On Mounjaro for two months, my take (long read)

Solid work. Keep it up.

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dinner. It has changed my life. Question is, what happens when I get off of it? I am still going to the 10mg dose next month, then re-visiting my doctor.

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Same. It’s completely changed my life. As for getting off… don’t rush it. Get your diet, workout routine, and lifestyle completely adjusted and in concrete. After that, you can slowly begin to wean down if you choose. Or stay on it indefinitely if you choose. There no downside to this if done properly. My one piece of advice is to start lifting now. I waited almost 6 months before lifting and definitely lost muscle mass. I’m lifting heavy 5-6x a week now and catching up, but if I could turn back time, I would’ve started way sooner.

Anyways, keep it up. It’s an amazing drug.

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It has changed my life. Question is, what happens when I get off of it? I am still going to the 10mg dose next month, then re-visiting my doctor. My target weight is sub-200, I’m 6’ tall.

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Are you diabetic? You mentioned it was 6.4 last time it was checked, but are you diabetic? 6.5 is the cutoff so just curious.

Sounds like you’ve made some strides and hope you can keep it off!

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I’m nearly 56 years old, I’m not about to start working out heavy with weights again. I’ve had too many surgeries in the last 10 years (bicep, shoulder, hernia

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I never said to deadlift 450# Any resistance training will help. 56 is fricking young. I see 70 yr olds in the gym.

I’ve been on these meds a while and just trying to help you. The more lean mass you add, the better your odds of not rebounding to that CPAP.

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Question is, what happens when I get off of it? I am still going to the 10mg dose next month, then re-visiting my doctor.

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So I’m part owner in a compounding pharmacy that does mainly Semaglutide (Ozempic) and Tirzepatide (Monjauro). Once you’re off you need to either continue a healthy diet and workout plan or just stay on the meds because you will gain some back. It sucks, but it is what it is

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Have you experienced a lot of muscle loss?

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Just a gee whiz question, at what stage of obesity are doctors prescribing this stuff? 20 pounds? 50? 100?

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I didn’t really have huge muscles to begin with, my arms and legs were pretty thin, considering I weighed 260+ lbs.

As far as the prescriptions go, I understand insurances are starting to deny it for non-diabetics, because so many people are wanting on it.
I pay $22 a month for 4 shots. My wife paid $120 a shot because insurance wouldn’t cover it.

You could have done all this with diet and exercise. It would have required some effort though. Long term I don’t think this will end well for a lot of folks (not everyone) but there are disturbing trends and reports from people using this for weight loss.

What about people that don’t have the drive or motivation for diet and exercise? I would assume a weight loss medication is better than continued obesity. Hopefully the medication can spark new dedication to a healthy lifestyle where the brain couldn’t.

The brain? How about the human will? We don't need to live involuntarily. There is an alternative. Just sayin'...

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I don't think taking these drugs is sustainable long term we are already seeing perplexing side effects and issues from some (not all) users some that are permanent that are not good.

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why are you making stuff up or talking about the 0.01%?

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Anything is better than obesity but you can get there without using drugs prescribed/intended for other issues.

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you can but one thing i have learned over the years is, everyone is not you nor I. many hate exercise or have negative thoughts about it for different reasons. Also many have what is referred to as food noise

one thing i have noticed, guys and females that tend to be more emotional tend to have problems sticking to the any time of regiment and staying discplined.

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They will simply revert back to being obese slobs when the monjaro runs out or they stop using it.

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most people should slowly go down to prolly 1/2 the lowest dose and stay on that

it has a ton of health benefits and the side effects like the gastro issues effect a very very small portion of users. we have a decade+ of data from those that have been on that are diabetic and we have almost 3+ decades of studying glp-1 and its effects


as far as the question on muscle loss

1) glp-1 is anticatabolic in a vacuum
2) muscle loss happens anytime someone is not resistance training and is in a steep deficit
3) the medicine tends to go to people that do not know how to count calories and macros. Its very very very very important that one hit minimum of 1g protein per lbs of lean muscle on this and thats a minimum. also extremely important to lift progressively over time.

there are studies showing that with lifestyle interventions...i.e. counting macros, prioritizing protein and progressive resistance training that muscle loss is less than those doing the same without the
medicine

and yall should stop fear-mongering, shite is ridiculous. of course some people are going to get side effects. happens with any medicine. Some of the things people say shows a complete lack of understanding of how the drugs work.



and yes it can be used by bodybuilders in a cut. main thing is to use minimum effective dosing, usually much smaller than what is prescribed. the other thing is, its best used in conjunction with peptides so you maintain skin elasticity mainly ghrh(tesamorlin then cjc1295 no dac), ghrp(hex then ipamorelin), bpc, and GHK-Cu.

OP: why are you in such a hurry to raise the dose if you are getting results with the dose you are on?

based on what? and what percentage is getting these "weird" side effects