Mounjaro October starters - Thread 8!

[HansHolbein]

Carry on losers!

Ah sorry 😞 it was sent at 11.13am but I've been at work and took almost 2hrs to get home because of a crash so I've only recently caught up with posts etc why don't you email them and see what they can do for you.
To join their new community go on their website and there is a link there. I dont use the app but the website. Stock updates are posted on there.

Thanks @Letshavetea1 ive always been reluctant to chop and change suppliers, have always stuck with Oushk and would rather just stick with them, I’m due to have my maintenance call with them soon but not sure where I stand now as it doesn’t appear I’ll have any medication to maintain with!
I looked at alternative providers earlier and just couldn’t find any 15mg in stock with the first few I checked, or some you needed to register and account with and go through the questionnaire before you could see what’s available etc, I just want to be able to order one pen to make sure I’ve got something to use beyond the end of next week!

Don’t apologise, you were being really helpful and I appreciate it!
People are so bloody kind and lovely on this thread 🩷
sorry you got caught in traffic but hope those involved were okay.
I’ll drop them an email and see what they say.
Thanks 😊

Good luck, I'm sending lucky vibes your way to manifest a pen lol ✨️ 💕
I did read another email saying stock of 12.5 and 15 is expected on 22nd so try tomorrow early on if you can. Definitely email them too.

Thanks, I’ve dropped them an email, and will try and order again tomorrow.

@TheChosenTwo I’m the same as you I want to stay with Oushk ideally. However, I didn’t want to risk not having any back up as at the time Oushk couldn’t supply anything. I I think this being the case it would be a bit rich if they penalised customers for going elsewhere during this (manufactured Lilly) ‘crisis’. There was a message on Circle 10 hours ago saying they’ve got limited supplies of 12.5 and 15 . Worth giving it a go now maybe?
I did have to go through the whole registration process with a few providers before I bit lucky with both being approved and some stock at health express.
Have you seen the list on monj which tells you which suppliers do maintenance?
Good luck.

@Letshavetea1 thanks, I have downloaded the circle app and can see their posts now, I didn’t know it existed until it was mentioned an hour ago!
I’m a bit of a social media/app phobe - not really I just don’t use it or them so have been quite out of the loop. I haven’t heard about the new price hike at all on the news (it’s been on there I have no doubt but I didn’t catch it at all) and I got the email about 48 hours after reading about it on here, just very poor I felt.

Oh I don’t think that they will penalise for going to wherever there was stock, so many are deciding now to taper off or not reorder that I think they’ll be grateful to get customers back - not that this will hit them financially with any meaningful impact.

i don’t really get the monj.uk website, it just takes me to more links and not a list, i looked at it the other day and just abandoned it altogether!

I’ve gone from worrying about getting a couple of pens in before the price hike to now worrying I won’t get a pen at all so will have to go cold turkey at the end of this one. What a palava!

No update on Superdrug, although they sent an email saying due to high demand they are taking 5-7 days to process. I see they were also allowing people to buy 3 pens, but now they’ve stopped taking any orders at all.

MM have no stock of any pen at all. Oushk have no stock and I had to cancel my video appointment with them tomorrow because they have no stock to sell me anyway!

I did not anticipate the end of my MJ journey being like this!

Health express now out of stock of anything over 5mg

https://weightlossuk.co.uk/price/
I find this an easier website to use for prices/stock than monj. It clearly states which companies do maintenance.
My second pen of 10mg for August has just arrived from Oushk.

@Letshavetea1 Oh that is much better!

@Letshavetea1 Oh that is much better!

@HansHolbein It’s great isn’t it?! I wanted to share it on here so all my favourite people (all of you) on my favourite thread can see it!

Superdrug emailed today to say that they’ve not been able to get stock, they’re working through all the orders this coming week but some will have to be cancelled.

Weighed in this morning, was surprised to see the scales go down by 3.5lbs.
SW 16st 2
CW 10st 3

Hello again lovelies. It's taken 16 weeks to drop another stone but slowly slowly catchy monkey so now 13 st 1.5lbs down from 17st 10lbs in October.

Worse news is Boots will charge £330 for a 10 mg Mounjaro pen!! I will move to Wegovy unless anyone here can recommend a supplier of Mounjaro at around £200/pen (or less). Boots system for switching seems complicated and I am having trouble finding and completing the right form so I have had to message them. Gah!

Onwards and downwards (and bloody broke)

Try medicine market place, they're usually the cheapest from all of them. I think they have published their prices on their website. I'm with oushk but don't know their prices yet.

I really rate medicine marketplace as a supplier, one of the best I've used.

