u/Regular_Ring_951

Hi all! I started 2.5 Mounjaro December 29th and am down 80 lbs. I did one month 2.5, next month 5 and 5 months on 7.5. I honestly didn’t need to increase from 5 but my doctor doesn’t seem to know alot about this drug and until I did my research those few months, I asked to stay on 7.5 for a bit since weight was coming off quickly. I noticed 7.5 a lot of the food noise came back but I just tried to sit with it and work with it. But we just increased to 10 this week since my weight loss has stalled and I’m back to completely no appetite.

It just got me thinking, what does life look like for you on this medication once you get to a healthy/goal weight? I have another 70-80 lbs to lose so I have alot of time but did you go down to some sort of maintenance dose? Do you still have food noise? Will I be able to learn to handle food noise again or will this med be the main support for that for the rest of my life? Also just to throw out there I’m on Mounjaro for my type 2 and for that alone I plan on staying on it for the foreseeable future. It’s done incredible things for my insulin resistance and for that alone I’m so thankful.

I’m just at a loss. And conflicted. We started with oh crap right when he turned 2 and he figured out how to release pee and poop very quickly. Poop got even better and 9/10 self initiated. Our issue has been pee frequency. Obviously at the beginning it was random and constant. After a month or two we finally we consistent with 30 maybe 40 minutes in between. Then he had a huge regression at where his child care was with poop (my aunt watched my 2 and 1 year old since they were babies since she home schooled). She started diapering again but we kept with it at home commando. We were even at an hour gap between pees. Occasionally 45 minute accident. But then poop fell apart at home. And then pee. We took a month ish break because he would not stop talking about poop and I felt he needed a nervous system break. And j needed it too because I was getting frustrated knowing I shouldn’t be.

Got back to it at home and we got poop back on track where it was. And built up pees back to an hour. Had the occasional hour and a half. Still having maybe 1-3 accidents a day but still improvement. Well my aunt decided she was done and I enrolled the boys in public daycare June 1st. And daycare will only do pull ups until he’s consistently dry. And now pee is just out the window. In terms of bladder control I guess? His pull up can be wet anywhere from 25-30 minutes. Sometimes we get to 45 minutes.

We started giving an m&m anytime his pull up was dry at a potty check and that worked for like 2 weeks. I know we need to go back to at the minimum commando but what will that matter if daycare is doing pull ups? I read that they know the different environments but that hasn’t seemed true for him. I’m more frustrated about the pee frequency. If he only peed even every 2 hours I would consider him potty trained. He goes every. single. time. we do a potty break with no fuss. He recognizes poop and tells us. Everyone older than me says to just keep doing the pull up thing and he will figure it out but like what if he doesn’t? I don’t want to be at 4 years old with an even more sentient stubborn child with a time crunch to get into preschool.

I think what I’m hoping or asking is if anyone has any experience with pee frequency. Like maybe physically his body isn’t ready? I know he does have bladder control. When we were on a roll, he would dribble a little in his pants but stop and I would notice and take him to the potty.

As a mom I’m just trying to figure out what he needs and I don’t have that answer anymore and it’s really making me sad. I really think he can do this.

Also to mention I brought up constipation and doctor didn’t think that was an issue. Plus we give him prunes every day just to ensure everything is clear in there and regular.

Idk I’m just defeated. I don’t know what to do. He’s my first and I feel like I’m failing him.

My periods were always all over the place growing up. Didn’t get a period until I was I think 14-15 or maybe it was 16? Idk but they were heavy and awful. And not consistent. I got diagnosed with diabetes in 2020 and locked in with my nutrition and fitness. When I was TTC in 2021 I got obsessive on tracking my cycle and even then it was 35-37 days long but very predictable. Then had my son October 2023 and had another son January 2025. Gained a SHiIT ton of weight and also stopped caring about my diabetes in general. Got my shit together January of this year and got back on my metformin and added mounjaro to the mix. I am down almost 60 lbs so I know the weight loss is a huge help but I know the mounjaro is doing wonders for my hormones and blood sugar. I eat very low carb and count my calories but the few times Ive cheated, my blood sugar immediately comes back down after a spike. (I wear a CGM).

Idk I’m just in shock you guys. I didn’t think it was even possible. Even when I was doing intense beachbody workouts in 2018 and probably at my thinnest, my cycle still sucked. But also at that time I didn’t know my blood sugar was slowly creeping up so I was eating a calorie deficit yes, but not limiting my carbs.

Idk the point necessarily to posting but no one else understood it (my mom and best friend and husband lol) when I was celebrating this morning when my period came and I see on my tracking app it’s been 28 days. And I was hoping some here would understand how exciting it is for me.