Mounjaro 10st or more to lose Thread 7

[TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne]

Can't believe we've got to 7 threads, but all are welcome!

@PearlsPearl sorry to hear that you're still unwell, I really hope it resolves soon.

@SecretNameforMN these threads have been such a help over the last year, with a group of women who just get it. I felt a bit isolated on my monthly thread, as people quickly got to target and moved onto maintenance, when I was still so far away from that.

@flipent I lost in big chunks for the first few months, then when I got to around 16 stone it slowed down, and since then the most I've lost in a week is 3 pounds. But mostly 1 to 2 pounds with the 3s being few and far between.

I promise you that it will slow down.

It's only been five or six weeks since you started, and I was losing about the same amount of weight at that stage.

It's taking me a month to lose 3lb now, and that's also normal. I've been doing this for 17 months, and I've lost 8st in that time.

I actually lost 15lb in my first week. But of course, that slowed down.

You could try semaglutide (Wegovy).

It's a good deal cheaper than MJ. I've got a Wegovy pen coming from CheqUp and it was approved and despatched in a couple of days. They let me have a 2.4mg pen, which is the highest dose, as I am currently on 15mg MJ.

The 2.4mg Wegovy pen from CheqUp was £130. That's half the new price of a 15mg MJ pen from Medino, which seems to be £260.

Totally agree x

This thread is literally the only place I am sharing my journey, both online and in real life. Absolutely no-one knows, husband, son, best friends, no-one. And it’s not even that I m ashamed or anything…just consider it that I’m an adult and I’m choosing to keep this particular journey to myself (and you gals obviously!) xx

Just had my monthly coaching call with BUPA and mentioned my holiday in Sept and they are sending me a certificate to be able to travel with the pen (apparently insisted on at airports). Did you all know this?

Hello ,thankyou for the invite over xx

I weighed in this morning at 18st 2.5lb. Only 2.5 to go before I’m 4 stone off in 8 months which I’m very happy with. And I’m as motivated as ever, which is such a difference in my mindset. I’m on 7.5mg and was planning to go up to 10. But I was honest with myself and decided I could make more effort and I’ve increased my swimming and eating better and been rewarded by 2lb off this week rather than a half. So I’ll use the 10 pen I have to keep on 7.5 for as long as possible, given the new prices.

I had an email from Oushk (who I’m not with) with their new price list. It is a bit scary how expensive it is.

Still here, sorry been quiet. Just keeping an eye on things in the background x

I’ve only been taking the injections for 3 weeks (well, 2 and a half really as I had my 3rd on Friday last week) and have really been trying not to let the price rises cause me any anxiety. But I ordered my second pen with my original supplier (Med Express) ten days ago and it is still waiting for clinical review. I can’t get through on the phone and have no idea when this will happen (they have, of course, taken the payment…)
I have real sympathy for everyone feeling price rise and supply anxiety as it is very frustrating. Especially as, like so many of us on this thread, I have a lot to lose and a long way to go.
the NSVs and SVs of everyone are amazing to read though, and so motivational!

I can't read it
What is it saying for 15 please

It said on the news they have stopped all buying of monjroro untill 1 September

Once you are weaned off sugar, the milk choc like Cadburys tastes horribly sweet anyway. It just spikes your blood sugar so you want more an hour or two later. Try a 70% or 80% dark chocolate and have one square a day. I break that square into four pieces and savour each mouthful.

@Autumnflowers2 that headline is super misleading. It's just reporting what we already know is happening, that the pharmacies cannot order more stock before 1st September so that they cannot stockpile pens at the current price. Many pharmacies have already notified customers of the lack of stock at the current prices, and delays in ordering until after 1st Sept. Hence many places restricting existing stock to current customers, and having limited/no stock at the moment.

Yes, to prevent stockpiling & possibly ppl reselling for profit, think they've missed the boat on both of these! 🙄
No more orders fulfilled after tonight, restart 1st Sept, no stock issues apparently...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15038561/Mounjaro-supply-HALTED-amid-frenzied-Covid-style-panic-buying-September-price-hike-order-freeze-starts-tonight.html

Sorry that posting a photo really didn’t work did it?!

Oushk prices are:

2.5 £154
5 £174
7.5 £234
10 £264
12.5 £290
15 £310

There is a £15 discount for your first order at the new price and Wegovy prices are a lot cheaper.

My pens have been approved and due for delivery on Friday, hopefully they will appear!

Mine is due between 3 and 4pm today. On hot bricks

Found you all again... thread SEVEN 🎊🎊😍😍

My Asda 10mg pen was just delivered, which I am very thankful for. I had a weird message from Asda saying that review was delayed until today or tomorrow, and that delivery was delayed until the 30th to the 2nd Sept. But this was after the order had already been reviewed, approved, dispensed and dispatched! I'd already got an update from DPD this morning telling me the parcel was on their van and when they'd deliver today. So I was pretty confident that I was going to be getting it today, but I was quite unnerved by that email from Asda. Their systems must be stressed at the moment, and I guess it was an automated email that shouldn't have been sent out to me.

Hopefully everyone else's deliveries will arrive without any hitches.

Got my zava delivery too!

Saw a GP today about another matter and asked if it was OK for me to take MJ. She replied - rather breezily - that the practice had a number of patients taking it, that they are all losing weight, and the only thing, she said, one has to "keep an eye out for" is pancreatitis.

@SilenceInside @SecretNameforMN With the price rises and having a lot to lose, I almost feel like I'm up against a timer with being able to lose the weight faster 🙄

Thanks for the new thread!

My IQ doctor 5mg order arrived today, glad I could get one more order in before the price rises.

@PearlsPearl i had similar side effects when I went up to 5mg, I went back to 2.5mg for about 3 weeks and then gradually increased it, 2 months later I have just hit 4.25mg and it’s giving plenty of suppression so planning to stay here a few weeks if that continues. I still suffer from gastric issues but manageable ones in the main, think this is just how it’s going to be for me. I hope it settles for you soon.

i was able to get 6 doses from my last 5mg pen given I was using 3.5 at the start and decided I felt comfortable going up to 35 days on the pen.

I've seen a lot of posts about side effects, nausea, diarrhoea and constipation being the main ones.

Before I take my first dose, is there a "set" of medicines I should buy in case I get any of these symptoms, so I have them on hand?