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Weight loss injections/treatments

Discuss weight-loss injections and treatments, including personal experiences. Mumsnet hasn't checked the qualifications of anyone posting here. You may wish to speak to a medical professional before starting any treatments.

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Giving up mounjaro because of anxiety

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mounjaro2025 · 21/02/2025 22:51

Today I have made the decision to stop taking mounjaro. I should have had my 4th 5mg injection, moving up to 7.5mg next week. However I just can’t do it anymore. I’ve been anxious and depressed during the last few weeks, and it’s getting worse - overthinking everything with intense brain fog and not seeing a light at the end of the tunnel.

I am already an anxious person anyway and maybe I’ve got it into my head that mounjaro is the reason I am feeling so overwhelmed by everything. But I’ve read quite a few posts now online that people are suffering with anxiety from taking it and I think I may be with one of them. If I was experiencing fantastic weight loss then maybe I would consider pushing through, but I am not even getting the benefit of that. I also hate how for a few days after every dose I feel like my food is repeating on me and burps taste like food I have eaten 2/3 days prior 🤢

Good luck to those on your journey, I hope the drug works for you.

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ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 31/08/2025 18:48

Snippit · 01/07/2025 13:15

I’ve watched a podcast of Steven Bartlett, he had a guest specialist on who explained some real disadvantages of these diet injections. 40% of the weight loss is muscle, and if women over 60 have lost weight by this method they will never be able to gain this muscle mass back. Possibly explains why Sharon Osbourne looks so shocking, Robbie Williams also looks shocking, he no longer has any muscle, he looks like a 12 year old boy, shocking.

I get that people want to lose weight but surely this isn’t the answer, so many people are having awful side effects. What are users going to suffer with 5 years from now?

I had a friend who quite frankly bloody annoyed me with all her excuses as to why she couldn’t lose weight. Her diet was shocking and the alcohol consumption was ridiculous, her portion sizes were as large as what a manual worker would eat. She travelled to Turkey for some sort of bariatric surgery but still drank copious amounts of booze. Quick fix products aren’t the long term answer, it’s a mind set that requires changes. I’ve been following intermittent fasting for nearly two years now and have lost nearly a stone in weight, which has taken me back down to a healthy weight for my height.

In Japan they have a philosophy to stop eating when 80% full, in western society this doesn’t seem to be the done thing.

Gosh why didnt l think of that?

I’m obviously not trying hard enough.

And ld be proper fed up to lose a stone in 2 years!

LhudeSingCuccu · 31/08/2025 18:50

Steven Bartlett is a charlatan

100%. I can't believe anyone listens to a word from this twat whose entire career has been based on lies.

Wildfairy · 31/08/2025 19:04

Mrsmunchofmunchington · 31/08/2025 18:43

What utter nonsense.

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I actually laughed when I read it. 😂

12567Moomoo · 11/11/2025 10:42

Are you recovered now? I’m going through this at the moment and feeling despair

Marydoll5 · 09/12/2025 19:44

Hi 12567Moomoo. I am back to normal now but it took a few months and the gp prescribed me antisickness meds to keep food down and diazepam for the anxiety when it got too much.

Around July I was off these and back to normal. I think on balance when you are on any medication the mounjaro slows release from the tummy so you don't get the therapeutic dose so the antidepressants weren't at full strength and given the ones I am on are for anxiety also it's no wonder I was in such a bad way.

Interestingly I reduced portion size and am cooking from scratch and have lost a stone more.

For me there was no quick fix and I learned the hard way. I will no longer take anything that could compromise my mental health.

Mounjaro is a good tool for many and works well. Sadly I wasn't one of them.

Lastly I.hpoe this helps and I wish you good health going forward:)

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