June 2025 Starters - Mounjaro (thread 5)

[Focusispower]

Heading into month three now!

So following on from feeling so ill last week, back to work yesterday. Weighed in and a loss of 4lb, making a total of 1st 9lb since June 24th.
Have decided to delay my next jab for a few days.

I've had to manage chronic constipation for decades due to a bowel condition. My top tips:

Psyllium husks daily with lots of water. If you don't drink enough with them they can have the opposite effect! Start slowly and increase as your system gets used to the extra fibre.

Add flax and/or chia seeds into your diet - sprinked on salads, on cereals, seeded bread etc. As well as fibre they are a good source of omega3 and contain protein too.

A few prunes added to breakfast, I find they actually get things moving rather than just softening everything up!

Drink at least 2.5 to 3ltrs of water a day.

If all else fails I use a small dose of lactulose. It's helpful because it both softens the stools and gently stimulates a movement. Bonus that it also acts as a prebiotic to feed your healthy gut bacteria - some laxatives are known to damage your microbiome. I find it best taken before bed.

Hope this helps.

Hello all. I'm back from my 1000 mile festival marathon, having missed three jabs. As of this morning I am only up 1.7kg which seems quite amazing considering what I ate and drank whilst away. Back at gym last night and this morning, and have gone back to a 2.5 dose today. I spotted the news about price increases whilst away, and so I have two 5mg pens arriving this afternoon to add to the one I had waiting in the fridge for my return, so at least that buys me a bit of breathing space. I hope I can continue on my pre-holiday progress at the lower doses as the new prices are a bit eyewatering for higher dose pens.

Thanks all.
Ive eaten 2 prunes today and surprised that they were quite pleasant with yoghurt.
I have psyllium husk capsules. 4000mg so I will start with one capsule a day and see how we go. I have such a fear of having diarrhoea when I am at work. I have had to take annual leave this week! I was all for stopping the Mounjaro yesterday as I felt so ill. Still feeling very delicate today. Injection and weigh in day tomorrow. Onwards!

Hopefully you will have some clear out before you weigh!

I have been quite hungry on 5mg (after 2 months on 2mg) which has surprised me. I’ve managed to eat well since we got home from holiday though.

I had intended to stay on 5mg for the next month and bought the pen pre-price rise so need to work out what to do after that. I’m wondering if I should buy 7.5mg for this month and keep my 5mg pen for the month after as my supplier had no 5mg stock when I looked earlier. Or keep to 5mg and then move down to 2.5mg the month after. It’s so hard to know what to do with prices up and supply chain impacted…

Sounds sensible to delay @Librariesrule it's nice to lose 4lbs but not if it's through being unwell. Hope things aren't as bad after the next jab.

Had a blood test to check my HbA1c levels and I'm further into the healthy range than 6 months ago 🎉 6 months ago I was on the cusp of becoming pre-diabetic so reducing that has been a great achievement. Let's see what it is in another 6 months 💪

Sorry I don't know why it keeps posting the same message twice. I only press send once!!

@SomethingAboutYou I was told I was at risk of developing T2 which is what gave me the kick up the proverbial to do something.

It's good to be able to proactively work towards your health. I focus a lot on the kgs or stones and my dress size but that's usually as it's the only tangible thing I can measure improvements on. Other things like climbing stairs without being out of breath take time and often don't notice them until much later. But seeing the HbA1c score today was another great way of seeing how my health is improving without looking at the scales 😊

Deleting a double post 🤦‍♀️

Weigh in day for and I am so chuffed to have lost 6 pounds over the past month when I was on holiday for some of that! I wavered between 11 stone and 10 stone 13 for most of the month and then off in a whoosh today (I’ve reduced my alcohol intake the past week and my period finished so I think I was holding onto some water).

W15 D1
SW 12 stone 2
CW 10 stone 9
GW 10 stone 7
Aspirational GW 10 stone 2

Will see what the next week brings as I did the golden dose from my 5mg pen this morning and extracted 0.7ml so nearly 6mg as I’ve been hungry this week. But now I’ve just remembered that I’ve done a 6 day spacing to inject today as I injected a day late last week due to holidays. Hope I haven’t given myself too much!! But I guess I could also have gone up to 7.5mg today technically so hopefully all fine… 🤞🤞🤞🤞

had a nice week drifting gently downwards. Not losing as much as in previous weeks but still overall just about down. And then this week it’s all going back up again and I’m 1.5kg heavier than I was a week ago. I’m eating the same. I’m exercising more. And I’m thoroughly fed up. Annoyed with myself too as I’d decided to stick with 5mg, and got my next pen coming today. But now thinking I should have asked for a 7.5 instead.

hormones, constipation, all of this I know is likely contributing. But it is frustrating.

