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Cagrilintide

10 mg vial

Cagrilintide: a 10 mg vial

What a 10 mg vial of Cagrilintide becomes once it is mixed, and what each dose reported in the sources draws to on a syringe. Every figure is arithmetic on the vial size in the heading — none of it is a recommendation, and the doses are the ones our sources describe rather than ones we picked.

Leading with

10 mg + 1 mL bacteriostatic water = 10 mg/mL

Chosen because it puts the reported doses on readable marks of a 1 mL U-100 syringe. Other volumes are perfectly valid — the dilution table further down covers them, and the concentration changes what every dose draws to.

What each reported dose draws to

At 10 mg/mL, on a 1 mL U-100 syringe. Every row names the source it came from, and a trial protocol and a community convention are not the same kind of information.

Reported doses for Cagrilintide, converted to syringe units for a 10 mg vial.
GoalDoseUnitsDoses in this vialSource
Phase 2 escalation, single agentOnce weekly, escalating over several weeks · Subcutaneous300 mcg – 4.5 mg3 units – 45 units33Clinical trial
Combination with semaglutide, as studiedOnce weekly · Subcutaneous2.4 mg24 units4Clinical trial

Check every figure against the vial in front of you before drawing. Vials are filled with an overage and labels are not a guarantee. Change any of these numbers in the calculator.

How long a vial lasts

Vials round up, because most of a vial is not a thing you can buy. Only doses with a stated continuous frequency appear here — anything described as a course, a range or “as needed” has no honest weekly rate, so it is left out.

Phase 2 escalation, single agent

Once weekly, escalating over several weeks

One 10 mg vial holds 2–33 doses at this dose, which is 2–33 weeks of use.

Supplies for Phase 2 escalation, single agent, by cycle length.
CycleDoses10 mg vialsSyringesBacteriostatic water
8 weeks81–481 mL – 4 mL
12 weeks121–6121 mL – 6 mL
16 weeks161–8161 mL – 8 mL

Combination with semaglutide, as studied

Once weekly

One 10 mg vial holds 4 doses at this dose, which is 4 weeks of use.

Supplies for Combination with semaglutide, as studied, by cycle length.
CycleDoses10 mg vialsSyringesBacteriostatic water
8 weeks8282 mL
12 weeks123123 mL
16 weeks164164 mL

Syringes assume one per dose and no wastage. Water assumes each vial is mixed at 1 mL. Neither accounts for a dropped vial, a bent needle or a dose you decide to change, all of which happen.

If you add a different amount of water

The same 10 mg of compound, at four common volumes. More water means a larger, easier-to-measure draw of a weaker solution; less water means the opposite. The amount of compound you inject is identical in every row — only the volume carrying it changes.

Concentration and draw volume for a 10 mg vial at four water volumes.
Water addedConcentration300 mcg draws to
1 mLshown above10 mg/mL3 units units · 0.03 mL
2 mL5 mg/mL6 units units · 0.06 mL
3 mL3.333 mg/mL9 units units · 0.09 mL
5 mL2 mg/mL15 units units · 0.15 mL

Storage

Before mixing

Refrigerated at 2–8 °C, protected from light.

After mixing

Refrigerated at 2–8 °C. Do not freeze once mixed.

Other vial sizes

The same compound, different arithmetic.

Arithmetic on the vial size named above and the doses our sources report. Nothing here is a recommendation, a protocol or medical advice, and no clinician has reviewed it. Speak to a licensed healthcare provider before acting on any of it.

Sources for the doses above are listed in full on the Cagrilintide profile, each with the trial or label it came from.