Mounjaro October starters - Thread 8!

[HansHolbein]

Carry on losers!

@flowerlady2 im with Oushk as is my husband. We are both on the flexi plan, have a stockpile, are taking lower doses out of higher pens and use the extra dose. We could go 3 months with our reordering, but so far have managed to take 2 ‘holidays’ where we haven’t taken our pens and have contacted Oushk to let them know. I have managed to alternate our orders every month and am now ordering 7.5mg pens. That’s the best I have been able to do to stay receiving the pens and once we start the 7.5mg pens we will get through them more quickly.

I'm with oushk, I've got 10mg pens and doing 5mg, I just make sure to keep ordering every 5 weeks roughly, they allow every 6 weeks max so as long as you keep with that, it's fine. You will build up a stockpile but then I'll just use it later or go on flexi to use it up. I've just ordered a pen after 9 weeks after my last order of 2 pens 2 delivered 14th March and my new pen will be delivered 16th June. All approved already.

@Taxiparent Could you consider ordering in just one of your names so you wouldn’t have to order as often if you want to make doses last longer. You would still have your own individual pens to use but would be ordering more frequently.

i feel sorry for anyone on higher doses as the cost is so astronomical nowadays. Was looking at the price of the Eli Lily weightloss tablets now approved in USA and they are not that much cheaper. Think I read it takes pennies for them to produce!!!

Yes, thats not a bad idea, if i keep ordering that would work!

Thanks so much for your helpful reply. I'm not on the flexi plan though maybe I should switch to that, still ordering 12.5 and taking 10mg which is a little hit and miss with suppression, but your response really helps me in thinking about what I approach Oushk with within the guidelines, thanks :)

Again, so helpful thank you. When you say 'holidays' is that breaks form the medication or time abroad?

Great, thank you - yes, I was over 6 weeks by accident and they did query my last order but confirmed it once I'd answered a few questions. There's no way currently other than stockpiling is there and re-ordering every 5 weeks.

@flowerlady2 a break from the medication due to being away on holiday!

Hope you enjoyed your yoga retreat @Histoscientist and came back refreshed.
I have just opened a 15mg pen, been ages since i have opened a new pen 😁. Going to take 2.5mg which is 10 clicks so should last a while. Will keep it in the fridge as ever.
Weight today was 9st .01”, so close to being under 9st…..
Still weight training twice a week and 3/ 4 mile walks 5 times per week. Not been monitoring calories closely but probably about 1700 a day.
Am 60 in a couple of weeks and have loads of family/ friend meals/ drinks planned plus we are off to Malta second week in June so was hoping to lose a few pounds in advance but hey ho.
There again if anyone had said to me I would be 9st ish 2 years ago I wouldn’t have believed it.
The sun is shining here so off for a long walk with dog before the weather changes.
Have a good week all.

I don't know if anyone remembers me, I haven't been on here for a while because the weight loss really slowed down and I didn't have anything worth reporting, but this week ...

Starting weight 20st 2lb
Current weight 11st 0lb

BMI 24.9 - for the first time in my adult life I'm not overweight!!!!!!!
(and I'm 62 so my adult life has been quite a long time 😂)

I want to lose a few more pounds to give myself a buffer and then start (very slowly) tapering down from 15mg.
Does this sound like a reasonable plan?

@igivein Congratulations!! What an achievement!! You're obviously absolutely delighted!!

I'm only about 5lbs into the healthy range but can't afford to lose any more or my skin will look terrible. I'm happy but that 5lbs isn't much to play with. I've been very, very slowly titrating down. I moved down to 3.3mg after I started getting the 'hungers' on 4mg. It was an improvement but I've since gone back up to 4mg for a few weeks as those few 'buffer' pounds were sticking. It's slowly shifting now and I'll drop back to 3.3mg in a week or two.

Thanks @Carridoesntlivehereanymore I am delighted, but realise the job's not done yet (and probably never will be).
I know I need a buffer so will keep going for a few weeks, but I really don't want to drop much more - I have lots of loose skin (I look like a melted candle 😒) that's not going anywhere I think due to my age. If I got 'nipped and tucked' to get rid of it I think I would lose at least another stone overnight (not exaggerating, that's a conservative estimate), so there's probably not a lot of actual fat left to lose, even though I'm at the top end of a healthy BMI.
I'm on the maximum dose currently, and my thought is that when I start reducing I'll do it in .5mg increments, so that in itself is going to take ages, even if it doesn't go per-shaped and I have to increase the dose to get it under control.
Have to say, I would love not to be shelling out £300 a month, but it has been worth it.

We look like we're on page 40 of this thread, should someone, who is more savvy than me, start the next thread and link it to this one? It'd be a shame to lose the continuity after all this time

Never done it before but I will try and do it now and link to new thread below.
Whar could possibly go wrong 😂

Hi all, below the link to Thread 9 so we can continue our October group started by the brilliant @HansHolbein

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5530082-mounjaro-october-starters-thread-9