Becca Jane St Clair

I forgot to do an 8 month update, so I’m going to combine months 8 and 9, even though not a whole lot has happened in either month Mounjaro wise, though I did celebrate my birthday, went away to Wales for the weekend, went to one of my best friend’s weddings, saw Tim Peake speak, and finally had the cyst that had been bothering me for a year removed. WHEW!

In the two months since, I lost another 2.5KG and another 4.25 inches overall. It brings my total weigh loss so far to around 9KG and close to 18 inches overall, at least in the places I’m keeping track. Not bad for 9 months if you ask me. It works out to a steady KG per month.

The only oddish thing is that I’ve noticed my morning blood glucose numbers have crept back up, even though I’m not eating worse. So I’ve made the choice to increase my dose to 12.5 and we’ll see where my numbers are in January. This increase from 10 to 12.5 also might cause more weight loss, but like I’ve always said from the beginning, the weight loss is only a happy side effect. I’m more concerned with getting my HBA1c down and being healthier.

Speaking of health though….I had a text from the GP that I needed to have my bloods discussed with the pharmacist about statins, which had me VERY confused as my cholesterol is completely normal. But as it turns out, being over 40 and diabetic puts me at risk of things like strokes that being on a statin will prevent. So….looks like I’ll be trying out a low dose statin sometime in my future and we’ll see how I get on with it.

My side effects ebb and flow like the tide. Sometimes I go weeks with nothing, other times I wind up burping for days. But like I always said, nothing has been truly awful and I’m managing.

I also talked with Stena lines (Ferry) about bringing my mounjaro on the overnight ferry from Harwich to Hoek and they told me it was not a problem at all to put my mounjaro in a fridge for me. This was quite the relief because they also said they cold keep my cold pack in the freezer as the following day we have a long train ride and I need to keep it cold! This will be my second international trip with Mounjaro, but the first one we were in the car so nothing neeed to be said. I am prepared however, with a letter from the GP which I translated into German, and then used Google translate to translate into French and Dutch so I’m covered.

I can’t believe I’ve almost been on Mounjaro for year. Wow. What a year it’s been!

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It’s time for another monthly update, though I don’t have a lot to report here!

I had my official call with Fiona where she confirmed the numbers from my blood test last month. I have been given the option of upping my dose to 12.5 if I want to encourage additional weight loss, and I’m thinking about it, but I’ll see where I am with weight loss after a full year before I make that kind of decision.

Weigh in update: 1.2kg down this month. I don’t have a cumulative because I had to switch to the digital scale in the GP waiting room and it was 0.9kg higher than the analog scale when I took a base measurement in August. I suppose if I add 0.9 to my original weight recorded on the analogue scale it works out at 5.7kg total loss since February.

Measurements: 0.75 inch off the belly, 0.5 off the hips, 0.75 off the chest. Total inch loss to date: belly 4, hips 4.5, chest 4

I have discovered another side effect or I guess it’s really related to what I can/can’t eat. Twice this past month I had a tomato based meal – one was a hamburger helper mock recipe that I have been making for ages and the other was just tomato soup. Both made by me and did not contain anything I was allergic to. However, later at night when I was in bed after having both these meals (about a week apart), I woke up and immediately had the burning sensation of acid from heartburn in my throat and I had to run to the toilet before I projectile vomited in bed. I’m a little sad by this discovery, because I do like a tomato based pasta dish! I’m fine with tomato sauce on a pizza and even with raw tomatoes, so it seems to be the quantity of tomato that set me off. I am already on Omeprazole, so I think this is a new Mounjaro “issue”. But it’s also not anything I can’t handle.

I also continue to use the laxative around every other day just to keep things moving and to prevent painful constipation.

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I’ve now been on Mounjaro for three months and honestly, everything is going fantastic. I was on 5mg again this month, increasing to 7.5 for month 4. I barely have needed to write down any new or strange side effects, though I’m still experiencing things like diarrhoea and burping, though not to the extreme of needing anything other than a swing of Pepto.

At my appointment, we went over the results of the blood test, and even though it’s still high, it was a positive downward move by nearly 50%. So we’re happy with that, but we did decide to increase my dose to 7.5mg and then see where we’re at. Obviously, at any time I can go back down to a lower dose if I find the side effects too much to manage. I’m also going to be adding dapagliflozin after we get back from our holiday in June to see if that helps.

I also wanted to address some of the misconceptions around getting prescribed Mounjaro on the NHS for the treatment of Type 2 Diabetes. From the NHS:

In line with NICE technology appraisal (TA) 924, Tirzepatide is recommended as an option for treating type 2 Diabetes in adults, alongside diet and exercise, only if blood glucose is inadequately controlled and:

Triple therapy with metformin and two other oral antidiabetic drugs is ineffective, not tolerated, or contraindicated, and
The patient has a BMI of 35 kg/m² or more with specific psychological or other medical problems associated with obesity, or
The patient has a BMI of less than 35 kg/m², and:
Insulin therapy would have significant occupational implications, or
Weight loss would benefit other significant obesity-related complications.

