Mounjaro September Support (2)

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Continuation of Mounjaro September Support www.mumsnet.com/Talk/weight-loss-injections/5155143-mounjaro-september-support

Thread 2, here we go!

My periods have been all over the place since starting. I took 2.5mg plus the bonus dose yesterday as I'm moving up to 5mg next week and I've had no side effects. But today I don't want to eat at all. I made myself eat some scrambled eggs with some avocado at lunch time but I'm doing dinner now and I really don't think I can stomach it. It's actually an effort to eat.

Had my first 5mg pen on Friday and I don’t feel like it is doing anything! Really strange. I’d started to feel hungrier on the 2.5 and feel much the same now. Relying on willpower at the moment!

Hi all,

The effects are really starting to become quite varied for me at the moment! Some days I'm ravenous, others I'm so suppressed in having to really focus on eating enough. Some days I'll eat and have to leave some food, others I'm hungry when I'm done...it seems that I'm hungrier later in the week and more suppressed on days 2 and 3 after my jab.

I took my bonus dose of 2.5 yesterday a day early. I have another 2.5 pen and my thoughts are that I'm going to bring my jabs to either day 5 or 6 and that way I'm starting to increase the dosage from the 2.5 per week but hopefully not increase suppression too much.

I'm really enjoying tofu!

I took my first dose of the 5mg last Wednesday and have felt rough since! Burping all the time, no energy and nauseous. It's not so bad when you are at home but when I have work all day I wonder what I'm doing! I have lost a stone though which I am thrilled about!!

I'm so hungry tonight, and craving bad food. It's been like this for over a week now. It's really getting me down. Stalled on weight loss too. Feeling sorry for myself 😫😫

@alwaysscared what are you eating during the day? Are you hvaing enough protein? And have you got healthy snacks that you could eat in the evening if you feel hungry - a boiled egg, a small chicken salad, avocado on toast? If find that (in general) the less I eat sweet things the less I crave them.

Hope it gets better for you! If it helps I've seen people say similar and then weirdly second week of 5mg suppression was better. I think we get it into our heads it's going to be full on after we go up from 2.5mg and if it isn't we can start to panic.

This is hard. I find distraction sometimes helps. I try to set three tasks. For example. I will go upstairs and and squirt some perfume on, listen to a favorite song, write down five reasons I want to lose weight. If this doesn't work (it often does). I try to be accountable for what I eat - however tough it is I count the calories etc. and then forgive myself because this is a war not a battle. Another tip I have learned is Lindt 90% dark chocolate. One square is 59 calories. I break the one square into tiny pieces and nibble. That stuff is so intense it's very rare that I finish even one square.

@20bloodypounds I have avocado and egg on toast for tea!! Maybe I'm just not eating enough
But I've just jumped on the scales, stupid to do it at night.
Friday morning I was total 12lbs down
Tonight I'm total 4lbs down
WTF??

@alwaysscared you know logically that you have not gained 8lb fat in 3 days, you know that, so you have to assume that the weight tonight is an anomaly.

Reasons for it may be:

A) you don't weight at night, ever! You are weighing your whole day of food and water alongside yourself.

B) water retention caused by - dehydration/ exercise / heat

C) hormonal fluctuations. For me weight gain is the week before my period starts, as soon as it does the weight falls off.

I've had a hysterectomy so periods aren't an issue.
I won't weigh at night again though.
It's ridiculous, I'm hardly eating anything, even though I'm so hungry!

Or dodgy scales, maybe you were in a different place or standing differently? I have to weigh on the same tile each time in my bathroom as moving it can result in fluctuations of up to 5lbs! Discovered that in a very unpleasant shock! But my husband tried it and replicated it so it's just something to do with the surface.

I sometimes weigh at night to just to compare it to a morning weigh in. I'm usually 2-3lbs heavier then.

