May Starters Thread 2 ~ heading into summer!

[SussexLass87]

Hi all...as the first thread is filling up I thought I'd start No.2

Come along to share experiences, vivid dreams, nausea remedies and celebrate eachother's successes...❤️

I'm only on day 3. So far only eaten about 450 calories. I've been out all day and didn't eat the cake/ice creams that were on offer. I do feel hunger but it is so much easier to not eat junk. I'll eat a good meal for supper I'm not trying to starve myself silly. It's really interesting how even though food still tastes nice and I feel hungry it is just so much easier to eat more healthily. It's really interesting. It does make you think is this what it is like for people of a normal healthy weight.

I’ve ordered the 5 pen and plan to have a 3.75 dose for the first jab and then if everything is ok, I’ll take 5 the following week.

I’ve been lucky that I’ve had no side effects so I’m a little nervous that it might change when I increase the dose.

I'm worried about increasing and the associated fatigue. I'm sleeping much better now in wk2 and I'm still tired all the time.

@Peachblossom25 I've ordered a 5 pen and am planning to move to something like 3 or 3.5 to start with. I'm going to see how the next 10 days go with mood/fatigue before I decide what to inject! Hopefully it improves! I've had generally good suppression so far but thought another 4 weeks on 2.5 might not have quite the same suppression rate so didn't want to risk having hunger pangs.

ive gone with another 2.5 pen. I have good suppression and am losing well. Definitely feeling very hungry yesterday and today though, I jab on a Wednesday morning.
I noticed my period hung around for 2 days longer this month. I’m usually very regular so that was odd

@Peachblossom25 I definitely want to move up to the 5mg. Haven't had too many SEs thank goodness. Trying to work out where's best to order from.

This was same for me with period!!

I'm going to move up to the 5mg pen when I see the pharmacist on Friday.
The suppression definitely isn't as strong week 4.

I'm also going to try and extract the remains of the pen with a medical syringe that I've ordered to get the 5th dose (golden dose) out of my pen as there is definitely another dose left in the pen after the 4th dose. Will see how that goes next week before I move up to 5mg.

I’m on week 3 and have just ordered the 5mg for next time. Mainly because as a PP it’s more than the loading dose. I am a bit too scared to get the last dose out but I do know some medics so might get them to give me a hand with it!

Interesting to read thoughts on going up or not. I'm hopeful I can stay on 2.5mg for the time being - but also don't want the food noise to creep back in!

I haven’t really had much suppression so definitely planning to go up to 5mg. I am losing weight though and get full sooner but still feel hungry a lot and think about food more than ever. I do seem to have lost some of my sugar and wine cravings so it’s doing something!

I am panicking a bit as my smart scale is still insisting all my 7lb loss is muscle, surely this can’t be possible? I am recovering from an ankle op so not very active but I am doing some band work and physio exercises daily and am having loads of protein.

Hoping it's not too late fir me to juno on this thread as a May starter.
I've been thinking about mounjaro for months but have been too scared to do anything about it, I work full time and have a DD with SEN so can't really afford any down days.
But yesterday I thought f**k it I'm going to do it, signed up with voy yesterday and medication arrived this afternoon.
Injected myself about an hour ago and feel a bit achy and can feel a headache coming on.
Not sure if this is psycosomatic!
Will try not to overthink- DH thinks I'm mad to try it.
I'm 54 5ft 2 and SW 82.4 kg.
I'd like to get down to 10stone and if I can do 9 4lb which I was before DC it would be a miracle!

@Peachblossom25I stayed at 2.5mg. I’m happy with the amount I’m losing, I like the calmness the jab brings and being able to stay on the lower dose longer works for my overall plans.

@Peachblossom25 I’m in week 3. Going to move up to 5mg I think. I’ve had minimal side effects so think I’ll give it a try. I have lost 6lbs so far, so maybe will see how I get on at weigh in next Monday. When are you ordering your next pen? Are you doing the golden dose?

@Peachblossom25 I am sticking with 2.5mg. This is mainly because of fear of side effects. However I seem to remember reading that people who have a lot to lose should stick with the monthly progression and those with less should go up slowly if at all.
(I just tried to find my reference for that but haven’t a foggiest).

Checking in 👋🏻

So many posts to catch up on.

W3D4 here. 2lb loss so far this week! 9lb in total. Can’t actually believe it. Wore a pair of jeans today that I couldn’t do up 3 weeks ago !

Really struggling on D2 and 3 to eat enough. I’ve requested to stay on 2.5mg pen for next month which has been approved.

5ft
SW 11st 7lb
CW 10st 12lb
GW 8st 7lb

W1 4lb
W2 3lb
W3 2lb so far

I'm 54 too and 5ft 1". Am due to take dose number 3 tomorrow. Have lost 8lb and am happy enough, although none for the past 3 days at least. Have had little to no SEs so hopefully you'll be similar?
Good luck with your journey.

I ordered my first dose with medexpress and got 6 needles. Is this normal? So should be able to take the golden dose okay??

I'm on W3D5 and I tried to order 5mg pen from my current provider (Boots) only to be told it's out of stock. It made me look for another provider and went with Oushk, which turned out to be £100 cheaper anyway. I was just approved for the new pen, it should arrive on Friday (I would rather keep it the fridge and be ready then be worried about missing a dose if delivery is late).

However I have now started to look into the bonus dose - will try to get the 5th dose out with a syringe and see if I can get slightly more than 0.6 as a stepping stone before starting 5mg.

Hello - can I join you - am signing up tomorrow- I need to do something! Worried about the fatigue, but have a 13 month old so am knackered already!

I am dithering about what to order next. I am only on week 2 and doing well on 2.5, but worried it won't last. I have a lot of tonnage to shift and don't really know what to do for the best.

@Optimum19 sounds like you got a couple of spare needles. You’ll only be able to extract 240 clicks (4 full doses of 60 clicks).

Anyone else on SheMed? Is it true that they decide for you whether to up or stay on the same dose? At the moment, if like to stay another month on 2.5mg bc of SE but im terrified they will say nope! We’re moving to 5mg as there’s not enough reasons

I'm going to stay on 2.5mg for as long as I am still getting decent suppression and lack of food noise. For me, I don't see the point of going up unless the 2.5mg effect has lessened. I have noticed a few people on various WLI threads who have lost a lot of weight, but never went higher than the 2.5mg starting dose.