June 2025 Starters - Mounjaro (title edited by MNHQ at request of the OP)

[Potterson13]

Hi everyone!

I started MJ around this time last year, but due to costs and unforeseen family circumstances, I fell of the band wagon and took about 6 months off. I’m now a stone heavier than I was. I am back and ready to go again. First pen, back to 2.5mg, arriving tomorrow or Friday.

I found the last thread I was on very supportive so wondered if there’s a few people around who want to join me!

This is an amazing change. Well done you!!

Amazing achievement @OhMyEarsAndWhiskers!!! Be really proud of yourself x

Week one Day 5 today. Still feeling quite poorly but not as bad as at the beginning of the week where I literally slept all day on Monday.
Had 2hrs awake with indigestion pains, woke up with no headache but it's starting to return now I've been awake an hour. Weighed this morning at just over the half way point and 11lbs down!! Which is amazing but not something I can sustain unfortunately if the side effects contine being so bad.

I’ve just done my second jab and weighed in - 6lbs down, despite my eating returning more to normal in the last two days. Astonishing! Looking forward to the hunger subsiding again. I need to up the protein this week and build some muscle. Also, does anyone else have body composition scales? Not sure how reliable they are but an awful lot of me is fat, and my water % is oddly low given how much water I’ve been drinking…

did you tell your GP. If not, please do. Health care professional here

Yes, absolutely I have and he told me to cease the medication, thank you for checking though.

W1D6
First morning of a mildly bad tummy. 2kg down.
feel hungry for breakfast now and off to have some

W1D3, ate an egg and a slice of toast for breakfast and don’t feel sick. A lot of my portions are habit, not what I actually need. I realised too that I never feel hungry, I was chatting what I ate for a week or so before I jabbed on the voy app - I never actually feel hungry. I’m ND, so I assume it’s enteroception issue - but it explains a LOT.

First weigh in today and I’ve lost 6lb and just done jab 2
I am going to try and listen to my body a bit more this week as could feel myself slipping back into old routine last couple of days - so today will only eat if I actually feel hungry and try and increase fluids

I can recommend Pulsin protein powder, they do a few types that are tasteless (in a good way) Available on Amazon.

First weigh in and im 5.7lbs down!! 🥳 delighted especially as its the week before period which is usually when I scoff and bloat! Jabbing this morning once hubby buggers off, don't need the million questions 😂

Morning all! I braved my first dose last night. Just wondering how soon people felt the effects? I currently feel completely normal

Hi all, I’d like to join as I took my first jab last night. I’m 42, 5ft4 and starting at 13st 10lbs. Would like to get to 10st, but happy to lose 3st initially.

Was really scared taking the injection, but didn’t hurt, and I slept fine. Plan is to drink lots of water, focus on eating protein, so eggs, chicken and yoghurt, and trying to walk lots as well.

Really hoping this works as I just haven’t been able to do it on my own xx

Same here! I don’t feel hungry, but then I’m not really a breakfast eater. Also coming on my period today so think the tummy pains are cramps. Going to have some eggs on protein bagel at lunch and see how I feel x

I'm not a breakfast eater either, but have had a smoothie this morning. I didn't feel hungry but I don't generally in the mornings anyway so it's hard to know! I just feel completely normal lol I was kind of expecting some sort of big hitting symptoms 🤣

I took my 3rd jab yesterday. My weight loss had stalled (I weigh daily) but weighed this morning and lost 1lb so that’s good. I seem to lose early on during the week and then it slows down as I get closer to needing the next injection, so that’s interesting.

Me too! I’ve put off taking for a week as was worried about symptoms getting in the way of things I had planned. Have taken some
paracetamol so having a little yoghurt with it. Feel very normal so far. Meeting a friend at a coffee shop later so interesting to see whether I have any cravings.

Week 2 D5 and I am SO tired today. Didn't have my usual protein shake had a huel one and it was gross 🤮

I’m W1D5 and I’ve got a bit of a dodgy tummy today… as well as having a bit of spotting (I’ve got the Mirena coil and haven’t had a period in a year & a half!). Checked with the nurse and she said just to monitor it, but can be as a result of blood sugar regulation and also weight loss. Can someone please tell me if the headache and tiredness ever goes away?! 😭 I’m really struggling!

I'm week 2 day 5 too. I've only been having huel (first time dipping my toe into the protein shake world!) and assumed they're all like this?! I've got the chocolate black one which isn't the best. Any recommendations for a better one?

Last week I was getting hungry by mealtimes and could easily skip a snack. This week I've been much hungrier and snacky. Had a peek on the scales and looks to be 0.5kg loss so far with only tomorrow to go before I weigh on Friday. My average cals has been 1700 rather than the 1600 of last week. I've seen a few people with lower losses on week 2 so I'm hoping week 3 pulls it back a little or I'm going to have to up to 5mg and I'd really like to stay on 2.5 for a bit longer!

Hi everyone, I've just ordered my first pen through Medicine Marketplace. Hoping it gets approved. I'm 5'4 and 12 stone. BMI not enough on it's own to make me eligible, but I have high blood pressure so hoping that will mean my prescription is approved.

I'm really excited to start, keep reading other people's experiences and it seems that they vary so much from person to person so it's hard to know what to expect in terms of side effects. Any tips on what to stock up on to counteract the side effects - particularly the dreaded burps I keep hearing about?

@MontysMum909 Great tip! Downloading that app now as I’m expecting my first delivery in the next hour or so and it’ll be great to have the images to compare as I (hopefully) start to change shape!

Have you booked your virtual consultation? I ordered in Sunday but my consultation isn't until the 24th

Week 1 D4 for me and I feel rubbish today, but I think it’s more to do with my very heavy period starting - bad cramps and my bowels feeling shoogly :( I can’t help but feel the Mounjaro is compounding it all though. On the plus side I didn’t really feel hungry at all this morning but had a coffee and a cereal bar around 10.30, however I felt weird and nauseous after it. Probably wasn’t the right choice.

When have people been ordering/thinking of ordering their second pens? I take my third jab tomorrow so I’m thinking I should order soon?