r/mounjarouk

Day 3 on my first ever dose and the mornings are rough.

I eat breakfast and it’s like… nothing. No energy, no fuel, just waiting. I know the delayed gastric emptying is the mechanism but knowing it doesn’t make it less miserable at 8am.

I’m starting to think I need to completely rethink the order I eat things - fruit or juice first to break the fast quickly, then complex carbs, then protein and fat last since that’s the slowest to process. Basically the opposite of what I used to do.

For those of you further along: how long does it actually take before you feel like the energy from breakfast lands? And did you change what/when/in what order you eat in the morning to deal with this?

Also does it get better after the first week or is this just the new normal?

Hi, I'm just about to take my 3rd dose of 2.5mg. Not much has happened for me yet and I'm still hungry a lot! I am getting full sooner, but still waiting for the full effects to kick in.

I have a friend in America who is on Ozempic and had lost 100lb. She says she barely eats anything because she just isn't hungry!

Is this the case with Mounjaro? Everyone posts the success stories, but no one says what they ate to lose the weight. Do you just end up barely eating?

Almost exactly a year ago, I was getting over traumatic hip replacement surgery. (It was unplanned and unexpected and followed a medical reaction to other treatments. I had not been able to walk for some months.) I was overweight before the event and my BMI had tipped into obese. I was trying to lose weight but I was miserable, starving, and on three separate medications that made me put on weight. It was my all time low. I hated everything about my existence.

Today I have lost 30% of my body weight. I go to a yoga class before work. My BMI is 21. I wore a mini dress to work today. I no longer binge drink or need my anti anxiety medication. Mounjaro replaces both with no symptoms or side effects. My life is so astoundingly improved it’s insane. I buy the clothes I like not the ones that I hope might hide my flaws.

I know I sound like a freaking cult member, but this medication is life changing.

If you are debating yes or no, please stop. Just do it. Get a discount code of monj.co.uk or monjour.co.uk and jump in.

I won’t lie, I think I am on this drug for life. I don’t care. It’s a better life than the one I had before. I love it.

By the time I remembered I already primed it so I just got a new needle and started all over . My concern now is the pen still good ?

I cannot help but weigh myself daily and I really don’t think it’s helpful 🥴

Please throw your shade and snark or advice at me to convince me to weigh weekly.

OK, please don't laugh. I do fundraisers often. Usually for cancer charities and mental health charities and pet charities, all causes that touch me deeply.

My big pet-peeve with all those fundraisers has been the sizes of the t-shirts with the charity logos on them! Impossible to fit properly even in the largest sizes. I always order the largest, as I know that even that will barely fit me.

This time, I joined the Brain Tumour Research charity that starts a May fundraiser. My younger sister is dying with a nasty grade 4 glioblastoma tumour in her brain (she's the reason I try to lose weight so I can travel and see her 😢 ) so I had to join in her honour.

Of course I ordered the fundraising materials, which includes the tshirt. As I know I've lost about 13kg, I thought for the first time in ages, I would order a size before the largest. I thought that it would probably not fit me properly if at all, ut as I'm on MJ for the next few months, I will be using it for a while and hopefully at some point it'd fit. These tshirts usually have a good stretch in them, but I never quite fit even in the largest sizes.

Imagien my surprise this morning. I got the tshirt and left it aside to try it on when I'm emotionally stronger for the inevitable confirmation that it won't fit.

But, what do you know, it fits! It fits comfortably! To the point that I'm thinking "oh, maybe I did order the largest size after all" LOL

I'd take a photo but I don't want to display my droopy boobs under it. 🤭

Hi, I’m on the jab around 5 months with good success. I don’t have any nausea generally and am easily able to eat my normal food (just less).

But come injection day .. the thought of the pen, act of doing the jab makes me feel sick! Not afraid of needles or anything but just the thought of the process gives me nausea!!

Weird one I know!

Anyone else get this?

In the UK we have now got an aim to end smoking for an entire generation. People born after 2007 will no longer be able to purchase tobacco products.

With Mounjaro and similar drugs being made more available, have we cured obesity and, in the same breath, we are stopping smoking... Have we found the key to public health in the UK?

Think about it... No obesity and no smoking... I wish I could be around long enough to see the fruits of this in the future...

Xennials such as myself are often fascinated with how the modern world has grown. We transitioned analogue and digital, and now here we are, able to inject ourselves and in essence cure obesity.

When the drug becomes more widely available, it will be dosed out as commonplace as paracetamol.

What do you guys think, have we found the cure for public health (bar cancer, but those rates will drop dramatically too!)?

Hello,

Been on mounjaro since its release in the UK. For me this medication is life changing in many ways. Started in Feb 2024 with Superdrug then changed to cloud pharmacy who I’ve been with for a while. Suddenly they want to do video consultations with me as I’m in maintenance (I realise this is tightening of the regulations), totally understandable however I have SEVERE anxiety and literally cannot do phone / video chats. I can send videos / photographic proof etc and communicate via email only.

Anyway does anyone know of any pharmacies that aren’t requiring video consultations when ordering from them if in maintenance (my BMI sits around 21-22). Thanks for any help :)

Hi all, I’ve been on 5mg since august last year and have lost 4st 1lb in total. However I seem to have plateaued since January. I feel like I am just wasting money and I’m eating now just because I can (I don’t eat anywhere near as much as I used to) I’m considering going up a dose but I’m worried it’s just stopped working for me now. Can anyone offer any advice? I have started logging my calories now just to see if im going wrong in that regard and im currently having around 1700 calories a day.

Hi everyone! I've decided I want to replace my larger plates with smaller size dinner plates. Where are the best places for good quality ones? I currently have 30yr old denby ones which I'll store for parties but I'd love similar quality smaller ones. Maybe around 24cm? Ideally not plain white. Thanks!

7.5mg has been a total nightmare dose, the exhaustion and appetite suppression is too much. On top of that, I haven’t lost so much as an ounce on this dose. Heck, I was even 1lb heavier this morning. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Anyhow, I want to order a new 5mg pen, but I’m not sure if I should continue of have a break for a few weeks and then start back at 2.5mg. I’m only 4lbs down in 2 months, and £200+ a month seems a pointless waste of money to lose such a small amount.

I don’t know, I’m just starting to getting really fed up with this now.

Is anyone else having trouble ordering from medicine marketplace?

I've clicked on the reorder button in the reminder email. It then tells me I need to go to their new site. So I do that and it tells me that because this is my first time ordering off their new site I need to complete the consultation. I've filled in every question, but it's telling me in the first section that validation failed because a field needs attention. All fields are complete, I don't know what else to try.

Anyone else?