Mounjaro February to April 24 starters - Thread 5

[DesparatePragmatist]

Continuing the journey for those of us who have been on MJ since early 2024. Previous thread here:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5262448-mounjaro-february-to-april-24-starters-thread-4?page=39&reply=146714858

When I had a brief flirtation with wegovy after the MJ price rise, i was put straight on to 2.4mg. can remember the supplier though.

I am maintaining at 7 1/2 stone, BMI 18, on 45 clicks of a 15mg.
Thin I know but i am broad and boxy otherwise. I have an embarassing stockpile but cant bring myself to drop out of reordering .
Very interested in the low dose theory. Might try 40 clicks next week!
My clothes obsession has not subsided . For so long I was dressed in giant sacks and never had anything nice so i am making the most of this .
The other day I tried an experiment. I loaded weights in a rucksack to take me to 10 1/2 stone. I could hardly walk across the room.
My plan was to try 15 1/2 stone which was my starting weight 2 years ago. I actually physically couldnt get into a standing position from my stool😳. Couldnt do it. Couldnt get up.
But that was my daily life back then. How did I do it? How did I survive?
I think I know how astronauts feel re experiencing gravity😂

@Smallsalt I have 4 full pens in the fridge and ordered another this morning. I won’t stop ordering until they stop sending out 5 dose pens. the price per dose gets 25% more expensive after the bonus dose is removed so I keep ordering.

I’d hate to walk around all day carrying weights to take me back to my old weight. But we did. This drug is amazing!

Can anyone recommend a maintenence supplier please?

I'm on 5mg and bmi 23, but am tired of how hard it is to order via Oushk, especially as they are no longer well priced.

SwiftDoctor or Pharmulous. I'm on the verge of moving from Oushk to Swift, but just going to go up to a 5mg pen from them first.

@NextPrimeMinister I'm with Oushk (also with BMI 23) and admittedly the first order was painful and they made me go back to 2.5 where I had been on 5 but the last two orders have been very straight forward and I did my ID and weight check last weekend which took 90 seconds and was very easy! I hadn't appreciated £164 for 5mg wasn't good?

I paid £174 for my last 5mg pen, and that was with a promotion they were running. I was hoping to find cheaper, especially as the pens are now 4 doses rather than 5.

Was 164 a promotional price, do you know?

Anyone used lotus? I’m thinking of going to them at some point as I’ve run out of pens and bmi is now 22

No, that's my maintenance price as I'm on the "conti plan". I get £20 off every order automatically. You can't add more discount codes on top though.

Nulife is £158.99 for 5mg delivered. I could choose a delivery date, mine came DPD.

Cloud was £169.28 for 5mg using their cheapest delivery (always comes RM Special Delivery in my experience) and their advertised code of Newme10 for £10 off.

Both accept me as maintenance BMI 21, although possibly due to lower threshold for mixed ethnicity. I've been with Cloud for over 18m and Nulife I've only had one order, but all was good and happy to recommend.

I used Lotus for my last order after being turned down by the Independent Pharmacy.

Was trying to order a 15mg pen and they wanted a print out PDF from my DR of my medical history as they were not able to access it themselves. Anyway, there was no way I was going to get that from my DR surgery so they cancelled my order.

Lotus was 2nd best value on the list so went to them and I have to say the process was really easy.
ID and photos uploaded day 1, order approved and shipped day 2, delivery with ice packs still frozen on day 3.
I was very impressed.

Just to add, I had to provide proof of my previous order. It has been 8 weeks previous but they accepted that I'd still had a few doses in the pen before.
All very smooth.

Ok that’s useful to know. I’ve not ordered since sept. So am hoping lotus will take me on for maintenance and start me on 2.5 . I’ve previously been with family chemist for the whole journey but they probably won’t let me order again as I don’t think they support maintenance as such.

Thanks all!

Will contact the places mentioned!

Today I found out my double pen order got delivered to my greenhouse on Sunday 😑😑
very pissed off about it as Royal Mail hid it behind a bucket and didn’t bother to notify me. Surprisingly, when I called the pharmacy they have agreed to replace it once I return the order.

One of the boxes had popped open so I had a nosey and can confirm it’s the new 4 dose pens 😭. I also had a message when I ordered asking if I want to be put on the waiting list for the tablet. No dates given but said it’s likely coming soon.

That's great that you're able to get replacements. A greenhouse indeed!!

And a waiting list for the pill??? Who are you with.

Exciting development.

@NextPrimeMinister im with simple online pharmacy. I’m guessing it will be a while before I hear anything about information on the tablets but I’m not intending to jump straight on the tablets like I did with the jabs. I want to see if people see results first before I move over.

Ooh the pill would be amazing!

following discussions about varying the injection site I jabbed in different thighs for 2 weeks with zero discernible difference, so for my jab this week I went back to my stomach as usual and have suddenly had suppression for the first time in ages. Yay! I don’t need to lose anything but equally don’t want my weight to creep up as the lack of suppression meant that I was definitely nibbling in the evenings

@Femeia I tried different injection sites a couple of weeks ago as I have always gone for my tum. The first week, the suppression was noticeable, the second week, not so much. Third week back to tum, this week, right upper thigh, and more suppression. However, I am now injecting every 5 days, using 5 mg. I crunched the numbers& it is cheaper for me to inject 5mg every 5 days than to go up to 7.5mg every 7 days, so I am going to do that. I only have 1.5kg to get back to goal.

Fuming with Royal Mail now. My pharmacy issued the 2 replacement pens on Friday and Royal Mail didn’t deliver them yesterday. So now I’m looking at a second batch of warm medication by the time it gets here.

Royal mail are diabolical. I feel your pain.

I have an £850 GPU should have been delivered today by 1pm. Still not here, customer service said it's on a van and the van deliver up until 7.30pm 🙄 I .guessing it isn't coming!

@Flapearedknave hope you got your parcel! My post has been coming in the evenings lately, when it bothers turning up. I finally got Fridays despatched jabs on Tuesday evening. Pharmacy is replacing them again for me which I’m grateful for but have asked to send out as single pens instead of a two pack which I don’t blame them for. I just hope they remember to send out the second pen in July when I need it. I’ve asked them to stay away from weekends as that’s when royal mail seem to cock everything up.

i bet pharmacies can’t wait for the tablet version to arrive 😄

Used to be happy when delivery wasn't Hermes 🤣 now I only trust Amazon deliveries to actually arrive!

I hope they turn up for you.

No tracking update, so I am going to the deliver office at 8am and it better be there!

@Flapearedknave we can’t even trust Amazon to deliver to the correct house. Our delightful neighbour changed the name of his house to almost the same as ours (just added a word on the end of our house name) as soon as we moved in so we’ve had 5yrs of mixed up parcels.
He’s on a different road so it’s a pain in the arse to try to sort out as he refuses to answer the speaker button on his gate and won’t give mail back when asked 😑