Description
Key Benefits
- Blood Sugar Control: Lowers HbA1c effectively in patients managing type 2 diabetes or insulin resistance.
- Significant Weight Loss: Promotes substantial body fat reduction and decreases overall calorie intake by targeting satiety centers in the brain.
- Slowed Digestion: Delays gastric emptying to maintain a prolonged feeling of fullness after meals.
- Cardiometabolic Support: Assists in improving lipid profiles (cholesterol/triglycerides) and reducing blood pressure.
Proper Use
When you start using this medicine, it is very important that you check your blood sugar often, especially before and after meals and at bedtime. This will help lower the chance of having very low blood sugar.
Carefully follow the special meal plan your doctor gave you. This is the most important part of controlling your diabetes, and is necessary if the medicine is to work properly. Also, exercise regularly and test for sugar in your blood or urine as directed.
This medicine is available in 4 forms. A single-dose prefilled pen, a single-dose vial, a multi-dose KwikPen®, and a multi-dose vial.
This medicine comes with a Medication Guide and patient instructions. Read and follow these instructions carefully. Ask your doctor if you have any questions.
If you will be using tirzepatide at home, your doctor will teach you how the injections will be given. Be sure you understand exactly how the medicine is to be injected.
This medicine is given as a shot under the skin of your stomach, thighs, or back of the upper arm. Use a different body area each time you give yourself a shot. Keep track of where you give each shot to make sure you rotate body areas.
If you use this medicine with insulin, do not mix them into the same syringe. It is acceptable to inject these in the same body area, but the shots should not be right next to each other.
Check the liquid in the pen. it should be clear and colorless to slightly yellow. Do not use it if it is cloudy, discolored, or has particles in it.
Use a new syringe and needle each time you inject your medicine.
Never share medicine pens, syringes, or needles with others under any circumstances. It is not safe for one pen to be used for more than one person. Sharing pens, syringes, or needles can result in transmission of infection.
Use this medicine on the same day each week, at any time of the day, with or without meals.
Dosing
The dose of this medicine will be different for different patients. Follow your doctor’s orders or the directions on the label. The following information includes only the average doses of this medicine. If your dose is different, do not change it unless your doctor tells you to do so.
The amount of medicine that you take depends on the strength of the medicine. Also, the number of doses you take each day, the time allowed between doses, and the length of time you take the medicine depend on the medical problem for which you are using the medicine.
- For type 2 diabetes, obesity, excess weight caused by medical problems, or obstructive sleep apnea:
- For injection dosage form (Mounjaro® solution):
- Adults—At first, 2.5 milligrams (mg) injected under the skin once a week for 4 weeks. Your doctor may increase your dose as needed. However, the dose is usually not more than 15 mg once a week.
- Children 10 years of age and older—At first, 2.5 mg injected under the skin once a week for 4 weeks. Your doctor may increase your dose as needed. However, the dose is usually not more than 10 mg once a week.
- Children younger than 10 years of age—Use and dose must be determined by your doctor.
- For injection dosage form (Zepbound® solution):
- Adults—At first, 2.5 milligrams (mg) injected under the skin once a week for 4 weeks. Your doctor may increase your dose as needed. However, the dose is usually not more than 15 mg once a week.
- Children—Use and dose must be determined by your doctor.
- For injection dosage form (Mounjaro® solution):
Missed Dose
If you miss a dose of this medicine, take it as soon as possible. However, if it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular dosing schedule. Do not double doses.
If you miss a dose, use it as soon as possible within 4 days after your missed dose. If you miss a dose for more than 4 days, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular dosing schedule.
- For type 2 diabetes, obesity, excess weight caused by medical problems, or obstructive sleep apnea:
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Is it legal to buy in South Africa?
It is not a SAHPRA-registered medicine. All three actives fall under South Africa’s medicines-scheduling framework, and Ignite Muscles supplies it for research and educational purposes only. Any personal use should be discussed with a registered SA practitioner.
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