Question re dosing

[dancemom]

I’ve been on the 2.5 pen for about 3 months but this last week the hunger and food noise have returned. I think it’s time to move up to 5mg one but I’ve just received my 2.5 pen today.

Ive got a golden dose left in my last pen due to inject this tomorrow.

would you use the 2.5 pen to inject a 3.75 dose or would you go straight to 5mg dose?

I believe 3.75mg is 0.9ml on the golden dose syringes?

has anyone used the syringes to administer 3.75 or 5 from a 2.5 pen?

tia

Anyone?

@dancemom I can only speak from my own experience. I moved from 2.5mg x 5 weeks to 3.75mg last June only because when I started my provider implied I had to and I was a bit concerned about the jump to 5mg so thought I would try like many others a step up dose. 45 week into Mounjaro I am still on 3.75mg.

What I have noticed is the effects come and go, perhaps for a day sometimes a week and I need a bit of willpower. During/after Christmas, it was like injecting water, I realise now that if I eat higher carbs/sugar/sweeteners the cravings come back. Or if I eat too few calories, or have lost more than 2lbs the previous day/week, or dehydrated my body starts sending out hunger signals again, eating/drinking properly usually resolves it for me.

I don't want suppression, I didn't like it in the first few weeks. I want obsessive food noise gone, eating smaller portions when I eat mindfully, helping me along with some willpower to keep to calorie deficit longer term.

I know I have a long journey as I have quite a few stone to lose, and I will probably be using Mounjaro for 18 months - 2 years or even longer. I want to stay on the lower doses as long as possible so I always have somewhere else to go (and avoid any new dose side effects!) and I am clear now any decision to move up will be based on 2-3 weeks where I struggle to control my food intake. If that happens, my first step would be to go back to calorie counting to see if I can get back on track, especially with protein. If I can't get back on track that way I will look to increase to 5mg.

I don't think it is a black and white suppression/food noise on or off decision. It is much greyer and all depends on what each individual wants from Mounjaro and their expectations.

You are correct 3.75mg will be 0.9ml in a syringe from a 2.5mg pen.

Good luck!

@WeAllHaveWingsthank you