Quit Mounjaro a month ago....and now back on it again!

[Hardcoresporn]

Had been on it for 5 months. I then had horrendous illness with stepping up to 7.5mg, and so quit cold turkey a month ago.

However I have now gained 10lbs back!! And I believe it's because my appetite returned so I was eating more, albeit still healthy food. I only have a stone I want to lose so made the decision to go back on it. This time I will restart at 2.5mg and not exceed 5mg.

Feeling very conflicted in my choice and if I'm honest a bit of a tit. I am the cliché that all the smug naysayers knew would happen, as soon as I stopped I piled it on. Sigh 😏

10lbs in a month? Are you sure it's actual fat gain?

It's my time of the month and I can fluctuate wildly so perhaps not all fat gain on reflection.

That would be an excess of 35000 calories in a month which is 1130 per day above your maintenance calories. That would be a pretty challenging amount of food to eat. Possible I suppose!

Yes I've definitely not done that 😂 suspect a lot of it can be water weight but either way I don't like seeing the scales go up.

Of course you have not gained 10 pounds of fat, but you have gained 10 pounds of weight between inflammation, water, fat, muscle etc. And if you stay off the MJ you will most likely regain all you lost and perhaps some more. So you have valuable information now which can help you plan for a healthier future. I

t seems your body needs MJ like people with low thyroid, high blood pressure, diabetes need meds. Stopping cold turkey doesn't work for you but you may be able to maintain at a lower dose and/or longer intervals between injections.

BTW studies find people had most success at maintaining weight loss if they titrated down rather than stopping. And using MJ to switch to a high exercise, high protein, low carbohydrate, intermittent fasting lifestyle may help (but I could never sustain that before MJ, and I don't think many can without MJ help).

I have a long running thread about my journey and I gained ten pound in a month too. The hunger is insane isn't it? I didn't eat more either I think my body is broken .

That makes two of us @Doggymummar definitely broken 😫

It's pants isn't it. You have my sympathy x

I gained half a stone.

Oh god I’ve only just started on my journey and this was what I was concerned about and why I delayed starting for so long - what happens when you come off it? We can’t be on it forever!
Hopefully once your period has come and gone you’ll see it’s not a whole 10 pounds. Some of that will be fluid retention.

I'm partly thinking that yes, I may be on it forever. And I’m not sure if that’s such a terrible thing if it means staying off junk food, overeating and alcohol. I’m guessing that as time goes on, the weekly jabs may become monthly, or may be a weekly pill, or something that’s less of a big deal. I appreciate that we can’t yet be sure that there are no very long term negative effects but I’m willing to take that risk. As far as ongoing expense is concerned I reckon I'm saving much more money through not drinking alcohol and snacking, than I’m spending on MJ.

I listen to an American podcast where a doctor says he prescribes it as and when so someone might take a small dose every couple of weeks or so. I'll try and link to it tomorrow. At the moment I take it every nine or 10 days. I had full suppression on 2.5 so really wish I'd stayed on that.

Sorry, I don’t think I explained my comment very well. I mean if you drop down to a ‘healthy’ BMI (which I’m presuming we are all looking to do) I thought they stopped prescribing it!

@TheChosenTwo Actually, we can be on it forever - various prescribers now offer maintenance, where you can continue to take it on an ongoing basis. There's no time limit. Whether people choose to do that is down to the individual - there's a bunch of factors involved in that decision.

One pharmacy, Oushk, even offers a £20 maintenance plan that involves no meds but regular consultations - so if you decide after a bit you want to go back on it, you can (assuming no other contraindications). Basically you pay to stay on their books and then can switch to buying the meds again.

I think if you're with a prescriber that doesn't offer maintenance, though, you might struggle to get prescribed it elsewhere after dropping to a healthy BMI. So something to consider for the future, maybe, if you think you might want to go down the maintenance route.