Dose-splitting - don't care anymore

[Glowingup]

Just venting about the ridiculous situation with pharmacies putting their prices up by insane amounts. All along they have told us that buying higher doses and splitting them to get more use of the pen isn't allowed and is dangerous. I have friends in other countries (Sweden and Germany) who are on them who have been explicitly advised by medical professionals that the 30 day rule is pure bullshit when the medication is kept refrigerated and are prescribed 15mg to be split into doses of 5mg (or 7.5 mg). I have also been following a former olympic athlete called Jo Fargus who is on tiktok. She is Australian and her doctor tells her to split the doses and click-count and she gets 15mg pens prescribed by that doctor and takes a 5mg dose. They've been taking the piss out of us all this time and the price-hike thing is an example of even more piss-taking.

Anyway, through my entire journey, I have click-counted and I have lost two and a half stone and am a couple of kilos from healthy BMI. I have used pens for at least double the 30 days. I now have half a 7.5mg pen, a full 7.5 mg pen and have just been approved for a 10mg pen. I will inject 3.75mg every 8 days rather than every 7 to make it last a bit more. By my counting, I have 30 doses left and at every 8 days, that is 240 days so well into 2026. That should be enough to get the last few kilos off and some maintenance. I will take pleasure in taking every single last golden dose too. Greedy fuckers.

I always clean both the pen seal and the skin of the injection site. I also re-clean the pen seal after removing the needle tip, as well as before inserting it.

I thought this was expected?

Use the click counter I shared. It does it all for you. 60 clicks for a full
dose

https://www.vrgrowth.co.uk/mounjaro-clicks

I’ve been told by the maintainance pharmacies I contacted that it’s ok to have a gap but that if you have over 6 weeks between orders you need to go back to 2.5mg. I went with Swift as they don’t charge a monthly amount. They allow a gap of up to a year. Each pen is lasting me 10 weeks so I guess once I have 4-5 pens in reserve I’ll take a break, and I’ll have to have to start with a 2.5mg pen which is fine because i’m using 5mg so I only need to
buy one 2.5mg pen and then can buy 5mg.

Re skin cleaning, i was surprised that when you get your covid and flu jabs they don't clean your skin at all, just whack it in, so presumably the risk is very small.

Always wondered what they would do if someone turned up with a visibly grubby arm!

Risk of introducing bacteria on the skin i mean, obviously they won't be using 'beyond date' injections.