April 2025 Mounjaro Starters - Thread 4!

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I have the worst mental block with the spelling of this medication!! Almost did it wrong again but THINK it's correct now. Obviously 3rd time's the charm!!

Great work / losses / NSVs so far everyone!

Unfortunately she didn’t know about the discount codes and already ordered her first pen.

Hope she knows about the bonus dose - you could all arrange to swap around from the next month and all save.

Hi I’m new I’ve been on the monjero now for 8 weeks my first 2 pens I only got three doses I’ve been priming before every use today I was told not to prime everytime only the first time so ehst do you all do prime once ? Thank you

I prime mine every dose......I might be doing it wrong tho?

That’s very strange, you should always get at least 4 doses from a pen, even if you prime every time. How many clicks do you do to prime it?

I click it twice it’s on the long dash

You will definitely have 4 doses in a pen then, with some leftover (often called the ‘bonus dose’). What happens when you go to do the 4th one, what does the pen look like?

On my fourth dose the dial won’t go past the 2 nd click it’s a pity I can’t send a photo of the pen it sits on the dash mark of the 4 th dose but

This is very strange. How much do you prime it? The pens lock out after 240 but that should be enough for 4 doses.

I've always primed every time. As it's only two clicks, it shouldn't "waste" very much of the medication anyway.

Wow what a weight loss - well done @Squiffy01 👏🎉

Wk ten weigh in and jab day!

SW 13st 7lb
CW 11st 12lb
GW 9st 13lb

wk 1-3 -8
wk 4 -4
wk5 -1
wk6 -3
wk7 -1
wk8 - 2
wk9 -1
wk10 -3

Total loss 23lb

Very excited to see that 11 on the scales. I really hope to never see 12 again let alone 13. I’ve had a tough week though. I injected 4.1mg last week (was using up dregs of my old pen) and my suppression has been high. I’ve also felt sick and exhausted and headachey despite loads of water. Still feel very sick this morning so after a lot of soul searching I’ve gone back down to 2.5mg. I accept I might have to use some willpower this week but need to not feel like crap!

To the poster above - I prime ever dose because there is air in the new needle each time. I get 5 doses from each pen and the 5th dose is usually 1.5 x the normal dose.

Well done losers 🤣 and @Incognitoburrito88for seeing the 11. I’m hoping I might do the same with 10 next week but will probably be 2 weeks time but that’s ok. Been away on holiday and then came back and had a kidney infection. So been feeling pretty rough but not eaten much!
I’m still taking 2.5mg (although just started last week from a 5mg pen)

Trying to do some more Pilates to tone up by being poorly has put paid to that so need to get back on it 💪

W10D1
SW:12.12 (BMI 30.3)
TW: 10.5 (-2.5 stone - BMI 24.2)
CW: 11.2 (BMI 26)

W1: - 6lb
W2: - 3lb
W3: - 2lb
W4: - 3lb (total 1 stone 💪)
W5: -3lb
W6: -0lb
W7: -3lb
W8: -2lb (total 1 1/2 stones 🙌)
W9: 0lb (holiday)
W10: 2lb

@Incognitoburrito88just realised mine is 23lb overall too!

Yay! We are loser buddies!! Nice to see someone else still having good losses still on a low dose.

I’m already worrying that I shouldn’t haven’t taken 2.5mg!!

Week 9, almost 10 (I looked up my post on here to find out)

HW 91kg | SW 87kg | CW 75kg

I'm still very low dosing, barely up to 3mg, and now I'm over the Covid, my fatigue seems to have resolved. Overall feeling really good now on Mounjaro. My only complaint is terrible constipation. I'm doing all the recommended things but it's not working. For the last two days, in desperation, I have only eaten prunes. Two tins of prunes. But nothing. Don't even feel sick! I mean, I do love prunes so it's exciting to discover I could now safely enjoy a 100% prune based diet should I so choose, but goodness!

