Mounjaro Feb 2025 starters (thread 3!)

[Mounjaroday]

Hello wonderful people!

Looking forward to hearing how we’re all getting on with your Mounjaro journey, and the general good chat!

W5D4
SW 103.9kg
CW 94.8kg

I’ve lost a small dog. Has anyone seen it? Next goal for this week: goodbye Kenwood stand mixer! 😂

You can work it out here - tdeecalculator.net

Weigh day and jab day for me.
Week 7 of jabs (still on 2.5)

I have lost another couple of pound this week so a grand total of 17lbs in 6 weeks!
(An infant- 4 months so google says)

Still good suppression no side effects to report about aside from still feeling the cold in the evening.

Well done on all the losses!

Did my first 5mg jab last night - so this is what true suppression feels like! 😂

Went out for lunch and didn’t do it justice at all.

Feel absolutely fine, apart from haven’t been able to, you know, go yet today.

Hopefully that will (ahem) pass..

Just done my 5th (golden dose) jab of 2.5mg. I got 80mls. Which i think is 3.33mg if I've worked it out right.
Felt abit stressful doing it 🤣, bent the first needle 🤦‍♀️🤣, and seemed hard getting all the liquid out, then priming to get rid of bubbles. Anyway it's done and it's only once every 5 weeks 🤞🏻🤣.
4th weigh in is on Thursday 🤞🏻🤞🏻

Hello! Can I join?

I did my first injection on the 17/02 so I think I’m 3W 1D.

SW - 187lb
CW - 181lb

Don’t really have a goal weight, somewhere around 150lb.

Ordered 2.5m pen for my second pen and kind of wishing I’d gone up now. When I ordered I was having good suppression and no food noise but now it’s creeping back in. Will order 5 next for sure.

My only real side effect has been constipation, having to take Lactulose daily as things do not move at all otherwise 😬 no matter how much fibre and water I drink.

Really glad to find people going through this, only my husband knows I’m taking them as lots of real life friends and relatives have strong opinions without research.

I’ve got a spare needle that my provider sends in case one is bent. Can it be used for the last dose or does it have to be drawn out with a syringe?

Good to hear you are feeling ok on your first 5mg. I will be taking my first 5mg on Friday and I’m so nervous, I’ve had no negative side effects so far on the 2.5 so really hoping it stays that way.

Honestly, I feel fine apart from the slow digestion, and I’ll take that over 30 years of IBS!

I had no side effects on 2.5mg either, but my suppression was pretty subtle too, unlike many here. It’s much stronger on 5mg, even only 24hours in.

Good luck!

I think it has to be a Syringe, I didn't try to do a hard twist on the pen. So when I tried to insert the needle into the red end it bent. I wasn't gentle enough

@SpiralSister that's great to hear your experience of 5mg. I go up next week. Not really had any side effects on 2.5mg and the positives have been subtle, so left me wondering if I was imagining them 🤣

FatOldClimber on YouTube has a good video showing how to do the 5th dose. Looks very easy. I'll be doing it on Friday.

Found it https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CsegEzk584w

Took my 5mg dose and felt awful for it with nausea and headache
early to bed and slept thru for 10 hours
feel a bit brighter today
it’s not straightforward as I thought it would be

I was all for staying on 2.5 for another 4 weeks - I really wanted to microdose my way to goal weight lol! BUT, I found in my 2nd week the hunger and food noise was getting louder.

It's such a hard balancing act because I don't want to NOT have hunger - that's teaching me nothing - and MJ has kept me focused and eating cleaner than I've ever eaten.. but here on Week 3 it's only Day 3 and I've already started to feel like I need to eat more; not junk by any means, but just my body wanting a bit more food. I

I normally average around 1200-1300 and today got to 1600 without trying. Last week it was day 4 before I started to see my cals start to creep up.. so I've bitten the bullet and just ordered the 5mg. It gives me the option to just take 2.5mg, or take 3.75 and step up slowly which I plan to do.

I like having some hunger cues as I feel it's teaching me to really listen to my body which I never learned to do. I love that it's still helping me make great choices. But at the end of all my inner debates - I want and need to be losing weight.

I ordered my next pen in wk2 as I had good suppression, extremely good really and little side effects.

After my 3rd dose last week I really started noticing less suppression and food noise creeping in. So I think the next 4 weeks until will be a struggle until I can go up.

I’d wait until after your 3rd dose to see how you are before you decide.

I've just done my 5th shot.

I found week 3 hard, felt really normal, could have overeaten but kept it in check. Only lost 1lb that week.
Felt great again though after jab 4 and full weigh isn't till Thursday but I've already lost 3lb. There just doesn't seem any rhyme or reason to it

@MynameisJune I took the 5th dose with a needle same as thr ones we are sent out (I bought a box of them recommended on here on thread 1 or 2). It fitted perfectly only thing was I had to force the pen to turn quite hard.
I'm not an expert obvs so I assume it worked OK! There was no liquid left and I've had suppression as normal so assume so x

Randomly decided to work out what % of my body weight I have lost and it is 10% 😱😱

Interesting reading others experiences. I'm taking jab 3 tomorrow after 2 weeks on 2.5mg and feel mostly normal in terms of food noise, cravings etc. I've eaten quite a bit argh. The only difference is I get full quicker and I've gone off chocolate a bit. I get some suppression for 2 or 3 days and then back to normal. I think I might need to go up to 5mg on the next pen which I'd been hoping to do further down the line but I think I need a higher dose.

I lose 5lbs in week one but this week I seem to have gained 1lb. I'm probably eating about 2000 cals though.

I was going to do the golden dose but feel I might need to go up to 5mg after the 4th jab. Will see!

@Anxietysux That’s wonderful! Well done

Won’t lie, I am envious of 10 hours sleep! For an insomniac / light sleeper like me, that sounds like heaven!

Sorry about the headache / nausea though and glad you’re a bit brighter.

But 10 hours straight through! Amazing! 🤩 😂

Took my first dose of 5mg yesterday lunch time.

Had a meal over a friends today, 3 small courses. Had melon to start, gammon, 4 new potatoes and salad for main, small portion of steamed treacle pudd for dessert.

It's now nearly 10pm and I am still full from lunch!!!!! Normally I would of been hungry at dinner time.

Fingers crossed a new leaf has been turnt.

Love that stat!

I'm on 5mg with good suppression BUT it hasn't stopped me wanting to drink. Pre MJ, DH and I would get through a couple of G&Ts on a Friday evening followed by a bottle of wine. I thought that the desire for alcohol on a Friday evening (end of the working week wind down) would disappear

However, it appears not. Anyone else finding this?