UnderTheCaliSun

Hi all, Mounjaro has been AMAZING for me! Like @Tupelo and @vsgchickI lost the regain from hitting menopause and I have lost additional. I am down to 138 lbs which is my lowest weight since college. I'm not underweight at all. I worked my way up to 7.5 mg and that was my sweet spot. I hit maintenance and have slowly stepped my way back down to 2.5 mg. I was still losing on 5mg as I stepped down but so far I haven't lost anymore on 2.5. I'm on my second month of maintenance at 2.5 mg and I bounce between 138 and 141 depending on salt intake and water weight but I'm very happy with my weight and size. Once my coupon runs out in June, I'll likely transition to something else as I cannot afford the retail pricing for semiglutide or terzepitide. The difficulty is that my BMI is now 23 so I would not qualify under insurance for obesity medication. We are submitting info for a PA under Insulin Resistance, PCOS, Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver and preventative/maintenance of WL after surgery to see if we can get either Mounjaro or Ozempic approved. I am hoping to stay on Mounjaro. It works amazing for me and I never had any big side effects. I agree that if this had been around before my surgery in 2018, I probably would not have had or needed surgery but I also believe that it is HIGHLY effective for those who have had any regain after WLS. It gives a very similar feel to that first 90 day restriction.

To follow up, I did start HRT this summer and instead of gaining, I actually lost 7 lbs and my worse symptoms of menopause subsided but I quickly realized that any further weight loss was going to be really hard. My doctor prescribed Moujaro and is a big fan of it (who knew?). I started it right after I posted this thread and I'm already down 20 lbs. Holy smokes! The appetite suppression and restriction (yes, I do feel it much more now) is crazy. I relate it to the feeling I had about 90 days out from surgery. I can eat what I want but just not very much of it and I'm rarely hungry. I didn't expect to lose so much weight so fast and I really only want to lose another 10 lbs so I doubt I will hit the max Mounjaro dose. I'm currently on 5 mg with no side effects beyond nausea the day after my shot. If this medication had been around when I had surgery, I don't know if I would have needed to have WLS but I am thankful it's here for me now. My doctor loves it to prevent recision surgery and regain in patients who are 36 months or longer out from their past surgery.

Thank you! I appreciate your response. I would love to hear more about your transition to Mounjaro as you take this journey. I really like how you phrase it as turning off the food voice in your head. My friends says the same thing. She calls it a reset, not because it actually shrinks her stomach but she seems more physically aware of her restriction again. Maybe it is because the emotional food voices are more quiet? I don't know but GLP-1's do seem like a great tool for previous WLS patients. Have you had any new side effects that you didn't have on Saxenda?

Thank you Sleeve_Me_Alone, yes, I have studied the medication and talked with my doctor. I understand how and why it works but I would love to hear more personal experiences with it especially from people who had previous WLS. My friend has had mild side effects. She gets nauseous the day of and after her shot but she has learned to wear a sea sick patch which seems to fix that. She hasn't had any other side effects except for the one time she over ate. She said the result was the same as when she overate after surgery. It was awful. She hasn't done that again and she considers that a good side effect for her. I am hoping to find others who have experience too. It's a new medication so there may not be many. I'm currently on Metformin and will stay on that indefinitely so this was of interest to me but the costs are high. I Just thought I would ask. Thanks!

Hi everyone! I have a friend who had WLS a decade ago and regained a bit of weight. She recently went on the new medication called Mounjaro to try and re-lose that weight. She has done very well but said the most amazing thing that she found was that it reset her pouch. She said the restriction is back like it was right after surgery. She is encouraging me to use this mediation to reset my pouch. I have maintained my weightloss for the most part but with menopause, I've regained about 20 pounds, mostly in my lower tummy which is never where I used to carry weight. I do admit that with the years passing, my restriction isn't what it used to be but it's not gone. I was thinking of trying this but wondered if anyone else has tried it and what their experience has been? Thanks!