Wow ladies ! I’m sorry you’re all having such a worrying time over purchasing MJ! @Histoscientist yes !!! Did think I could have sold my pen by t don’t know anyone personally who’s taking it and thought it was a bit dodgy as I’d feel and be responsible if anything happened! I just want to say that I’m MJ free and managing well. I don’t have a huge appetite, bad habits haven’t returned and I’m eating healthily. Having spent nearly a year changing habits I think the new ones are sticking and it’s actually a great feeling to know it can be done without medication. Please have faith in yourselves - you’ve all changed during this process and have made incredible positive changes in your lives - you’re all strong, positive and determined women - I think you have more resilience and capacity to maintain healthy habits than you might imagine 🩷💕 Those of you planning to titrate down and come off - the good news is it’s completely doable - you will poo
loads to begin with (well I did!) as your digestive system speeds up again! You may feel hunger but it’s totally manageable (I kind of like the feeling and knowing I’m in control) and these days I can go
from breakfast to evening meal
with a handful of nuts, coffee and an apple
or banana! Not deliberately but when I’m busy and it happens it’s not bad. I actually love not t taking MJ anymore because I get to test my resilience and trust myself to make healthier choices- you all
can do it 💕🩷💕🩷💕🩷

@EVK great to hear you are an MJ graduate and maintaining well and managing the hunger fine. I'm definitely going to come off as I'm fed up of feeling tired.
As for the toilet issues, I don't have any, I've always been regular like before MJ. I'm fact I used to have IBS-D before but on MJ its slowed it down to like a normal person, so I hope it continues when I come off.

Thanks @EVK
Im on my way down. In the end I was too worried about delays to delivery making it too hard to know when the last pen would turn up, so I didn't order and risk it arriving when I'm not here. I definitely still need to work hard to shift the belly/muffin. But I'm 25kg down, which I'm delighted with.
Im focusing on nutrition (portion size!!), hydration, exercise and consistency... weighing myself and logging it weekly (daily doesn't work for me).
I have a week away coming up, with lots of meals out and partying...eeek! Then I'm home alone the following week so that is perfect for a reset week.
I'm curious to see where the prices end up after Sept 1st...it's a very odd thing what is happening...and a worrying precedent...it was always interesting that the UK pricing was comparatively so much cheaper than other countries. American friends could not believe that a £120 product here cost in the region of USD1200 over there....but the changes over the last couple of weeks are crazy...

Hope everyone is well, thanks for the updates and good luck!!

I don’t know what Eli Lilly are doing. It seems so badly planned out. I mean, fine, increase your prices if you must, but there must be so many people like me who can’t get a pen now, so can’t carry on, regardless of prices. It would seem from some of the pharmacies that EL have deliberately restricted supply. To what end? And I think the pharmacies have been a bit rubbish too, I’m kind of annoyed with MM for not prioritising existing customers. I’ve been with them for 8 months. They’ve had their moments regarding supply, but I guess I thought at the last minute they’d pull some out of the bag like other months.

I got an email last night from MM to say stock was in, in the 30 minutes it took me to see the email, they had sold out again. I’ve heard nothing from Superdrug since the email saying there are delays and some orders will need to be cancelled as they’ve not had the stock they were promised. I’ve not found anywhere else taking on new customers or with any stock left. I’ve got one dose left in my pen and then I guess that’s that!

I’m gutted it’s ended this way.

Hi all,
Like us all feel quite fed up about price increase. Makes you realise how unscrupulous these big pharmaceutical companies are. I didn’t really feel guilty reducing my clicks and making my pens last longer but feel even less guilty.
Will consider Wegovy etc or just pay the increase but continue to make them last longer.

Week 24 of maintenance
SW 12st 2lb
GW 9st 7lb (happy with 9st 2lb - 9st 7lb)
CW 9st 5lb

Going to take 3mg this week as struggling a bit with the chocolate munchies. Blame it on fact I get easily obsessed by things, the latest being getting a new kitchen so spending hours mindlessly scrolling deciding on units, appliances etc. plus having to do a lot of hospital visits for family member. Now seeing some of the poor souls in hospital is so upsetting, got to make the most of our lives.
With everything going on haven’t been as focused on my protein and exercise. Tomorrow is a new day and a new week so will get back on it.

@EVK thats great to hear! Well done.

Hi all, just back from a 10 day AI holiday. I last jabbed on Monday 11th and am feeling that urge to overeat the last couple of days, although still getting full quickly. I think there is about 7-10lbs damage, will jab tomorrow morning, going to do 5mg and then jab again in 5 days to build back up. I enjoyed my holiday, will accept the gain, but getting straight back on the straight and narrow now we are home.
As a NSV, 12 months ago with 51/2 stone of extra weight the holiday heat would have been unpleasant, as it was I don’t think I broke a sweat! I also did more activities, climbing on and jumping off a boat to snorkel. My daughter commented on how happy I was to be in photos this year.
I’m not so happy about the price increases, but think a switch to Wegovy might be an option for me, I have a couple of pens in the fridge, so will see how the land lies once those are gone.