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2 golden doses from one pen? 2 5mg doses from 10mg pen

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Hi folks,

I was prescribed a 10mg pen to start. I was taking 2.5 mg per week from this pen, now I've moved up to 5mg per week. Thinking ahead to when I'll be finishing this pen, I'll be left with a golden dose totaling to 10mg (more or less). Since I'll only be at 5mg, I'm wondering if anyone has split their golden dose into 2, so as not to take the full golden dose at once?

What I mean is, I have a 10mg pen even though I'm only taking 5mg weekly. I don't want to waste the leftover medication and would like to extract the golden dose with an insulin syringe. Since I don't want to take 10mg (the total amount of medication from the golden dose), could I extract 5mg (approx .3 mL) twice from that golden dose? (Obviously with 2 different syringes).

Thanks in advance!

Posted Apr 26, 2026, 12:20 PM UTC

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