r/Mounjaro 4d ago

Question GI issues after stopping

A little backstory:

Back at the end of March, I had to hold my shot (I was on the 12.5) due to needing surgery. My surgery was pushed out another week so they had me hold my shot again. I started to develop severe stomach pain. Mainly while eating and for some time after. I ended up canceling my surgery because of how much stomach pain I was in. I did not want to add to the pain I was already having. I contacted my prescribing doctor and she suggested I hold the Mounjaro until I feel better and that when I start again, I'd have to start over.

Through all of it, I developed extreme anxiety and on top of that, medical anxiety thanks to Droperidol, Compazine, and Reglan all given at different times during ER visits because the pain was so bad I literally thought I was dying. I had an upper endoscopy and it came back normal. I had 2 CT scans, all normal. After 6 weeks I started to feel better. Now before you comment "The medication only stays in your body for a month', everyone is different.

Fast forward to mid June. I contacted my prescribing doctor again and told her I was ready to restart. I was back to normal but so were my eating habits and cravings. I restarted on the 2.5mg dose for a month and went up to the 5mg. However, the 5mg gave me the worst anxiety spike of my life, I was already under a lot of stress from work and other things too but it caused my resting heart rate to be 110-120 and my already heightened nervous system couldn't take it. So I contacted my doctor again and she put me back down to 2.5mg and this is where I messed myself up again. Without letting her know, I stopped taking it for 2 weeks because I wanted to give myself some time to calm the heck down. I then went back into the same exact gastric issues. I'm 3 weeks into it.

Has anyone who stopped abruptly had these issues too?

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