Becca Jane St Clair

This second month on Mounjaro was also my first month on 5mg, and you can read about weeks 5-8 by following the links at the bottom of this post.

I’m definitely settling in to taking it. I have a bit of a system now where on a Monday I take it about a half hour before I go to bed so that if there’s anything side effect wise, it’s not interrupting my day.

Speaking of side effects – everything has improved. My digestive system seems to be around 85% on board with the new medication and while I’m still burping, they’re not nearly as foul. I mean, they’re still icky, but that first month they were clear the room foul! According to most of the documentation I’ve read, the burps can last as long as 5-6 months. So, I think it’s just a case of deal with it. I also didn’t need immodium at all this past month and I used pepto twice. The horrible cramp seems to have gone away – I only experienced in on weeks 1 & 2 with the 5mg, though weeks 3 & 4 I took preventative ibuprofen after the shot. At my appointment with Fiona, she suggested I try giving myself the shot further around my belly to prevent the odd sensation that had been going into my groin right after giving myself the shot.

The one side effect that is easiest to deal with and hasn’t gone away is feeling cold fairly constantly unless I’m having a hot flash. But this is easily countered with jumpers, thick socks, and blankets. The only times I seem to not be extremely cold is in bed, and my nights are still spent with the blanket on/blanket off issue that seems to plague most of my perimenopausal friends.

I had my bloods done after this month, and saw my results a few days later in the NHS app. YES, it’s still high. NO, I’m not concerned. Considering it was 103 when I was in hospital in September, I’ll take the current A1C number – 65. This was also only two months in instead of three, so it’s possible next month it will be even better. I’m staying on 5mg for month three, but then we are going to try going up to 7.5mg and see how I do with that. Obviously, the current goal is to find the dose that works to control my blood sugars and it will be whatever it needs to be. If I wind up needing max dose, well, then that’s because that’s what my body needs. We also did another finger prick test as I don’t do those daily and the result was 10, which is two hours after eating breakfast. Last month, it was 14. So again, I’ll take it.

I did not shift any weight this month, which doesn’t concern me as again, I’m looking at weight loss as a side effect, not a goal. I also increased my physical activity an have gone on 2 runs and 3 walks this month, which could have effected my weight. But interestingly, I have seen inches come off again. more off my hips than my belly, but I’ll take it. It’s HARD to get rid of the PCOS belly. Even at my lowest weight I still had the belly. Though in some fun clothing news I have gone down a size in terms of Halara!

I picked up a apair of XL Extra Petite jeans on Vinted last month and I noticed after just a few weeks that they were already feeling a little loose around my waist. It’s challenging finding Extra Petite, and they only seem to make the wide legged jeans in XP, but I found a pair in a size Large on Vinted and quickly scooped them up. They fit perfectly. Primark sizing is still all over the place and I actually purchased a skirt in a size 12 (elasticated waist) a few weeks back, but then I was in last week and tried on M, L, XL, and 2XL in multiple items and I seemed to fit a range of sizes. Ah, gotta love women’s fashion.

I won’t be making weekly Mounjaro posts unless there’s something to say. There’s no point in me posting a one liner of “Everything was fine.”, so I will be updating you all again in another month….

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Previous Posts about Mounjaro:
Mounjaro for Type 2 Diabetes
Mounjaro for Type 2 Diabetes Week One
Mounjaro for Type 2 Diabetes Week 2
Mounjaro For Type 2 Diabetes Week 3
Mounjaro for Type 2 Diabetes Week 4
Mounjaro After One Month
Mounjaro for Type 2 Diabetes Week 5 / Week 1 5mg
Mounjaro for Type 2 Diabetes Week 6
Mounjaro for Type 2 Diabetes Weeks 7&8

I’ve combined weeks 7 and 8 into one post (or weeks 3 & 4 on 5mg, depending on how you’re keeping track) because as you can see…I had nothing to report back on.

I took a preventative pain relief immediately after giving myself shot 7 and avoided having a bad cramp, and repeated the same for shot 8. I’m still burping up a storm – the horrible, eggy, nasty sounding, tasting, and smelling burps – but that’s really the worst thing I’ve dealt with these past two weeks!

I know this is a very short entry, but I didn’t want to leave it off or have you think I decided to stop blogging it.

Going forward, I’m going to only post monthly updates, unless I’m swapping over to a new dosage and think there’s anything worth reporting immediately.

I think my disclaimer is going to be longer than the entire blog post….

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Previous Posts about Mounjaro:
Mounjaro for Type 2 Diabetes
Mounjaro for Type 2 Diabetes Week One
Mounjaro for Type 2 Diabetes Week 2
Mounjaro For Type 2 Diabetes Week 3
Mounjaro for Type 2 Diabetes Week 4
Mounjaro After One Month
Mounjaro for Type 2 Diabetes Week 5 / Week 1 5mg
Mounjaro for Type 2 Diabetes Week 6

I don’t have an image for this week. Sorry.

