Blood test results after 15 months of mounjaro

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Hi all

ive been on mounjaro for about 15 months, 6 of them maintaining, on a 5mg dose. Just had a full set of blood work done. Lost just over 6 stone all in, inc a little weight I lost before starting.

this time last year, my blood tests showed I was one point off being pre diabetic, I had high cholesterol, high blood pressure, was on max dose of two different bp meds, and had sleep apnea. BMI was 32 or 33 I think, it’s now 20 and I’m mid fifties,

all my blood work is now excellent, from liver function, to cholesterol to creatine (shows kidney health and muscle health) , electrolytes, liver function, diabetes, full blood count, the lot. All smack bang in the middle of the healthy range. My blood pressure is healthy, and no medication has been required for several months now, and my sleep apnea has gone.

i am now , according to my results, healthier than I have been in years and years.

the only medication I now take is 5mg of mounjaro weekly. To say I’m delighted with the turnaround, is an understatement. What a difference a year makes.

the health benefits of this journey can’t be under estimated, so for any on the meds and remotely worried, don’t be.

good luck everyone x

Fantastic! Well done!👏🏻

That is absolutely amazing news. Well done on giving yourself the gift of health.

Well done! Amazing results.

Thank you, I was really curious about what the results would be, as as much as I am confident in the drugs, I did want to see what my blood tests showed, and was really chuffed they were so good,

it really just show how much we are benefitting ourselves in doing this.x

Sounds like exatly the same as me. I have been on it since July 2024. 6 stone lost. Well done on you loss and health.

I am currently maintaining on 5mg (Had to go down from 10mg due to cost)

I have found that its also helped my endo pain too.

I absolutely love this post and am so happy for you. I was about to go and scoff some biscuits but I feel remotivated now!

I have annual medicals through work. The doctor was flabbergasted at how my results had improved over a 12 month period having been fairly static for the five or so years before that. This was in January and I had been on MJ for 8 months. As I had been a fairly early adopter of it, he was really interested in everything I had to say about all
of the benefits I had noticed of which the 2st weight loss was almost ancillary (my BMI had been bang on 30 to
start off with so I had less to
lose than some).
Unfortunately, I then got cocky about it all and decided to go cold turkey at Easter, just before going on holiday and promptly put on half a stone and have continued to incrementally put on weight since then so I have now re-gained 12lbs and am wondering whether to go back on it. And, if so, how

Wonderful. Really happy for you.

@Shmoigel , well done to you too and that’s fab news on the endo pain, that alone must make a big difference.

@PearlTeapot , it’s a good reminder isn’t it on why we’re doing this, it’s health, yes appearance is also importantl for our mental health, but it reminds us how dangerous obesity is and the huge benefits of these drugs and curing that obesity is;

@HouseWithASeaView , 12 lbs isn’t too huge, but maybe if you wish to go on you could try a maintence pharmacy who allows breaks in ordering, this could make it more manageable?

Well done OP - it’s absolutely amazing. I am in a similar situation and just had my blood test the other day so waiting for result

Can you afford to continue at 5mg every week?
Do you think you’ll come off it completely at some point?

well done, btw!

I wish someone in the NHS would cotton on and widen access through the NHS. Surely it would save money on all the other meds and appointments, let alone longer term costs of obesity-related conditions? When I first spoke to my GP she herself was frustrated to admit that basically I had to wait until I’d developed diabetes properly before I could access it.

@alecks good luck with your results, hopefully they are excellent !

@dontletmedownbruce yes, fortunately I can , I get I am lucky and many can’t, but I do think in a few years price will drop, maybe quicker. I intend to stay on long term yes,

@MissMogs , yes, it’s such a shame, but I guess if enough of us go private we start to take the pressure off the nhs, and eventually it will free up enough money to pay for people to get the drugs on the nhs, that an price will drop as more drugs come to market, I think there is 8 in final trial stages, and patents will also start to expire.

Well done OP!

I started September 2024, was prescribed due to diabetes and at the time a combination of Insulin and Metformin was not controlling my sugar levels.

sept 2024

• high BP
• HbA1C result was 11.2%, diabetes is diagnosed at 6.5% so it was a bad result
• high cholesterol

Now

• BP normal
• HbA1C - 5.2%
• cholesterol - normal

I have lost 82lb on Mounjaro, a total of 136lb including the weight I had lost before starting. Gone from morbidly obese to BMI 21. I weigh less now than I did when I was 11 years old.

god that’s fabulous what a result. It’s really affirming to read these posts, we see so much about just weight loss, or dress size, what we eat, battle so much negativity, when at its core this is simply about our health, and the results validate that.

Jan 24 put on metformin for diabetes of 55 Hba1c after 1 year on meds only dropped to 51, April 25 prescribed Mounjaro by October Hba1c reduced to 36 Normal and taken off metformin. Blood pressure normal and waiting to be taken off BP meds. I have a review with sleep apnea team in Dec and hopefully I can get rid of c-pap machine too. Also 2st 8lbs down and counting.

Well done, great progress x

Wow that’s such a big change, and so reassuring when we factually see our health improve.

its lovely to see stories of where we have made tangible health improvements. And I think counteracts a lot of the negativity we see. Most of us are on these drugs, be it privately or via the nhs for health first and foremost.x

Thats brilliant! Well done !

Can I ask, how long you were on BP medication for ?
Did you just stop taking it and your BP was fine ?

That’s amazing and such a change. Those numbers show a life changing improvement. A good next step (if you’re not doing it already) is building muscle (although being female you're extremely unlikely ever to look muscled). Build muscle for bone density as you age and to maintain functional movements into old age (getting off the loo for example). Build muscle through squats, plyometric movements, weight lifting so that more of your old age is spent mobile and therefore independent.

@mynamefor2025 , I was on the bp meds for a good year before i started mj. The surgery texted and reminded me to take it, submit a reading, as it had been five years and I did and it was shockingly high, so I went to the surgery and took it there, and was then seen immediately, and I had to have blood tests then was medicated, they then had to keep increasing the doses as it wasn’t going under control.

it started dropping very quickly on mj and my doctor monitored me throughout, as my weight went down so did my bp, and she reduced the medication each month or two, until I was told to come off it completely in about Feb this year, I was on a v low dose at that point, from the max dose of both losartum and amlodipene.

ifs been healthy, bordering low now since I came off, but it was a slow taper down, of the bp meds along with the reduction in weight, and all done by my gp.

Yes, I have been doing the gym 5-6 days a week, since I started, a mix of cardio and strength, more strength, you’re right it is so important.

the only thing my blood tests prompted , was all results were literally in the middle of the healthy range, except creatine, which was still in the healthy range, but towards the lower end, so yesterday I started micro dosing creatine, read some studies and doing 2mg a day,for micro dosing has good effects, the results said the range should be 49-90 I think, and mine was in the 50s.

Also wondering at what point I can come off bp meds. I take 50mg losartan (wondering if it comes in lower doses)?

yes it comes in 25. I was on 100 of it and 10 I think of amlodipene.

you should see your gp regularly to check bp and manage the meds.

50mg is the starting dose. The next step would likely be for your GP to try you without.