April 2025 Mounjaro Starters - Thread 4!

[QS90]

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!

Just in case it's helpful for anyone, I've been splitting my doses and have found it to be really good. I wasn't having bad side effects previously, but the suppression was waning towards the end of the week. I almost felt like I was going up the doses not for the initial suppression, but to get it to last long enough iyswim.

This week I've counted clicks to do 3.33mg, twice a week. The suppression was strong the first few days. Then I injected again and carried on the suppression. So 6.66mg overall weekly dose, which is less than the 7.5mg per week I was on previously.

Interesting to hear @hotshota - and would have been such an alien concept pre MJ! Trying to not loose more weight 🤯

I think its more mental for me now...how do i let go and relax more with my eating and exercise/activities since i'm not in the losing weight mode

I'm worried about getting off the WLI too soon and getting back into the snacking / overeating. Being on it means its less of a thought/focus for me and i can control this a lot easier.

@QS90 have you tried setting yourself a higher calorie limit and then logging everything you eat to make sure you are hitting it and getting all the right nutrients so still healthy eating?
Congrats on making it to maintenance, feels a long way off for me!

Great to have updates from you hotshotta- I think I’ll drop to 2.5 to start maintenance.

I've just passed the 2 stone milestone and into the 12s finally! I've been hovering around 13st for what feels like weeks, so it's a much needed boost. Put my size 14 jeans on from 2 years ago and they fit perfectly, and I'm just a smidgen away from no longer being officially obese. All these good things and for some reason I'm feeling really down in the dumps. Anyone else feeling really flat despite good results?

I feel exactly the same way. I think personally I’ve got to keep on a very low dose of Mounjaro and stay in my usual routine until I do relax into it. This will mean weighing every day for me, and possibly going back on it for a week or so after a holiday or Christmas if I’ve gained a few lb. So i may need to keep a pen in the fridge.

Every time I’ve gained weight throughout my life it’s been when I’ve stopped daily weighing and taken my eye off the ball.

I used to mistakenly believe (taught from a very young age by my mother) that there were loads of people who could just eat what they liked and never put on weight. Clearly looking at the current obesity epidemic that’s not the case! All the slim celebrities, who I thought looked like that effortlessly are actually working bloody hard to stay like that! This was a bit of an eye opener for me.

So for me, the mindset has to be to “work” at staying slim through healthy eating, not eating too much (sadly) and plenty of exercise. Like skin care, clothes etc it’s all a bit of work, but to look and feel better about myself, for me at least, it’s worth it. I think when you hit your 50s your lifestyle really shows! 😬

A lot of my friends and family are also interested in health and fitness, including my husband and we have a good social
life with fit and active friends. We also have morbidly obese friends and family. However, I think it is a lot easier when the people around you feel and behave like you. It must be really hard if you are trying to change your own habits and your friends and family are big eaters and drinkers, don’t exercise etc. You’ll definitely find it harder not to join them and will need more will power when not taking Mounjaro.

Gosh, didn’t plan on writing an essay this morning! 😂 That’s my musings for today! 🤪

I sometimes feel this way, we on here are all so focused on weight loss and I personally almost expect people to notice or to be “rewarded” or recognised for my efforts. Huge changes are happening for you, but the world just ticks along, family and friends are annoying, shit happens. Life is the same as ever. Many of us also aren’t telling anyone how we are magically losing this weight. I’m a bit uncomfortable with that still.
This is just my experience and you may not relate at all. 😊

This is so annoying …. Follow up from Medexpress….

“Nike here from the clinical team. Thank you for your email.

After a gap of 6 months you would be seen as a new patient and would need to have a BMI of 30 or above or 27 and above with co-morbidities, in order to re-start treatment at the lowest dose of Mounjaro 2.5mg.

If the gap is less than 6 months we would review your order at the time it is placed and advise you on the most appropriate dose to take.”

so you do need to stockpile - or put the weight back on ☹️

W15d1
SW - 13st11.8
CW - 11st11 (2.2lbs lost this week)
total loss - 2stone (and 0.8lbs)
GW - 10st

finally hit the 2 stone mark 🥳 lightheadedness has eased now, still happening but not as frequent. I’m a little frustrated because every week for quite a while now when I weigh midweek I’ve lost 3/4lbs, and then it jumps back up a couple of pounds by official weigh day. May have to stop weighing midweek so I’m unaware of it!

need to order my next pen, but for some reason pharmacy2u isn’t taking the discount codes I’m trying to use (including the code that’s literally at the top of their webpage saying use this code for £60 off your first order!) had anyone else had this problem with them at all?

toosensitivemaybe Yes!! Huge fan of POTO it was my favourite book as a teenager 😊

Thank you for all the lovely comments, it's so encouraging to keep going & inspiring reading other experiences.

