June 2025 Starters - Mounjaro (thread 3)

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Roll up, roll up June Jabbers!

Let's become true losers!!

Evening everyone. Sorry to hear about some of the s/e some of you are having, but equally loving the goals! 🥰 I have gone all day without thinking about food. I just got my head down and worked and then realised it was 3pm ( I normally eat later but I am usually hungry), so I went and made myself eat some soup I had made. This is the weirdest feeling, not thinking about food, snacks, or even feeling hungry. 😬 I don't like forcing myself to eat, but I am doing because I don't want to drastically lose it. Anyone else on 5mg and can offer wisdom? Does it level off? I was hoping before this to continue on 5mg for my next one.

I've DEFINITELY got suppression (sorry, not bragging, just answering your question).
For me, that means I'm less hungry, especially on days 1 - 5.
Most food I just don't want, most of the time.
Even when I am hungry, I'm less interested in what I eat (and I'm a mahoosive foodie) (or was prior to WLI). I'm craving healthy, salady foods, and i feel full very quickly.

In the evenings (I try not to eat in the evenings... a hangover from 16/8, which i used to do) I'm sometimes hungry. Mostly I can ride that out fairly easily. If I feel I HAVE to eat, literally 1/2 dozen nuts or a couple of cream crackers will do. Once half an avocado.

I'm still craving alcohol, but finding it (relatively) easy to not give in to that one. And when I do give in, considerably less is enough. And I don't want red wine (my usual favourite) AT ALL.

Wk5 jab tomorrow and I'm definitely staying on the lowest dose.

No this is true, I can leave it more than I could but last week I was totally uninterested whereas this week it was “calling me”.

@RussianDoll76 suppression for me is simply not being able to eat as much as before at meal times. Usually I gobble it all down and then feel a bit stuffed but now I don’t feel as much in a rush to scoff. I also feel fuller for longer too. I do get hungry but not ravenous where all I can think about is the next meal, or snack.

I think I’m going to stop, I’ve felt awful this week. I have really good almost too good appetite suppression on 2.5mg. I’m hardly eating for days and if I do try to eat I feel sick. First week I was fine, then it’d slowly got worse week on week.i wish I could drop to 1.25mg 😂

You poor thing. I can understand why. I think I would feel the same. I’ve read of quite a few people on here who have taken 1.25 every four days rather than the 2.5. Would it be worth trying?

Oh this is interesting, I hadn’t thought of that! I will look into it.

To be honest it’s miles better than pregnancy sickness but just not pleasant day to day.

Thank you all for the support earlier. I ended up going for a long dog walk which ended in the pub, but had a Diet Coke, unheard of for me! Then the chip shop craving disappeared. I just had some melon and an alcohol free G&T. Ending the day on 1200 calories and not feeling deprived at all

Hi everyone, I reordered my second pen about 10 days ago, they prescribed me 2.5ml again. Pen arrived I took dose 5 (first from pen 2) on Saturday and for the last couple of days I’ve noticed the suppression is much reduced.
I’m wondering what the basis of being prescribed 2.5ml again is, I thought we were supposed to titrate up? there wasn’t a discussion, just gave height weight again waited a few days for approval, no interaction with prescriber.
I'm worried now the that next 3 doses also wont be effective, and I’ll have to wait another month before I can try 5ml (and might just get prescribed 2.5ml again!)
has anyone got any advice please?

Who is your provider? that’s really unusual. Most will push you to go up to 5mg for second pen as that’s the official dosing advice and you have to override that to stay on 2.5mg if that’s your choice.

when I reorder from my prescriber it shows the previous orders strength as default but then I can click on it and change - wondering if you’ve done this? I don’t think there is much you can do now, other than let the 2.5 continue to build in your system - it will be increasing in levels week on week. The only other thing you could do is start dosing 1.5 doses from that pen at a time (normal dose then a 30 click dose = 3.75mg or dose 2.5 every 5 or 6 days instead of 7 - but you would need to read up on that and decide if it’s for you. You would then need to order next pen quicker but that’s not an issue with most providers.

@FirstDayonthePlanet I felt like it wasn't working as much on 2nd 2.5mg pen and ordered the 5mg for my 3rd pen but here I am now after 2 doses on the 2.5mg 2nd pen and I feel like it's back and I could probably stick with 2.5mg for my 3rd pen! 5mg is ordered though so will decide on clicks when the time comes. I'm with Asda and they give both options on my order, my 2.5mg was there or I could opt for the 5mg. Perhaps message them when time comes to order your 3rd pen to find out how you move up. Mine did ask if I had any issues or side effects and I said no (which is true), it states in the asda portal that if you have 2 weeks of no side effects or issues you should move up the dose so perhaps they didn't give you the option if you've had some?

Morning everyone, W3D1 for me though I’m waiting until 3.30pm for my third jab. Down another 2.3kg this week so 5.9kg in total. Only SE so far is a dry mouth. Thinking about if I should stay on 2.5ml or move up. My weight loss has been really good but by day 5 I’m wanting to snack in the evening which I try to prevent by going to the gym.

