Mounjaro starters Nov '24 Thread 13 - The one where we are lucky to end our best Summer in years thinner and more comfortable in our own skin

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Welcome to thread lucky number 13!

Link to the old thread here

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5365725-mounjaro-starters-nov-24-thread-12-the-one-where-we-pack-all-of-the-smaller-size-clothes-into-our-holiday-luggage?page=40

Feel free to lurk or post, absolutely no judgement here, just support and encouragement as we list old clothes on vinted, give thanks for MJ as we have had the BEST Summer in years as we are all significantly lighter.

Join us here to celebrate NSV’s, weight loss milestones, maintenance and our lowest stone brackets!

I’m on W42 D1 and on w2 of my first titrating down pen of 5.0mg

F in my early 50’s
H 5’ 5.5”
SW 13st 11lb
CW 9st 6.0lbs
GW 9st 0lb
Total loss so far 61.0 lbs

We recommend the Shotsy app to monitor the amount of MJ in the system and pleasing graphs to look at…plus the MeThreeSixty body scan app to monitor inch loss for the weeks where weight loss is slow but you might have lost body fat etc. Both are free.

Feel free to swap recipes that might inspire anyone in a food rut, tips for managing side effects, exercise tips, tips for maintenance, titrating up or down and we love a wellness/supplements/beauty/ style chat too 🥰

Oushk have published their new prices, effective from today… (image attached, may take a bit to load / be approved).

Thanks for sharing! I’ve compared it with MedExpress and their prices are cheaper in case anyone was wondering…

A very good NSV! 😂

👏 excellent achievement! And well done on setting a new goal!

Lovely to hear from you! Glad you are getting on so well. Fantastic loss!

Lovely to read your update! Glad you are getting on so well in maintenance phase! How is your DW doing?

That’s really interesting, thanks for sharing that tip.

🤞🏻For Thursday. Glad you got your next pen order before the hike!

I have enough pens to take me into maintenance territory in a few months 🤞🏻

I will probably shop around before deciding on who to go with then. I do have a maintenance call scheduled with Oushk for October but might need to push that to near our anniversary date

Well, Oushk good and proper shit everyone on Circle up by releasing the above table, whilst publishing higher prices on their website. Then they confirmed that the table of lower costs emailed out was inclusive of a NEW15 discount.

Cue: fury as it looked like they were being completely disingenuous, misleading customers into believing that the discounted price was the baseline price. The email and their comments on Circle gave no indication as to whether the 15 discount would be temporary for the first order or not.

Finally, after complete (and reasonable) meltdown from many, they confirmed that the £15 discount would be ongoing monthly.

Genuinely amateur behaviour - they didn't set out to mislead, but how nobody at the pharmacy went 'uh...guys...?' before releasing the emailed prices is beyond me.

Hmm I have no email from Oushk even though I've always ordered from them, thanks for sharing the pricing.

Update on my missed delivery situation, the two pens arrived this morning and according to my husband were still noticeably cold, although not fridge old. But I'd assumed they would have gone to room temperature between Friday and Tuesday so am pretty happy with that outcome!

In other news 12.5mg has been no noticeable difference from 10mg, I'm still quite hungry. Trying to be disciplined but have unsurprisingly plateaued for ages. The two next pens are back to 10mg again anyway.

I didn't get the email either - they also posted it on Circle, which is where I saw it. Their communication seems very hit and miss at times.

I'm totally fascinated to see what happens with Oushk 🍿
I don't wish them any ill & used them without complaint for months but there does seem to be a significant number of their customers who are a little over invested in ....a pharmacy 👀

Pottering along here I can't seem to get my loses above half a kilogram per week which sounds good but with another 30kg to go it's frustrating ... I've nearly 🤞sorted my shoulder though so hope to get back to weights again soon which might help.

Think I'm staying with them for a bit, at least. I have a couple of pens in the fridge - one I ordered end of July and my normal August one delivered the other day. So, for ease, I'll go back to them when it's time to order again as they'll have my medication on record and I won't have to explain any gaps.

After that, Pharmulous is looking pretty tasty.

