Should have ordered 7.5mg

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Hi, i ordered my 3rd 5mg mounjaro, however Im feeling like I should have ordered 7.5mg instead. I've had 2 doses out of it now. I was wondering, I could get a 7.5mg out of a 5mg. Or can you order a 7.5mg sooner?

I've fallen off the wagon this last few weeks, my hormones have been out of balance and children off school (SAHM) so out of routine. With days out, meals out, ice cream etc. My weight loose has stopped, don't want to step on scale 🫣😬. I need a kick up the bum to get back on track. I've lost 1.5st so far and another 4st to go.

My next injection is due on Friday.

I’m feeling the same ! 3rd 5mg pen and wish I’d gone up! You can get 7.5 - take the 5 as usual and then another 30 clicks of a second would give you an additional 2.5. Will mean you will run out quicker but it’s doable!

The amount in your system does build each week, so I would maybe try and get through the remaining two weeks on 5mg. Suppression does vary sometimes and isn’t always to do with the current dose level. I would also suggest biting the bullet and getting back on the scales, then you’ll know where you’re at.

If you do want to do 7.5mg you’d need to do a normal injection of 5 mg and then do a second injection of 30 clicks to do a half dose of 2.5mg to make 7.5mg over all. That would leave you with only a half dose of 30 clicks left in your pen though.

Hi, contact your subscribers and ask them. They may suggest taking it every 5/6 days rather than taking a different amount. As it builds in your system every 5 days should really help.

I will send them a message soon, and see what they advise Didn't know you could possibly take it every 5 days. 5 days would take me to tomorrow i think, dont know if they will respond in time though.

If you are comfortable using the extra liquid in pen with a syringe you can get 2 x 7.5mg doses out of the rest of that pen as you’ve only used 0.6ml x 2 so far so there is more than 3x0.6ml still in the pen.

2 ways to do it.

1. next dose take 60 clicks as normal then another 30 straight after. Final dose extract 0.9ml (90units) with an insulin syringe.

OR

1. extract 0.9ml with a syringe for each of the next 2 doses. There will still be a little liquid left at end but not much.

It sounds like the trigger for falling off the wagon is the change of routine, holiday treats etc so you are no longer working with your current dose like you did before.

If you increase dose you could potentially have side effects, not ideal during the holidays. If you then are still tempted and don't work with the increased dose the possibility of side effects could be higher.

With 4st still to lose (many find weight loss slows down the closer they get to target) do you want to be increasing dose now, when you know what the probable trigger is for the effects diminishing?

I had similar over Christmas, meals out, treat food etc and foods noise and craving volume dialed right back up, I decided to give it a few weeks after Christmas to get back into my routine before reassessing dose. Once I was back in my routine the dose I was on started "working" again (still on the same dose now).

Obviously do what you think is right for you depending on how you are approaching your journey, just giving another perspective to mull over.

If you do decide to increase I would increase injecting to every 5-6 days (with support from your provider for ordering early) instead until you get to the end of the current pen.

Take a dose and a half - 60 then 30

Can you try injecting somewhere else (if you’re injecting in the same place)? I find it can boost the suppression doing it in my stomach (if I’ve been doing it in my arm) and vice versa.

I’d try that and then if not, just get 7.5mg out of the pen. I’ve ordered two in the space of a month before and didn’t have any issues.

When this happened to me on 2 pens I asked my prescriber for advice and they said to inject every 5 days. This did work for me going from zero suppression for a full week on 10mg after jabbing to good suppression for 5 days.