Personal experience with Tirzepatide (Mounjaro)
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Anonymous
No they did not make me try Ozempic. At the time the Mounjaro coupon was out and the only affordable (to me) option. |
Anonymous
United (not personal experience, but recommended from the FB Mounjaro group). |
Anonymous
| I have BCBS and it’s covered at $25/month if you have diabetes (I do). |
Anonymous
| I’ve been on MJ since August, have lost “only” 30 lbs and have a lot to lose. Still, I’ll take it! I had to stop for about a month when pillpack wouldn’t take my savings card anymore. Gained weight back, but now I’m back on MJ through getting my prescription filled at Walmart and I’m back down to below where I was. I’m on 12.5 mg |
Anonymous
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I think I would qualify as I have about 70 pounds to lose but I'm worried about gaining the weight back after getting off of it. Or having to stay on it forever - and who knows what long term side effects will be or the cost/coverage long term.
Has anyone lost the weight they needed to lose and been able to keep it off without it? |
Anonymous
it’s a lifelong medication for obesity. Whatever is preventing you from losing weight now will revert and you will regain. Best case scenario is that after 3-5 years being on the drug maintaining your lower weight you will be able to come off it without the body upregulating hunger and downregulating metabolism in an effort to get back to your set point weight. That is purely theoretical at this point though. The data shows that when the drug is discontinued, regain happens quite quickly. |
Anonymous
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Does MJ changes your urine to an orange color?
I have been experiencing this since starting it just one dose. |
Anonymous
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What kind of Dr is prescribing these meds?
I feel like my GP won’t do prescribe. My bmi is 28 but my cholesterol and triglycerides are high and so is cortisol so I have heart palpitations too. Holding off until we know heart is generally ok but looking into options to get the weight off. I’ve done keto to lose weight but it didn’t really do much last time and the high cortisol is hard to battle. Thinking it might be time for meds. Anyone use an online service? I have UHC and I’m assuming they won’t cover it. |
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My wife's experience - from what I can see and what she has shared with me -- seems very similar to OP's. She has dropped a lot of weight with seemingly minimal side effects. I have no idea what she weighed or her BMI, but I have to imagine it was medically significant.
The weight loss has, among other things, improved her ability to exercise. Primarily, she can run further, faster. The medicine reduces her appetite but, relatedly, I guess - it also reduces what she calls "food noise." She gets full faster while she's eating, and she doesn't constantly think about food after she stops eating. The business about the medicine being a "lifelong need" seems like a scarier framing than is justified. If you lose through diet and exercise, you'll have to keep doing those things your entire life. Theoretically, if diet and exercise were sufficient for weight loss, then one could stop using the medicine at one's goal weight and then maintain using diet and exercise. I don't think that's sufficient for a lot of people - but, in any event, maintaining with diet & exercise has to be at least a little easier than losing the weight and then maintaining for the rest of your life. And even if diet & exercise are insufficient (which is usually the case), the costs - financial and otherwise - of using the medicine most likely outweigh the costs of excess weight. |
Anonymous
| (Typo - that last sentence should have said that the costs of the medicine are outweighed by the costs of maintaining excess weight.) |
Anonymous
| I found a compounding pharmacy with really good reviews that makes Semaglutide. This keeps the price a lot lower - just a few hunderd dollars a month (or less, if I use a lower dose). To me, it feels like a miracle. My appetite is reduced dramatically, and more importantly, cravings and binge behaviors have been almost eliminated. I'm basically eating two small, very healthy meals a day and feel completly satsfied and well nourished. I'm hoping that I can maintain at the baseline low dose indefinitely. I felt the effect immediately with even the lowest dose. |
Anonymous
Your cortisol is high? Like how high? I would see an endo. Mounjaro has been fantastic for me. I lost 50lbs in about 1 year and continue to lose 2-3 lbs per month. I am only at 7.5 mg and have none of the weird side effects. My bad cholesterol dropped (familial hypercholesteremia dx) my pulse dropped from 94 to 74 (was never this low even when doing crossfit and weighing 30lbs less than I currently do), my triglycerides dropped from 100 to mid 60s, I have more consistent energy and do not get hangry, my bowel movements are normal (used to be mostly loose), my hair is growing even with the weight loss, etc. Also my insurance, UHC, covers it. |
Anonymous
Mounjaro is more effective. Also some insurance formularies only cover one or the other. |
Anonymous
Please let us know which pharmacy/do you have a link? |
Anonymous
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I went on mounjaro and I think it’s important for people to know that it’s dangerous to take anybody’s advice on sites like this nobody knows anything it’s all guessing it’s a novel drug nobody knows my experience was after my second initial dosage, and I thought it was great. I didn’t eat. I had no appetite. I felt great, I collapsed in the supermarket was taken by ambulance to the emergency room. I was in total a fib, dehydrated and cardiologist said do not take this drug. It causes a fib, rapid heartbeat, and it was not insignificant and I don’t have that issue and extreme dehydration. . I know this drug is a miracle for many people and I understand that and I applaud them, but it doesn’t matter what everybody’s experience with it is because it’s brand new, and they’re still learning about it I afterwards asked the drug who filled it for
me if he’s finding that to be a common occurrence with people that are filling this medication at his drugstore, and his answer to me was no, but it does cause that I never knew that and that was my bad, because I really didn’t read up on every single thing that could happen to you with this drug because nobody does, but I felt bad enough and scared enough that I would never take it again because of it. A fib can cause a stroke and they wanted to put me on blood thinners nobody knows in the long run what happens |