Whenever I inject the shot into my stomach, I always get this weird butterflies in the stomach feeling as the medicine is going in, but it fades out. Unfortunately, I had the really bad cramp again about two hours after the shot and this time, I looked it up and apparently it’s due to the slowing of your digestive system. Great, something to look forward to every week.

On Tuesday, my husband left me for a few days to go on a training course and we had lunch together before he left. Unfortunately, we went to the chippie, and even though I ate more mushy peas than fish batter or chips, I had bad diarrhea later that day. But Fiona did warn me!

Wednesday, I stayed at home in case I needed to make a mad dash for the loo. And then on Thursday, I had the opposite problem and was constipated. I can’t win!

Friday was a side effect free day! Horray!

Saturday I was just cold and shivering most of the day. I went out for a run and while it was lovely and sunny when I left, it soon started to drizzle, then sideways rain, then it just got faster and I wound up turning home early. No amount of layers would warm me up though, so I wound up in bed mid-afternoon huddled under the duvet for warmth. I know extreme cold can be a side effect, so I think it was partially that and partially the rain that made me so cold.

Sunday started out constipated again, so I ate some prunes and then soon was going…and going…and going….pretty sure I emptied my entire system by the end of the day.

And that brings us to Monday, and another week starting!

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Previous Posts about Mounjaro:
Mounjaro for Type 2 Diabetes
Mounjaro for Type 2 Diabetes Week One
Mounjaro for Type 2 Diabetes Week 2
Mounjaro For Tyep 2 Diabetes Week 3
Mounjaro for Thpe 2 Diabetes Week 4
Mounjaro After One Month
Mounjaro for Type 2 Diabetes Week 5 / Week 1 5mg

This week we upped the dose to 5mg! Fiona warned me that the side effects might become worse and I could drop back down to 2.5 if I find I can’t handle things, but honestly? I’ve felt amazing this week with a few small exceptions, but I found nothing unmanageable.

On Monday, we played Traveller with our friends again and so I gave myself the shot fairly late in the evening and then went to bed…and I was glad I did because about 2 hours later I had the worst cramping I have felt in years. It was close to the PMS cramping I used to get when I was younger. I actually screamed and cried from the pain, and I actually have a fairly high tolerance for pain! I wound up taking some Nurofen Meltlets that I keep handy in the bedside table and jacked the bedwarmer up to the pre-heat setting. The pain eventually settled and I went to sleep.

Tuesday started with no appetite. I made myself my usual breakfast and ate barely half. I also started burping again. It was still the “rotten egg” flavour, but it wasn’t as strong as it had been in previous weeks, it was just annoying. I also had a hot flash while I was in town for an appointment and while that wasn’t related to the Mounjaro and had more to do with Perimenopause, I figured I’d include it anyway!

On Wednesday I just wrote “lightly queasy” and tried to explain the feeling to Tim, but I really couldn’t. It was just a generic unwell in the stomach feeling and made me not really want to eat a whole lot.

Unfortunately, Thursday around 2AM I woke up with such burning heartburn I honestly thought I was going to throw up stomach acid. I ran from the bedroom down the stairs into the bathroom without grabbing my phone to use as a torch on the steps or my slippers I was so in a rush to get there just in case. Fortunately, I wasn’t sick, and I finally opened up the box of Omeprazole that I was prescribed back when I started as a “just in case”. I also keep in stock those little cocktail sized cans of Ginger Ale, so I drank one of those and went back to bed. Fortunately, it didn’t take long for the medicine to kick in and I was able to get back to sleep.

Friday led to some constipation, but not bad enough to medicate myself. I just ate some dried prunes (which I now keep on hand!) and had some Weetabix and things were soon normal.

Saturday and Sunday were completely free of any symptoms other than an occasional burp. Perhaps I’m getting used to the medication, or perhaps it’s just that it starts to wear off by Saturday and Sunday! But yeah, I actually felt a lot better this week than I have in the previous four, so either I’m now used to Mounjaro, or my body just tolerates the 5mg better for some reason.

I’m still working on eating better. We haven’t resorted to takeaway or fast food in weeks, and even if cooking sometimes annoys me (I often hate cooking for myself if Tim is at work), I’ve been doing it. I haven’t really pulled out any new recipes yet, but it’s been fun rediscovering old favourites. We also got out the bread machine for it’s inaugural run, after replacing it several years ago when a shelf in the kitchen collapsed and broke the first one. We purchased a new one, but I just never used it. I finally made a box mix, but it was great to actually use it and I look forward to using it more.

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Previous Posts about Mounjaro:
Mounjaro for Type 2 Diabetes
Mounjaro for Type 2 Diabetes Week One
Mounjaro for Type 2 Diabetes Week 2
Mounjaro For Tyep 2 Diabetes Week 3
Mounjaro for Thpe 2 Diabetes Week 4
Mounjaro After One Month