier way to lose weight.

Yes, it is irritating to be told repeatedly how the weight will just pile back on etc etc once you come off the injections. I mean, we know the risks of weight regain better than anyone

I've lost approaching 5 stone now and am nearing my goal weight of 9 stone 'something' ... the best predictor of the future is what's happened in the past, so yep, the odds are stacked against me which I accept

However this time I've really tried to change my lifestyle and embed in some good habits. I swim twice a week, I do spin 3 times a week, I walk daily and I do weight training. I eat properly

All I can do is just see how I get on as I'm someone who would like to stop the injection at some point this year. I've been on it since April and always stuck with 2.5 and I'm currently thinking about how much longer to stick with it. Perhaps until November so a few more months and then wean slowly down and see what's what

All any of us can do is try and be vigilant I suppose.

@ANiceSliceOfCake I'm 5ft 5 and started Mounjaro on March 13th, and was 17st 3lbs. Today I'm 13st 12lbs. Starting BMI was 40.1, today is 32.3.

I still have a long way to go, but this is a life changing medication for me. The food noise stopped hours after I took my first dose. I don't starve myself and I've lost an average of 1.94 lbs per week. Some weeks I lost more (especially at the beginning, some weeks nothing. 2.5 was great, 5 and 7.5 not so much but for me 10mg is the perfect dose (back to feeling like I did at 2.5). I've had absolutely no side effects at all.

Yesterday I was so happy because I could fasten my shoelaces in the centre of my shoes without holding my breath! I've lost 7 inches from my waist - when I started I was so demoralised I didn't measure anything except my waist, so it's the only number I have to go on.

Of course everyone knows you have to make changes, otherwise it all goes back on again. The asthma nurse at my GP practice thinks I should do slimming world as well, but I think I've now got myself into good habits and I'll be continuing with them.

Good luck with your journey! There's a great thread on here that was absolutely invaluable when I first started and I still go back to it now and again. Here's the most recent posts https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5143912-continuing-mounjaro-part-20