Recent content by crispyraisin57

I keep repeating this about baby doses (my term). I see why people choose them for milder side effects, but Lilly's trials never mention any such dose, so it doesn't add up. At 2mg that first week I dropped just as much in water weight.

Raise this with your doctor or dietician first, since they'll know how to restart, IF they consider it doable, and they'll surely insist on a strict diet to avoid a repeat. Mounjaro can mentally help with bad-food urges, though in my experience that grows gradually. When you restart, keep zero...

I'm three months into 2.5mg, staying put. The one reason to climb is returning food noise or missing appetite suppression. Mounjaro won't make you lose, your effort with the tools it provides will. When stalled, check yourself: counting calories? Deficit reasonable rather than extreme (extreme...

My first month brought weight gain too, on a 5 mg start. Reaching 10 mg improved my A1C and the weight began to fall. Low doses work for some people, others need more, so that may be you. Comparing isn't useful. Good luck.

61, T2D, reta from March. Weight 235 to 162, A1C now 4.8 versus 9.2 before. Metformin, statins and BP pills gone, SGLT2 stays. Twelve mg for the final loss year, nine now, easing toward six. Slight regain, but a steady 170 feels better. I call the T2D reversed rather than remission... a...

Did you begin on 2.5 already? Each dose needs one month at minimum. Whether you linger or move on depends on if it still works: satiety, quiet food noise, eating inside your deficit. Standard practice moves up after a month since 2.5mg is a loading dose, yet for some, myself included, it works...

Shed a substantial amount, close to 40 lbs, within a short window some four or five years back, brought on by intense stress and depression that pretty much shut down my appetite entirely. Carrying extra weight at the time, though not into obese territory. Hair wasn't affected right away, that...

Using a smaller-gauge needle for the copper peptide part of my blend, the component that usually causes stinging. Mixing 100mg into 6ml and doing two separate injections of nine units each in different spots, that works out to a 3mg total dose. Zero stinging at all. Going deeper seems to make a...

If it comes up naturally, I mention it. Had a lot of hesitation at first, decades of diet culture messed with my head. Spent two years in therapy learning to accept myself and my body, so bringing this up felt hypocritical for a while. Now around four months in and losing roughly a pound weekly...

That's a massive amount for six weeks. Congrats! My own plan was always finding the smallest amount that actually works, so I've held at 2.5mg for six months running now. Jumping to 5mg when 2.5 was already delivering felt pointless, and my doctor backed that call. Track down your own minimum...

Question is whether it happens while the needle's going in or during the actual injection. Noticed mine really hurt while injecting. Then realized it was because I was pulling it straight from the fridge. The liquid was freezing cold against my warm body. That temperature gap caused real pain...

Just kicked things off myself so no real comparison to offer yet, but I'd guess running a calorie deficit will definitely dent your strength and endurance somewhat. Have a backyard ultramarathon lined up tomorrow, curious how that plays out, though like I said I'm only just starting on 0.25mg of...

This is my second round on Mounjaro. First time around I dropped 60 pounds across nearly a full year, though those same twelve months also brought two close family members passing, so it was genuinely brutal. Ended up stopping because my insurance was expiring and I wasn't keen on Marketplace...

Dealing with the same struggle on Cagri. First vial, 5mg, absolutely worked, could feel that fatigue everyone mentions. Bought batches from a few different vendors since and I just don't feel anything anymore. No clue whether I ended up with a bad batch, or my body just adapted? Cagri was...

12 lbs over 7 months still counts as forward progress, even if the pace feels agonizingly gradual. That exhaustion at 1.7 wiped me out too, some days felt like I could've dozed off from simply being alive. Might be worth sticking with it a while longer since you mentioned it's still moving...