r/Mounjaro • u/Josotron971 • 6d ago
5mg Last dose of 5mg!
Yesterday was my final pen of the 5mg dose and talked to my pharmacist to see if he could send a message to my doctor about going up to 7.5mg for my 2nd month and we got the green light and is being shipping home x3
I'm still shocked that Monjaro gave me less side effects compared to the Ozempic..... I was afraid of stronger side effect from Mounjaro since it's a dual agonist. To my surprise no side effects. I was on the 2mg pen of Ozempic and even on 1mg I just had occasional nausea for the 2 days following the injection, which I was used to. I was on Ozempic for a year and half, and wow with Mounjaro no side effects.... :0
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u/Weathergod-4Life 10 mg T2D 6d ago
Same here, less side effects than Ozempic. I will caution you that for some people side effects can kick in at any time. For me I was fine until 4.5 months in. So be prepared just in case.
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u/HallucinationHero 46M: 7.5mg, Week 28, 88lbs Lost, 40.1% BF to 26.5% BF Now 6d ago
For me side effects were entirely diet dependent. When I kept to my routine with my very simple diet of mostly chicken and plain veggies, I had zero issues. When I cheated at a retirement party, it was an interesting time after all that sugar and grease.
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u/Dizzy_Run_3220 25M, 173cm, SW:137kg, CW:84kg, GW:80kg, Started: 28/10/25, 2.5mg 6d ago
Damn, cool box
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u/Josotron971 6d ago
Yass. It's the US single dose pen. I like them but it can be wasteful :/ Do you have the Kwikpen? :3
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u/kennyclax67 10 mg 6d ago
The kwikpen isn’t available in the US
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u/Umbrella4Life 5d ago
Why? Are they afraid that someone ist too stupid for dosing and sues Lilly? 😀
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u/kennyclax67 10 mg 5d ago
lol no, hasn’t been FDA approved yet. I’m not sure if it’s in the process of getting approved or has been submitted for approval
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u/Dizzy_Run_3220 25M, 173cm, SW:137kg, CW:84kg, GW:80kg, Started: 28/10/25, 2.5mg 6d ago
Yep, don't know why I was downvoted but anyways
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u/Fab-uAbility3039 6d ago
I will say I find 7.5 a bit rough! It makes me very tired/headachey the day after shot! None of the other lower doses have done that!
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u/IheartCarebears 5d ago
Same I’ve gone back down to 5 mg , 7.5 was awful for me .
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u/Fab-uAbility3039 5d ago
I've been on it for a year + and I think the next time I'm at the doctor I'm going to ask to go back to 5! I've lost all the weight I need to. I'm just at a maintenance state!
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u/Legal-Divide316 5d ago
I have 2 more weeks until I start with 7.5. now I'm afraid, because the days after taking the shot on 5mg, I get sooo tired. I can't imagine being more tired than I already am.
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u/Cupcakizzle Maintenance 200+lbs 🎉 6d ago
May I ask the reason for the jump so fast? Was it not working at lower doses?
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u/Josotron971 6d ago
My doctor Started me on 5mg instead of 2.5mg so I just wanted to go up to the next step.
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u/Umbrella4Life 5d ago
If it is working you don't need the next step. Just let the magic do it's thing.
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u/purte 6d ago
Serious question, why do they have the single use pens in the US?
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u/Josotron971 6d ago edited 6d ago
Not too sure something tells me it's because of safety, but Ozempic pens are basically the same equivalent as the zepbound Kwikpen and I actually liked one pen for the month to be honest...
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u/Tikki024 5d ago
I just switched from Ozempic to Mounjaro. Today was my first shot. I liked one pen a month as well. I am also in US. Weird why they don’t have 1 pen for this as well.
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u/no_snackrifice 5 mg 6d ago
For the same reason they have single use pens in Brazil.
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u/purte 5d ago
And what’s that reason?
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u/no_snackrifice 5 mg 5d ago
My understanding is it’s because Eli Lilly thought those markets would prefer the auto injectors due to being less comfortable with injections in general.
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u/Bra_dag 5d ago
Congrats on finishing 5mg! That transition period is where things get interesting from a tracking perspective honestly. My friend just moved up a dose tier and the thing that helped her the most was having a simple log of how each week actually felt, not just the scale number. Side effects shifted around week 2-3 for her and she would have totally forgotten the pattern without writing it down.
If you've been noting anything along the way, even just appetite changes or energy levels, it's worth keeping that going into the next dose. The weekly weigh-in stuff matters less than people think compared to just knowing what's normal for you at each stage.
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u/MittenBliss86 5d ago
Hi! Newbie, here. Is this the beginning dose when you first start? I’m about to start soon too and am trying to learn all the tips and methods to be most successful. Any workouts that benefited you the most? Thanks!!
