Has mounjaro helped you with binge eating?

lovealongbath · 30/12/2024 21:02

Absolutely, have not binged since I started.

MrsHappyTourist · 30/12/2024 21:40

Nessastats · 30/12/2024 21:00

I'm a binge eating type 2 diabetic with adhd. Metformin doesn't help with me improving my diet and I've tried so many times over the years and never lost significant amounts of weight. Im thinking of asking my GP to try mounjaro.

Anyone here a binge eater and found that mounjaro helps to control it?

It's a sensory and a stress issue for me. Id like the food noise to go away.

I’m a binge eater and it’s like a switch was turned off. The urge to eat just stops completely. Sometimes the side effects are bad that you physically can’t eat but even when it settles it’s an amazing feeling just knowing you aren’t eating everything in sight. I’m really worried about when i do stop the medication as I never want to go back to the eating I did before where I just gorged on food all day everyday.

MajorCarolDanvers · 30/12/2024 21:54

Not a chance I could binge in mj. Physically couldn’t. And have never wanted to. Food noise is turned off.

MounjaroHereICome · 30/12/2024 22:02

For sure, it has! It's sensory and stress-related for me too. Now I just can't even if I tried. I'm finally off my beloved chocolates too! Took a couple of months of MJ reducing my desire for them a bit at a time and now they taste like pure sugar and cardboard. It's finally happened - that's the last of my bad habits gone! Others went quite quickly.

Bibulous · 30/12/2024 22:09

Before mounjaro, once I'd got the thought in my mind that I could eat something then it felt utterly inevitable that I'd follow through and then I'd almost certainly eat even more on top. I'd go to bed feeling physically sick because I'd eaten so much. I've now been on mounjaro for coming up on three months. The compulsion to eat more and more literally vanished overnight. I actually enjoy food more now than before because I feel in control of what I'm eating and I'm not hating myself for having eaten too much.

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Nessastats · 30/12/2024 23:04

Bibulous · 30/12/2024 22:09

Before mounjaro, once I'd got the thought in my mind that I could eat something then it felt utterly inevitable that I'd follow through and then I'd almost certainly eat even more on top. I'd go to bed feeling physically sick because I'd eaten so much. I've now been on mounjaro for coming up on three months. The compulsion to eat more and more literally vanished overnight. I actually enjoy food more now than before because I feel in control of what I'm eating and I'm not hating myself for having eaten too much.

This is where I'm at. I get the idea im going to eat something and i can't think of anything else until I've eaten that thing (adhd hyperfocus). Even if i know it will make me feel sick or give me indigestion. I just managed to wrench myself away from eating a quality street, which took huge effort that most of the time i don't have in me.

Thank you for the reassurance. I think I'll ask my GP about it.

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AdversePossession · 30/12/2024 23:10

ADHD is/was a big part of it for me too - the food noise was always there. I listed what I used to buy and eat in a single night to people and watch their eyes widen.

I too am wondering what happens when I eventually stop this treatment. I am nearly in the range of a healthy weight for the first time in years. I will be watching this closely and seeing what works best.

IDontHateRainbows · 30/12/2024 23:10

Yep

Takes the urge away completely

Love it

Lola3034 · 30/12/2024 23:22

It definitely helps a lot. Currently even If I fancy a biscuit, I am not having a box, but 1 or 2 which was previously never heard of.

Redlightbulb · 31/12/2024 16:14

No binges since starting 5 months ago.
Before then I was in a bad state.
They def need to research using this drug for peeps with BED.
But I do fear what will happen when I come off. I might have to never pull the plug.

Orangesandlemons77 · 31/12/2024 16:25

I think it could probably help you. I doubt if you would get it from the GP though, you will probably need to buy it privately.

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Nessastats · 31/12/2024 16:42

Orangesandlemons77 · 31/12/2024 16:25

I think it could probably help you. I doubt if you would get it from the GP though, you will probably need to buy it privately.

Thank you all. Because of me being type 2, when i was first diagnosed my GP had mentioned about using it as a treatment for that so hopefully they'll prescribe it.

They wanted me to see how i got on with metformin first, been on that for a year and i still have some side effects so that's a consideration too.

I'm due another review in the new year so i thought I'd ask for other people's experiences. It sounds like it would be worth looking at.

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HackGrey · 31/12/2024 16:45

It definitely helps loads. It's really hard to eat, even when you're physically hungry. Your brain just switches off and you have to remember to make yourself eat.

It's bonkers. I'm a former binge eater, could easily eat a kebab, pizza and chips in one go. Now I often forget to eat at all until I realise my body needs it, and even then can only eat small amounts.

I doubt the GP will be able to prescribe it unless your BMI is over 49 though, you'll probably have to order it online like most of us do.

I think even when GPs are allowed to it's quite heavily restricted and they have to go through lots of other things first before they can prescribe it.

TwirlyPineapple · 31/12/2024 16:51

Yep, I've not binge eaten since I started back in May.

I always believed my inability to eat normally was a psychological issue. That I needed more productive ways to handle boredom. That I was comfort eating and needed a more responsible way to handle my problems. The fact that these injections have stopped my binge eating and "comfort" eating stone dead makes me realise that it was actually a biological issue.

squashedbananasagain · 31/12/2024 17:49

Yes, it has helped massively, and much, much more than 20 years of therapy and medical advice has.

Despite all the above help (and more), I was a daily binger from morning to night. Especially evenings.

I started Mounjaro on 2 August 2024 and have not binged since. Not even once. And not felt the need to. I think of MJ as having sorted out the dodgy hormones I had that didn't work properly to tell me whether or not I was hungry and whether or not I should stop eating. Now I eat when hungry (about twice a day) and stop when full.

I've lost five stone. BMI dropped from 43 to 32.

Searchingforthelight · 31/12/2024 17:55

Absolutely, like everyone already describes,
Mounjaro just stops binge/excessive eating. Switches it off. It underlines that there is no deep seated psychological 'issues' for the vast majority, but a biological urge to eat that is now treated.

An effective medical treatment underlines that fact that obesity is a disease and needs treatment like any other chronic, disabling condition.

Re cost, many like me find it is cost neutral. You save the cost of the drug( say £25 a week, using 5 doses per pen) by buying far less food!

crosstrainerornament · 31/12/2024 20:06

I was put on Rybelsus (tablet form of Mounjaro) as I'm also type 2 diabetic. My blood sugars are great but I haven't lost any weight. Been on it since the summer. I struggled to tolerate it at first so I'm only now starting the full dose.
If I don't lose weight they will switch me to Mounjaro on nhs prescription.
They may suggest Rybelsus first because it's cheaper

daisyji · 30/01/2025 20:13

Hello, do any of you successful mounjaro users have dodgy health/delicate immune systems. I'm really keen to give it a go as I just can't lose weight, peri-menopause, emotional eater etc. I know so much about nutrition but nothing seems to work and I just get bigger then eat chocolate etc as i'm so low about my weight, you know the cycle! But i've had pneumonia, sepsis, don't have a great immune system, I have EDS (ehlers danlos ) and i'm concerned.. about side effects of this drug as i seem stupidly sensitive to meds. Thanks in advance