OK. This injection is crazy

[KittyGetSmall]

First injection on Friday.

I am a massive compulsive eater. It's not hunger. I can feel like I'm going to be sick I'm so full and I will still try and add another biscuit.

It gone. I just...I don't know... it's just gone. The desire. The compulsion. The constant thoughts about what I will eat, what's in the fridge, where am I going today and what food outlets are near there?

It's 1.30 and I've not eaten anything.

I've just put my shopping away and usually I would HONESTLY eat so much. Put away the crisps and eat a packet. Put away thw kids brioche, eat one. New meat, make a sandwich. A yogurt etc

I didn't touch a thing.

What is this sorcery???

Because MJ works in two ways, not one.

Wow well done, so fast. I want to lose about that, maybe 4. I'm on day 3 of my diet and I'm starving all the time, it's a bit daunting to think of feeling like this every day for however long it takes but it would help to see progress quickly

This is such an aggressive and ill-informed comment in my opinion. I badly need to lose weight but I think people are right to question the safety and efficacy of these treatments. It's a very sensible thing to do.
We don't know what the long- term effects will be on people, and different people react differently. We have just heard someone on here say they are eating compulsively after stopping injections. That's not good - there's a multi-billion dollar industry behind this, and it's their goal to keep you spending a fortune for the rest of your days. I don't know how this will all pan out and neither does anyone else. People who give it serious consideration are the opposite of fuckwits.

FGS.

My daughter has ARFID.

She's under a specialist team and I am to get food into her at any cost, let her eat ANYTHING, ANYTIME. said her consultant. She is seriously underweight and needs any calories she will take

People have been taking these medicines for diabetes for along long time. They aren't new

Thanks @Peridot1 That's encouraging. At the moment the NHS is not prescribing the injections to 'new' people needing it because of the shortage caused by the private prescriptions for people wanting to use it for weight loss. Hopefully it might be ok soon, and I would try the injections, as my Diabetic nurse did say that some people who can't take the oral medication are ok on the injection.

Anyway I'm not staying on this thread because I was SUPPOSED to be a positive, supportive thread about my journey on the Weightloss injection board!
You know with other people who ate taking this.

If anyone reading this disagrees with the injections so much I suggest you hide the topic and let people who have made their choices get on with it!

Believe you me, those of us who take it have given it huge consideration before taking the plunge.
I don't believe it's an easy decision for anyone using it legitimately.
I know I read into it so much before starting. And that was not just sensationalist journalism, but real medical/scientific information.
How come the drug is fine for diabetics to use? I bet you don't question the safety for them. Why should it not also be used to treat obesity when it clearly works well on this too.

I think those of us taking it are so fed up with having to justify ourselves on these threads, so that's why we get a bit snippy with yet another poster spouting the same old bullshit.

You know, I don't drink, I don't smoke. But I don't click on every thread I see asking about wine or a night out lecturing people. I just don't click on it because it's nothing to do with me what other adults do, legally, with their own bodies.

I can't imagine being so sanctimonious about something that has absolutely nothing to do with me

For me, I still have some of that pleasure, but it’s more of a vague intellectual “That tastes nice” rather than the massive red flashing happy light coming on in my head and then a need to cram it all in.

This made me laugh @BenditlikeBridget. Massive red flashing happy light. Totally relate🤣🤣

Hey Kitty,

I’ve been on it 14 weeks now, I’m two stone ten pounds down. I feel amazing. I’m still only on 7.5 and split it across the week 5 and 2.5 as 7.5 in one go makes me feel sick and fatigued.

it is indeed a magical injection. I’m still overweight but only just, another stone will put me in the middle of the healthy weight range for my height.

I love how I haven’t eaten sweet things since mid June or drunk any alcohol other than on two special occasions. I was a bottle of wine and packet of biscuits a night person previously.

when I reach target I am hoping to reduce my dose slowly and manage any food cravings slowly rather than just stop.

by that time I’ll be 5-6 months without processed sugar and excess wine so fingers crossed won’t go straight back to a full packet of Jaffa cakes and a bottle of Cote De Provence in one go.

good luck and welcome to the MJ lovers.

@TerfTalking that's interesting. I've been trying to get to 5mg but find it gives me too many side effects in one go. It would be good to split the doses but I thought the pens wouldn't allow you to do more than 4-5 doses in a month. Have I got that wrong? Thanks

There are a lot of people who respond straight away. I've done three months on the starter dose and no plans to move up!

So, I bought extra needles and split the dose in clicks. There’s loads of info on the “continuing Mounjaro” threads on this. 60 clicks is a full dose. So I do 40 clicks on a Friday and 20 clicks with a new needle on a Tuesday.

when I was on 5mg (also 60 clicks but weaker dose) I did 30 clicks Fri and 30 clicks Tues a few times at the beginning as the full 5mg wiped me out.

Seems to be common when you up a dose. I’ve done most of my weight loss on 5mg.

Oh there's some right idiots who trawl the weight loss injection board just waiting to ounce with their ill informed opinions. Ignore them OP

I'm always up to listening to scientifically backed info but funnily enough, none of these posters are able to provide the date to support their really outlandish claims. Weird that.

Anyway, good luck with it all OP. I've lost 5 stone now after starting MJ in April and have reached my target weight of 9 stone 12

@TerfTalking thanks. I've lost 2 stone on under 5mg but think I could do with increasing it a bit.

Congratulations!! That's my goal too :)

Thanks @Peridot1 I will take a look.

My husband is on ADHD meds and it seems similar - except when I missed a week of ozempic it was still just the last 2 days of cravings, not the whole missed week. He takes weekends off of his ADHD meds and basically binge eats

100%. That’s why I decided to try the meds

@soupfiend Ah but he's on it for a legitimate reason so is immune to all the side effects. It's just us fatties who are going to get cancer and die.

On a serious note, research is showing that GLP-1 medications may well reduce the risk of some cancers, along with heart attack and stroke risk, even in normal BMI individuals, be a possible treatment path for fatty liver disease and also have benefits for brain disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. It's a very exciting medication.

Some interesting stuff here:

www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2024/07/15/drugs-like-ozempic-wegovy-zepbound-and-mounjaro-could-treat-other-conditions-heres-what-scientists-are-looking-at/

I recognise how all of us normalise silly eating - I need a cake every coffee time or 4 slices of toast when we get on from work
what I find hard to understand is the feeling full though. It must be so uncomfortable

genuine interest

Not as uncomfortable as being obese feels.

I think that’s what i meant

id like my h to consider.
he just mutters about exercising. As he has done for ten years