Sometimes if I'm hungry I just go to bed early. Once I've cleaned my teeth and am warm and cosy I'm much less likely to get up to eat. It's a good time to read a book, or catch up on emails, etc if you allow screens in bed.

I'm the same! And overindulging to the hilt. Bloody hormones.

Due my second dose of 2.5mg tomorrow but may delay until Wednesday (unless someone tells me this is an awful idea - please?), we go on holiday in a few weeks and was hoping to try and get my dose date on Friday so I don’t have to take it with me.. so Wednesday this week, Thursday the following then Friday when I’m back. Please tell me if this is a bad idea though?!

Didnt eat great today, snacked on left over prawn crackers which wasn’t great and had a fish finger off the kids dinner.. but then wasn’t hungry for my actual dinner so I guess you win some you lose some. These burps are wild though; for someone that’s not a burpy person I just can’t get my head around it.. they’re not loud or big, just frequent and have a very particular feeling. Very strange.

Can anyone tell me which one is the provider that you can nominate the delivery day for?

I'm already thinking about the next 4 weeks supply and working out which one to go for. It was a pain in the bum getting the first one delivered to work and stressing out about keeping it cold!!!

Oushk you can choose delivery day.

I'm in week 2. No loss so far 😕
I'm wondering a lot about side effects as I have health anxiety.
Week 1 - no change to appetite, didn't feel any different apart from a slight pain in my side on day 4.
Week 2 - appetite suppressed within hours, managing smaller portions, don't want to snack or drink wine (yey), slight issues with sleep, food tastes different, quite dehydrated so trying to increase water intake, horrible heartburn. Worry - my abdomen and chest, especially on the left feel full, almost swollen inside. Find it hard to explain but when I try to relax, like when I curl up on the sofa, I can't sit how I normally do and can only sit comfortably if I extend that side - does that make sense?

Does that sound ok to anyone?

I changed to Oushk for this reason. I've just ordered again and been able to choose a delivery day for a months time (they had a discount code which ran out yesterday and I wanted to take advantage!)

Oof I have just had my first experience of proper side effects. Woke up at 3.30am feeling so queasy. Kept thinking I was going to be sick, wasn't in the end but am still feeling ropey even after a couple of sickness tablets. Might have been what I ate last night - small portion of spag Bol which felt quite rich. Also yesterday was the first day I haven't taken electrolytes so I wonder if there is a connection there 🤔.

On the plus side it looks like I am 2lbs down this week (official weigh day tomorrow but I'll be away for a few days for work), which takes me to half a stone in 2 weeks. I don't know if it is visible yet, but I definitely notice the difference. Fastened my bra at the first row of hooks this morning! Absolutely over the moon with that!

I HATE MY SCALES!!!!

Always accurate. Just had a sneaky weigh and that said I'd lost 7lbs!! I got off and got back on. Yup 7lbs. Disbelief so I so I do it a 2l3rd time. 7lb loss!!

Moved the scales and it went back up to my normal weight. Nothing lost.

Why you do that to me???

Mine do that too. It’s so annoying. Every time I want to believe the low weight is true even though I know in my heart it’s not!

Oh no, @KittyGetSmall! That’s so frustrating! But maybe the 7lb loss was the accurate one and no loss is not real?

I’m a bit fed up this week. I’ve only lost 0.5lb since my 3rd jab on Thursday. I don’t know why the scales aren’t shifting when I am eating so much less than normal. The only thing I’ve done differently this week is give up alcohol! I’ve not had a drop since Friday. Normally I’d have a large glass of wine (or 2), 4 or 5 nights a week.

Now I think about it, I haven’t had much water this week. I’ll have a pint now!

@sylv165 I had the same bra moment this weekend. Who knew those first two rows had a purpose! Felt so nice to fasten it on the first hooks and do the straps tighter.

I'm so sorry to hear about your side effects, I hope they ease soon. Do you rate the electrolytes? I've looked at them on Amazon and they were quite expensive and I didn't want to spend that much in case they didn't work.