March 2025 Starters Thread 3

[TheSpoonyNavyReader]

New thread as I am sure we will fill thread 2 up by the end of today!

Welcome back everyone and well done for all the losses. Some have 5-6 stone to lose, some have 2 stone and me I have put 4 stone but looking at the BMI chart I could lose 6 stone and still be in the healthy range.

I’m disappointed with myself. I’ve over eaten today and feel nauseous now. If it wasn’t so unpleasant I’d be sick. It will pass and I won’t do it again. It was our family Easter lunch and I usually jab on a Sunday night so WLI effects week. Oh well. Live and learn.

on another note, I had a reasonable amount of wine today, with zero effect. Did not feel tipsy at all. Has anyone else noticed this? Honestly I might as well stuck with a cup of tea.

I would say I was a B/other

Chubby child but very thin as a teen. I had horses and never sat still. Puberty hit and my hips and boobs grew but was still slim. Around 16 I started to get a bit of extra padding but still healthy. Over the years the weight has crept up slowly but surely and nothing I did would ever bring it back down. 10 years ago I starved myself down to 13stone which was a size 14 for me. Met DH and the weight slowly crept back on until my MJ starting weight of 236lb. I could never understand how someone could have chronic diarrhoea and be so poorly most of the time and not lose weight. But, MJ has shown me that it is all hormonal. I feel incredible, all my complaints have gone and I no longer have to stay within 5 minutes of a toilet. 17 years of telling the Drs that there is something wrong... Turns out there was and all I needed was this drug to fix me

You and I were both on the other thread about feeling low. It's awful. Until you experience it, I don't think it's easy to understand. The numbness has been horrendous.

I did my first 3 jabs in the morning, and either right side tummy or right thigh. When I did jab 4, the dc were home so I had to wait until bedtime, and I also did the jab on the left side of my tummy. Within 24 hours, my mood had plummeted. I was avoiding my family and had to take a few days off work. I barely moved for 7 days. The only thing I had changed is jab time and jab site.
When I did my 5th jab on Wednesday, I went back to morning and right side tummy. I feel loads better. I have no idea why, or if its just coincidence, but I thought I'd share. I also injected slightly more (3mg) as it was the golden dose

I feel so much better now, so I just wanted to let you know that there is hope that how you are feeling will be short lived. If you want to talk, please reach out ❤️

New thread for when this thread is full.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5318920-march-2025-starters-thread-4

Thanks @akaFrosty and @TheSpoonyNavyReader that's really kind - this thread is a lifeline. Frosty, I'm so glad to hear you've found a remedy. I initially started off injecting in my tummy, but I got such bad headaches I moved to the thigh to see if it helped. I could experiment again, but there aren't any easy answers with this stuff are there!

I feel I've run out of options now my appetite is back so strongly. So I'm going to up my dose to 5 using my last two 2.5 doses tomorrow. If 5mg doesn't alter things for the better I'll have to stop Mounjaro, which will be devastating as I still have two stone to lose!

YES! No symptoms at all on 2.5mg and even though I was losing slowly on 2.5, I wanted to go up to 5mg to increase my suppression as I thought it was wearing off.
However I had a small portion of my usual take-away curry on Friday - i knew I shouldn’t have had a spicy meal, but I thought it would look strange if I didn’t ( no-one in the family knows about MJ) and I have had dreadful diarrhoea ever since.

I’m not sure about the a,b,c question. I’m short and stocky. I’ve been mildly overweight by bmi since I was about 21 but I was about bmi 25ish and very fit and very muscular. Nobody I knew would believe I was overweight. It bothered me though, not being in that “healthy” range and so I started dieting and slowly gained. However I still felt fit and strong running half marathons and lifting heavy weights until 2020 when it all went to shit in lockdown and with perimenopause.

Now I’d be happy back at my 2019 weight even though it’s technically “overweight” because I know I felt fit and strong there and it felt healthy and sustainable.

Oh @SmallSoupcon and @akaFrosty hope you are both ok.

