MJ August starters #5

[Wingingit11]

Welcome, August starters ! Can’t believe we are on thread 5🫣

Awww, thank you. Trying to stay positive and take heart that I'm back wearing jeans that haven't fitted in 3 years.

Hi all, can I have advice please? For background I have been going 9weeks and have lost 24lb so happy with an average 2.6lb per week. I am due to do the final (well, bonus) dose of a 5mg pen today. But my suppression is really poor and this morning I have breakfasted on 6 choc digestives 😣I feel quite full so it is obv doing something, as before MJ I would have given up and had more. But I am finding it MUCH harder to make good choices. I have a 5mg pen already for my next one. Would rather not go up doses too quickly as I have a lot to lose. But should I be thinking about doing a bridging dose and then going to 7.5mg, albeit from a 5mg pen? Please help!

@GoodLuckBabe tbh if 5 is working for you stick with that for another month. Maybe jab day 6 instead of 7

You sound around same time as me. I've lost a stone so you are so doing well

Personally if you're not feeling much suppression and not having bad side affects I would go up a dose. It's what it's designed for to go up through the doses gradually until you're at max dose. But I suppose it depends on how you feel about it. I will be going to 7.5 for my next pen. I am still having lots of suppression on 5, not really any side effects. I would rather just go up the doses as planned.

@Arraminta that must be frustrating! But being in jeans that didn't fit must feel great!

@owlyboo thanks yes I probably should just go up. What worries me is the way the effects seem to lessen as you get used to each dose, so will the same happen on 15mg, and then I’ll be stuck a few stone from goal with only my will-power for company!

@Blondeshavemorefun thabk you. I suppose you are right in that it is working in that I am still losing, though only 1lb this week and I think that was really lost the week before. I seem to have lost the mental focus I had for the first 8 weeks. I’m almost testing the drug to see if I can still eat as I used to. It has been a stressful time lately.
Previously i didn’t fancy puddings and chocolate, but I really do at the moment. Maybe I’ll do another 5 this week and see how I go, and if needed go up the week after.
Thank you for pointing out that overall I have had a great loss. You have done great too. It is frustrating when it doesn’t come off as easily as some people find it though!

Hi! If you are using your bonus from the 5mg today, and extracting it by syringe, that will give you a bridging dose of something between 5 and 6. So you could see how you go on your bonus amount before deciding how much to administer from your 2nd 5mg next week. You could then count clicks to give the amount you think will work best for you.
I have a huge amount to lose, ideally another 7 stone, so would like to go up as slowly as I can, I have got my 2nd 5mg in the fridge. I am getting some nausea on this dose that I didnt have on the 2.5mg so I am not moving up till that subsides or I stop losing.
Good luck!

@GoodLuckBabe yes I get that! I suppose you can always add extra clicks mid month if 5 stops working

To be fair I 'only' have 2 stone, 10 pounds to go to goal weight so I might feel differently if I still have 5/6 to go.

Midway through my first week of 5mg and the scales have finally moved again. 5kg down in total. Heartburn has been awful, more so in bed, so I’ve also started omeprazole, and hope it improves.

@GoodLuckBabe If you take 7.5mg doses from your 5mg pen I think you will only get 3 injections out of it (with maybe a tiny bit left over). You normally get 5x0.6ml doses. If you're increasing to 7.5mg you'd be injecting 0.9ml weekly. Overall that's probably going be OK with your prescriber because they will be programmed to send you a new pen every 4 weeks (and you've extended your current pen by a week anyway), but you'll want to be sure that the delivery is prompt.

@GoodLuckBabe you are still losing - it’s all good. Your sudden need for sweet stuff is probably linked to whatever stressful thing is in your life currently. Try to remember that it’s habit talking (holding my hand up for same response) and that the sweet treat will not help your stress. Have a small handful of walnuts and chew them slowly. Busy yourself with something - a bit of exercise (I do power skips), or mopping kitchen floor, anything. It will pass. Build new habits.X
I can’t answer regarding doses as I’m not sure myself. Planning to hang out on 5mg for a while.

If you did an extra 15 clicks you could get 4 x 6.25mg doses.

Sorry @Arraminta that’s rubbish. Maybe have a good meal tonight, reassure your body you’re not starving it. You’re just one good poo off a stone! 🤣
And great NSV.

Thank you. I have eaten so cleanly all week, never more than 1200 calories a day (possibly even a bit less) and nada, nothing!

Have just had Eggs Benedict and 2 huge frothy coffees and going to force a bit of chocolate down and see what happens? Appetite suppression is still good so not sure whether to reorder 5mg next week or move up?

Yes, that’s why I say have one good meal - extra calories. Famine and feast theory. Worth a try!

Thank you, yes it does. My jawline is reappearing too. Little wins and all that.

But a good meal. Not sweet stuff - which can set off inflammation and hence weight gain or stall. X

I did my 4th 5mg jab on Thursday and it doesn't seem to have worked. I've got no suppression, and also not feeling full like I would normally. The 5mg has worked so well for me, and I just got a second 5mg pen as it was working so well. Gah.

@Arraminta I totally feel your pain with the lack of scale movement but I’m confident you will get through the other end of it! My progress stalled the majority of September. It’s only been yesterday that I had a significant dip - right at the end of September!

I really did just have to wait out a plateau for weeks. Being able to maintain a lower weight is still really good progress imo - I think at the beginning of my plateau when the scales first showed that number, the weight I lost was just water weight. But by the end of the plateau, I was seeing a slightly more lean figure in areas so that was likely actual fat being lost, even though the scales were the same.

But the bullet and did 5mg again today, feel like life has been non stop since I moved up so I can't really say for sure if it's the jab making me feel crap!

Well the nausea is really rubbish today. Cyclizine, which I usually take hasnt helped at all today. I have just drunk a lemon and ginger komucha and am hoping that might help.
I have ordered some Kwells.
I might go and pick some mint and make a mint tea.
Can any of you who have experienced the misery that is mj nausea recommend something that you have found to help?
I am now considering reducing tomorrows jab down to 4mg 🙁

I am just back from an outing with friends. Had a glass of wine and pizza🫣. Still hungry and feeling the control totally slipping. This is day four on 2.5 mg.

having some tea and might go for a nap!

Tbh 2.5 is a starter dose to get body used to it

Normal to go to 5 4w later