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!

@QS90 I am also totally exhausted, I have a manic full time job and am menopausal but this is another level. I took 5ml last week but am going back to 3.75 as have a friend staying this weekend and don’t want to abandon her for naps!!

Yup, also exhausted. I kept being woken up last night with sulphur burps! OMG that’s a joy I’ve not experienced previously 😵‍💫 I took some charcoal tablets in the middle of the night which helped a little bit, but they are still there this morning. Gaviscon had no effect either.

@QS90 Sorry you’re feeling so tired. It’s really tough isn’t it? I do think being in a calorie deficit makes me tired regardless of anything else. I’m absolutely shattered at the moment but as I said to someone else I genuinely can’t work out if it’s the MJ or just life. I rarely get more than 6 hrs sleep and even when I don’t have to get up at 6:20 I often wake at 6 ish anyway and can’t get back to sleep! I’m terrible for going to bed at a sensible time and then reading until I physically can’t keep my eyes open any longer!! I hope it might stabilise as we get used to the drug or maybe when we start maintaining.

Good morning ladies. Weigh in day today, I’ll take my week 7 injection on Monday so it’s week 6 day 4. I stated on the 7th of April. Did 4 weeks 2.5 and then this is half way through the 3rd of 5mg. As of this morning I’ve lost 25lb! I’m now only 10lb from my target weight and my bmi is 26.6 now. I’m still only eating one meal a day and no carbs, plenty of veg and protein in that meal. I will continue this as it’s always worked for me but usually I’m starving in between and now I’m not. I hope I can re-order at this BMI, I don’t see why not. I’m with we prescribe. If they don’t allow us maintenance what’s the point?
i think this may be my last order but we will see how it goes. I’d like to get a bit under my target weight to allow me to gain some back I’m going on holiday 26th of June and plan to inject the Monday that I go, I go on the Thursday but miss the next week. I’ll still have a weeks left when I come home and won’t have missed more than a week so I should be ok for the 5mg.
No major side effects, nausea on injection day, sulphur burps and headaches but all very manageable.
Have a lovely day

Yes, I think the email confirmation counts as proof. Also, you can take a photo of the Mounjaro box - it will have a white sticky label on with your name, the medication and dose, and the pharmacy name, and the dispenser's initials / signature.

Woah - that’s an amazing loss! I’m nowhere near that but even with MJ I don’t think I could handle OMAD! Well done.

HW 91kg | SW 87kg | CW 77kg

My skin has got really dry so I'm greasing myself with Cerave. I don't like unguents but I think I need to just put up with it. I've got some Korean Italy towels too to get my skin into as good shape as it can be for this upcoming insult. I've got some prescription tret too for my face and neck, which might be more effective if I actually put it on my face instead of just put it next to the sink.

Tummy still quite big and still not out of my fat clothes except for one largish pair of jeans from about 4 years ago. I seem to have mainly lost the weight from my face and legs? 🐫Still lost almost nothing off my waist, barely half an inch. My thin clothes are all expecting a 28" waist and 38" hips and I'm still sticking at 31" / 42". My cheekbones are re-emerging, though.

A friend came over last night and in between various other discussions she remarked again that she was unable to see that I'd ever gained weight or had any to lose, to the point I almost felt she was accusing me of making it up, so this time I actually told her all my weights in the 15 years we've known each other, and she was completely surprised.

I just don't think we're very good at "seeing" weight. I think basically, we see four sizes: thin, normal, fat...and documentary. And "normal" can be anything up to BMI 35, easily. It's not well calibrated to the scale or reality. For me, I never looked thin unless my BMI was about 19, and I never really looked fat. I just looked average; I'm average looking in all respects. But looking and feeling are so different. In my own body, I do feel it, from the inside.

Disappointed to only have lost .5lb this week but I have definitely noticed a trend of a big loss every second week so fingers crossed for next week. 18lbs down in 6 weeks so when I look at that as a whole it is a great result. 10lbs off my first goal target of 2 stone. Will set a further target of 1 stone after that until I reach a total loss of 4 stone which would be amazing & the lightest I've ever been since I was a teen.
Best of luck every, keep on moving (scales I'm looking at you!!!!)

My skin is also really dry, I use Cerave also. It’s actually looking really bad at the moment and it’s definitely not dehydrated as im so careful to drink 3 litres of water per day.

I wonder what we can do about it?

1.1lb loss for me today. I’m really disappointed with that. Trying to have a word with myself that anything off is good. And the other positive since I am on MJ I won’t do my usual sod this and eat everything I can get my hands on.

I was going to go back down to 5 as I saw no really difference but then and small freak out that if I can’t even lost properly on 7 then I can’t go down. Not the healthiest of minds this morning and not a road I want to spiral down so will have to sort head out.

im a bit like you - call myself the ‘Ready Brek Kid’ as I put on weight pretty evenly like a comfort blanket 😆. I’ve lost c1.5 stone (bmi from 31 to 26.9) and no one has commented 🤣

tbf I do tend to yo-yo and cycle through a 2 stone tolerance…….