Interesting what you say about jab site, I was changing sides but when I did my left I felt quite nauseous and just not right which is interesting as I have a lot of scar tissue and adhesions on my left hand side of my pelvis so don't know if it's linked. No such side effects when I jab on the right plus I don't need to twist to inject as I'm right handed so in sticking with the right!

I've taken the day "off".MJ today, obviously can't be actually off it as it's already in my system but I don't feel this bonus dose is working as well as it was slightly less than usual and also maybe my body is just getting used to it. I've had a hot cross bun, a whole share size bag of haribo, and sticky toffee pudding with cream. Plus normal food of course. Before MJ I'd have loved the excuse to stuff myself but now I just feel a it sick, I definitely don't have the same emotional attachment to food I did before MJ which is very welcome.

My goal is to not feel limited by my body either physically or psychologically. (I’ll expand on that in a mo)

I was an international athlete until I was 25 when I retired. Prior to that point I had never been overweight, I was lean and muscular though never thin. (I thought I was huge though but thats thanks to comments made by people within my sport where size was valued over actual health/strength etc.) after I retired for the next 5 years or so I was still very active and did a lot of different sports and forms of exercise trying to find something that would work for me and replace what I’d done my whole life. During that time I gradually put on weight. Not a huge amount but enough that I stopped feeling confident enough in myself and so I stopped wanting to participate in sports and activities because I thought everyone was judging me or laughing at me or I just couldn’t bring myself to try things because I couldn’t bear how I looked. The last 9 years I’ve tried assorted dieting but have just continued to gain weight slowly but steadily until I have reached this stage.

I am now at the stage where I feel limited by my body physically. For example, the extra weight I am carrying now makes it hard for me to do lots of forms of exercise because of old knee and back injuries I am carrying. Or a few years ago I took my son to Thorpe park and my arse wouldn’t fit into some of the rides which felt humiliating and awful. (I’ve always carried a look of my weight in my bum and thighs). Psychologically I am limited because the way I look and feel in my body means I opt out of doing things which I would actually love to do because I am either concerned I will look awful (and so feel uncomfortable) or that the equipment needed for activities won’t come big enough for me.

I want to reach a size where all of these things are no longer barriers to me doing the things I want to do.

Oh no, are u feeling better now? I am kicking myself for going up as, like you, I was still having quite good suppression at 2.5mg. Oh well I guess it's all a learning curve isn't it. But I can't feel like this for weeks on end.

@SmallSoupcon I'm with you on the Low mood. Everything is a bit meh. Feeling cold feet and low energy generally. But I think I'm losing. I'm on holidays and no reliable scale. So I'm just trying to accept the ennui as part of the price.

I am exercising though as I'm determined not to lose muscle. As AA say - this too small pass.

Shall not small!!!

Thanks everyone sharing your stories, I like hearing what’s brought everyone here.

Sorry to hear about people feeling depressed, I think you’re right, it’s hard to really get it unless you’ve felt like that. I hope you can take things easy and find some support IRL. Does your prescriber offer support? Or talk to your GP.

I was watching some YouTube GLP1 stuff and found this one today, troubleshooting, it includes some of the themes that have come up in our thread, they’re 18 months in and have learned a lot:

Thank you. It is strange that changing jab site and time has helped. Its good to know that others have experienced different SEs according to jab site. I suppose we are all on a giant learning curve, trying to work out what works for us individually.

I've had a day 'off' mj too. It's Easter and I have kids, so the world keeps turning. I didn't make it to pudding after a ginormous roast. My first bread for 5 weeks was today's hot x bun. I have not stopped farting since I ate it! DH has already announced that he's sleeping in the spare room tonight 😂. Pepto bismal will be my bed partner tonight.

