semaglutide injection with insulin needle All About Injections Administration | Ozempic® (semaglutide) injection

Accessed July 28, 2021

A recent New York Times story described a new fad: microdosing GLP-1 anti-obesity drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound

And that discovery has opened up a whole series of questions about whether these drugs might have effects well beyond blood sugar and body weight, and the pain science community has started paying close attention [1, 9]

Novo Nordisk recommends injecting semaglutide once weekly, on the same day each week, with or without meals. Each brand pen uses 32G 4mm needles

This reduces the risk of temperature-related degradation, particularly important for peptides like retatrutide that can lose potency when exposed to elevated temperatures

For this reason, it was originally used to treat diabetes