Of course; always happy to share how life changing this has been for me.
Since the age of about 9, I started putting on weight. My parents and brother have always been at the low end of the BMI scale. My mother always made healthy, home cooked food. There was no UPF in our house. It was rather boring for snacks!
Anyway, my period started at the age of 12. I didn’t get it again for a few years - I think I was about 14/15 when it arrived again.
During this time, I was overweight, face full of acne, hairy face, snail trail, mental health very up and down. This unfortunately continued until I started MJ last October at the age of 34.
Since the age of 12, I’ve had about 10 periods. This made it very difficult for us to conceive, as you can imagine. I would continuously lose and regain about 5 stone. I can’t actually begin to tell you how being overweight and the associated symptoms of PCOS made me feel. Oh, such shame and self loathing. It was truly awful. So many missed opportunities and life experiences. So many times I’ve said no, when I wanted to say yes. How sad.
I knew about the injections in the summer of last year. I entered my stats in to all the usual providers many times, and then deleted it. Scared of the side effects, scared that this wouldn’t work either - so what was the point?
In September last year, I pretty much had a breakdown over it. My husband was amazing (he always is!) about it all, and was so sad about my suffering. Not to mention the concern around what a lack of a period can do to a woman’s body. He actually brought up the injections with me. He gave me the push. He said we didn’t have anything left to lose.
So, I started last October. Starting weight 102.8kg/16st 2.7lbs, BMI 38.2.
To my complete amazement, my period arrived in November. And it has done every month since then. That has never happened in my entire life.
By December, spots gone.
By January, mental health/anxiety issues, gone.
By around May, excess hair pretty much gone.
You could attribute some of these symptoms lessening due to weight loss, and that will absolutely be a factor, but that doesn’t explain how my period appeared since November. There is so much we don’t know about how MJ works positively in the body, alongside weight loss. I can’t wait to find out more.
I cannot begin to describe what this medicine has done for my body. My mind is now free. My body is truly free, working as it should.
I am now 8st, BMI 19. Been maintaining that easily for a couple of months.
I now say yes to everything. I don’t hate myself. I show up every single day in my new world and new body and can’t believe I get to live this life now. Free of all that torment and shame. I used to think there was something truly wrong with me. There is nothing wrong with me. I am perfect as I am, it’s just my body metabolically wasn’t working as it should. My poor body. All the horrible things I used to say to it.
Just like any other medication used to treat a metabolic/endocrine condition; MJ treats it as long as I keep taking it. If I stop, the symptoms come back.
I’ve not had any side effects, thank fully. I don’t have a gallbladder, it was removed some years ago.
This is just my personal experience, and it may not be the same for you. However, you could just try 2.5 and see what happens. You can always stop if you don’t like it, or it doesn’t work for you.
Plus, there are new medicines including in tablet form that are due to be released in the near future if you don’t like the thought of injecting.
If you do decide to try it, please find the monthly support group in here. I’ve met some amazing women, all lifting each other up without judgment. I’ve had a wonderful year and I am so excited about my life to come - freedom!
Best wishes.