I’m so happy to see people off MJ for the day and taking a small break (not that it’s good you had junk but that I’m not alone if you get what I mean)

DH finished work early so went on an unexpected outing and decided to have a couple of glasses of wine . I have had wine during mg MJ but never on jab day and 3 days after so said I still have suppression so let me delay the jab a day (will jab tomorrow instead now)

managed to look at a cheesy loaded nachos and not be interested at all (I would have had 70% of it pre MJ) just soaking up the sun and enjoying my wine not touching it at all!

felt nice one to have a break but most importantly saying no to things I love when it is not good for me ! Glad I decided have a break even if it may hurt me on weigh in next week although other the wine didn’t indulge

So nice to hear everyone's stories - we all got here different ways but the main thing is we're all now taking back control.
I was a slim child / teen but then late teens had a combination of traumatic bereavement and abusive relationship at the same time kind of set a pattern of poor eating choices and rewarding with food. Slowly starting to get my head around good choices (30 years late 🙂) - I'm hoping these better habits are sustainable - having said that I definitely didn't eat an Easter egg today - oh no that definitely didn't happen 🤣🤣

Wow aren't we a chatty lot, been away so I am enjoying catching up. Great losses everyone but I'm sorry if you're finding it tough with either side effects or low mood.

Weigh in (official that is as I weigh every other day) tomorrow at end of week 4 ready for week 5 jab Tuesday morning. I've stuck with 2.5 as I'm getting side effects still like nausea and I'm a wimp so couldn't handle anything more 🤣

I'm a B, was slim up until I had a horrific accident when I was 21. Had lots of weight increasing medication to stay alive then had to have IVF as I'm riddled with endometriosis and adenomyosis so have a bulky uterus so pumped full of drugs and well here I am. I'm 48 now so in the midst of peri and not helping weight around my middle.

I've beautiful children and my GP basically said if I want to see them grow up then I need to get my act together. It was rather sobering.

I’m a b. Was very slim (but with big boobs) until around 4 years ago, I can see it rocketing in 2022 when I had gone up 80!!! Yes 80!!! Pounds in about 18 months 😟😟😟😟😟 coincided with a wfh job and also late 30s and lots of family things going on and just didn’t put myself first x

I can see the increase on my fitness pal btw x

I'm a B. Was slender until I had kids at 40, and then not slender but not overweight, and then for the last ten years I've been overweight - a BMI of 28 but enough that my health has suffered, my bad back is worse, my pre sleep apnea is worse and my cholesterol has been soaring. I am about to have a big birthday and thought it was time to get myself ready so that I don't hobble into older age.
this week has been a bit of a wash out as I've had chronic explosive diarrhea since Wednesday which just won't go away. I don't feel nauseous but the urgency is disconcerting. I haven't taken this weeks dose yet as I'm worried what affect it might have on my system.... I think it was something I eat worsened by Mounjaro and perhaps exacerbated by the higher levels of thyroxine in my system (my dose was already quite high and I'm worried it's too high now with the weight loss).

I kind of had a day off yesterday too. I jab Sunday night. Had a day out with the dc, piece of cake, them a normal quick dinner (not hideous, but more/different than I've been aiming for!) I think a more relaxed day now and then is normal?

I've had an injection site reaction the past 2 jabs. Last week was using a syringe fir the 5th dose so put it diwn to that. It didn't come up til a few days later though, caused, slightly warm , red rash.

Jabbed using new pen last night, and this morning has the same reaction, although smaller. Anyone else getting this? Not an issue the first 4 jabs.

I posted about this earlier in the thread but I'm going to this online event avout binge eating called Break the Binge Cycle summit. There's loads of speakers, it's completely free, and if you can't attend your sessions live you can watch recordings.

I am going for a long walk today, as I may of had a bottle of wine yesterday and the weather here at the moment is ☼.

I did not eat any chocolate yesterday, chocolate really is not my thing though, I am more of a savoury person. Give me crisps, veggie samosas and quiche and I will be there.

I am desperately trying to lose 2LBs so that I can get to 2 stone lost.

I have my son’s wedding at the end of May, so do not want to look fat in the photos that are going to be displayed in at least 3 houses. I want to look back at the photos and see me looking confident and at peace with my body. I will not be near my goal of 9.5 stone then but if I could have a stone bracket starting with a 10 would be great.

This is me too. I posted about it on the new thread. Last week it didn’t come up till Tuesday (from a Saturday injection). Yesterday I noticed it around 12 hours after injecting and I’d taken it out of the fridge an hour before and used antihistamine cream as suggested. I’m thinking of moving onto my thighs from my stomach in case it’s a local sensitivity (and also to make it less noticeable to DP who doesn’t know I’m doing this).