Mounjaro 10st or more to lose Thread 7

[TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne]

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

from what I’ve gathered you need to start back to low dose of W and work up

Thank you very much for the words of support. This is the first time I’ve posted on the board although I’ve been following along for some time.

great to learn others have similar experiences.

Ive ordered my next pen from Numan (with a discount) but plan to pause my subscription & shop around for deals for my future doses - trying to make things as affordable as possible for as long as possible.

@WafflingDreamer some pharmacies will support starting at a higher dose of Wegovy rather than at the lowest dose. WePrescribe sent me an email with a table showing what their suggested dose would be, depending on your Mounjaro level. At 15mg, they suggest starting on 1.7mg of Wegovy. Zava also support switching to Wegovy at higher than the starting dose, although they say they won't start anyone at a dose higher than 1mg of Wegovy.

I am not sure what I would choose to do in your position, which is clearly of no help at all to you. I am going to continue with 10mg Mounjaro at least until I am at my original target, which is now about 1st 12lbs away. I have two pens of 10mg, which will last me another 9 weeks and then I'm looking at affording another 2 pens at 10mg which I can just about do. I would hope to be at target after that, and then maybe I will look to drop to lower doses for maintaining/getting to a new lower target.

Thinking about it, in your position, maybe I would try switching to Wegovy at a higher dose, in the manner that WePrescribe have suggested. Especially if you are not prone to side effects on Mounjaro.

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Thank you for sharing your experiences.

I do think you are right about the clothes - I was wearing a size 24 but in reality I think I they were a bit on the small size…

I have things like floaty sleeve blouses which I felt fit well at the time - but the arms always seemed a tad short!

But now I realise they were actually too small & now I'm a bit smaller myself the arms are normal length!

Im still wearing many of my size 24s which are really quite baggy now! Things that are really too big, I’ve bagged up & popped in the attic - I’m too scared to charity shop them in case they’re needed again one day. I know it’s not the right mind set really…

Happy Monday everyone! I got my 2 15ml pens delivered from Zava. Earlier. I've now got 3 full pens and a bit at the old prices. I do wish that I'd ordered more frankly 😁

@WafflingDreamer

I bought a Wegovy pen from CheqUp a couple of weeks ago.
Because I'm on 15mg of MJ they let me go straight to the highest dose of Wegovy (2.4mg).

I've got a £50 discount referral if you'd like it. Their 2.4mg pen is currently £160 so with the discount, that's £110.

I haven't used it yet, so I can't tell you anything else. I only bought it when the MJ got difficult to obtain for a while. But I do intend to use it, to see what it's like. I've got two MJ pens in the fridge now, so I could go back to MJ if Wegovy doesn't work so well.

That's great to know thank you. Are you going to switch straight away or finish your mounjaro supply first. I just had a look at CheqUp and they'll prescribe as long as you have a box dated within 60 days which is reassuring so I have a bit of time

I'm going to finish my current pen, switch to Wegovy, and see what happens.

April this year?

Oh no, that's not good. I've had the burps twice, it's horrible

I know what you mean, I have 5 15mg pens but I wish I had bought more, I think I am going to micro dose to get them to last longer. I have really been maintaining for a few months, the loss is so small but I'm still dropping dress sizes. The jeans I bought a month ago I can now pull down without undoing. I also found a 32ff wonderbra in the drawer I must have got in bundle some time ago and it fastens on the middle hook. I'm so doughy though. But I can't be arsed with the gym. I'm so very lazy

Sorry to bang on about my medical woes. Seems that as well as being constipated (although had a bowel movement this morning... exciting times) I've also got a kidney/bladder infection. So, antibiotics now as well as the constipation meds. Might explain why it's been so unbearable painful. I was on my 2nd dose of 7.5 mj, tempted to skip a week and then drop down to 5 until I feel less rough.

Is there really a tolerance limit for. Mj
I'm on 15 and weight loss has massively slowed down

Week 22 put half a pound on!

This is my first gain and has been a funny week. I haven’t gone over my calories but haven’t been eating well. I think I’m bored of food and have felt like I desperately need to find something I want to eat despite the suppression still being there. I have been eating small snacks and sweet stuff. I didn’t even enjoy them that much and certainly ate them in small quantities as couldn’t eat more so the MJ is still working but I wasn’t eating much protein or fibre and I didn’t drink enough on a couple days.

Feels strange as I know this is working, and I’m still 3st 13.5lbs down but wasn’t expecting this. Then again, I’m not that worried and did go out and stock up on better food choices for the week ahead.

Has anyone else found they’ve become bored with food completely?

I can't stop weeing ..all day and all night ..
I think my bladder has got irritated by to many cans of fizzy mixed in to my water
Plus not a huge amount of food to soak up the liquid
On 1000 cals a day ,to try to shift a loss .. irritable

Hi all, just catching up. Lost this thread for a while & glad to be back

I could have written this word for word! @MotnightI also say 2 stone as seems significant enough yet an acceptable amount. When people ask how.. I lie too. I feel terrible about it but just don’t want to talk about it so say life has been really busy and stressful 🙄 I know they are all thinking I had bariatric surgery or WLI’s but also had time off for stress/bereavement so they feel uncomfortable enough not to ask more.

@Autumnflowers2
Not a tolerance limit per se.) That's just what I call it.) But I'm looking at it logically. We all go up the doses when the original dose doesn't have the full effects we are looking for. Many advise to not climb the doses fast, and not to chase suppression for that reason. (Unless you're the lucky few who has high suppression on 2.5mg)

So by that same logic at some point 15mg also won't work eventually. We don't know when that will be. So in my head I have an (unknown) time limit for reaching goal weight. Which is why I'm quite upset with myself for squandering the suppression this week 😔

It's often a response your body has to excrete excess carbohydrates.

If this happens to me, I know the scales are about to drop another pound.

I say 2 stone weightloss to the average person as well . I think I'm going to say 4 stone when I reach my goal weight.
In reality it will be around the 10-11 stone mark. But honestly, besides my husband and my mother, I don't think I can stomach the shock looks if I ever told the truth. No one really knew how fat I actually became, I carried it well, which I am grateful for at least!

Yes me, I'm happy with a babybel, or a spoon if cottage cheese. If it doesn't cook in 5 minutes I can't be bothered.

Well I am back to being your miserable Pearl. Today has been SO rough. Constant diarrhoea, awful stomach cramps. Plus the burps which make me think I'm going to vomit every time. These aren't the kind of side effects you can just push through. I'm an absolute mess. No work again for me tomorrow.

Can't believe how atrocious I feel. I genuinely feel devastated. 12 amazing weeks where I've never felt so good. And now I think I'm going to have to quit for a month, get it all out of me, then try again.

SO much terror; will I gain it all back on; will the food noise deafen me; what if I leave it a month, take one dose and it happens again; what if my inflammation goes right back up during this month off and effects my mobility again.

@PearlsPearl is it worth considering switching to wegovy? Can you figure out what has triggered such a strong reaction?

I was going to suggest this.