Dumping Mounjaro / Zepbound pens into a pen cartridge?

[tcpnomad]

Maybe an odd thing to want to do - but it’s for a person who cannot take the standard dose due to side effects. By doing this, they can split the dose or just take less than the full dose.

The question is if it’s safe. Are the contents of these pens designed to be kept around for multiple uses?

 

[thebonus]

Maybe an odd thing to want to do - but it’s for a person who cannot take the standard dose due to side effects. By doing this, they can split the dose or just take less than the full dose.

The question is if it’s safe. Are the contents of these pens designed to be kept around for multiple uses?

Used to do it all the time when I paid Lilly. I would get 15mg pens and empty into a sterile vile for lower dosing. Watch this video (not mine), it's super easy:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RsgridKdIY

 

[BrightCandle]

Absolutely you can do it. Might be easiest to just pull it out with a syringe/needle and insert into the 3ml capsule of the pen directly since its harder to get the vent needle in otherwise. Plenty of people count clicks and other things with the disposable pens they get but if it doesn't support that this is a viable solution to using lower doses.

 

[Granny]

I have some 15mg that I cannot take all at 1 time. I release it into a syringe and then put it into a sterile vial, no issues with it.

 

[indolent]

Plenty of people count clicks

Unfortunately, the Big Pharma injectors in the USA are exclusively single-use single-dose types, unlike the 4-week KwikPens in Canada, UK, EU, and probably everywhere else.

 

[skeptick]

Maybe an odd thing to want to do - but it’s for a person who cannot take the standard dose due to side effects. By doing this, they can split the dose or just take less than the full dose.

The question is if it’s safe. Are the contents of these pens designed to be kept around for multiple uses?

Video below works very well. Use caution to be sure Mounjaro needle is actually in the LurLoc syringe opening. I take my 4 Mounjaro pens monthly and dump them in a 5ml LurLoc. 5ml because the Mounjaro pens are under considerable spring tension and that creates a LOT of foam. Mounjaro pens ALL contain 0.5ml liquid but with the foam it pushes the limit of a 3ml syringe. After dumping my 4 Mounjaro pens I spend a few minutes rolling the 5ml syringe gently to help dissipate the foam. Or you can just set it aside and it will dissipate on its own. I install a 29g LurLoc needle and load the entire 2ml(4x0.5ml) into a pen cartridge and I'm set for the entire month using virgin 31g pen needles. Am free to multi weekly dose in any amount I choose.