And there also is no cap on the dosage. If you need to go up to 15mg to get your Diabetes under control, you will go up to 15mg. They won’t, however, increase your dose for the sake of weight loss if your blood sugar is controlled with a lower dose.

The guidelines for getting Mounjaro for weight loss on the NHS are as follows:

Have a body mass index (BMI) of 40 kg/m² or more (or 37.5 kg/m² for people from minority ethnic family backgrounds)
and

Have at least four of the following long-term conditions:

1. Type 2 diabetes
2. Hypertension (high blood pressure)
3. Dyslipidaemia
4. Established cardiovascular disease
5. Obstructive sleep apnoea

So you can see where the confusion has come from and where some people are misinformed. It’s also weird that T2 is one of the conditions for getting it for weight loss, but presumably, this is if your T2 is controlled with another drug and you didn’t need mounjaro for controlling it.

I had a long discussion with Fiona about this, because of what people had been telling me were the criteria and knowing I didn’t fit them. It turns out, they were telling me the criteria for using it for weight-loss and not T2. She assured me that I am eligible for it and there is no danger of me being told that I can no longer have it in the future. It will, however, always be my choice if I stay on mounjaro or try something else, but since Metformin stopped working and this is, I can’t see myself stopping.

The other new thing is that I am now testing my morning (fasting) blood glucose level. This is primarily to monitor how well the mounjaro is doing since I am currently not in danger of hypos. I forgot to ask Fiona how to use the monitor though, so I had to go in and see a different nurse the following day. She suggested I could test 4 times per day and keep a food diary to see what foods affected me, but it wasn’t required and considering my problems I had with Slimming World stemmed from all the tracking, I’m not going to do that unless Fiona tells me that I absolutely have to.

There also was no new weight loss this month, which is a little discouraging, but I’ve lost additional inches off my bust, belly, and hips. Fiona thinks the 7.5 will help with losing a bit of weight. Again, I’m not aiming to lose, but it would be a happy side-effect for sure.

Roll on month 4. I might not do weekly updates for 7.5, because I will be away for weeks 3 & 4, but I will make a four month post.

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Sources Used:
Tirzepatide (Mounjaro®) for obesity: Information for patients from 1 April 2026

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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
Mounjaro for Type 2 Diabetes 2 Months On

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

I’ve been on Mounjaro (2.5mg) for one month, and just started the 5mg. Even though I was keepnig weekly records and blogging weekly, I wanted to do a monthly check-in as well as there are some things you notice more after a full month.

First, I wish I had kept a food diary alongside the first month side effects. It might have helped me to identify patterns and what foods were problematic. It also would have helped me to discover if I have any deficiencies in terms of eating balanced meals…and I KNOW I have some because I can go through an entire day and not eat any fruit and sometimes the only vegetable I will have eaten was potatoes or tomatoes in pasta sauce. Not deliberate, just how my meals sometimes went. I did try to start my day off with frozen mixed berries thawed out with either Weetabix or porridge, but I also ate Kellogg’s High Protein Bites a few mornings if I felt like something chocolate.

Eating out was hard. I had the warning from Fiona (my diabetic nurse) of “don’t eat chinese food or greasy foods” and the horror stories from friends that eating overly greasy food would cause diarrhea and vomiting. This past month Tim and I had plans on three out of the four weekends – two involving overnights (one in Leeds, one in Cambridge). It was easy on the first day of the weekend trips to at least make sure I ate decently at breakfast before we left and I would do a pack-up lunch for us both. Dinners could have been troublesome, except that we lucked out and stayed next to a Toby Carvery in Leeds so I was able to have a roast dinner with veg (avoided the cheese topped veg!). In Cambridge, we ordered from the Indian restaurant we really like and I was fully prepared to have to deal with any aftermath, but I also deliberately ordered Tandoori style chicken – which is dry roasted and comes with salad – and shared a saag paneer with Tim.

Did I want to pop into McDonald’s when I was in town for an appointment and grab some nuggets or a burger? Sure. But did I? No. If I was hungry in town, I either went to Subway and had a salad or I ate at the local bagel shop and had a bagel sandwich. It was important to me to not subject myself to the outcome of greasy food. I’m not saying I was a regular eater of fast food, but it sometimes was a convenient option that is now only to be used in an emergency — like if we have been travelling all day and the only place open at our destination is a 24hr McDonald’s.

I learned about portions. Which, I know sounds crazy as an almost 47-yr-old, but hear me out — I never measured out my food. I just put food on my plate and ate it. But I learned this past month that I don’t need as much food as I thought I did — even a salad, which I love, can be too big if I keep piling the bowl high with veg. I even only drank half (250ml) of a can of Cider! But I’m learning, and that’s the important part.

I had my monthly check-up with Fiona on Monday and before I went in, I took some measurements again. I measured around my belly, my hips, and under my breasts. I lost 3.5 inches overall in the past month as a pleasant surprise. And another unexpected side effect is I lost 5lbs. Like I said from the beginning, I’m not on Mounjaro for the weight loss, but if it happens it’ll be a nice little bonus. I just want my blood sugars under control…even though I never knew they were out of control.