Even just the fact that Oushk call their patients (of which I’m one) ‘Oushkers’ is just ridiculous. I’m a fat person who needs medication, not a bloody teenaged fan of the latest boy band 🙄

🤣🤣🤣 🎯

So, I am thinking about going on maintenance and coming off over 8 weeks or so. Ideally I'd still like to lose half a stone, but my weight hasn't changed that much lately. I went up to 10mg briefly to see if I can shift it, but I am looking at the fact that I'm basically not eating anything anymore, and even a bowl of berries is a big effort, and it just seems inappropriate to dose up.

Selfishly, I'd like to lose some more fat on my stomach to have a completely flat stomach with abs, and improve my knee area, but now I'm thinking 'is this for health reasons or am I crossing the boundary where it's purely cosmetic now'?

The lack of appetite almost all the time is also a concern... So maybe it's time to say goodbye to the death jabs... Now that I'm firmly below 25 with my BMI and a comfortable size 8/10.

On a positive note, my breathing is so easy now... I did a lot of exercise over the weekend and did not struggle with breath at all, whereas I previously would have. And... I don't snore anymore!! Well, that's sinus surgery swerved...

Absolutely this. I've said before how bloody odd the relationship between Oushk and customers is. Today, some people on Circle berated other customers for admitting that they were considering switching pharmacy, like it was some kind of betrayal. Or gave out to people making giving very reasonable feedback about customer service issues.

Like, they're not your friends, dude. This isn't going to end with you and Hira wearing matching pink baby doll pyjamas, watching Magic Mike and sharing haircare tips.

I am pretty glad I’ve kept off Oushk’s circle community, @PresidentBarklett- though it’s very possible I’d have switched to a different provider if I’d been more aware of the dodgy parasocial fans!

I would be tempted to switch myself after all this, but my bmi is down to 22 now so though I’d been aiming for 21 I suspect now is a sensible time to go on a maintenance plan. And yesterday the price rises thread seemed to be saying pharmacies were starting to only take new patients whose bmi was 30+? Which would pretty much knock switching midway through weight loss on the head for many, let alone switching for maintenance.

Thanks for asking - DW is doing great, also now maintaining at BMI 20. She looks amazing and is so much happier in her body now.

It’s slightly odd I’m getting the emails and I’m not actually even a proper Oushk customer yet. Perhaps they’re keen to have my business 😂

I have a maintenance call booked for next week but think I may need to push it back too - I’m not really ready for maintenance yet - that said - not sure what the new rules on switching may be based on what @RayonSunrise said above.

But wondering if I do need to switch now.. I do have quite a few pens now, so with the bonus dose, I’m technically sorted until Feb 2026… in all honesty I’m hoping I should be at a healthy BMI by then and thinking about tapering down the dose. Perhaps I could just order some lower dose pens from Boots in the meantime (which are cheaper anyway) and work my way to maintenance… but that would in the long term therefore be without MJ. I did originally think I’d stay on it for a long time, but the new prices are too high to justify for that time commitment (even with the split dose / dragging a pen out over 2 months) (which I thought may be an option). It’s been worth the expenditure to get me to where I am now, and to finish the journey, but long term it does seem too much. Unless I get a big pay rise anyway 🤣

Does anyone use IQdoctor? I don’t see them getting mentioned as much. I’ve been trying to order a pen from them before the rates go up, but they’ve been constantly out of stock, so I’m considering switching. I’ve not had an email from them about the prices or stock or anything at all.

Yeah, I'm at BMI 28, so maintenance is on my mind too - why I switched to Oushk in the first place. I have enough pens to buy myself some breathing space and then I'll take stock when the dust has settled. Apparently Pharmulous and Swift Dr offer decent maintenance plans so I guess I'll just see. Impression I get, rightly or wrongly, is that most pharmacies are 'frozen' right now but that normal business should resume shortly.

I'm lucky enough to be able to (just) afford the Oushk prices but it's not something I want to do long term if I can help it!

There are reports today that EL are preventing pharmacies from placing orders after the normal cut off today until 1st September to prevent people stock piling or beating the price rises...they really have shot themselves in the foot all round, haven't they?

I’ve had to cancel my last order, it’s still under review and I leave Saturday morning. Too expensive to risk it now, even at current prices.
I see lots of people on social media talking of moving down and going it alone now. Be interesting to see what happens and if the bottom falls out the market.