My advice would be to stick with it and give your body chance to catch up. Could you increase exercise? Walking especially seems to move my weight downwards. I’m very happy with a 1lb loss in a week because it’s more than I’d be getting without Mounjaro

Well the 5mg dose has really kicked my butt this week! After a night of eggy burps, stomach cramps and tiredness I’m shattered.
im now wondering what to do for next week. I’ve done my last two doses in my stomach, and definitely feeling more suppression but also more side effects.
I think I’ve have two options, and would love your opinion.

1. inject in thigh instead of stomach next Tuesday and hope for less side effects
2. split the dose and take 2.5mg every 3-4 days.

No 2 is my preferred option, BUT I’m on holiday for two weeks at the beginning of June and not planning on taking my pen with me as im away with friends who don’t know. This would mean going 14 days on only one 2.5mg jab. I have to take the final jab the morning we fly which means the first couple of days of the holiday I’ll be having the worst of the side effects. So it’s either side effects and then suppression, or little then no suppression until I get home and can jab again. 😬 Did anyone find the SEs settled on the 5mg after week 3?

Feeling a bit crap since second 5mg jab. Don’t want to complain as I feel I’ve been so lucky with SEs so far! Headache that will not shift :( also suppression the strongest I’ve had so far and struggled to eat anything yesterday and today. Made myself have lunch and dinner today, but could barely eat half of what I made and feeling a bit sick after dinner (spag Bol). I’d be okay if only this headache would go away!

@Pepperwaggytail I would just take less, myself. Do you need 5mg if it's making you poorly? You might have a few weeks with a slightly slower rate of weight loss, but you will likely continue losing. And if you don't, you can always go back up when you're at home and it's easier to manage. It's a long term intervention - a week or two here and there won't make any difference in the long run.

I think you are right. I will ruin my holiday if I feel like this.

@Pepperwaggytail thanks I hardly do any exercise at the moment as too tired so might make sure I get out for a decent walk each day at least.

Forgot to check in yesterday for my weigh day.

SW 12st10
CW 11st2
GW 10st

feeling wiped out, haven’t eaten much at all today, had a wrap at lunchtime which made me feel totally crap.

My stall from last week has evened out as I’d hoped. Concentrated on more water this week 💦

Last week before holiday so am hoping the bikini looks ok!! 🤞🤞

W6D1
SW:12.12
TW: 10.12 (2 stone loss)
CW: 11.6

W1: - 6lb
W2: - 3lb
W3: - 2lb
W4: - 3lb (total 1 stone 💪)
W5: -3lb
W6: -0lb
W7: -3lb (total 1 stone 6lbs)

Few of us feeling a bit rubbish this week, wonder if it’s the heat.

I am suffering with dry skin at the moment too, although I haven’t been drinking as much this week, but what usually works for me is to put a body oil (I use Vaseline cocoa) on whilst still wet from shower and then 10 mins later putting moisturiser on, I really rate the aveeno one.

@Pepperwaggytail I would take less personally, you want to enjoy the holidays.
Have you tried your arm for injecting?

Hi Everyone - weigh in day for me!

wk8 day 1
2.5mg

SW 13st 7
CW 12st 4
GW 9st 13

wk 1-3 - 8
wk 4 - 4
wk 5 -1
wk 6 -3
wk 7 -1

Absolutely delighted with a pound off this week. I had a huge meal and lots of Prosecco on Saturday (friend who doesn’t know about MJ cooked for me) and the scales have been up all week so this was a nice surprise. I seem to be losing a bit slower than most but I haven’t gone up to 5mg and I have no side effects so think I’ll just keep plodding. I’ve got 1 more dose of 2.5 mg plus my bonus dose to go of this pen and a 5mg pen waiting in the fridge. Reading about everyone’s side effects I’m really not sure I want to go up… I’ll see how I go next couple of weeks…

well done on some great losses everyone.

@Pepperwaggytail i think I’d take 2.5 mg before going on holiday and then not worry too much. You don’t want your holiday to be ruined by side effects.

Hi all, so I don’t know if anyone remembers me
from the older threads, but I’ve been on holiday. I wasn’t sure if I should take my jab with me or not, I did have it with me
but I didn’t actually do the jab it just didn’t fit in time wise for me and I didn’t want to risk anything!! But then I ended up with a flight cancellation and had another couple
of days away. So now my last jab was 09/05 so 2 weeks ago today. I would usually jab on a Friday night and was on 5mg - does anyone know if i should just go straight back onto the 5mg after 2 weeks off?? I’m going to weigh myself in a min as well to see the damage of no jab, a holiday, a long flight yesterday and a period lol

Hi everyone

Weigh in day for me too
I started on Monday 14th April

SW 12.2
CW 10.13 1/2
TW 9.7

Really happy with the results in such a short period of time! No side effects really other then a bit of insomnia when I have the jab.

Weigh day for me and down 3.4lbs this week, really pleased with that after last week’s half a pound loss!

Now down just over 28lbs 🙂

Jab & weigh day for me too!

Wk 8 Day 1

Took around 3mg (35 clicks) from my 5mg pen this morning.

I had gone back to 2.5 last week as we were going away & I didn’t want to be too restricted.

Delighted to be down another 2lb this week despite drinking at the weekend and enjoying some French food!

Will see if being back on 3mg brings back the same suppression I had & if not may go up to 3.75 next week.

SW 15.11
CW 13.10
TW 12