Wegovy golden dose - how and what now?

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As far as I know, wegovy doesn't have a golden dose, and yet ive managed to extract 1ml from tye end of my first pen. Ive taken 4 x 0.25mg of wegovy over the last 4 weeks, but tonight, when I was planning on going up to 0.5mg, I thought it looked like there was still liquid in the pen, and lo and behold, there was 1ml out of a 1.5ml pen.

So now im wondering what to do. Have I not given myself the dose a few times when I thought I had? In which case, will.my body be ready to introduce a higher dose? Should I split it so that it's a 0.33mg dose for this week and next before starting on 0.5mg after that?

I think id be happy enough on that dose as have been losing fairly steadily and not feeling too bad over the last 4 weeks.

Whats gone wrong and what do I do now?

Is that definitely your old 0.25mg and not the new 0.5mg pen?

You must have somehow not done some of the injections, as there’s no way that your pen has an additional 1ml of medication remaining after 4 doses. My understanding is that the Wegovy pen has very little liquid left after 4 doses, not even enough for a single full dose.

Definitely my old pen. Haven't even opened the .5mg box yet.
I think ill give myself half the 1ml, so .33mg tonight and see how I go over the next few days

Why is there no way?

Maths. There is 1.5ml plus a small amount in the pen. 4 doses should use up 1.5ml leaving the small amount only left. There can’t be 1ml left after using 1.5ml as that would mean the pen contained 2.5ml to begin with. Which wouldn’t fit in the pen.

I extracted 2/3 of the pen thatshould have been empty. Even if they added some priming liquid, it wouldn't be that much. I faffed about with it trying to split it into 2 doses and ended up losing a good bit, so took the .33mg and will start fresh on .5mg next week.
I now need to figure out how ive managed to inject wrong.

Bizarre that I managed losses of 3.7kg, 1kg, 0.6kg and 0.7kg over the 4 weeks if I only injected 1/3 of the minimum dose and was relatively satisfied on 1000-1200 cals

It doesn't sound like you've injected your complete doses previously. I've taken the remaining liquid from 2 wegovy pens and they had 0.25ml each so that must be a new pen or did you only prime and not inject the whole dose by turning fully to the 0.25 in window and holding down the button until it stops clicking and the plunger finishes moving down?
I'd advise using the instruction leaflet next time you jab and watching a video on injecting wegovy on YouTube.

I thought i had done all of those things, but apparently not

Sometimes the needles are blocked if not fully screwed on or are bent. Best thing to do is watch the plunger going down each time, otherwise change the needle. I have spare needles but the syringe would be fine too. Around 0.35ml is is a full dose on the smaller wegovy pens. On the bigger ones it's 0.75ml.
You will continue to lose if still in a calorie deficit and the half life is 7 days so you may not have felt much different if you've misses 2 doses, which sounds like you have and matches up to the lower last 2 losses.

Yea, i need to keep a better eye on the plunger from now on.
I did continue to lose and im surprised how well I managed to stay in calorie deficit without it