Secret users - how many people do you think are taking MJ

[LeanneJP]

I’m a November starter and haven’t told a soul, not even my DH. I may do at some point, I just want to see how I go for a while. I’m just wondering how many other people may be taking it that we all know in real life but have no clue. On another thread someone said her beautician said almost everyone is secretly on it! Do you really think that’s the case?

I think there are a lot of "secret" users. I've noticed a fair few people of FB and Insta looking noticeably slimmer in a relatively short period of time. I guess I'd be classed as a secret user as I've only told my DH.

I didn't tell anyone for ages, eventually my husband asked me if I had stomach cancer or something as he heard me throwing up multiple times a day. So I told him tput his mind at rest. Work know, gp knows, beautician, dentist, hospital if I have bade side effects I don't want the doctors faffing about when they could be saving my life.

No one seems to have noticed the weightliss, but I wouldn't lie if someone asked me.

It is interesting that people are keeping it a secret.

I just imagine it’s adding to the stigma.

If you found hidden, secret medication in your house, wouldn’t it send a jolt of anxiety through you, thinking WTF is going on here?!

Compared to a conversation with your partner at the beginning, where you say what you’re doing and why, and that you did your research.

I’m slim so no skin in the game. But I have zero interest in how my friends lose weight, just grateful there are new ways to support those who wish to lose it, for their mental and physical health.

I don’t know why it’s seen as cheating? Why should losing weight be hard, is that supposed to be a punishment for being overweight? The mind boggles.

It is interesting that people are keeping it a secret.

I'm not really keeping a secret, I just don't really discuss my weight loss. What a boring topic. I wouldn't discuss it if I was using WW or Slimming World either. Nobody wants to hear about your diet, ever.

For type 2 diabetics it’s used to help lower and control blood sugar levels be reducing insulin usage which causes weight gain. So if someone is using for this reason they might not consider it as being used for weight loss.

I took it, prescribed from an online chemist. I was classed as obese. I lost 10 kg in 6 weeks and stopped taking it. My weight has fluctuated 2kg up and down since but I am sticking to a healthy eating plan and keeping my movements up.

I didn't tell DH as he's dead against it. I told my mum and dad and I told my sons.

The headaches became unbearable and no amount of weight loss was worth them constantly. I was dehydrated even though drinking over 3ltrs of water a day. Acid regurg was bad and food i ate the night before was not digesting and i would bring some of it up whole the following morning. I was getting to the point i was going dizzy and nearly passed out a few times, and shaking a lot so stopped straight away.

I did think about maybe trying again but then there was a lady on the news whose mum died. She had gall stones, her whole body was dehydrated and because she had no appetite she was not eating and drinking, not intentially just forgetting and it made her so ill she died of pancreatitis.

I did think about maybe trying again but then there was a lady on the news whose mum died. She had gall stones, her whole body was dehydrated and because she had no appetite she was not eating and drinking, not intentially just forgetting and it made her so ill she died of pancreatitis.

Several doctors on TV said it was hugely unlikely that the Mounjaro caused her death and she probably already had the gall bladder/pancreas issues but it could have sped it up, but unlikely to be the root cause of her death.

A bit like people having covid and then being hit by a bus 28 days later but having covid on the death certificate.

I’ve got one friend who is on it. She had type 2 diabetes and her GP suggested it. She’s the only one I know of. However a lot of my friends are SW goal members so they wouldn’t need it anyway. I can see that it’s going to be difficult for people when they finish with the injections unless they have good support and habits ingrained.

That can’t be right, on,y 16 in Scotland admitted and all minor apart from the one lady. So assume the rest of the country the same. If people were getting desperately ill and using nhs resources do you genuinely think the government, wouldn’t stop it. What a mad comment 😂

I think anyone claiming to have, themselves, had to treat "quite a number" of people who were ill from properly prescribed weight loss medication (and not random pre-filled syringes they bought from the eyelash salon) would do well to immediately go to the press, where they are desperate for more stories about how horrible they are.

Yes but we all know it’s nonsense designed to scare folks off using them. Such odd behaviour; I’m struggling to beleive anyone actually expects us to beleive that trusts are seeing people dangerously Ill and everyone is covering it up. From the hospital staff to the managers to th4 trusts themselves. Especially when the nice guidelines are now to extend prescribing from diabetes to obesity for mj and drugs like wegovy have been prescribed for obesity for what, a year now? Saxenda before that.

and what, Scotland with their 16 admissions, 15 of which were minor ie the runs and or vomiting are an anomaly? The Scot’s are more hardy are they? Or are they also covering it up.

at least people should make up something plausible. 😂

yes, indeed. There will definitely be the odd case with serious side effects, but we can see that in the data which already exists from the USA, where this drug has been used for years already.

Definitely a real desire to demonise it in the press at the moment.

I've not told anyone. It's no one's business. I have lost a stone but still have about three to go. I can see my face slimmer but that's about it!!

You can get it without informing your GP.

My best friend saw I'd lost weight and was really worried I'd taken it as she's read about the side effects and I had said to her that I might try it. She'd sent me some articles as well as she knew I'd been on Saxenda and really suffered side effects. So being the non-confrontational idiot I am I just said 'no, no, not this time' instead of admitting I was taking it. So I imagine a lot more people are taking it than we realise!

I'm on it. A few colleagues at work have also dramatically slimmed down and I strongly suspect they are injecting too.

15 million on injectables for weight loss in the us. I can’t imagine how many globally. Australia, Asia, it will likely be close to 50 million. At least. Across the world.

that’s why it’s nonsense. To pretend there is some global cover up,for what, so the drug companies can make money?

it’s ludicrous. Yes there are side effects, yes some serious, but like any other drug it is a tiny amount. Nurfoen has about 200k people die a year from complications from its use.

I wonder about this too. I have a friend who's almost certainly on it, has lost over a stone in a month and looks so much better. I'm pleased for her. She was vague when I asked her how she'd done it (innocently, it was later I realised what's really helping) - usually she'll say intermittent fasting or whatever.
Her overeating is undoubtedly down to some deep-seated emotional issues and I worry about what will happen when she can't rely on the drugs any more.

oh also, as for the OP question:

I definitely think someone where I work is taking it. I think she went on it as soon as it was available. She looks amazing and I'm not judging (obviously) but it's made me smile.

@Distantview what is that you're worried about? Is it that she'll regain the weight, or that she'll regain more than she lost? Or something else? Would you have the same worry if she had lost the weight via Weight Watchers, Slimming World, Fast 800, IF or similar? None of those would address the reasons you believe caused the overeating.

Since i’ve started taking it I’ve definitely thought more people must be doing this!

@SilenceInside Shall we get the Mounjaro bingo card out and see if we can cross them all off 😁

I was very confused when I read these replies as I thought mj stabs for Mary Jane!

@HansHolbein 😄 maybe it will be different this time...

Is that as she can’t afford them? As mj you can take for life. So unless she can’t afford a low maintenance dose, until it’s widely available on the nhs, then no need to worry for her,