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Can I get 5 doses out of 5mg pen if do clicks?

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CloudyYellow · 30/08/2025 10:11

Can I get 5 doses out of 5 mg pen if I do right number of clicks? Dont think I could cope with golden dose procedure.

I have a 5mg pen. Have done two 3.75 mg doses. Due my third dose today. Was thinking of doing 4 mg today as 3.75mg ok but food noise/suppression coming back. Terrified of 5mg.

Was thinking of doing three more doses of 4 mg.

So pen use would be.

Day 0 = 3.75 mg
Day 7 = 3.75 mg
Day 14 = 4 mg
Day 21 = 4 mg
Day 28 = 4 mg = 19.5 mg from 20 mg pen

Any thoughts?

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Mysticmaiden · 30/08/2025 23:33

PearlsPearl · 30/08/2025 22:32

@Mysticmaiden how exactly are you so sure side effects are to do with what people eat and how much?! How judgemental.

I was incredibly unwell recently after increasing my dose. I was eating around 1000 calories a day, focused on protein and low/no sugar. No carbs or fatty food 🙄 And still got completely wiped out by the dose increase.

Cant stand sweeping, incorrect statements.

@OP good luck, don’t rush up the doses and do use your golden dose with a sterile needle!

I think you should calm yourself down already!
I've been on the jabs for 11 months so I've learned a lot in that time including when people post about side effects and what kicks it off. I've also had pizza twice and it was the only time I've been stuck on the loo, so I was talking with my experience and some others who said the same about pasta and pizza when they were very ill, and a friend recently who had a Chinese takeaway even though she's been on them 10 months.

It sounds like you're the judgemental one flipping off at me when you're making generalised statements and assumptions.
Oh and being wiped out is not the same as the GI issues I was talking about. Being tired is due to low calories which is what I personally experienced about since I went up to 15mg and was could only manage 710-850 cals a day for the whole 5 weeks, so you basically went triggered and OTT for non relevant reasons, maybe you should eat more so you don't have hangry anymore.

Imissgoldengrahams · 31/08/2025 06:59

CloudyYellow · 30/08/2025 14:06

I had 2 days of mild nausea on 2.5 mg. Since then no side effects.

I have just heard so many grim stories about 5mg and I know I am an absolute baby about nausea and vomiting as had 9 months of it during last pregnancy.

I had 4 days of sickness and diarrhea on 2.5
I was scared of 5mg but I also didn't know/have access to mumsnet to search up about the clicks so I just went for the full 5mg
Was absolutely fine, in all honesty it felt like I was injecting water as nothing changed (apart from loosing weight) genuinely didn't feel any different
7.5 gave me nausea and sulphur burps but again, nothing compared to days of diarrhea

PearlsPearl · 31/08/2025 07:46

@Mysticmaiden oh grow up and stop thinking your experience makes you right. Everyone responds differently. I said ‘wiped out’ so I didn’t derail this thread but I had 4 days of horrific diarrhoea and sulphur burps and was extremely unwell, the worst I’ve ever been.

Clair45 · 31/08/2025 18:36

HappyWineDay · 30/08/2025 11:18

You had three and a half doses from that pen, so you should have been able to give yourself a final half dose from it, 30 clicks, 2.5mg. Are you sure you couldn’t do that, that’s how they work? Many people are successfully using them to microdose with no locking pen issues

Edited

I tried to give myself the rest of the dose but it only let me do 2 clicks then locked out. So I'm assuming I've used the 240 clicks people talk about the pens been loaded with. The pen still had a full dose or near enough of one left but I couldn't get passed 2 clicks

CloudyYellow · 02/09/2025 08:53

Quick update. Had 4 mg on Saturday. Yesterday started with manageable nausea and very tired. I think I am going to stick at 4 mg for rest of pen as these SE I can cope with but feel will struggle on 5 mg.

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