Maintenance- how are you doing it?

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Just that really? Have you stopped mounjaro completely or will you stay on a maintenance dose long term?

Ive finally reached where i want to be. Ive pretty much had to increase and decrease my doses in response to gain and loss in the past few months.

I'm just not sure what to do, to stay on a maintenance dose or try it on my own. I do have 3 pens left.

How does it work spacing doses out if the pens only last for 28 days?

Thanks

Personally I was on ten, did an extra month on this whilst reverse dieting, so upping my cals by 100 or so a week, then moved to a month of 7,5 whilst doing the same till I hit maintenance cals. Now on 5mg and weight completely stable, been on it for about 5 months and this is my maintenance dose. I inject weekly as normal. I don’t wish spaced out doses as I don’t want those sort of peaks and troughs of medication.

every9ne is different, some stay on, some come off. It’s very individual

I’m not quite there yet (2 more kgs to go to mid BMI healthy range). But will be in a few weeks.
I’ve started spacing out my doses (currently around 8.5 from a 12.5 pen) and going 10 days between jabs rather than 7.

I plan to space out like this for a while. See if I stabilise where I want to be and then will reduce the dose and just see what happens.

in an ideal world I would stop completely as the potential risks (eg of pancreatitis) may not outweigh all the benefits now I am healthy.

However I shall wait to see what happens over the next few weeks and months.

my symptoms related to neurodivergence and autoimmune conditions are much improved. So am also conscious MJ may have had an anti inflammatory impact which I may miss!!!

I tried leaving ten days between jabs but that led to unwanted side effects.

Right now I am jabbing 7.5 every week. I will see how I go with that and might reduce to 6 or even lower.

I keep my pens in the fridge and don’t worry about extending the life.

I went back down the doses from 10 through to 2.5, doing 2 months on 7.5 and 5 (I was an early MJ user so hit my goal weight around a year ago). I came off fully nearly 6 months ago and it’s going okay so far. I will admit I panic bought 2 x 2.5mg pens back in August when the price hike was announced but haven’t used them.

It's 30 days, not 28, if that makes a difference to your dosing.

I personally am reducing by a click or 2 each jab, which is approx 0.25mg depending on the pen strength. I have gone from max 10.5mg when I hit goal down to about 6mg currently - still at goal months later. (I took a similar approach on my way up.)

I am willing to go a little over 30 days per pen - so far up to 35 days, and my pens stay refrigerated.

I also dose every 5 (or occasionally 6) days, but have done this for over a year.

I'm hoping to increase time between doses, but prefer taking a lower dose slightly more frequently than a higher dose with a larger gap, due to the relative peaks and troughs. (I keep a detailed record on Shotsy and on a spreadsheet.)

There is an ongoing maintenance thread, lots of people all trying different ways to maintain…

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight-loss-injections/5403680-thread-2-because-we-have-reached-our-goal-weights-and-we-want-to-maintain-not-regain-we-might-be-going-cold-turkey-or-titrating-down-or-staying-on

Thanks all, its interesting to know how others are maintaining. Well done on maintenance 👏🏻