Becca Jane St Clair

I’m going to be real with you and share some very personal details over the coming weeks. If that’s not your cup of tea, please stop reading. But if you want some real, first hand experience from someone using Mounjaro for the first time to treat their Type 2 Diabetes, welcome.

So today is actually the day after shot 3, so I’m backtracking a little to cover weeks one and two, but then there will be weekly updates. I’ve been keeping detailed notes in my journal with what side effects I’m experiencing each day and anything else I feel I need to take note of, and I’m going to use these notes to write my posts. I think keeping track of things like this is a great way for someone to remember things that happened to them, so if you discover a pattern or have something you want to ask your nurse about, you have it written down. (I also keep a list of pretty much all illnesses and perimenopause symptoms to help identify patterns)

I am starting on the lowest dose, 2.5mg and then after four weeks we will be increasing my dosage to 5, then possibly to 7.5 and on up if I need the higher doses. But let’s talk about week one.

I was…surprised. Like I mentioned in my previous post, I made sure I had dinner before I gave myself the first shot as I read it could cause nausea and I didn’t want to make myself sick with the first dose. Sticking myself with the needle was easy and it barely feels like a pinch. The cold medicine going through your body? a very weird sensation. I can’t even describe the feeling other than to say I immediately felt “funny”. Not nausea, not dizzy, just…funny.

We went home and went to bed.

The following day, the constipation hit. I opted against taking any medicine for it and just drank lots of fluids, including a high 5 electrolyte tablet. I woke up at 2AM on Wednesday having the nastiest, eggy/sulphur burps that I’ve ever had. I honestly thought I was going to throw up but fortunately I didn’t. My body then gave me the opposite of constipation and I wound up taking Pepto Bismol just so that I could get back to sleep!

Later that day I needed to go out on the bus into town and I noticed I felt a little motion sick if I tried to look at my phone on the moving bus. I don’t actually suffer from motion sickness, so this was new! Fortunately, that didn’t last long and it was only on this day that it happened.

My notes for Thursday just say “eggy burps” about three times, so it must have been bad. I remember it even woke Tim up it was so foul smelling and the sound! I don’t know if you’ve ever had an eggy burp, but they don’t sound like a normal BRAAAARP kind of burp. The closest I can compare it to is a bull frog croak. Something really loud and echoing and just unpleasant all around. I took some LeFax powder we always bring back from Germany* and went back to bed.

On Friday, the diarrhea got worse and I needed to take Imodium. I also had really hot, red cheeks with no fever, but I’m also Perimenopausal, so it could have been unrelated!

Saturday and Sunday were both side-effect free days, which was expected as the medicine was dwindling down in my body.

Throughout the week, I noticed one BIG thing — I was feeling full with less food. I wanted less food. Now, I’m not the kind of person who experiences “food noise” and in fact until I started taking Mounjaro I hadn’t even heard of the term. I only think about food if I’m making a meal plan or actually hungry and deciding what to eat. Food has never really been constantly on my mind, even if being on Slimming World seemed to want to force that in the past. But this week, I found myself filling my plate with less food than usual but then also leaving a quarter to a half uneaten and put into the freezer for later. A few nights I ate Weetabix with yogurt and berries for dinner because I wasn’t overly hungry but didn’t want to wake up in the middle of the night hungry.

The other side effect I’ve been experiencing that I didn’t know existed is feeling extremely cold. I mean, it is still kind of Winter here in the UK, and I do tend to get cold extremities due to poor circulation so my feet tend to be cold a lot…but I was absolutely freezing. Adding on socks on top of socks and cardigans on top of jumpers with a blanket on my lap. I used the pre-heater on the bed most nights this week even if it wasn’t that cold out.

All in all, There was nothing unexpected for me to deal with and I feel like things are going smoothly. Of course, the real test will be after week 4 when I have my bloods tested to see if there’s been any positive change, but I feel like there will be.

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*Once when we were travelling, we both became ill with what we can only assume was food poisoning and when I went into the Apotheke and described the symptoms, the pharmacist reccomended this product and we’ve been bringing it back with us ever since.

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