I’m curious what you would do with these 4 options.

1. Stay on 5 mg every 7 days
Peak: 6.92 mg
Trough: 3.65 mg

2. Move to 2.5 mg every 4 days
Peak: 5.41 mg
Trough: 4.03 mg

3. Move to 4 mg every 7 days
Peak: 5.61 mg
Trough: 2.92 mg

4. Drop to 2.5 mg every 7 days
Peak: 3.46 mg
Trough: 1.83 mg

Which option would you choose, and why?

I’d be especially interested in whether you’d prioritise:
higher peaks, steadier levels, lower overall dose, or just keeping things simple.

Not medical advice — I’m just curious what you’d pick.

20 months in, dropped from a max of 7.5 when I achieved my loss after 6 months. Over the next 14 months dropped to 5, 3.3 2.5 then 0 all without weight gain or hunger, fewer clicks plus golden dose. Run, ride, row, lift 3/4 times a week. Just started on grey market GLP as ongoing non weight loss low dose maintenance as the GLP has repaired my knees, my asthma has gone etc etc...... along with making me feel 20 yrs younger.

Researchers in metabolic set point found it takes two years at the new weight to change that to your new metabolic set point, so I’d be watching for weight stuff for two years and then ween off

I’ve just tapered off after losing 6 stone - the coming off this thing is definitely the hardest part of the whole process because of the metabolic and physiological corrections your body has to make - I tapered off for 3 months. Running in the trenches without it now but keeping those good habits in check - so far so good - keep smashing it Steve 👍🏻

Hey Steve great video in explaining how to dose differently while pointing out the risks, good content.  My understanding from talking to medics and reading papers is that the dosing schedule was done for the convenience of the trials and therefore is recommended on that basis but Lilly have never said alternative dosing is risky unless you go up too quickly, come off and then go back weeks later onto a higher dose once the meds have flushed out, or go above the highest dose in your system from the 15mg pen.  So both the GPL1 Plotter and the tool you showed help make sure your in those parameters.  The med is wont start degrading until at least six weeks after opening if left at room temperature so if you keep in the fridge it should last a good deal longer.  With regard to the multiple uses of the needles, this came from standard protocols in hospitals for any medicine where vials of medicine might be used several times a day by different people.  This does not mean there is no risk for puncturing more than 4 times, but if you use the alcohol wipe as instructed before and after on the red bit and never use the same needle it should be very low risk.  Another option is to do what I have done titrating up and intend to do titrating down, is to just use less clicks each week, that way you can really control your dose much more.  I am in the last stages of loss and have gone up by 2 clicks at a time as I get quite strong side effects.  I also want to get as low as I can to maintain and will try coming down from each dose .25 at a time so if at 10mg next dose 9.75, next 9.5 this will take many weeks but I am hoping will minimise metabolic rebound effect until I have been in a steady state for a long while.  The click counter you showed or another one I have or even the GPL1 plotter are great to help with this.  Good Luck

It’s great to hear others experiences. I’m documenting my journey also. I only went up to 5mg for 2 months and have now hit my goal weight so also working on titrating back down. Iv also used the pens for longer than they are recommended and haven’t had any problems with doing it this way.

That outside clip made me laugh. Congrats on your journey mate!

hey Steve, just discovered your channel today and honestly really enjoyed your content. I’d genuinely love to see your Mounjaro transformation journey

Thank you, Steve, for your information, testimony, and time. I appreciate you. May God bless you in the name of Jesus. And thanks for the GLP plotter. That’s an excellent tool. I turned there as soon as you said something about it.

I do 1.5 mg Mounjaro every 4 days, with the same result as 5 mg every 7 days , no more Anhedia

Hi Steve. Thank you. I think every 4 days. Could you put a link to the graft or plotter you used please.

You are preparing to be on this for life by the sounds of things

You can click count, that’s what I did. I started at only 1 mg and don’t find I need more. So 60 clicks is 5 MG, try decreasing to 48 clicks, this will be 4 MG. If Anhedonia persists, go to 3 MG. Also Mounjaro is fine opened in fridge past 30 days.

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Great video. I'm an odd case in that I can only take very low doses. Luckily, it works well for me but for weeks I took 1.25mg which was a great sweet spot. Later, I went up to 2mg and that was too strong so am currently happy at 1.62mg MJ. This was all through trial and error last year when I had to stop and then restarted in Jan this year at the half dose. Since Feb last year I've lost around 72Ibs. The point is, I have to microdose a 2.5 pen, I have no choice. I was reading that these pens are far more bomb proof because the instructions have to take into account all users and use a worst case scenario. For example, some people are just not very clean and probably don't look after their pens or store them inappropriately. I'm very careful with mine but people are people and the manufacturers have to factor this in. I've never had issues and I've used pens for up to 9 times. Remember also there are 5 doses in the 30 day period, starting from day 1 - 8, 15, 22, 29. All can be administered within the 30 day period. If you took 4mg, 48 clicks, that would give you 5 doses.

I've just lost my first 10kg on 2.5, my nurse wants me to go up to 5mg and I've been arguing, why, I'm doing well on 2.5?

Great video and I think I will try the split dosing.

Have you considered switching to a gpl-1 in pill format? I started Wegovy about 3 months ago, I’m down about 21 lbs and am about 10lbs from my goal weight. I talked to my doctor about switching to a pill format just to have a more even feeling throughout the week. She suggested for me to get to my goal weight then switch to the pill for maintenance.

I'm midway through the video, so you may have answered this already, but looking at your question in the pinned post, have you considered doing 3.75mg every x days? Although I guess that's basically close enough to the 4 dose.

If i were you id go back to 2,5 for a bit and then start trying to microdose it (2,5 every 2 weeks)
This is what i intend to do once i reached my goal weight.