I think by the end of this month I could reach my historically stable set point weight of 72kg. But I'm going away in a couple of hours and will be travelling a lot this month, so perhaps not as I don't think I will inject next week. One of my oldest friends is visiting me from abroad and she's taking me out to her favourite restaurant in London. I'd like to enjoy it! The last time she took me I had the best meal I've ever had. Well maybe top 10... But genuinely amazing. So I'll go there first and jab a couple of days afterwards. 🍽

Mounjaro changes: I'm less hairy. I'm not a super hairy person in general but I get stray hairs - one on my tummy, my boob, etc. Anyway they've all gone. My guess is that's hormonal and was being driven by overweight. I'm bruising a bit more easily: a friend's puppy absolutely battered me as usual but the next day I had little bruises all up my legs. I suppose I just have less padding. I still have quite a bit of padding, to be honest! I'm now a size 14, down from 16, but still not able to get into my largest cohort of clothes, which are size 14 from 10 years ago...

Wk 11 D1
Took my 3rd dose of 3.75 this morning.
Still on my 2nd pen which is a 5mg pen.
Lost another 2lbs. Very happy with that but can’t wait to see 12 on the scales now!
Hopefully in the next couple of weeks 🤞

SW 15.11
CW 13.03
TW 12

Total loss 2st 8lbs

I need to go up a dose as I'm finding I'm getting hungry and DH says he's noticed I've been taking bigger portions of dinner this week. I was supposed to start my third 2.5mg pen, but decided to extract 3.75mg and see how I go. I should get three doses out of the pen if you include the golden dose. I jabbed this evening and I'm a bit anxious about side effects. I didn't get many on 2.5mg. Hoping the new dose will calm the food noise, and give the weight loss a bit of a kick, as that has slowed down too.

Getting the worst injection dite rash all of a sudden, still on 5mg but great weals of red on my stomach where I’ve injected. Anyone got any tips to calm it down?

Hey guys - have an oushk call for 9:30 but I’ve had no email to confirm details. How does it work. How will they know how to contact me lol or do I go into the oushk magical portal that I don’t know exists yet or something else? Googling it 😂 can’t wait to show some stranger I am genuinely fat 😂

@SeaDippingandLattes I’m afraid I don’t know but I’ve got one in a couple of weeks so hoping you manage to work it out. I’ve read loads of posts from people who haven’t managed to have the call so fingers crossed it works for you!

@Lundier your posts do make me laugh. Good luck with your new food venture. Maybe you can go to the fancy restaurant and ask if they can do a tasting menu called textures of prunes… it will be all the rage among WLI users!

@SeaDippingandLattes

These are the notes I've kept to help with Oushk video call if they help, although probably too late for you. Update us and let us know what happens, as I'm a bit apprehensive about it all going smoothly:

Just before the call, your customer will receive a link (email & SMS) to join the video call. They can join this in their browser from any device (desktop, mobile or tablet) without needing to download any other apps.

All Wisebee calls take place in your browser using built-in video call software. You can access Wisebee on any device, so there’s no need to download any additional apps!

What browser should I use?
All Wisebee calls take place in your browser using built-in video call software. Calls will open in the browser on your smartphone or computer, for both yourself and your customers.

Mobile
Use Chrome on your Android phone. On iOS, we recommend Safari or Chrome. While it’s possible to host meetings from your phone, you may find it easier using a computer or tablet as you’ll have a more screen space.

Don't inject straight out of the fridge, leave it put for a while, it really helps!! To calm it down I've just put bepanthon cream on it and then left it.

SW 16st 8.2lb BMI 42.7
CW 14st 12.6lb BMI 38.4
Total Loss 1st 9.6lb
Avg loss p/wk 2.1lb

Thank goodness! 15 has gone along with 16. - it's taken 14.5 years and 23 pages of A4sheets of weekly recordings of my struggles with those particular stone brackets 😳 Could cry with relief. Here's to a life I can barely remember before the sodding menopause, although it's always been a fat life.

Congratulations to everyone on your own personal achievements too, how many of us started out with trepidation in April, and now look at us!!

Went ok - they sent a link through and I clicked on that and then showed her I was fat and my passport :)

i did mention I have had issues with side effects and therefore was working up to the full 5mg dose so hopefully that doesn’t bite me in the bum that I was honest about that as thinking about it I’m not using the medication as prescribed so hoping that doesn’t cause me an issue but she was nice about it so fingers crossed not.