Speaking with Fiona, I was chalking some of the side effects to perimenopause instead of my diabetes like being extra tired, needing to pee more frequently, and having a dry mouth. However, we have decided to check my hormone levels next month when I have my blood work done just to see where I’m at in terms of perimenopause in case I do need support there.

We upped my dose to 5mg now. The current plan is to stay on 5mg for at least 2 months (assuming I can handle the side effects) and then see where we’re at. I might need to go higher, I might not. Someone left me a comment on my Week 1 blog and stated that the NHS doesn’t prescribe above 5mg. I asked Fiona about it and she said that wasn’t true, that you can go all the way up to 15mg if needed, so it might vary from trust to trust. At any rate, I’m hoping I handle 5mg. Fiona said the side effects might increase, and if I find it intolerable, she can drop me back down to 2.5. But I’m going to give it a go. We also checked my blood just with the glucose monitor, which I don’t do at home, and Fiona was pleased with the number, but it still has a bit to come down.

I will continue to post weekly updates at least each time I change dosage for the first month, and then always a monthly update at least while I’m having monthly appointments with Fiona. Once things settle down, these posts will likely only be every three months. (Though I probably need to buy a scale if I’m not seeing Fiona monthly…)

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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

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I wound up giving myself my shot a few hours later than I have been because we were playing Traveller (TTRPG) until around 2100. But I was able to give myself my shot and pretty much head straight to bed. I’m still feeling “funny” after I give myself the shot. I can’t really explain the sensation but it’s near where I give myself the injection and almost as if I can feel the medicine moving through me? I wish I had better words! My back also started to hurt later in bed, but I’m not sure that’s related to the Mounjaro and is more related to our bed being old and my body being old!

Tuesday’s journal entry simply reads “lots of poo”. I think every time I went to the loo, I had to go and I went to the loo a lot on Tuesday!

Wednesday was the worst day out of this week for me. I wound up going in my pants early in the morning (I’m still not sure if this is Mounjaro related or some kind of stomach issue with what I ate the night before). THe diarrhea got to the point I needed to take immodium, and I was having bad acid reflux. I’m not a stranger to acid, so the fact that I wrote down 8/10 indicates that it was pretty rough.

Thursday, I had more heartburn and a very weak stomach ache. Not to the point where it was full-on nausea, and not to the point of needing pepto…just a very dull, light stomach ache.

The surprise came for me on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday though.

I had ZERO side effects. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Even risked it with an Indian takeaway in the hotel on Saturday night and I half expected to need to take something before we met up with our friends on Sunday, but I was surprisingly fine. Am I finally “used to” the Mounjaro? Of course, this is the end of my 4 weeks on 2.5, and I will start on 5mg later today, so we might be in for a whole new round of side effects! But I’ll keep tracking things in my journal, and still write up weekly posts – at least for this first month on 5mg (second month overall). My goal is to hopefully have no symptoms and only need to keep monthly updates, but we’ll see what happens.

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Mounjaro for Type 2 Diabetes Week One
Mounjaro for Type 2 Diabetes Week 2
Mounjaro For Tyep 2 Diabetes Week 3

Cosplaying as my Pathfinder Character, A Gnome Druid named Aoife.

Week three was an interesting rollercoaster for me. Just when you think you get the hang of it….bang!

I took my shot in the evening once more. Tim was on nightshift, so this was the first time I did it with no one in the house with me in case anything went wrong. Once again, it left my stomach feeling “funny” for lack of a better word. It almost feels like I can feel the medicine going through me. It’s a weird sensation! I had low level nausea, so I went to bed.

Tuesday started up with the diarrhea again. Not bad enough for immodium, just pepto was needed. I also was really tired and when Tim came home at 0630, I actually went back to sleep and didn’t wake up until I was almost late for GP appointment! I also was really cold all day and after eating dinner I felt like I had overeaten. My stomach felt so full. I took more Pepto and went to bed!

Wednesday was an emotional day for me. I don’t know if it was related to the Mounjaro or if it was Perimenopause rearing it’s ugly head, but I cried over really dumb things again. both Wednesday and Thursday I had no appetite and ate very little. Basically, I ate because I knew I needed fuel, but not because I was actually hungry although on Thursday I also cooked a full batch of Hamburger Helper (from a recipe, not boxed). I wound up freezing pretty much all of it, but at least that meant I had more food in the freezer for future meal options.

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday were just full of the eggy burps. It was pretty rough as Saturday and Sunday we were out! I was afraid about finding food to eat while we were away, so I made a pack-up of cheese, biscuits, apple slices, and a few other snacks for Saturday. We lucked out staying next to a Toby Carvery on Saturday night, so had a roast for dinner. Sunday was rougher as after breakfast in the hotel, I had minimal options for Lunch. I wound up with poutine, but didn’t eat all of it and it still made me feel a little ill later on.

But today brings shot 4 and the last dose of my first pen. Though I had to google an image to make sure I actually had taken 4 doses because there was a bit left in it!

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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

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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