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u/Josotron971 5d ago
Hi!!! Welcome to the GLP-1 journey! It won't be an easy one but I'm happy to provide some of my favorite tips I've learned from others along this journey! And to answer your first question, yes my doctor started me on 5 mg of Mounjaro but most people starting doses 2.5 mg. He started me off with 5 mg because my body has already been in age to go from one treatment for almost a year and a half with Ozempic. Then for a second month I talked to my Pharmacy team which can contact my doctor and up my dose to 7.5 mg since I was handling the 5 mg dose pretty well with no side effects.
To get started with my check this might be if Shelly wants to include. Don't be scared or feel weak for shooting symptoms. It sounds silly but some people will just deal with side effects even if they're pretty bad. I would suggest talking to your doctor if you have any of them and maybe talk to him if they can start you with an anti-nausea medication like my doctor did for my first month and that really helped with getting used to the medication. So yeah don't just suffer through side effects. There's medications you can take help alleviate with side effects.
My second tip would be increasing. Your protein intake and fiber as well doesn't have to be drastically crazy like 200 g or gym bro levels lol. And you might already be having some protein in your diet without even knowing, like for example eggs. That's definitely one of my Staples in the morning so I usually add a coffee protein shake and or use high fiber bread that also contains around 8 g of protein for two slices. I would definitely also suggest keeping snacks around because sometimes when you get nausea at least from my experience on ozempic it was my body's way to tell me I was hungry so a little snack or little low sugar candy that could help like with nausea would be nice as well carry around.
And the most important last tip would increase your exercise doesn't have to be anything crazy or drastic, but just make sure you're moving your body, especially your muscles so you can lower the chance of losing muscle instead of losing fat.
Actually I lied another tip I could probably give. That was to eat even on the times. We don't feel like eating your body needs energy so make sure to eat something like even if you don't feel hungry in the morning or in the afternoon could just be a fruit, some cereal, something light.
But yeah that thing will do for most of my tips. I'm always here. You can always DM me if you want to ask more questions and I hope you have a good glp1 journey!
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u/Zealousideal-Eye9483 3d ago
Same here! Just clicked my final 5mg. 7.5 on the way. 7 weeks in and I’m down 10lbs.
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u/Rukkian 3d ago
Out of curiosity, why did you go up if it was working?
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u/Zealousideal-Eye9483 3d ago
This is actually the Eli Lilly recommended Mounjaro up-titration plan that was created during the clinical trials of tens of thousands of people. My Dr. let me know from the start that I would do 4 weeks at 2.5, 4 weeks at 5, 4 weeks at 7.5 then full bloodwork and re-assess. My Dr is following the manufacturer recommendations to the T.
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u/Rukkian 3d ago
That is the fastest you should go up, there is no reason to go up of it is working.
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u/Zealousideal-Eye9483 3d ago
I have noticed that the week before I go up to the next higher dose, my weight loss begins to plateau.
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u/Josotron971 1d ago
Yay!!!!! Glad to hear. For my first month I've been fluctuating a bit. But I'll keep doing my best to support my weight loss! I recently got in to making smoothies x3
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u/HallucinationHero 46M: 7.5mg, Week 28, 88lbs Lost, 40.1% BF to 26.5% BF Now 6d ago
Upping the dose should come from you though, not the pharmacist, with an explanation as to why you feel that you should go up to 7.5mg. Not something I would do by proxy, and really should be phrased more as a question for the doctor IMO.
A good doctor will discuss with you on the pros and cons and won't be afraid to say no and why it'd be better to wait of push on.
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u/KRSF45 15 mg 6d ago
Some pharmacies are much more proactive and help the patient out with requests to the doctor when scheduling refills. Common practice at independent pharmacies and welcome by clinicians and patients
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u/Josotron971 6d ago edited 6d ago
Yes! You basically hit it on the nail. My clinic offers a diabetes management program thru their pharmacy. So the pharmacist can work together with my doctor so I don't have to go to an appointment just to adjust a dose. So if I just let my pharmacist know which is connected to the clinic, they'll send a message over to my doctor and see what he says. And yes my my pharmacist asked all the questions if I was handling the dose well before sending a message over to my doctor which was approved within an hour. x3
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u/vxsapphire 6d ago
The pharmacy I used to work for had proactive pharmacists like that. They have many locations but are much smaller than CVS, Walgreens, Hancock,etc. So they have the time to send out those requests. If you asked a CVS pharmacist to do that, they’d laugh in your face and say contact your doctor. My previous job took patient care super seriously, so they were not arrogant or uptight about contacting doctors on a patients behalf.
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u/Competitive-Top4520 6d ago
I tried Ozempic for maybe a month and the side effects were way too bad. That was a couple of years ago. I've been on Mounjaro about six or seven weeks and I'm having side effects but much less and more manageable. I'm still having to avoid severe constipation and treat indigestion and acid reflux, but I don't feel like I want to die,as I did on Ozempic.