u/abaddongoddess

I’ve had zero food noise, almost having to force myself to eat. In a way, I’m actually completely gutted I cannot continue with Mounjaro, as it appears it would work well for me! I’m aware this is probably water weight, but still. It has amazed me. Despite the initial first reaction, I’ve had zero other side effects since.

Also to add - my first dose that I reacted to wasn’t even the full 2.5mg - it was around 1mg as I was being ridiculously cautious (with good reason, to be fair!).

Sad face.

Thank you for all the well wishes on my previous post - I am feeling absolutely fine now.

I wish everyone luck in their journey.

This morning I took my first dose of Mounjaro, and within less than a minute I had what appeared to be an allergic reaction. My throat suddenly went numb, which was a really strange sensation. A few minutes later my throat started to swell, and I became very suddenly sick with vomiting and diarrhoea at the same time. It all escalated incredibly quickly.

Everything happened within the first 15 minutes. I tried to stay calm, took an antihistamine, and hoped it would settle. My throat felt swollen and uncomfortable, although thankfully it wasn’t severely affecting my breathing at that point.

Unfortunately over the next hour I continued being sick and had diarrhoea multiple more times, so I called 111. I do want to say this clearly for anyone reading: if you ever experience throat swelling after taking something, please don’t wait around like I did. Call 999 immediately.

111 arranged for me to speak to a clinician, who then sent an ambulance. The paramedics were absolutely lovely and confirmed it appeared to be an allergic reaction. They checked all my observations, which thankfully were normal, and gave me an anti-sickness injection. They also explained there can sometimes be a secondary reaction, and gave me the choice of going to hospital for monitoring or remaining at home as long as I wasn’t alone and would call 999 if symptoms returned. Since my obs were stable and my partner was with me, I chose to stay home.

This all happened over the course of around four hours. I’m now resting in bed, drinking water, and feeling much calmer. My throat still feels a little odd, but nowhere near as alarming as it did earlier. I’ve mostly got a headache now, which is probably from the stress of everything. I also could not stop apologising to the paramedics the entire time. 🫠

I’m genuinely gutted, because I really wanted Mounjaro to work for me. But because the reaction happened so quickly after taking it, I know this unfortunately means it’s not something I can safely use again. That’s difficult to accept, but it is what it is.

I also want to stress that this is clearly not a common experience, and I would never want my post to scare anyone away from trying it if it’s appropriate for them. For comparison, my partner also took his first dose this morning and has had absolutely no side effects at all.

I seem to have just been one of the very unlucky few.

Wishing everyone else the best with their journey. I just wanted to share my experience because it was such an unusual one.