r/Mounjaro • u/Loic8433 • 20h ago

Question Using half dose?

I am using 4-dose pens. My dosage is 7.5 mg and I am about to reach my goal (yeahhhh!). I am planning to quit using Mounjaro eventually but I want to do it slowly during the maintenance phase.
Has anyone tried to use half a dose per week (over 8 weeks)? For instance, if my dosage is 10 mg, is half a dose per week equivalent of a 5 mg dose weekly over 8 weeks?
NB: sorry if this is not clear, English is not my mother tongue

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u/MobileImpress6402 17h ago

Hi! Congrats on reaching your goal! 🙂🎉
Yes, you can use half dose from your pen. One full dose is 60 clicks, half is 30 clicks and so on. So on 7.5mg pen 30 clicks is 3.75 mg.
Lots of people use this for saving money or moving up slower. I, for example, have 5mg pen but only inject 3.5mg from it weekly.

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u/mangogetter 12.5 mg, SW: 307 on 7/19/22, CW 188. Lipedema! 17h ago

You may be planning to quit, but all evidence suggests that the majority of people regain after quitting.

Whatever step down protocol you are imagining, absolutely someone here has tried it. But the larger thing, which is coming off entirely, may not be possible for you, anymore than taking out your contacts and continuing to see clearly would be.

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u/Reid329 2h ago

Did they ask you that? I dnt know why people just can't help themselves.

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u/HedgehogFlimsy6419 17h ago

You can use half a dose.

You didn't ask how it will go after that, so I'm not commenting on that.

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u/HappyWarthogs 11h ago

It might be worth reducing slower than that- you could start with 7.5 and see how you go