April 2025 Monjourno Starters - Thread 3!

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Hopefully the title is correct this time!

Thank-you!!

Sounds like we have a similar averaged weekly lose of just under 3lb then 😁I feel like the 5mg is much more effective too, so feel that could potentially even speed up.

These are the ones I bought from UK Medi
Needles & Syringe separate.
The needles are the same size as the Mounjaro pen and because you attach the needle to the syringe I can use One needle to extract and then put a new needle on to inject so that it isn’t blunt.
Doing my golden dose tomorrow so will update with how it goes!

https://ukmedi.co.uk/products/1ml-unifix-luer-lock-syringe-unifix-ux1l-ukmedi-co-uk?variant=53484937052539

ukmedi.co.uk/products/32g-pink-4mm-meso-relle-mesotherapy-needle-meso-relle-am324-ukmedi-co-uk?variant=53484985942395

Ye so did the extra dose as well as 2.5 yesterday and I got a lot out of one - been so spaced today / I could just not bother about food at all!!

Help! I have started binging again - please advise me what you would do.

Yesterday I went out for dinner with friends (had steak and chips) and then when I got home I had three walnut whips. Ive tried to eat healthily today but to be honest I am so hungry. For lunch I had carrot and humus, and for dinner a few prawn gyozas and chicken Yaki Udon Noodles. I have also had pomegranate. I am still soo hungry.

I messed up on the pens. I had finished my first 2.5 pen and then ordered another one at 2.5 as I was nervous about going up (stupid in hindsight) . Last Friday I took the first dose from the second pen but it's clearly not helping suppress my appetite. I have ordered a 5 pen but it will take a little while to arrive and I am wondering what to do next. I want appetite suppression but clearly not getting it at 2.5. Can I take two of the 2.5 doses or is that dangerous?

Soo wet to go and buy some chocolate. Aghhh

I think it it was me and I felt that 2.5 wasn’t working then I’d count clicks and do 3.75mg doses from your 2.5 pen until you run out, then go onto the 5. Including the golden dose amount that should give you 3 doses of 3.75 from your current pen

@Raffles134 thanks for linking. Those are the ones I want but all sold out. Wonder if it’s cause everyone on these types of threads have been buying them all 🤣

@fox919 thank you. Is it possible to do 5 from a 2.5 pen or is that dangerous? Just worried that I may fall off it all completely if I keep feeling like this...

Yes it's safe. It's the same dose as the 5mg pen but in a higher liquid volume that's all. It'll be fine to take 2 x 2.5mg 👍🏻

Honestly I can’t say for certain but I don’t see why it would be dangerous, you could already be on 5mg because you’re in month 2, and people do do extra doses under certain circumstances. I think giving 3.75mg a try is worthwhile. If you have a week of 3.75 and it’s doing nothing/not enough for you still then you can do 5 the following week.

I really understand the anxiety of feeling like you’ll fall off the wagon, it’s something we’ve probably all struggled with for a long time and the fear of that happening is almost hard wired into us! But it seems to me that part of the beauty of mj is that you don’t really fully fall off the wagon while you’re taking it. Or at least, you may have a few days/week of struggling a bit more, but it’s not the constant battle it was pre mj, and you can take some comfort in that (I definitely do).

I ordered these today, scared about the GD but I’ll have just in case.

Try not to beat yourself up. It's just a blip.

I've done quite a lot of work around mindful eating and binging, and one thing that really helped me was to take a moment to try to reflect on why it happened so you can possibly put a plan in place to avoid it next time you meet the same situation - seems like you can already identify the issue as hunger. So what I do is say right ok so in order to avoid a binge I need to make sure I've had enough food so find planning bigger but still healthy meals really helpful.

For example, while veg and hummus is healthy it's not very filling so maybe swapping to something like a wm pitta with chicken (if you want meat), hummus and salad. Then follow up with a fresh fruit salad & sprinkle of seeds. Yea more calories than the original lunch but potentially less calories than a binge and definitely full off good nutrition.

For me, being hungry on the drive home is my weak spot because I have a long commute and often end up buying snacks to make the drive easier. Especially when I'm tired. So now I just take a load of healthy options like veg sticks, edemame beans, some oat cakes, blueberries etc - snacky so I can eat them slowly...

Hope that's helpful in some way 🩵

Thank you all for the great advice- really appreciated.

@Raffles134 thank you ever so much x

@Raffles134 buggar the pink ones have all gone - any idea what other ones would work? I’ve no clue about anything like this - it’s so daunting 🥸 thank you again x

Ah didn’t realise they had sold out. I think I read that carepoint needles fit these type of syringes?
Try googling carepoint 4mm needles.
Hope that helps!

See my comment above for some other needles people have recommended.
Sorry, didn’t realise they were out of stock!

@Squiffy01 @SeaDippingandLattes
I can’t remember if the Carepoint needles fit the Luer lock syringes or if they are for the pens.
Maybe someone else can confirm?
UKMedi have the blue needles in stock though. Only difference is they are 31g rather than 32g so needle will be slightly thicker I think?

Down 12lb in just under 4weeks
About to start 5mg, trying to get into good eating routine... not always easy

I got these & they work fine

https://www.shdmedical.co.uk/needles/1ml-bd-micro-fine-29g-syringe-bag-of-10/

@Raffles134 thank you x

@Doidontimmm thank you. Is that a pre-attached needle or do you screw it on separately? If it’s preattached does it get blunt or any of the red plastic bit on it when you suck the medication out or does it seem to work straight forwardly? Thank you x

I’m 36 hours post my ‘bonus dose’ of 3.3mg and am still not feeling the level of suppression I’d hoped. Pretty much the same as I’ve had on 2.5 for the past week. I’ll give it a few more days but think I’m definitely ready to move up to 5mg.

Struggling with the compulsion to eat crap this evening 😬 have managed to resist and taken myself to bed, but still lying in bed and thinking about chocolate. Jab day tomorrow, clearly it’s time!

I am struggling , have lost 51b and I am in my 5th week of 2.5 mg ,I calorie count and eat between 1200 -1400 cals a day.
massively increased my exercise but had thought I would have lost more. Feeling very defeated.

i am due to jab tomorrow and wondered if I should do 3.75 mg for the next 3 doses before moving to 5 mg ?
how many clicks is 3.75mg and would I have 3 doses of that left in a 2.5 mg pen , one dose used ?

5lb is still a loss, it may not be the numbers you want to see but look at the bigger picture - you said you have massively increased your exercise levels so that’s such a great thing to do for you and your body!! New exercise and movement causes inflammation wothin your body/muscles which holds on to water for a while so maybe it’s that - trust the process!! But also are you fuelling this new exercise?? Are you eating some healthy choices to give you the energy to keep it up?? Trust that your weight will catch up in time