Mounjaro / Zepbound Journey

  Wow!  Day 160 … I have been thrilled with my progress. My BPs are the best they have been in years … not sure if I will be able to decrease any meds but I certainly will not need to increase any doses!   That is exciting as my high blood pressure was worsening prior to starting the Mounjaro. I was only able to get the 10mg Mounjaro for this coming month but that is okay … I seem to do okay on it (although I do a touch better hunger wise on the higher doses). The unsolicited compliments continue to come in which is wonderful.  A lot of people asking me questions about the drug and my results.   Interestingly they all focus on nausea and hearing that people could not tolerate the medicine but as I have said I have not had any of those kind of issues.  One area of real concern, however, is that the delayed gastric emptying particularly with certain foods has an unintended consequence that everyone taking the medication needs to be aware of!  If you go under anesthesia for a procedure no

  So I went with my last dose of 10mg Mounjaro this morning … going back to 15mg with the next dose.  So supply issues are bad … my local pharmacies can’t seem to get it and my farther away stand by pharmacy may be having problems getting it too.    I have 3 injections left so not a crisis at this point.   Hopefully they will turn up before it becomes a crisis. On a good note, my weigh in today was 274.8 lbs for an 83.2 pound weight loss on Mounjaro since Jan 18th!  All kinds of people congratulating me on the “looking good”! The image is a long exposure on my boat driving on a lake around 11pm … very peaceful even if a bit cool out.

  So this week I did a 10mg dose after last dose’s 15mg  … I waited until Day 11 to take this dose as part of my efforts to stretch out the doses to save some money.  I am at a plateau again which I guess is how things will be from now on. So this entry is dedicated to all of us on mounjaro (or wegovy) for weight loss who are judged by those around us for being on a medication.     The unsolicited commentary that we could all do this without the medication if only we would  “do the work” and show “mental fortitude” and “make some better choices” … well my first choice in improving my health is cutting those people out of my life.   They do not say these things because they are trying to help us or be supportive … they say it because they judge us as being less than they are … that they feel that they are superior to us … they are essentially the Karens of our world looking for things to pass judgement on but like all Karens they do not know what they are talking about.  They are oblivi