Bonus dose - now I'm shattered

[cattywat]

So I've been on 2.5mg the last 4 weeks, had good weight loss, which I found had slowed, no side effects at all and have ordered 5mg to start next week. This week (Tuesday) I did the bonus dose, I am absolutely exhausted the last two days, like pregnancy fatigue ! The bonus dose seemed like quite alot of medicine left in the pen, could it be this making me so tired ?

From what I've gathered on these threads, the bonus dose in the 2.5mg pen is usually about 3.5mg possibly more. Might be that you're not ready for the step up to 5mg, or equally, if the fatigue passes and you don't get more side effects, you might find it a useful step along the way to 5mg!

Did you do the hard twist?

How did you get the bonus dose out? If you used the hard twist and a normal needle on the pen, you will simply have had another 2.5mg dose. If you used an insulin syringe, you may have had more depending on how many ml you had left.

It could of course just be a new side effect for week 5🤷‍♀️ We never know what MJ is going to do next! 😂

This is why I withdraw the bonus dose with an insulin syringe, otherwise how will you know how much you took? My bonus dose from the 2.5mg actually ended up being 1ml (4.16mg) so quite a bit higher but I was happy to go up to that in preparation for the 5mg.

You clearly have more experience than me! I've not done a bonus yet, and I don't want to do any more than 2.5mg when I do. So if I do the hard twist, does the pen just click round to 1 like normal?

@mjuser yes, you should only get a 2.5mg dose (0.6ml) using the hard twist method. And yes, simply wind the end of the pen out to 1 as per usual.

I would warn L, however, that there have been a few reports on social media (I'm sad and read pretty much everything I can find!) of the hard wltwisr method not working on some of the newer ones. Perhaps a slight redesign to stop people using the fifth dose? 🤷‍♀️

If you use a syringe, simply draw out 0.6ml to give the same dose.

@IReallyNeedThisToWork Brilliant, thank you 😃

@mjuser you are very welcome😁

I did the hard twist for the first time today and it left a little lump of liquid under the skin!

i did my bonus dose as a hardtwist so it was a measured 2.5mg.

Did you extract with a syringe and how much was in it?

I've not been able to get the hard twist to work for me on any of my pens.

My first pen it was exactly 0.6ml, my second it was 0.7ml

Ahh maybe it isn't the bonus dose then !! So it would've only been 0.6ml?

I just kept twisting it around until it went back to 1, well dh did !! 😆

Did you use a syringe? The bonus dose should be 6ml

I use a syringe not a hard click.
It will settle down... as you go up .

No I didn't use a syringe just did it the usual way.
I'm kind of worried to go up to 5mg now though, I've had no side effects off the 2.5mg I fact I've felt great, abit worried I'm going to feel like shite

The bonus dose is mine is always between 6-7mg.

That's a big jump if you injected it all

A full dose in any pen is 0.6ml. You sometimes get between 0.6ml - 0.9ml if you draw out with a syringe.

It is not 6ml stated above. That is 10 times a dose.

It is also not 6-7mg either in a 2.5mg pen that would be over 1.4ml and two doses which I have never heard of being available as a bonus dose (wouldn't even fit in a 1ml syringe).

Be very wary of posts where units of measure are confused and be very sure of what you are doing if messing about with syringes or hard twists.