Not sure whether to increase

[Daschy16]

Hi All
I've taken my fourth dose from the first 2.5mg pen. I'm losing weight - I've lost 13lbs so far which I'm very proud of. However, I noticed that the number of days that the suppression is there is decreasing week on week (I would estimate I'm getting circa half the week with suppression and the rest of the week is more willpower driven). On the plus side, the food noise seems to have gone. I ordered the 5mg pen and it's arrived, however I'm not sure whether I should increase or not? I due to jab on Thursday evening and I'm on the fence about doing a half dose or just going up to 5mg.
What is also playing on my mind is I have a family party next Saturday evening, so I'm also concerned about side effects hitting me at that if I increase.
I can't do the golden dose as I have no syringes- I've ordered from UK Medi and the delivery isn't until next Saturday.
What would you do?

Hello, well done on the weight loss. You do have options with the 5mg pen, you could limit the number of clicks to take a 2.5, 3.75 or other combinations should you wish not to take the full 5mg shot. There's plenty on here about number of clicks to get certain doses out of pens. Hope that helps, wishing you all the best!

It does have a half life of 5 days so always wears off a few days before next jab is due and can also take a few days for new jab to kick in, for me 3 days, so roughly half a week suppression is about right and most of us will also be having the same. I went up when I no longer had any suppression and that was after 2.5 weeks of 2.5mg, I had to do the last 2.5 with will power alone until moving up my pen and i really wasnt losing much then. It's really upto you as there's always a risk of side effects and you seem to be losing a lot still.

I almost posted earlier saying I regretted not getting the next pen up as weight loss has stagnated and I've struggled to keep on plan. I had healthy amount of suppression and 2-3lbs a week loss on last pen of same strength but neither of the 2 doses from this pen have had much effect at all. I didn't go up as I didn't want to lose faster. Wish I'd got a pen up so I'd have the option of a small step up.

Could you microdose two x 2.5mg help you get through the week if you need it?

I’m sticking with 2.5mg for as long as I can. I don’t have suppression to the extent that I can’t eat; I just don’t want to snack.

Thanks all for the replies - I think I'll stick with 2.5mg