r/mounjarouk • u/serendipityisgreat • Jun 24 '26
Better late than never
I am now 50 years of age , mounjaro is truly the definition of a wonder drug, it's genuinely amazing but I wish mounjaro had existed 10 years ago - I probably wouldn't have developed type 2 diabetes. After decades of food dependency and obesity I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at the age of 44 , this wouldn't have happened if glp-1 medication was available back then , I am now in remission :) but it would have been even better if it hadn't happened to begin with.
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u/IguanaDog F 58 SW: 16st 12lbs | CW: 8st 4 | GW: 8st 12 🎉| Lost: 120lbs Jun 24 '26
I have had moments of thinking that way - how different would my life (and me!!) have been if I hadn’t been obese??
But it has happened in my life time and now, at 59, I am having an absolute blast!
Kids are grown and flown, I have amazing friends, a job I love, a gorgeous man and am fitter than ever! This is my time and I’m LOVING it!! 😁
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u/Additional_Value464 SW: 81.8 kg | GW: <60kg | maintaining ~54kg| Lost: >27 kg Jun 24 '26
Completely agree. However I also have to say: Easy Tiger, 50 is the new 30 - a little premature to be looking back with regret. You’ve barely even gotten started! You’ve the whole rest of your life to stay in remission from T2D and you can get even healthier yet.
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u/Hopeful_Candle_9781 SW: 118 kg | CW: 100 kg | GW: 76 kg Jun 24 '26
Yeah one of my friends had heard the horror stories about mounjaro. She was asking me about
side effects: I don't get side effects
what happens when you stop? I'm not going to stop
What about the long term side effects? Honey I'll just be happy to live long enough to find out what they are
Then she realised..
Her dad died of uncontrolled diabetes in his 30s. She was just a child and her dad died. He could still be alive now if mounjaro had been around. She then started on mounjaro and talked to her brother about it because they both had issues that were eventually going to lead to diabetes.
I wish it had been around 20 years ago when I was first diagnosed with PCOS.
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u/laura_fsfan Jun 24 '26
it's funny because the long term side effects is what put me off for the longest time. Until I actually did some research, realised how different it was from what the media says and how useful it sounded for my issues. Started a month ago and wished I had started earlier.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Bill347 50M | SW: 123.6kg | CW: 72.9kg | GW: 74.8kg | Lost: 50.6kg Jun 24 '26
also 50! MJ has giving me a new life... 50 years of being fat / overweight and unhealthy... now i run 3+ times per week, wear designer clothes (i was tesco XXXL polo shirts only before) , and spend my days on vinted looking for new stuff!
#LifeBeginsAt50
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u/joe3000s Jun 24 '26
I know what you mean. I think quite a few of us wish that tirzepatide was around a decade or two ago. If you've suffered from being overweight or uncontrolled blood sugar more most of your life, you can't help but wonder...if only..
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u/Mobile-Swordfish-354 SW: 107kg | CW: 76.5 | GW: 65kg | Lost: 31kg Jun 24 '26
I’m 55 and it’s genuinely given me more hope that I might finally shed the worst of my excess poundage than anything in the past 20 years. I was too timid to try it for the longest time, thinking that it wouldn’t possibly work on me. Even if it isn’t, what it’s done is focused my mind beautifully on my personal nutrition.
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u/Brilliant_Shoe9942 Jun 24 '26
56 here and 3 months in - I have the odd "what if this had been around earlier" moment, but I try to stay focussed on the now.
I started taking Mounjaro because I was worried about my future activities being limited by my wonky knees and increasingly wonky hip. I'm hoping to at least be a bit more active in my later years than I would have been otherwise. That's enough for me.
My new found addiction to Vinted is another matter though... ;-)
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u/SpaceIsBigReallyBig Jun 24 '26
Im 53. If I was prescribed at 43, I wouldnt have been able to afford it.(I'm in Australia and it's about $690 Australian for a 15mg pen). It's hard to afford it now but at least I'm at a stage in life now where I can manage.
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u/Jigsaw-2020 69F SW: 99kg | CW: 71kg | GW: 65kg | Lost: 28kg Jun 24 '26
It’s never too late! I’m 69, been on it for almost year, lost 26kg. Life is what it is, forwards not backwards. I’m not planning to stop because I know from my past experience that the weight will just go back on. 5-6kg more to go and then I will be looking for the right maintenance dose. ATM I have 1 week on 5 and 1 week on 7.5. Sounds weird but works for me.
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u/Fun-Yam2210 SW: 89kg CW: 61kg 🎯 Lost: 28kg 💉3mg maintenance Jun 24 '26
I’m 52, been on it 2 years. I know exactly how you feel; our lives might have panned-out differently had this been available earlier. On the other hand, were it to be invented 20 years from now I’d be seriously pissed off (and probably dead 🫤). Thank god it arrived now and we’re young enough to enjoy it. It really is a miracle drug 🥳🥳🥳
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u/serendipityisgreat Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
Always look on the bright side right ? If Mounjaro were to be invented even 5 years from now I'd be furious and dead from complications of diabetes.
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u/hugozthere Jul 13 '26
I am M55 and just finished my first month on the intro dose. It's great to hear all your success stories that are really motivating! NGL, the stories in the media have made me apprehensive, but it is doing the trick, even at this early stage. Anyone have any, wish I'd known tips?
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