Mounjaro October starters - Thread 4

[JustKeepsBreathing]

Number 3 was almost full so hope it’s okay to start a new one @YummyCookie

This is a fast moving group but so useful 😀

Hi, seeing your GP may help if you potentially have an underlying condition which can affect how your body processes food, stores fat and/or and responds to medications like Mounjaro. Things like hypothyroidism or PCOS spring to mind.

@WafflingDreamer Fabulous, well done!

@MissSmith80 Don’t infect anything hehe .. happy for you and hope you’re feeling well!

@Missreginafalange Wow, well done you! How are you feeling? I’ve been incorporating little bits of exercise every day. Just 15 mins. I’ve found some really good videos on YouTube for resistance training. Plus trying to get my 10k steps in. Makes you feel like you’ve achieved something, you know?

@EVK Yes, it has worried me a bit. That poor woman and her family. I did think about it and discussed it with my husband. Came to the conclusion that as long as I am always truthful about my height, weight, bmi, photos, medical history (which of course I am), take it as prescribed, and get medical attention for anything I am unsure about, then I am happy to continue. If I keep getting fat I will die from complications from that eventually.

@ArtfullyCrumpled So happy for you and glad it’s going well!

@rockingbird Stay off those bloody scales lady! Hope you’ve drunk a ton today!

@RunSlowTalkFast Argh sorry to read that. From what I’ve read for some people it just doesn’t kick in until the higher doses. The mounjaro subreddits on Reddit have some really helpful posts and advice about this. Can you check them out? r/mounjarouk, r/UKmounjaro, r/mounjaro. Thinking of you.

@financialcareerstuff Sorry, no I haven’t.

@Fizzleaway1 Enjoy dins tonight!!

I’m over 24hrs into 5mg and feeling good.. no side effects. Long may it continue..

Huge thanks to those reporting on the move to 5mg and reporting side effects, or lack thereof!

Only thing I’ve noticed through the whole time of being on mj is that I am FUCKING FREEZING! Which makes a change because I am always whinging about how hot and sweaty I am 🫡

Funnily enough, I have been the same. Usually I am too hot, or just comfortable, but even 2-3 layers hasn't been helping the last few days. Yesterday was particularly bad, but I went from 2.5 to 5, plus I had tetanus, typhoid and hep a jabs at the GP yesterday (for travel) so put it down to being all jabbed out.

@HansHolbein I notified that typo earlier but it made me smile so left it (and ran out of time to edit) 🤣

@DeltaAlphaDelta79 and @HansHolbein - I feel your pain! Currently working with an electric blanket on - freezing my tits off at the moment!

@HansHolbein thanks, i feel good and i put some jeans on today for work that felt snug (almost uncomfortable) before and now they feel like they probably should have done when i bought them so that's a good feeling. Also I appear to have one less chin than before😁

i think that's a good idea re exercising, need to get my watch back on and make sure i am doing my daily steps and the youtube videos, so easy to work it around the kids then isn't it.

how are you finding the 5mg, how's the suppression?

YES THIS! i am freezing all the time, even yesterday i watched DS1 swimming lesson that feels like it is held in a greenhouse i used to have to go in a t-shirt and still sweat, yesterday i wore a massive coat and was fine, not sure what i prefer.

That’s true,

Another one who is nearly 48 hours into 5mg and no negative side effects other than a couple of waves of nausea that quickly passed. Appetite suppression back to how it was at the start of 2.5mg, strong enough that I'm not feeling hungry but not so strong I'm not enjoying what I am eating, the sugar cravings I was really struggling with last week have also gone again thankfully.

Anyone seen @recklessgran 💁🏼‍♀️ haven't seen her post recently

Welcome to all the new joiners 👋🏼
And well done on all the amazing weight losses 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Well I ordered some insulin syringes and used two to get out the remaining medicine in the 2.5mg pen. I got 8ml in total which I think translates to 4 mg MJ so a good stepping stone for moving up to 5 mg pen next Monday. But I was definitely ready to move up as I had almost zero suppression over the weekend- even ate cake at a birthday party.

But OMG the nausea hit me again today 🤢
I think I’m seeing a side effect pattern now - injection day - little effect, maybe feeling a little full, days 2 and 3 full on tiredness and nausea, usually resolved by the evening. Then okay for the rest of the week (as long as I stay on top of fibre and water).

