Mounjaro September Support (3)

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Another gathering of losers! 💪

Previous thread here: Mounjaro September Support (2) www.mumsnet.com/Talk/weight-loss-injections/5170252-mounjaro-september-support-2

@MissBPotter The pens are designed to give a 0.6 ml dose. You click the pen 60 clicks (from 0 to 1 on the guage) and there you are. If you want to take more, at the same time, from the same pen and needle - you would have to do the full dose as above, then stop, withdraw the needle, reload the pen by as many clicks as you think you want to try, and reinject: 15 additional clicks to get to 3.125 mg, or 30 additional clicks to get to 3.75mg.

@MissBPotter a couple of doritos Isn't it amazing that we can just sample a couple of things! I'm a crisp fiend yet last week a friend of mine was commenting on how I can 'lightly graze' without going mad. (She should have seen me before!)

If you are going to do this you need a new needle for each injection. You should never reuse needles as a) they are more blunt after use so may be more painful and b) you could give yourself an infection.

Needles cost a few pennies each. There is zero need to reuse them.

Suppression from 3.75 is defunding its thing this week. I was due to take my next injection last week but the effects are still so strong that I totally forgot! I have had a few side effects this week though, nothing too bad but just feeling a bit sicky and quite constipated. Aiming to focus a bit more on nutrition, eat a little more and keep taking electrolytes regularly. Not sure why but electrolytes really seem to make a difference for me 🤷‍♀️

Defunding?! I mean doing 🤣🤣🤣

Starting weight - 217.5 lbs
Current weight - 192.4 lbs
Total loss - 25.1 lbs

Week by week:
End of week 1 - 212.5 lbs
End of week 2 - 209.6 lbs
End of week 3 - 205.9 lbs
End of week 4 - 204.1 lbs
End of week 5 - 202.8 lbs
End of week 6 - 200.8 lbs
End of week 7 - 198.6 lbs
End of week 8 - 197 lbs
End of week 9 - 195.1 lbs
End of week 10 - 192.4 lbs
End of week 1 - lbs
End of week 1 - lbs
End of week 1 - lbs

Hi,
I hope it's ok to join in here? Only just found it!
I started in September and as of today I am exactly 2 stone down! I used the 5th/magic dose of my 2.5mg pen so I just did my 3rd 5mg pen today!

Think I may go up to 3.75mg as people have recommended. Anyone got a link for the best needles to buy? Worried I’ll get the wrong ones

Good losses! I've just jabbed today, trying 5 after a couple of weeks on 3.75.

Weigh-in this morning and now 27.1lbs down. DH has just hit 30lbs down (I'm not competitive, not at all ... ).

Another small weight loss this week, still on 2.5 every 4/5 days and I’ve been quite ill the last 2 days from an eating spree similar to @MissBPotter 😮
lesson learned, cocktail sausages to be avoided like the plague. I have been eating so well and thought a bit of a buffet style dinner would be fine (was making things for the teens). Alas no it wasn’t. I can’t deal with fried/fatty food atm but it’s good I was able to recover at home and in close proximity to my bathroom !

Probably I daft question but I took 36 clicks of my 5mg pen last night (3rd dose of pen) as thought that was around 3mg? 3.75 was making me really nauseous last week. Troubke is already feeling hunger pangs so think I might need to take a small top up. I have insulin needles 0.6ml should I just do a dose using that? I can't work out how many mg in 0.6ml 🙈

Do not get into that game, men have a genetic advantage when it comes to losing weight as their bodies are hard-wired to form muscle and dispose of fat more readily.

Yet another resent to resent the whole damn sex 😂 (light hearted if not entirely untrue).

My weight loss has completely bottomed out over the past 2-3 weeks - it's so frustrating! I'm definitely in a calorie deficit, feeling mostly pretty good - just want to see that number move! (Second week on a full 5mg dose)

@Whereisthewine your 36 clicks was indeed 3mg. Do you want to top up to 3.75mg? The extra 0.75mg would be 0.09ml, so just a tiny tiny amount, less than 0.1ml. There would be a full 5mg in 0,6ml - don't do that, it would take your total of the two days to 8mg. If you were feeling sick on 3.75mg, you would feel awful on more than double that dose.

