Hi all, trying to catch up on the thread as I dropped off for a bit - the mounjaro noise was rivalling food noise to be honest and I needed to dial it down a bit!
Hope everyone is doing ok, well done on all the successes so far!
I’m now just over 6 weeks in and I’ve lost 1stone. It was just over, but I’ve just been away for 4 days with a friend and had a small gain - not too concerned and actually wondering if that might be more to do with flying, or just more salt and a little bit of alcohol as I definitely kept my calories in line with what should have given me a small loss or maintain at best. Will weigh again tomorrow just to see, but either way not too concerned I know it’s all going the right way.
I’ve done 2 lots of 3.75 and last night when I got home I did my first dose of 5. Feel ok today - was actually starving this morning, and just feel normal today except tired because DD was up about 4 times in the night.
I posted earlier in the thread about being very sick the week before last. My stomach never fully settled to be honest, I’d be ok for a day then eat something and be back to getting terrible pains/ cramp and be either constipated or feeling like I need the loo all the time, and feeling nauseous. It seemed to die down then towards the end of last week - just as I was due to fly off on my mini holiday - it started again. Awful pains, sulfur burps, knowing I desperately needed a poo and it was right there but being unable to shift it - just hideous. Felt calmer the first day I was away, ate out that night and was very careful and it all seemed ok. Had a nice day by the pool and a simple tuna salad for lunch, thought all was going well and went back to the apartment to start getting ready for the evening when all hell let lose. The pains, the constant awful burps, cramping. Managed to poo and went to bed, only to be up throwing up through the night and into the morning. Thankfully that was the last of it and I was able to enjoy the last few days, and even have a couple of drinks and some (carefully selected!) tapas without any further bother!
But honestly, I was seriously contemplating whether my mj journey was over - I simply can’t keep going on feeling like that for at least a couple of days out of every week. Weirdly, it always seems to start about 3 days after the injection. I’ve always suffered with chronic IBS and had to be careful with what I eat, for the first 4 weeks on mounjaro it actually seemed to be helping, but the last two have been horrendous. My digestive system is so temperamental I’m just not sure anything that affects it more is going to be sustainable for me! I have gone ahead with this week’s dose as I really don’t want to give up yet - but if I have a repeat performance this week I think that’s me done.
I’m doing everything I can in terms of watching what I eat (can never predict what’s going to set me off though!), taking digestive enzymes, psyllium husk, chia seeds, taking probiotics and also adding in biomel too. I’ve also been drinking kombucha and adding sauerkraut to my salads as gut healthy foods! Let’s just hope it is enough.