January 2025 Starters Thread 8. New clothes, new shoes, new bodies...

[Thelittlestranger]

Roll up, roll up ....

Get well soon, I struggled terribly with tonsillitis until I had them out at 19.
A pharmacy can prescribe antibiotics now for this. If you have white on your tonsils you have tonsillitis and probably need antibiotics, if there is no white they won't prescribe.
Soup would be my go to, I love chicken and sweetcorn. Or mousse when you do fancy sweet stuff!

Wow you all have some amazing trips booked for the coming months. I’m so envious! Am I the only one on the thread not having a holiday this year? We can’t afford any trips at all. Not even a YHA like we usually do (used to be able to do a four day trip for £350 for the five of us but even their prices have gone up beyond our means) Our car blew up before Christmas and we can’t afford to replace it so that rules out day trips.
As I’m not now having my surgery on Wednesday, I did a car boot yesterday to raise cash to cover my next MJ. I need to decide what to do about dosage now too. I have stayed the same for two weeks now. My eating has been all over the place with the stress of the ‘is the hysterectomy on? Is it off?’ drama. So do I go up to 10mg and see what happens? Or stick with another 7.5mg?

Hi all

I’ve messed up and could really do with help from you wise lot!!

I have been doing 8.5mg from my 7.5mg pen the last 2 weeks, also had a couple of needle fails and not sure whether that’s led to what just happened. I went to do my last 7.5mg but could only get 10 clicks ( I think!!) so that’s what 1mg? I don’t have syringes and can’t easily get them, so now not sure what to do!! I’ve got a 10mg waiting for me, but away tomorrow and Wed. Do I do a 10mg on Thursday? Argh! What a muppet ( and so bloody annoying as haven’t even got full 4x7.5mg out of this pen!!)

Sorry to hear things are so tough @Polkadotdash , you deserve some good luck and positive news, hope they come soon🤞🏻. Sorry if my posts were tone deaf too, they weren’t intended that way. Hope car boot was successful.
Have you had side effects on 7.5 or ok? I’m going up to 10mg because I’m stalling but obviously as per my earlier comments I’ve not helped myself so don’t do what I’ve done!!

@tinyemmy thank you! I contacted the GP, who referred me to the pharmacy. I've just been and she's referred me back to the GP with possible quinsy :(. I'm waiting for them to call me now.
My throat looks horrendous so I wouldn't be surprised if it is to be honest. Not sure if they'll send me to hospital if it is. I guess it's wait and see!

@2025istheyeari ah no, your posts aren’t tone deaf. I like to hear about other people’s exciting plans. I’m hoping that at some point in my life I can travel again. I suppose I shouldn’t be spending £150 a month on WLI and then we could go away. So there’s always personal responsibility for these choices. But anyway.

@UnderandOverwhelmed oh that sounds awful. I had to look up what quinsy was. Sounds Dickensian!

@2025istheyeari there’s a few videos on YT which show you how to hack the plunger on the pen without using a syringe. You could try that? I’ve force twisted it once, and needed to force the plunger down but it was fine.

Fwiw - a month off MJ seems to have had little impact on picking up and progressing again. This I find very reassuring!

Fantastic holiday coming up!

You are a star, I had tried to force it but tried again and managed! Think I got just under a dose but with what I managed earlier I reckon it’s 7.5mg, thank you!

@UnderandOverwhelmed oh goodness, I had to google it too, really hope you’re ok and they can give you something soon, you poor thing.

@PolkadotdashNope I am in the same boat as you. We’ve had one abroad holiday since dd was born 11 years ago and barely any UK holidays unless we’ve been really lucky. Although I do think nowadays UK holidays can be just as expensive as going overseas. It is what it is! I do like to hear about others holidays though and all of these amazing places everyone is going. They sound fabulous.

Hi everyone! I'm starting to come out of my post-surgery hibernation, catching up with everything... So much happening!

V jealous of seeing so many of you reaching your GW and talking about maintenance! I still have at least 10 kg to lose, so I'll be here for a bit longer yet. I've not been paying too much attention to food in the last few weeks in terms of tracking/logging, but focussing on my recovery. I've been moving so little that trying to stick with my usual calorie target was pointless (since it assumed 3-4 gym workouts a week!). I should probably sit down and adjust it... But suppression is still really high, and I am eating very little, so I'm not overly worried, esp as I am still losing.
I do really struggle with water intake, which has a -very noticeable- negative effect on my bowel movements! Which, I can tell you, are no joke after abdominal surgery.

On the topic of holiday, we are also keeping it very low key this year (again). We're planning to visit my mum in Switzerland in August, and that's it for the summer... Fortunately, she lives in a lovely area (Lake Constance), and the kids love it, so I'm not complaining. It means we don't have to pay for accommodation!
I do dream of going to Greece, we have been talking about this for years and never get round to it. Maybe next year!

@discov yay come join me in the no hols club!! I can’t grumble - I have had trips in previous years and occasionally I get to go overseas with work. But reading @jins lovely post earlier just made me long for a lovely sunny beach and swim day in Greece.

@discov @Polkadotdash i hope their are sunny, skinny breaks in your near futures

Also a lover of holidays. Got a two week trip to Bali planned for July - we finalised the places we are staying on the weekend. Have to love a bit of chatgpt for itinerary planning.

