It’s been a bit of a whirlwind since Donald Duck had one of him temper tantrums, Like many people I quickly placed an order for my next pen, which was due anyway, to try and buy myself some time to figure out the next step. Very shortly after my online pharmacy of choice , like many others, began detailing the issues they were having sourcing mounjaro to keep up with the demand, and it seems to have only gotten worse since. It is at a point where my pharmacist has admitted that they don’t know when they will even have the opportunity to order stock, let alone when they will actually get it, which means even though I had an order accepted the only information I had about when I would receive it was that it wouldn’t be soon. My next dose is due on Saturday, 4 days from now.
Although I had made the decision that I would not be continuing with mounjaro after the price increase, I was pleased to have another month with the jab, to lose a little more weight, but mainly to give myself time to mentally prepare myself for the potential issues of going cold turkey. I’ve done the research, I know the statistics about people regaining weight when stopping mounjaro, I know the struggles that people face. Sure, there aren’t any withdrawal symptoms in the usual sense, but an increase in appetite is almost certainly going to happen. I thought I was going to have a month to get used to that idea and to prepare myself.
I’m not going to have a month. My next dose of mounjaro is due in 4 days, and I’m not going to have it, in fact I’ve already had my last dose of mounjaro. There has been no tapering off, last Saturday I injected a normal dose, this coming Saturday I inject nothing. With the issues that are happening with suppliers sourcing stock I decided to make a difficult decision, I cancelled my order. Personally, with the mounjaro situation, whilst stopping so suddenly is going to be difficult, the more difficult thing would be dealing with the uncertainty, uncertainty about when the pen would arrive, would it arrive in time for my next dose, would it arrive at all, would I have to deal with the increase in appetite whilst waiting for the pen to arrive just to have to deal with it again in a month. I don’t want a decision to be made for me, so I made the decision myself.
With or without the mounjaro, to lose weight I need to burn more calories than I consume. I am prepared for the fact that I am likely to consume more calories than I have lately, so I need to burn more calories too. On mounjaro I’ve been averaging around 1500 calories consumed, I’m going to be aiming for between 1500 and 1800 from now on. To counteract the extra calories I am going to up my activity levels, trying to get out for a walk most mornings within an hour of getting up, doing some light strength training or yoga before lunch, then getting out for another walk before tea. Is it going to be easy? No. There is a reason the majority of people regain the weight when stopping mounjaro, it’s hard, really hard, if it wasn’t then they wouldn’t have needed the jab in the first place. I’m hoping I will be able to keep it off for a few reasons. First, I never intended to stay on mounjaro long term, so I’ve always been prepared to put in the work when coming off it. Second, I have amazing support that I know won’t let me slip. Finally, I’m enjoying being able to wear clothes that have never fit and have gotten rid of the tents that I used to have to wear, I’m not going tent shopping.
So here we are, the end of the road for the skinny jab.All that is left to do is see whether it was worth it, or not, but it is late so that can wait until tomorrow. Once that is done, it’s time to white-knuckle it. Cold turkey. Vikki, if I’m hangry for a while once the mounjaro is out of my system, I’m sorry.