June 2025 Starters - Mounjaro (thread 5)

[Focusispower]

Heading into month three now!

I bet she did too.

My hair falls out loads, but it always has. I finger combed my hair today and clumps came out! My my hair is so thick I would genuinely take a medication that would thin it out! I have an undercut to help with thickness.

One of the worst pets of pregnancy for me was how much thicker my hair got!

Another one plateauing a bit. I’m still on 5mg and don’t feel any need to increase. Suppression is good, no food noise. Loathe to invite more side effects and cost if I don’t need to. I’m maintaining a good deficit and drinking loads of water… it’ll be what it’ll be.

I get my pens from a real life pharmacy and they didn’t have any 5mg in stock when I went this week so he sold me a 10mg on the understanding I’ll count the clicks. He’s a legend and I love him.

NSV - much more fun being on top having sex with my husband… ;-)

Loving your NSV @Bloozie my very cynical OH is also enjoying that particular NSV 😂

I feel your pain I was also having a plateau which has lasted a month felt like forever very frustrating . I hope yours is short lived !

It now seems i have movement 🙏🏻 1/2 a lb lost 2 days running . I am also on 5mg but using a 2.5 pen and the last one was the golden dose so think on Sunday I had maybe 6.25mg 🤔. I forgot the extra as I was jabbing I usually measure it out 🤦🏻‍♀️. Things have felt better since then less food noise and good suppression and the scales moving maybe a coincidence but now wondering if 6.25mg is a sweet spot for me . Really didn’t want to go up i had only had 5mg twice but it didn’t really do anything . So next Sunday to 5mg or to 6.25mg . 🤯

I was also plateauing and the hunger had returned so last week I increased the dose slightly. Worked great and I felt back in the game and lost a kg this week. Then this morning it was bonus dose time but because I had the extra last week, I only got out just under 0.6ml which isn’t even the full dose let alone the slightly stepped up one I wanted as my next pen is 12.5mg. Feeling really hungry today again and wondering if I should have just gone to the 12.5. Problem is the pens are so expensive now I didn’t want to waste all that liquid - felt like throwing away £50!!

I’m an idiot. Checked fridge and I had another 10mg pen there! So I’ve just “topped up” so I’ll be on the same dose I’ve been on this week which has been working!

I'm on 5, which is working well
Great suppression.
But i panic bulk bought 3 x 2.5 pens.
DH suggesting I fiddle the dose.
But I'm scared to.
I HATE the GD , although I do it.

Could someone please remind me which are the jeans that people have mentioned several times?

Just take two doses at a time from your 2.5mg pens. It’s not fiddling, it’s just a double dose to give 5mg

I’m guessing it will be halara jeans.

That’s it! Thanks so much @waitingforlifeonmars

Do a 2.5 jab then do another jab straightaway- less clicks if you want less than 5mg.

Thank you @Gingercar @HappyWineDay
My problem is that I HATE using "my" needles - the ones i bought rather than the ones that come with the pen.
I find it so stressful. I feel like I never get the dose right, and using the pen twice surely means I'll just hit max quicker?

I have to GD tonight, and feeling stressed about it

But 2 nice firsts for me....

1 is that a client said "you've lost soooo much weight" which was lovely.
Although it put me in a bit of a quandary.
I feel like I ought to fess up when people notice, and I'm fine to do with friends or colleagues, but clients are different.
I just said thank you.

Second. A first for me, but I've read of it happening on here a lot. A colleague who is also a friend said "don't lose any more weight".
I was like... mate, my bmi is 28.8!

Bit of a plateau here too - frustratingly I have been wavering between 79.something kg and 80.something for about a fortnight. I feel it would feel less bad if I was wavering around 81-82 or 78-79! I can’t say I’m definitely under 80kg yet which was an interim goal 🙈

But I must still be in deficit and I’m drinking and getting protein and going to the gym. Will try to up my workouts and see if that starts something shifting. I don’t think I can/should cut calories much further.

If not could you buy yourself a 5 mg pen and keep the 2.5s for coming off at the other end?
Fabulous compliments from your colleagues! Or client. But why would you feel you should tell a client? It’s far too personal. I wouldn’t.

I found an old pair of size 14 jeans in my wardrobe. They're a tight fit on me now.

Bizarrely, I was trying on 10s at the weekend from the same store and they were loose🤷🏻

No, I definitely won't be telling clients.

Another Plateau…. Upped to 7.5mg this week but not feeling much suppression

and I’ve got a 12.5mg stuck at the post office since Tuesday and can’t collect until tomorrow morning

That's interesting. That means that you'll get 8 doses (plus 2 golden if you choose) from that pen, which will take you beyond 30 days. Did your pharmacist have a view on that? It wouldn't bother me personally, but I know many people have a different view

He’s happy if I keep it refrigerated. So am I. He was careful to point out it’s off license, but that’s it.

Personally, I agree.

He knows I golden dose too. And yes, he could just not care, but I believe he knows the drug’s shelf life extends sat beyond 30 days. I like that he’s not on it for the money. The prices the pharmacy charges aren’t the cheapest, but he’s offering value.

Onwards…

24 weeks in and I'm officially in a plateau! 3rd week in a row I've been 89kg (89.2, 89.4 and 89.2)

I've definitely become complacent, I haven't tracked calories in weeks, so in a way I'm glad it's a plateau and not a spiralling out of control type gain, as this is what life will be like post jab. Just need motivation and it seems to have buggered off 🫣

Same. On my 3rd week of wegovey after MJ since June. Still losing just veeeery slowly. Stuck at 93-95kg though. Bit concerned with the festive season so close, might go up a dose next week. Need to get my ass in gear and get some pics as my next order is pending.