Another pound off this week. One more pound and I will have lost 2 stone! I have about another 1.5 to 2 stone to lose. So, at a pound a week I could be here another 6 months! I can't believe some people are already so close to target! It will get very quiet in here by the time I am close to it!
Jag number 14 done today. Stayed on 5mg. I need to get better control on this constipation before I even think about moving up a dose! 9 days! That was no fun at all. I felt so bloody unwell!
Here's to a successful week for us all.

Not sure if anyone else has suggested this, I’ve started taking nutrition geeks magnesium glycinate 3in 1 and my constipation has cleared and stopped. At the start of taking MJ I was having to take ducolax once to twice a week- it was horrible! Especially as it was taking longer to work that the other times I’ve ever taken it. I’m also sleeping better which I think might be the magnesium or I’m just so knackered from years of interrupted sleep I’m now zonked out!

I’m really wishing I’d ordered 7.5mg in the panic buying. I just managed half a pizza at a work night out. Not a chance that would have been possible last month (it was a pizza place that only sold pizza, no chance of ordering anything different).

I am definitely feeling more hunger and ability to eat larger portions now on 5mg. I am too scared to increase my dose though. I can just imagine the back up that would cause 😀 Could you use the golden dose from current pen and look at 6.25 doses? Too early for my brain to work out if you would have enough to do that from current pen golden dose and next 5mg pen.

Funny you mention that @waitingforlifeonmars. I have insomnia thanks to menopause and had tried the 3 in 1 from NG. However, I stopped as it caused me diarrhoea. But that was was pre Mounjaro so it might now give me the perfect balance! Thanks for that

Morning everyone 👋
SW 14.2
CW 12.2
GW 10.7
Another 2lbs off this week taking me to 2 stone lost in 13 weeks 🥳 this was actually my ambitious mini goal i set at the start and I am sooooooo pleased to have hit it.

I am away this week on a couple of uk mini breaks so have decided to skip my jab this week. I wasn't sure what to do but I still get really high suppression for the first couple of days and didn't want that to make me uncomfortable or spoil my time off at all. I'll still be mindfull, eat smaller portions, less alcohol but I'm really looking forward to a week off work and a few days away exploring.
I hope everyone is doing well and look forward to hearing more NSVs and mini goals being celebrated 😊

I did order the 7.5mg but hoping to stay on 5mg even though there is more food noise and more hunger on day 6 and 7. I was going to look into doing smaller dose twice weekly to see if that kept the MJ levels higher for longer in my blood. Need to sit down and work it out on shotsy. I had a reaction at injection site this last time, so that has put me off a bit, cause it is soo itchy!

Weighed this morning and I’ve gained the half kg I lost. I need to be careful I think with the extra hunger.

If you only had the pizza last night and haven't been drinking loads of water, it won't be a true half a kg gain. It'll be salts etc and water retention. You'd need to be eating upwards of 3k additional calories and I doubt you've done that with increased hunger. Don't be disheartened, drink all the water, go back to your usual routine, and it'll be off again within a couple of days.

I've maintained this week. A bit disappointed to not be moving down but I did say last week that my calories were a bit higher and shocked to have lost. I'm feeling like I'm settling into this lower weight though, clothes feel good. I still have several stones to lose before I'm even close to a healthy bmi but I do feel a lot more comfortable in my own skin, if that makes sense?! I was a size 14 for a long time before getting married, piling on the happy pounds then having babies 😂 so hoping to get back to size 14 soon! I'm currently in size 18s but a couple of size 16 tops have started fitting so things are moving in the right direction!

Onto week 15 for me. Need to go back to basics, track cals and macros, drink more water, and actually do some excersise 💪
SW: 16 stone (101.7kg)
CW: 14st 7.4 (92.3kg)

I’ve also had a reaction to the jab for the first time. I’ve changed provider and the needles are now green when previously purple so I’m wondering if a different size?! The wipes are different but I wipe a huge area and the reaction is only maybe a 10p size around the jab site. Strange and annoying as I haven’t told new boyfriend about the jabs and it’s starting to look suspicious (and it’s itchy)

Isn’t the wipe for the end of the pen (the red bit where the needle goes in), not for your skin?