Thank you @20bloodypounds god imagine I'd taken the full 5! Might see how I go and maybe take an extra 2 mid week if I feel I need it. Thanks so much ☺️

@Whereisthewine I'd worry that trying to dose 0.09ml could be quite inaccurate. Could you ride out the hunger for a couple of days and then take maybe 0.2ml? That would be another 1.6mg of mounjaro.

@85reasons me too :( But we've just got to keep on going. I'm trying to drink more water and I'm making sure that what I do eat is healthy. How much have you lost in total? I'm down 16 pounds, and at least it is not going back on. But I'm going on holiday in 3 weeks time and I really, really want to lose another 4lbs by then, it takes me to a magical number (a weight in st & lbs that matches my birthday dd/mm)

@InfoSecInTheCity well done you must be might pleased with that progress. Do you notice much difference?

@85reasons me too! Hovering around 22/23lbs off for the last 2 weeks. So bloody frustrating!! I'm on my second dose of 3.5mg and do not feel any suppression at all at the moment. I'm surviving on will power alone, not easy!

I'm doing OK side effects wise on my second 5mg dose but struggling to eat much. I've managed some greek yoghurt with a banana for a late breakfast and now a little protein flapjack and will try eat some thing for dinner later. At least I am spending much less on food.

For needles to fit the pen I bought these. They matched the needles that came with my first pen. There is a delivery charge but I did shop around are cheaper (just) than places that sell them with free delivery. https://www.chemist-4-u.com/carepoint-pen-needles-31g-4mm-pack-of-100

As you're wanting to take a larger dose than your pen is designed to give, you might prefer using syringes (designed for insulin) to extract your increased dose in one go. I use these for my bonus dose but you could use it to extract 0.9ml from your 2.5mg pen to give one dose of 3.75mg. The syringe goes up in units to 100 units which equals 1ml so 0.9ml would be 90 units. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CGDMPDB5?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

Sorry for the info overload but I hope that helps.

Yes - we just keep going eh!

I'm down 20lb in 8 weeks - so it is all really good, it's just the weirdest thing to know that my food intake is a) healthy b) moderate and to feel never HUNGRY or see the scales move. Because I don't feel hungry I also weirdly don't expect to see the scales move because it doesn't seem like I'm really dieting.. it is all very odd.

Do you really have no suppression?! It's weird, sometimes I find myself snuffling around looking for food in the kitchen (ie must be thinking of food a bit like pre MJ) but I definitely don't have hunger like I've had before. For breakfast I ate some Greek yoghurt and baked apple, for lunch a bowl of prawns with avocado... and I feel the faintest tiny bit of hunger but that's it.

@85reasons me too, have joined the frustrating scales-not-moving club. I think the dose is right - I'm feeling hungry at mealtimes with little to no food noise and I'm definitely eating in a deficit. But no loss. @20bloodypounds hope you see a shift as well, I'm trying to get more water down me too as it's the thing I struggle with most. And @alwaysscared glad you're doing ok albeit in the same boat as us! Hope you've had no more nausea.

@Whereisthewine yes don't take a syringe of 0.6ml! In a 5mg pen, each 1mg is 12 clicks. So you already had 3 with your 36, you could do another 24 clicks to top up to 5mg if you felt like it.

@85reasons it feels like no suppression these past few days. I was the same a couple of weeks into 2.5mg. I think I need to go up but terrified of side effects.
It must be doing something because I haven't had, or wanted, any chocolate, cake, biscuits or crisps for 8 weeks!! But I'm hungry a lot of the time, even after I have eaten. Really feel like I'm on a diet and am restricting my food a lot.
I'm not sure if it's because I am injecting into my thighs (read somewhere that you get less side doing this) maybe I need to do stomach.

@20bloodypounds starting to see it in my face and i'd describe it as much of a Time and a half chin now rather than a full on double.

Dresses and bras are a bit loose now too. Actually rebought one of my favourite dresses the other day deliberately a couple of sizes too small because I didn't want to risk it selling out and not being able to wear it anymore 😀