@Polkadotdash love a car boot. Did you make a good haul?

I've decided I need to buy some clothes. Went to Oliver Bonas - fitted all of their size 8 stuff. Which is, quite frankly, ridiculous. Didn't buy any of it. But it has made me worry that the haul of clothes arriving on Wednesday from ASOS in size 12 may be too big. A nice, but annoying problem to have.

My Oushk maintenance call isn't until early July. By then, I think I will have decided what to do. Another six weeks may see half a stone slimmer and I'm not sure I want to lost that much. Will see how I feel at the end of this pen. Either way, next step for me is to keep injecting at a lower dose as my body adjust to eating more cals.

I have slightly freaked myself out with the level of suppression I've had these last couple of days - on several occasions I've found myself dizzy, and then realised I've barely eaten for hours. I feel like I need to set an alarm on my phone to actually remind me to eat at the moment, which I've not had before. This is week 2 of 3.75, but last week was nothing like this, and 2.5 didn't have anywhere near this level of suppression. I haven't tracked my food while I've been on MJ, in part because I know in my brain, it will be very easy to get obsessed if I do that - I just eat nutritious food, when I'm hungry. But now I'm just not hungry! Anyone else found this? I really don't want to track, but would it be helpful?

@Thelittlestranger i made £75 which is half of my monthly MJ money. Not bad. It was quite quiet there though. Not sure why. Lots of sellers, not enough buyers. Most outrageous moment was when bloke who was selling next to us bought something off us for 50p and then proceeded to try to sell it for £5! No shame whatsoever.

@whyamisuddenlygettingolder that is the kind of suppression I can only dream of! I can’t share any advice on how to maintain an eating pattern. I’ve put my order in for 10mg for my next pen to see if that works better for me.

I’ve struggled to eat today @whyamisuddenlygettingolder , I do track calories and have reached 790 for the day after forcing myself to eat tonight. Tired 🥱 today, I slept really badly last night.

I quite fancy a week alone in the sun, in reality I won’t do it as I hate single supplements and I’d rather spend my cash doing something with my kids. Someday soon they won’t want to come on holiday with me, at that point I’ll probably rejoin a nice health club and spa as I’ll have more time to go. My DC are young adults, I often feel torn about saying yes to social things and actually being here to see them when our ships pass - almost like the next stage of working mum guilt. 😵‍💫

Well it's not quinsy thank goodness, just really bad tonsillitis. I've got some antibiotics and some very strong soluble pain killers to allow me to actually swallow the antibiotics! I've just managed some soup!

So pleased you’ve been seen @UnderandOverwhelmed , I hope you’re feeling much better in 24 hours.

so glad you’ve found out what it is and have some antibiotics, feel better soon @UnderandOverwhelmed

@Pandora71 that's really interesting, so your body reacts to 2.5 again like in the beginning

@UnderandOverwhelmed , I'm so glad that you got seen. I hope you have a very speedy recovery from now on, with the meds that you have.

@Polkadotdash, I can't believe the CFer who tried that stunt!!

@cloudjumper, it is nice being at GW....but what is not nice is having lots of people tell you that they think you have an ED....or that you look like someone who has come out of a concentration camp. I think it is because I've steadily lost the weight over past nearly 6 months (after scaring the crap out of myself last year at just how much I had gained, and how I needed to get a hold of it quickly to prevent it becoming a bigger problem - 4yrs of watching things, PT, exercise etc had done sod all). I almost feel like I am justifying why I chose to lose the bloody excess weight. I'm a BMI of 20 (just where I was 6yrs ago). I don't want to lose any more. I do eat - albeit a lot less than I used to. Maybe at 5ft 4, it does really show when I'm overweight, so weight losses will also show. I don't know.

Sorry, I'm ranting a bit...I had someone pull me to one side today and say that I'm too bloody skinny. I get that they mean it kindly, but what gets me cross is that no one has ever pulled me to one side and expressed concerns about the weight gain that I had. It just makes me feel like shit.

I'll keep you all posted on the maintenance thing. A 10mg pen has been approved. I will see about chatting to Pharmulous about a suitable maintenance regime. I'm wondering whether to do 10mg this coming month, or slightly reduce.

@TicTac80 that is so rude of that person 😮

@HeavyHeidi definitely not as strong as the first time. I had very very strong suppression on 2.5, and actually started on 1.25 initially. But restarting on 2.5 I definitely noticed the suppression again, it wore off a lot quicker so I dosed again at 5 or 6 days. I’m back up at 5mg this week so we’ll see if I get back to where I was when I paused.

Hi ladies.
Is anyone on 12.5mg already? I've been on 10mg for two injection rounds (including the extra dose) and I'm beginning to feel like I need to go up.
Still half a stone till I reach overweight BMI. Just shy of three stone loss and on the good days I'm really proud of myself - on the bad days I still feel so far away as many on this thread move on to stablising doses (I don't mean this as a negative just a strong pang of jealously).
How do you feel on the higher doses? I'm a bit nervous that I'm only two levels away to the max dose. Where do you go then???
Looking for fellow MJ long termers..... 😘