Mounjaro October starters - Thread 8!

[HansHolbein]

Carry on losers!

Hello all, hope you are well? @HansHolbein hope you are OK, long time no hear.
I am in maintenance, dropped down to 5mg and I haven't changed in weight for 3 weeks which I'm happy about. I still track my food and eat 1400 to maintain.
Talking if old prices, I've recently used up an old price 10mg pen at £143 and got 9 doses out if it so it was a bargain around £16 per dose! I've noticed some fat redistribution like on my glutes, they've filled out a bit and also my face.

I'm now currently using a 10mg pen at £255 to get 10 doses until the extra fluid goes and it costs even more per week. Finding I still have suppression even now on 5mg, considering I went all the way upto 15mg back in August 25! Then the doses got too strong for me and I started to come down. I spent 3 months on wegovy but it was a fail so I think I'll be on this for long term.
Was reading into the tablets released by Novo and Lilly currently in US starting at $149 per month, they only have GLP so same as wegovy so I don't think I'll bother switching.
Currently nursing a stiff shoulder back to health by taking expired codeine and naproxen found in my meds cupboard yesterday, well I thought I'd give it a go as I was desperate and its the weekend and they worked fine.
Also a week with a slow tyre puncture starting and an old tooth filling came out, and I can't get a dental appointment for 2 weeks, and that's a private one as I'm no longer registered as I avoided the dentist since being on mj due to gagging on higher doses and didn't realise I'd just gone over 2 years 🙈 So I bought a temporary filling kit from Boots to save my tooth for now...why do these things all come together?
Also we may need a new thread of this soon as its approaching page 40.

This thread feels like it has taken ages to fill! less of us posting now.

Went to london and seen matt rife this weekend, so now need to reign it back in again, Iv jabbed 10mg this week as I have so much planned. I would also like to get down to 5mg but I still feel like I need the higher doses.

I would try the pills once I was fully in maintain as Id use it as something to take the edge off but we will see.

@Histoscientist Sounds like its all came at once! I have a NHS dentist and I never miss an app with them as im too scared they will ditch me if I mess them around even a tiny bit! haha

I had 5 x 15mg pens since sept and I still have 1 full pen and 1 with a third in id estimate. Hoping I get until june at least out of them.

@EVK How are you getting on being back on MJ? still going well?

@Fizzleawayyy1 you'll do fine with the 5x15mg stash, I wish I had a stash like that and hadn't gone over to wegovy. I bought 2 x 10mg pens exactly a month ago but someone from my pharmacy has said they have a new style pen so don't know if it's worth trying to order another one right now! It's like pot luck which pen you get now.
I might stick to 5mg for now as I'm eating more food, carbs and treats but I think its the weather and I'm pmt right now 🤣🙈 I'm so old I had to Google who Matt Rife was..I love comedy though so I hope he was good! I've been to local comedy and also the Manchester comedy club which is brilliant.
I don't recommend taking codeine on mounjaro, slows down the GI system a lot!

I’ve been in 2.5 after a few weeks messing about as I’d not ordered a pen. I’m moving up to 5mg next week but am going to dose 3.75 from it. I need to lose another stone / half stone and then work on a maintenance dose.

I feel on 2.5 I was able to eat through the lack of noise!

Hi everyone!! Glad there's still life on our thread and we're all still trucking along. I sat at 10st 5lb, ±2lbs, for weeks and weeks but there has been a slight increase since the end of Feb. I've gone down from 5mg, to 4mg : then I started getting really properly, stomach rumblingly hungry some days, after maybe 6 weeks on 4mg. Eventually I tried moving down to 3.3mg which actually helped with the 'hungers' but I'm now at 10st 8lbs/10lbs. So I'm doing 4mg this week, then at 6 days, I'll do 4mg again, possibly even 5mg and the same again at another 6 days. Hopefully that'll up the mj in my system a tiny bit and I'll be able to shift those extra pounds. It's only 5 pounds but I'm so aware and disappointed I'm up. Note to self : do not buy the M&S almond biscuits in the green pack...

I'm trying to stick to 5 aquafit classes a week but they're very in demand so I don't always get them all. I've just ordered some hand weights in the hope I can get some tone into my arms, and maybe fill out the saggy skin a bit

Keep focused everyone. We're all fabulous x

What ho! Still here. Back on MJ. I've been 12st 1lb for it seems like months now so I've increased my dose to 12.5mg - first injection next Sunday. I am not at all unhappy though as I was almost 19 stone size 26 at my heaviest and now can get into 16s and sometimes 14s. My local charity shop has a £1 rail with some really decent tops including Zara so I've had fun raiding that. Onwards and downwards!

Hi all, still here! I’m currently on 10mg (since November). Still a pesky three to four pounds to goal. Unlikely to lose that now as I’m having a knee replacement in four weeks time. I’ve been told to come off MJ two weeks before and I’m guessing I won’t be able to start (at 2.5mg) until a week or two post op. Dreading putting on weight (probably more than the surgery tbh!). I’m worried it may not work as well after a break. Any experience of this anyone?

I’m two stone down since starting MJ and two stone 91b since my heaviest. Now bmi 23.5 and 10 stone 10 pounds. Size 12. It’s been fab really and I see myself staying on it long term.

Good luck for your operation! No experiences im afraid with stopping and starting again but I have read about others doing it and they didn't seem to have any problems.

@fourquenelles How is 12.5mg working for you?

@Carridoesntlivehereanymore Its so good you have managed to get down to 4mg, I am still at 7,5mg every 10 days! and I am maintaining effortlessly.
However, I have decided I would like to get rid of another 4lbs I think so need to pull my finger and put my 'diet' head on. Kids are back to school now so no excuses now.
Never had the almond biscuits from M&S but I have had the strawberry sundae things in the cake section and I cannot buy them!! as I eat all 4 in one go.

@Histoscientist How are you getting on?

@everyone How are you all doing?