Thanks, @perimenopoppet @SomethingAboutYou
I’m with Oushk, maybe I missed some option to choose the pen dose but I’m pretty sure I just filled in the form and then it automatically prescribed the ‘recommended’ pen strength, with no option to select another. (And then waited a few days to be approved so there was a pharmacist involved at some point).

you have given hope that it’ll build up and become more effective, I did actually take dose 5 a couple of days late, because I’ve decided to change ‘jab day’ from Thursday to Saturday for various logistical reasons. Maybe it just needs to build back up again.
Ive got the pen now so I’ll just hope for the best and be more careful about clicking ‘order’ next time if it prescribes 2.5 again, maybe look at a change in provider if it does.

W2 D6 here and deffo feel more suppression than this time last week but overall the suppression hasn’t been as strong as it was at the start of the 1st week. Maybe it’s evening out a bit.

En route to the airport so hoping to sail through security so I don’t have to explain the pen in front of the kids…..

Week 4 day 3 and of course today I feel nauseous! Already have the 5mg pen waiting in the fridge! Hoping it passes!

W5 D5. Took my first dose of 5mg this week and I've been nauseous for 2 days and so exhausted the following two days I practically fell asleep at my desk.

I am going to concede defeat and do 3.75mg this week.

Solidarity to all the SE sufferers. It's a stinking thing to go through.🤒

@FirstDayonthePlanet are you using the reorder button from your last dose or just clicking to buy? I am with Oushk and it looks like the reordering process has been expanded from last month, it now asks a lot more questions. Last month when I did my first reorder it took me ages to find the reorder button and I nearly just started from the beginning again, which would then automatically have given me 2.5 (although I am staying on 2.5 anyway).

It also took me ages to find the reorder button! buried in account settings if I recall, I actually had to ask on here because it looked like I was going to have to do the whole prescription set up from scratch.

And yes, the reorder form did seem very brief, I put the request in about 2 weeks ago so I’ll have a look now and see if it’s changed (in preparation for next time, I think I’m stuck with 2.5ml for the next few weeks). Thanks for mentioning this.

Suppression to me feels like almost no hunger at all. I am W3D4 and have only felt properly hungry once so far. Some days, I feel a bit peckish for about 5 minutes, then the feeling passes. But that's only very occasionally.

Most days, I could easily just not eat a thing if it weren't for the light-headedness.

I am quite lucky though in that I don't have to force myself to eat, like some people report. And maybe unlucky in that I don't particularly get fuller, faster. I think I've stretched my stomach over the years... I have noticed that if a meal is VERY big, I can't finish it. I went out for the most amazing Sunday roast this week and all I could eat was the meat, half the mash, and a small portion of veg. The roasties and yorkshire pudding remained unexplored. But the portion of beef was easily half a cow - I still stuffed my face... ;-) I'm not struggling to eat normal sized portions.

Food noise... I've got to a weird place where I want to want to eat. I miss the emotional side of enjoying food, food as fuel is a new concept and some days, I miss food for fun. But if I walk around the supermarket, all I actually want to eat is salad. I'll be interested to see what happens come winter/colder weather. I'm currently absolutely obsessed with M&S Feta & Watermelon Salad. 400 calories if I eat the whole lot, the crisp salad, salty cheese, cold watermelon, tangy dressing... It's all I want to eat. So I'm having that most lunches, with a 600-700 calorie evening meal that's protein-heavy. I don't weigh myself, but today's NSV is a skirt that I love that had become too tight to wear, now fits well on my waist. And I can see my arms are thinner. This is good enough for me.

Question on pens, can you do half doses and will the pen only let you do this 4 times? When you really want be doing 8? How does it work?

This is what I am hoping to do with my 5mg pen - I have had two doses of 30 clicks so there should be 6 more. As I understand it, the pen is limited to 240 clicks so it should work fine for eight half doses, although obviously we will need more needles (which I am yet to order).

W3 D2

Met my son and his new(ish) girlfriend for lunch, went to an Indian in centte of Bristol, couldn't finish my curry so home it has come for DP for tea. I have always maintained that some people have an inner switch that shuts off when they are full and mine has malfunctioned. I'm hoping the switch is resetting itself. Note to self next time just order a starter. Food was delicious do would recommend Nutmeg in Bristol City Centre, my son says it takes him back to Nepal

Thank you for sharing , this makes more sense of what I can feel now. I think I expected more of a ‘I can’t eat’ feeling as opposed to ‘I don’t need to eat’ which feels weird . Today’s a better day . I’m working with it . I think I had a panic set in with it being my first off day !!! 😁

I did it! 1stone 2lbs down and into the next weight bracket. So happy.

Celebrating with a takeaway tonight...usually do just dry chicken tikka but OH wants Chinese so I'm thinking something like chicken and mushroom. Haven't had a proper takeaway since I started MJ so pray for me!

Ahhh so it based on number of clicks that makes sense….i couldn’t work it out with the prep clicks etc

'I don't need to eat' definitely feels weird. But yes, that's exactly how it feels to me. I CAN eat, I know I have to eat, but my body is giving me no clues beyond feeling light-headed.