On Mounjaro: Accidentally took a chromium supplement!

[dandelionandbirdcock]

Hi all,

I wondered if anyone had any experience of this…I have messaged the Numan clinicians but they can take two days to respond. Basically I took a new skin, hair and nails supplement just now, not realising it had chromium in it. It’s 50% of your RDA so not a massive dose. Apparently you can’t take it if you’re on Mounjaro because it can lower your blood sugar and now I’m worried!
Luckily it’s day 6 after my first 2.5mg intro dose and so I’m guessing there’s not much in my system. But also I’m due to take my second dose tomorrow morning and now not sure if I should.
I wondered if anyone else had experience they could share?

Just eat a glucose sweet or have some sugar if you think your blood sugar is dropping, it’s an easy fix?

Oh is that all that would happen, @Gettingslimmer? that doesn’t sound too terrible! I think I’ll just crack on with my regular dose tomorrow then.

Where did you hear about the possible issue? From what I can tell after a quick internet search, it's only a possible issue if you are diabetic and also on Mounjaro. Also, if you are taking it regularly, not as a one off. Have a read of this drug interaction checker:

https://www.drugs.com/interactions-check.php?drug_list=662-0,4363-0

Also, that would be if you were taking Chromium in vey much larger quantities than 50% of the RDA. People could be eating that level in their diet, so if it was genuinely an issue, the patient information leaflet for Mounjaro would have to warn you to eat a low-chromium diet and avoid supplements, which it doesn't.

Unless you’re feeling lightheaded, dizzy, sweaty etc I really wouldn’t worry. These things take time to build up in your body so a one off will have little effect.

I read it on the Google AI overview @SilenceInside which probably proves I should actually read the trusted sources rather than a summary…
Thanks for your help everyone.

ALWAYS IGNORE that AI thing. Just, always.

The internet is full of incorrect health advice, and the AI does not discriminate where it pulls it from. You should always check that the source of any health info is somewhere like the NHS or similar. Everything else is dubious.