Mounjaro DECEMBER Starters Thread 2

[OnTheMJ]

Welcome all December 2024 starters, and November and January starters too😊. As we're almost at the end of the first thread, I thought to start a new one before it finishes.

Thread 1 here:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5220172-mounjaro-december-starters-support-thread-1?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

Oh hi - a shiny new thread! I am on my second 2.5 pen going to do the second jab from it on Thursday - trying to keep cost down by not moving up doses too quicky although I also have a 5 mg in the fridge - I am swapping suppliers and jumping if I see a good price /have funds available

SW - 19.1
SW - 17.12
GW - 14ish?

Back to lifting yesterday after a 2 week break - DOMS are so bad I am having trouble walking today! But feeling positive to see where this takes me now I am on the straight and narrow after xmas!

Welcome @Julesni77 Sorry to hear about your walking troubles. Hope you begin to feel better by tomorrow. Which supplier did you use?

Thanks @OnTheMJ ....look at us on our second thread already

Good luck to all for phase two

How you getting on @50somethingHRTaddict? Not seen a thread from you in a while.

@Julesni77 I want to start lifting again - I don't want to go the gym yet so have a barbell and stuff but not sure which workouts to follow. Thinking of Caroline girvan.

Indeed look at us! Month 2, Thread 2! Amazing! It feels like we've only just started yesterday and now we're here. I'm actually getting a bit emotional thinking about this and what the future might hold for us all. Finally a healthier body is within our grasp! Looking forward to month 3 😊

Thank you @OnTheMJ for starting a new thread.
I've done 5 weeks of 2.5mg and 1 week of 3.75mg so far.

SW 107kg
CW hopefully somewhere between 96 and 97kg, will update in a couple of days
GW 75kg

Good thanks, @ohmyohmy123. I actually messaged you earlier on the first thread... great loss for you this week. Well-done

Hoping to lose the lb gained last week, tomorrow

Thankfully no side effects from 5mg, which is great

Well done @JunoRoma 3.75mg seems to be doing you well with no side effects. I wish I'd done it but I wanted to try the official doses first to see how it goes. So far, I'm hopeful but if 5mg gets too much, I'll be going down to 3.75mg.

Have you lost any weight so far on 3.75 and how's the suppression, if you don't mind my asking?

@OnTheMJ I feel like I'm wishing my weeks away to be slim and healthy

It'll be here before we know it!

Hi. I took my first dose on Thursday, I've had a little suppression but not a huge amount. Should I be expecting better suppression from my next jab (using the logic that the more is in my system the more it'll take effect) or is it more likely to stay as it is until I go up to 5mg? Any advice or stories would be appreciated

Im happy to report I feel much better today. Did a lot of reading yesterday and suspect that I haven’t been eating enough so today made a concerted effort to have 3 meals. Despite feeling 🤢 this morning, I made myself have a small bowl of bran flakes and the nausea passed almost immediately. I’ve also realized I need to focus on increasing my protein and fibre and decreasing the UPFs and sugar. I think I was a bit complacent on the 2.5mg and thinking that appetite suppression alone would be enough. The headaches, constipation and nausea have shown me otherwise!

W3D7

Due to take first 5mg pen tomorrow but the suppression has been really good this week on 2.5.

I’m a bit worried about going up tomorrow.

I hear you! I keep telling myself to be patient. This is going to be a long road 😫

@FiftynFooked Good to know you're feeling better and able to eat something. We do learn as we go on this journey x

@claudia1994 Do you mean W4D7 or W5D7 or have you just finished week 3?

I've just seen your post on the old thread @Slimwannabe . Sorry I couldn't reply on the thread because it's full and the link isn't working. We're here incase you're looking for us. I hope you get this notification x

Everyone is slightly different. I had suppression on the first day after injecting the day before, and it increased for the next 2 injections, since then it's dipped slightly but still can't eat a large portion. My understanding is that it does build up in the system.

Others haven't felt suppression at all on 2.5 but have at a higher dose

Some people react really strongly and have to micro dose below 2.5

I hope it picks up for you soon 😀

After all the chaos of Christmas and New year I'm trying to focus on eating healthier and not just less and upping my exercise. I find it all a bit tedious though, particularly in this weather - I cannot be arsed to wade through snow to jump about in a chilly village hall for an hour....

Stick with it for the next 2 weeks and then decide if you need to up the dosage - from reading the threads it seems it affects everyone differently...

First week of 3.75mg...

Effects / suppression: strong.
Days 2-4 were slightly over-suppressed for my preference, days 5-6 have been about right.
(If I eat breakfast at 7am then I definitely don't want to start feeling hungry at 10am, but by 1pm I would like to have enough appetite to manage some lunch.)

Weight loss: my weekly weigh in day is Thursday, so I can't judge accurately yet, but based on daily weighing I'm definitely losing more quickly than I was in the previous couple of weeks.

Hello just jumping in to the new thread 😁 I've definitely felt more nausea and suppression on 5 than 2.5. And fewer foods are appealing. But onwards we go!

Just checking in on shiny new thread.

Checking in! Back to work today and things still going fine. On 4.2 mg now (50 clicks of 5mg pen) and suppression about right for me. Get hungry at mealtimes and cba about food at any times other than that.

Have a hen do this weekend, so we'll see how it holds up.

Thanks for the new thread.

This morning, I felt a little better and hadn't had to run to the toilet - still didn't feel like food but made myself eat some natural yoghurt.
Lunch time felt a lot better, so had some soup - roll on 2 hours later and I had to dash to the toilet, this continued for the next 2 hours 🤦
Seems to have settled down again and by 7pm this evening, I actually felt hungry, so I have ate some pasta - now I worried what the after effects will be.

I will definitely not be doing 5mg for a while as my body just can't handle it - debating if I should go down to 3.75mg, back to 2.5mg of have a week off to let my digestive system recover 🤷

Thank you, yes! I must have posted around the same time as you. I swear I checked for a second thread before creating one, must've been post-work brain-blindness!

My suppression fluctuated a lot on 2.5. Has been quite high now I'm on day 3 of 5mg, and having to force myself to eat with low hunger. I imagine it'll begin to fluctuate again as I settle in though. Have to say I've not felt strongly hungry since starting, but still aim to eat regularly.