Mounjaro + Fertility

Parenting

Jan 28

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My fertility journey over the last three years has been a long an interesting journey. I never thought being able to grow our family and add a little one was going to be such a herculean task. I didn’t even understand how there could be unexplained infertility. My partner and I went from a vasectomy reversal to trying intrauterine insemination a year ago. The hormones, the tests, the waiting, and the disappointment when once again it didn’t work was so much to take. Every month we had hope, we lost it, and we tried to hype each other up for the next treatment to come.

Last year, we both decided to take a break from doing IUI treatments because we both wanted to focus on our health. J and I needed to lose weight, work on reducing our stress load, and I had to take care of my A1C numbers, which had gone up within the last year. My nurse practitioner recommended that I started Mounjaro, a new medicine to help lower my A1C and help me lose weight while on it.

What is Mounjaro and How did it work?

Mounjaro is the brand name for a medicine called trizepatide, the medicine helps improve blood sugar in adults. If you want more specific medical information on it, I suggest you go on the website or ask your doctor. I am not a medical professional, so I am only going to share my experience.

I started with 5mg of Mounjaro every week. The medicine is taken subcutaneously through an injection, the needle is so thin I didn’t even feel it. What I did instantly feel were the effects of the medicine in my body, I was grossed out by even the thought of food, I felt extra thirsty, some nausea, and for the first couple of days after the injection my anxiety was pretty high. After a couple of days my anxiety was under control and it felt nice not thinking about food all the time. I made it a point to eat small meals because if you don’t eat while on this medicine, you can have a low blood sugar attack (hypoglycemia). After a month and a week on Mounjaro, I had lost a lot of the weight I put on after 2020, and my A1C numbers were looking great. I truly loved using the medicine, especially because it is not a stimulant that messes with my heart.

Now, at this point I was supposed to get my period, but I knew that because of Mounjaro my period could be late, so I didn’t think much of it. Because of our fertility journey, I was hopeful but at the same time I was just trying to be realistic that it was because of the changes the medicine was having in my body. I still decided to go get a pregnancy test thinking that as soon as I saw the negative result, my period would come and I would stop feeling all the premenstrual syndrome symptoms. I went to CVS, got my pregnancy test, a box of pads, and a chocolate to feel better when my period finally came. I sat on the toilet, did the test, saw how the control line got dark really fast and looked away because once again I wasn’t pregnant, but I was still going to give it the three minutes for the test to be completed. As soon as the three minutes passed by, I went to throw the pregnancy test away, but to my surprise the positive test line had come in very dark blue. I couldn’t believe it, we were not even trying! Needless to say I took another one just to confirm.

Mounjaro + Fertility

Not thinking much of it, I went to my favorite Mounjaro community on Reddit, to see if people had stop taking the medicine once they had gotten pregnant. What I found was that many people were telling stories similar to mine: they had tried to get pregnant for many years, they were not even trying any more, and all of a sudden they had gotten pregnant after starting Mounjaro. I was completely in shock! Now, I can’t even try to explain why this works, I am assuming that for the same reason that Metformin works, but I was never diagnosed with PCOS before, on the contrary, the doctor told me I didn’t have it. There are not many studies on how Mounjaro affects fertility, but seeing so many people tell their stories on how it helped them get pregnant when nothing else did, gives hope that this could be another potential tool to help those struggling in this journey.

We are still early in the pregnancy journey and we have to see what happens next. I did stop taking Mounjaro because there is also not many studies on Mounjaro on pregnant women, so I don’t want to risk it.

To all the Mounjaro takers that got pregnant, congratulations! To those that don’t want babies and are on Mounjaro make sure to use protection and check what birth control works with the medicine and what birth control is affected by it.

Do you have a Mounjaro story to share?

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