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Mounjaro for Weight Loss week 1 | I’m SHOCKED at how much I lost!
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Our summary
Brittany, who runs the Brittany Rose GLP1 channel, records her first week of taking Mounjaro together with Phentermine for weight loss. She says her doctor prescribed Mounjaro, a diabetes medication used off label for weight loss, as a once-a-week self-injection. Her stated goal is to lose 30 pounds. She shows herself taking the first 2.5 milligram dose in her stomach area and says it did not hurt.
One person's experience, in their words. Not medical advice.
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What else the video covers
She describes the cost and side effects as she experienced them. The pharmacy quoted about $1,149 a month because insurance did not cover it, but she says a coupon from the Mounjaro website brought it to $25 a month and can be used 12 times. Over the week she reports one evening of nausea, a slight headache on injection day, eye twitching she attributes to Phentermine, and some constipation. She says she had almost no appetite, which she credits mainly to Phentermine, and had to push herself to eat over 1,000 calories a day.
She says she lost 9 pounds in the first week, more than she has lost on anything before, and feels energized. She plans to switch to her thigh for the next injection because her stomach has little fat after a tummy tuck. According to the video, her doctor plans 2.5 milligrams for the first month, then 5 milligrams, then 7.5 milligrams. She ends by saying she will aim for 5 pounds in week two.
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Takeaways
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- 0:03 Brittany says the pharmacy quoted over $1,000 for a month, but a manufacturer coupon from the Mounjaro website brought it to $25.
- 0:04 She walks through her first 2.5 milligram pen injection in the stomach area and says it did not hurt.
- 0:09 She reports nausea on the evening of day three and says she is unsure whether the medication caused it.
- 0:10 She notes eye twitching and constipation, and says her doctor told her Phentermine symptoms usually fade within a week.
- 0:16 She plans to inject in her thigh next because she has little fatty tissue in her stomach after a tummy tuck, and says her doctor's dose plan is 2.5, 5, then 7.5 milligrams.
- 0:18 She reports losing 9 pounds in the first week and credits the lack of appetite mainly to Phentermine.
Key moments
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What the video says
As stated in the video, not checked by us. Doses and results are the speaker’s, not advice.
- Medication
- Mounjaro
- Point in the journey
- Week 1
- Side effects mentioned
- nausea, headache and low appetite
- Who is speaking
- Patient
Questions this video answers
How much weight did she lose in the first week on Mounjaro and Phentermine?
Brittany says she lost 9 pounds from one Wednesday weigh-in to the next. She says it is more than she has lost on anything before, and she credits her very low appetite mainly to Phentermine.
How much does Mounjaro cost without insurance according to this video?
Brittany says her pharmacy quoted about $1,149 for a month because insurance did not cover it. She says a coupon on the Mounjaro website lowered it to $25 a month, usable 12 times, and that it also worked for her sister and mother at other pharmacies.
What side effects did she have in week one of Mounjaro?
She reports one evening of nausea and a slight headache on injection day. She also mentions eye twitching and constipation, and she attributes the eye twitching to Phentermine.
What Mounjaro dose did she start on?
Brittany says she started on 2.5 milligrams. She says her doctor plans to move to 5 milligrams after a month and then 7.5 milligrams.
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About Brittany Rose GLP1
Patient story, 44.3K subscribers. 27 of their videos are in GLP-1 TV, 1.1M views between them, mostly on Mounjaro, Zepbound, Wegovy.
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- Mounjaro for weight loss, and why Zepbound exists
Mounjaro is tirzepatide approved for type 2 diabetes. Zepbound is the same molecule from the same maker, approved for weight management, and it goes to the same 15 mg. So unlike Ozempic and Wegovy, there is no dose ceiling pushing you from one to the other: the reason people move is coverage and cash price, not strength. Using Mounjaro for weight is off-label and a prescriber's decision. In the one head-to-head trial, tirzepatide beat semaglutide, 20.2% mean body-weight loss at 72 weeks against 13.7%.
- Mounjaro dosage chart: the label's schedule, every pen and vial, and what each dose costs
Mounjaro starts at 2.5 mg injected once a week. If more blood sugar control is needed, the dose goes up in 2.5 mg steps after at least four weeks on the current dose, to a maximum of 15 mg a week for adults and 10 mg for children 10 and older. Lilly sells every strength self-pay starting at $499 a month, so on the brand the price does not climb with the dose.
- Mounjaro side effects: the label's numbers by dose, the low blood sugar risk, and how tirzepatide compares at weight-loss doses
On Mounjaro's own label, the common side effects are stomach ones and they rise with the dose: nausea in 12, 15 and 18 percent of people at 5, 10 and 15 mg against 4 percent on placebo, diarrhea 12 to 17 against 9, and any gastrointestinal reaction in 37 to 44 percent against 20. Most of it happens while the dose is being raised and fades. Low blood sugar is rare on Mounjaro alone and is mainly a risk when it is added to insulin or a sulfonylurea. Below: the full table, the rare warnings, and why Zepbound's numbers for the same molecule look higher.
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