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!

I have finished my 2.5 pen and sneaked below the 12 stone mark for the first time in years.
sw 12.7
cw 11.13 .5 🥳
gw 9.7

I have the 5 pen in the fridge ready for next week. Keen to move up so didn’t look at the bonus dose but wish I’d practised the hard twist technique on the old pen before throwing it out now!

I'm on my second round of 5mg.

2.5 was great for me. Good suppression and no side effects. Went up to 5mg, (as thats what i thought you had to do)and the side effects have been awful. Sickness, headaches, stomach aches. I did another of 5 thinking I just needed to get used to it but I've just done my 3rd injection on Fri (of the second so my 8th 5mg ) and have been sick all weekend. Really tempted to go back to 2.5 🤔

5'7
Staring weight 17.3
Current weight 15.2

Thank you for this!

@Sunflower07 I went through exactly that on the first night after my first jab - the combination of feeling unwell and the anxiety about what the hell I’d just done to myself was awful.
I think getting through week 1 and realising that it’s fine really helped, and it hasn’t happened since.

Just taken my first dose of 2.5mg. I haven’t been slim since starting menopause and despite frequent efforts am not able to keep the weight off. I just gain more after every diet so that I’ve given up even trying now. So I’m excited to try Mounjaro.
Sw 12.0 st
Cw 12.0st
Gw 10st
Ht 5’5”

It stops the thought of going and grabbing those things i was a big snacker too but just dont grab things when i go to the cupboard now

So I bit the bullet and order my next pen and got the 5.

Slightly worried about getting loads of side effects. But I think I am going to take dose 4 from my 2.5 pen and then see if I can twist it to get the bonus dose. But just take half. So it will be 3.75 for a week. See how it impacts me.

Hi room for a little big one?
Currently sitting on the sofa trying to pluck up the courage to do first injection

I'm 5ft 7, starting weight of 17 stone. I've just ordered my 1st pen. How long has it taken for you to get to 15.2?

I started on the 30th June! I had had a couple of weeks over the summer holidays not really following a diet though so I'm happy with the progress xx

That's really good progess!

I hope you've successfully done your injection now. I was very nervous first time too. I went through the steps so carefully. Sat with the needle pointed at my skin for so long, wondering what the hell I was doing. I'm still anxious and I've done 3 jabs now. It helps to be seeing results, and being confident I've made a positive and informed choice for my life. I hope you can feel the same way!

I was so nervous too. Just coming up to my fourth and it’s fine now. Best decision I have made in a long time.

So i got off my big backside and did it. Have now returned to the sofa waiting to feel different 😂

The food noise is bothering me. I’m due to do my 3rd dose early this week. I did my 2nd one 12 hours earlier than the first as the food noise was coming back quickly. I should, theoretically, take my 3rd one on Tuesday morning - but my head (definitely not my stomach) is beginning to be a lot more vocal.
I’m concerned about once all of this is over - I feel like I’ll never be free of “needing” Mounjaro to maintain a good weight. l’m a busy person, family, 2 jobs, work training course…..but despite that there is still space in my head for the food noise. Just how can we ever stop it!?!!

I think the food notices coming back occasionally could be a good thing. It gives us chance to find a way to deal with it. Even if it’s learning to just ignore it or not give into it. But because we are getting a break from it some days, it should/could be easier to deal with on the days we do.

Almost like training for coming off it.

I have been trying to recognise what I actually feel. Is it anxious, stressed, bored and then deal with than feeling and distract my brain.

Took my first injection on Thursday. So far very little side effects, but the suppression has been really good. (Far more than expected)
I've had an electrolyte water each morning and kept myself well hydrated thought the day. I really hope that this is it and I don't get a raft of side effects with future doses - hope I haven't jinxed it 🙈
The reduction in food noise is an absolute delight, and the space it has created in my head feels amazing. I've been able to pick up my hobby again (embroidery) and just feel like in general there is more of me to go around.
I have had a sneaky weight too, I'd been dieting for a good few months, but had been stuck at 12st 7 since end of August. The MJ seems to have helped fuel an overdue woosh and I stood on the scales yesterday and saw 12st 2. I know the losses will stabilise at a far less amount per week, but after sticking for so long at 12st7 despite good activity levels and reasonable food intake, I'd started to lose faith that I even could lose weight. Everything feels more in reach now, this can work for me and I can reach a healthy weight.

Does anyone use smart scales? I finally linked mine up to Bluetooth and feeling g very stressed at what I saw! High body fat, high subcutaneous fat and visceral fat , low skeletal muscle, low protein, low BMR. Feeling a bit low now as it's just hard to process how neglected my body is. 😢

Yes, but what about when we’re off it completely? That food noise will be pretty much back at 24/7 - it will return to being the endless battle again. I like the respite, but it’s just wears you down the relentlessness of it if there is no mounjaro to switch it off. A couple of days is fine to deal with, distraction is relatively ok to manage in a timeframe you know will have an end to it.

I do, they are not very accurate so should not be taken as fact, I very occasionally look at the numbers over a long term change to see what they were like when I was a stone heavier for example.

Here's more 8n do about how they work and how accurate they are.

www.healthline.com/health/body-fat-scale-accuracy#accuracy

I do. I have had them since 2021. I lost 2 stone at the time. Then my mum died and put that back on with an extra stone.

It can be a bit daunting. But now I am using them and setting my targets by them. My first target is the weight I was when I bought them. 2nd target is the weight I got after losing 2 stone. As your weight comes down, those figures will improve.

When I was bothered by it at first I would think ‘well that’s what it is wether I can see it on the app or not so best get on with it’.

I think they are helpful once you have a few weeks or months of it improving. A good motivator.

I'm taking my second tonight and will weigh myself in the morning. No side effects at all which I'm kind of concerned about. I also wonder if it's working. I've been fairly good with food so I will see what happens tomorrow. I have a lot to loose. Like loads and I don't think I feel like I've lost anything so I hope I'm not disappointed tomorrow.

Well that’s what I am saying. You get chance to practice how to deal with it.

Then if it comes back 24/7 then you have coping mechanisms that you were able to create because you were getting a break from it.

I am not guaranteeing it. But hopefully, the breaks themselves allow use enough mental energy to exercise coping techniques. And by the time you come off, you can use those coping techniques everyday because you are used to them.

i think of it like a muscle or exercise. Start off exercising it only once or twice a week. Then working your way up to doing it every day. At some point the exercise feels easier. And second nature.

I believe you also slowly come off it, like you slowly go on it. So food noise would increase slowly. Rather than it all coming back at once. So you can see the level you can cope at.

I do think that some people may need to or choose to stay on it permanently. Then same as many medications are for life. But it will be individual. And non of us know what will happen when we get there. So for now I am exercising my coping strategies so that I give myself the best chance of being able to cope when I eventually come off it.

I know nothing is a magic pill (or injection) but I’d guess we’re all pretty much in the same boat due to food noise. It’s just the way we are, our food noises are louder than the average person. We can practise all we want, but the noise will always be there. I didn’t say I’d give in to it, just that it’s easier to deal with when you know it will cease. God forbid that I’ll spend £100’s on losing the weight just to regain it again in a year or so.
I just wish it would cease forever - I’m so much more productive when it isn’t there - giving in to it or fighting it - it takes up time and energy either way!

3rd 2.5 dose taken earlier 6lbs down so far. Felt hungry for the first time yesterday but had a chicken salad and that kept my tummy happy.