Scores on the doors 4 weeks 1 day from starting treatment
This week I’ve lost 3.5 lb making a total loss so far of 1 stone and 2lb 🥳
SW 15 stone 1 lb
CW 13 stone 13 lb
GW 10 stone ultimately (mid-range healthy bmi)

Keep going. We can do this! 😀

Have a fruit smoothie for breakfast with a protein yogurt and some apple juice mixed in - yes a bit high in kcal and sugar but once or twice a week won’t kill the losses as long as you keep it within your calories and I swear it will help things move!!!

I have one every three days or so, it’s about 570kcal but bloody delicious and worth it for the gut progression…

@JustKeepsBreathing that's amazing!!! Well done. You must be absolutely thrilled with that total loss so far - I'm hoping to hit the stone mark 😬 sorry the nausea is back, I hear ya! There's definitely a 2-3 day cycle going on after jab day.

W4D3 here, thought I was doing ok with the side effects, but I've been constipated this last week and now have haemorrhoids 😭 Think I've been so concentrating on protein that I've neglected the fibre intake. It's all a learning curve, isn't it!
Hopefully though all this nutritional research is standing me in good stead for the future off MJ.

Just ordered needles to (hopefully) get the bonus dose with a hard twist. Then I'll order 2nd pen for the lowest price.

Action plans for the week ahead (to hold myself accountable): increase fibre, increase water and move more!

I took 3.75 yesterday. Good suppression but I've terrible joint pain today. Is that a known side effect??

It was jab day yesterday for me, but I've been so scared to take it after the way I felt last week. I've eaten a bit today but still don't feel back to normal.
Going to try and psych myself up to take 2.5 tomorrow, surprisingly after being so I'll last week and barely eating a thing I only lost 2lb. So a total of 12lb in 4 weeks.

Checking in after a while. I'm halfway through week 3 (2.5mg) and feeling so much better already. By the end of week 2 I'd lost 9lbs.
No side effects apart from a little bit of constipation but nothing a spoonful of Dulcolax won't solve.
Anyone else staying on 2.5 for the second batch? Just wondering if it will suffice. Don't feel as though I'm getting much hungrier at the end of each week and it's clearly working gas the scales are telling me and also, all my clothes are looser.
Thing is, I don't want to order 2.5 and then find in need a higher dose within a week or two.

W3D3, felt a bit peckish today for the first time in weeks. Was a bit disconcerting! I ate my lunch a bit earlier than I have done in a while. Can smell dinner cooking and looking forward to it.
Im still constipated, I drink about 10 glasses of water a day and eat raw veggies (salads really but a lot of things like cabbage, avo, cauliflower, broccoli stem etc), loads of spinach and a fruit like kiwi with the skin on and still, nothing!!! I’m really active too believing this would help things along!
I don’t know what else to do although I don’t feel constipated, I’m just aware that I haven’t really been for about 4-5 days.

I've ordered a 5mg pen and plan to do 2 weeks of 2.5 then go up to 3.75 for 3 weeks.

I’m similar to you. I am on my 7th week, currently inject 3.75mg. Injection day, not much apart from a metallic taste in my mouth. 2nd and 3rd days I feel more nauseous and fuller, my the 5th day I feel hungrier.

I might move the pen to 4.5mg and see how I go. I started at 74.8 kgs and last weigh in ( end of week 6) down to 68.4kg just over a stone in old money, goal weight 64kg so hopefully by Jan sometime I will achieve that 😄

I'm so glad it's not just me. I work two nights a week and I'm normally laughing at everyone wearing fleeces and I've been absolutely freezing. My hands were so cold they were nearly white the other day!!

What is everyone’s thoughts on Xmas, none of my children ( all over 25yrs and don’t live at home) know about MJ.

I really want to enjoy the few days with them and was thinking perhaps delaying my injection until when they have gone? Then use my willpower to keep my fingers out of the quality streets ! Will keep check on portion control too.

I took my first 5mg last Thursday and also have had no side effects at all. Oddly, I'm also having much less supression (which was only moderate at best on 2.5mg anyway) and noticeably more food noise. Frustrating, particularly as I've had a weekend trip away, and healthy, low calorie food was lacking. So, my food and alcohol choices have been dreadful! Hoping the positive effects will kick in over the remaining weeks of my pen.