@Pepperwaggytail in terms of stockpiling, will they let you order more than one one at once? How long can you store unopened pens for, is it until the expiry date if they are kept in the fridge?

I think they have about 6 months shelf life if kept in the fridge. Re stockpiling, I think I’ll just order another 7.5 pen and then every couple of months order a cheaper one (have to work this out!) even if not using them until I’m really confident I can go it alone.

I feel like I’m stuck with med express now, as most other providers want photos. I’m now size 10 (mostly) so don’t look big enough to get a prescription. I’ve not actually tested this theory but this is my worry.

What a stupid state of affairs! Get obese/sick in order to maintain your health! 🥺

@Pepperwaggytail I thought some suppliers would let you join, if you had a recent prescription? So you could prove you had recently been overweight? I'm sure there was something about this on a previous thread?

If anyone can tell me which provider does this, I’ll happily have a go.
I might try a few providers anyway over the next few weeks and report back.

Live well pharmacy let me join under 30 bmi as I had a previous prescription. I had to show her the pen & box on a video call. They also do maintenance.

Weight is dropping s l o w l y currently. I’m a stats person so weighing daily and think my average is 1lb a week over the last 4 weeks, however I have stopped tracking what I eat and I have gone up a dose on my next pen order so we shall see!

That said I am 35lbs down (16kg!!) from starting weight so it isn’t going badly at all! I have around 80lbs to lose for a healthy BMI so I am nearly half way there!

Second with this - i'm with livewell now as they did maintenance and were cheaper than Voy.

Did you manage to sort this?? I just used Pharmacy2U and used a discount code, annoyingly I can’t see what code I used but im pretty sure it was 7HF7DE which is the one off of the price comparison website.

also I had some issues getting mine to work but I had clicked on the wrong thing I clicked I was a new patient and wanted to start a weight loss injection as i was new to that pharmacy so when I was trying to order a 7.5mg it wouldn’t go through so when I went back and clicked repeat my order or reorder or something it went through

It's great to see all these big losses and some of you getting close to where you want to be, well done all!

I'm a bit of a slow loser, down exactly 10kg today since starting on 4th April, but I'm happy enough with that. I look and feel so much better.

I'm still on 3.75mg, will do two more doses of that, then go up to 5mg for the last dose in the pen and see how I get on from there.

Hi Everyone,

I had an exciting moment yesterday. I weighed myself - had dropped another two pounds and my BMI is now 24.9!! That’s a total loss of 30 lbs for me too which is a nice round number. I’ve got another stone - ish to go until maintenance.

I’m off on holiday on Sunday for two weeks though and expect I will gain even though I plan to jab while away.

I’m fretting a little because Oushk have changed their rules again and I think I now need to have another weight verification call because they didn’t measure me last time. I’ve got a maintenance call booked for September and they do say they can do it then but I’ve got loads of crazy worries - like am I really the height I said I was… I mean I think I am but can’t remember when I actually measured myself and will I be able to measure myself live on camera! I was planning on doing the maintenance call from work and my office has a glass door so this is all going to look very weird!! I guess I’ll need to buy a long tape measure, bring it in and stick it to the wall…

I've just had mine back and it's gone from 46 to 36. It was 78 at diagnosis 2 years ago so I'm absolutely thrilled with this. My cholesterol is down but not by much. I might start buying Benecol.

No I didn’t! Tried to call them and was on hold for aaages and gave up. Submitted an online query and heard nothing back from that. I did the same as you did with saying new prescription at first then went back and changed it but that didn’t seem to be the issue. Initially it was taking me all the way through to payment but just not taking off the discount and trying to charge the full amount. I tried again a couple of times after that and it wouldn’t even load the final payment screen. So I’ve ordered with Numan instead (currently waiting on approval).

Someone else told me this is because the 7.5mg has a fiver (ish) off their normal price at the moment so it won’t let you use the new customer code on top. The 10mg wirks with the code but that’s no use if you haven’t stepped up to 7.5 before like me too.

I’m currently on 7.5 but was trying to order a 10mg