About a month ago I started using Mounjaro which is a weight loss drug. I immediately noticed that it altered my perceptions and I didn't like how it changed my relationship with food like Ozempic did too. I found Mounjaro more bearable than Ozempic and my weight range dropped about 5 to 10 pounds during this time. I also didn't have to take the diuretic Furosemide or the accompanying Potassium during this time either.
So, though you can get very depressed and confused with Mounjaro it does seem to be an effective weight loss drug. However, like anything else you have to weigh the positives and negatives. I realized today I have to take a break from it in order to regroup. One of my ideas is to give myself a mounjaro shot ever other week to maintain my weight loss at least at the present level.
However, I finally realized tonight with my wife's help that psychologically it just wasn't working for me at all.
We all have to balance what works both physically and psychologically for us in order to function in our lives and I realized I needed to take a break from Mounjaro to regroup and to think more about the positives and negatives of using Mounjaro as a weight loss drug.
I believe I can lose weight with it but it might take 6 months to a year to lose the weight I want to at this point. I'm not sure I can survive the depression that it seems to give me in the process.
Other factors of course for me is one of my oldest friends died within the last week in the Mt. Shasta area which would depress anyone who lost a good friend of around 50 years so far. The other thing I'm having trouble with is the fires in Los Angeles. The houses I lived in in Glendale didn't burn down yet and aren't likely too. However, Malibu I surfed and body surfed and Scuba dived there as a teenager and young man and Malibu and Pacific Palisades are right next to each other and part of Malibu on the ocean burned too.
Also, Pasadena is right next to Glendale where I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s so it's also sort of like your home area burned down too. Also, Mt. Wilson I visited first when I was 6 years old with my 6 year old friend next door in Tujunga because his father worked there. So, he took us both to work with him one day to Mt. Wilson so I have these memories too and the fires went right up to the Microwave towers at 6000 feet there where it snows sometimes in the winter. But, because of the drought there is no snow there right now. (However, Fire personel stopped the fire before it burned down all the microwave towers there because it is a main transmission point for phones and computer data because of it's altitude likely all the way to Nevada also or further.
So, all these things and more didn't help the Depression caused by Mounjaro on top of everything else.
So, I'm taking a break for at least a week or more while I regroup and think about what I want to do next.
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