@Springflowers2 it sounds like you don't know about click counting. Here is my analogy:
You buy a bottle of squash and make two jugs of squash: one weakly mixed and one super strong. Say you used 100ml of squash to make the strong jug and 25ml of squash to make the weak jug. Then topped both up with water to fill the two 1000ml jug.
You now have two 1000ml jugs of diluted squash - Two jugs of the same size. Mounjaro pens are the same. Tirzepatide is the active ingredient in Mounjaro (its like the neat squash). Its diluted by different amounts.
Back to out jugs of dilute squash. If you take two small cup that are the same size, and take one small cup of diluted squash from each jug, the cup from the strong jug delivers a lot more flavor (medicine) than the weak one. But the neat squash is identical in both, its just there is more of it in the strong jug.
One dose of Mounjaro is 60ml. Think of it as the small cup above.
- A 5mg Mounjaro pen contains 5mg of tirzepatide in 60ml.
- A 10mg Mounjaro pen contains 10mg of tirzepatide in the same sized 60ml (like the same sized cups of diluted squash).
If you wanted to, you could take a part-dose from a Mounjaro pen. For example:
- You could take a half-dose (30ml instead if 60ml) from a 10mg pen and that would contain 5mg of tirzepatide. Its exactly the same as the amount of tirzepatide in a full-dose (60ml) from a 5mg pen. Its no different. Or
- You could take a one-third-dose (20ml instead of 60ml) from a 15mg pen and that would also contain 5mg of tirzepatide. Its exactly the same as the amount of tirzepatide in a full-dose (60ml) from a 5mg pen, or a half-dose (30ml) from a 10mg pen.
This is called microdosing. Loads of people do it.
You microdose using a process called click counting.
When you turn the dial on a Mounjaro pen to get your dose, you will hear clicks. You will also see those clicks as lines on the dial. Should you wish to count those clicks (or lines) you'd find that a full dose is 60 clicks. One click is 1ml.
- 1 click is 1ml
- 5 clicks is 5ml
- 10 clicks is 10ml
- 15 clicks is 15ml (a quarter of a dose)
- 20 clicks is 20ml (a third of a dose)
- 30 clicks is 30ml (half of a dose)
- 40 clicks is 40ml (two-thirds of a dose)
- 45 clicks is 45ml (three-quarters of a dose)
- 60 clicks is 60ml (this is a full dose)
And so on!
You then just need to know a bit about fractions (or Google for a Mounjaro click chart).
Mounjaro is like the cups of diluted squash. The mg referred to in the doses is actually how much tirzepatide (the active ingredient) that is delivered. So if you want 5mg - you could get a 15mg pen and take weekly doses of 20 clicks to get 5mg. This would mean that instead of taking 4 × 15mg weekly 60-click jabs, you'd get 12 × 5mg weekly 20-click jabs.
So while the 15mg pen costs more than 5mg, it lasts for 12 weeks. In 12 week you would use three 5mg pens. One 15mg pen is cheaper than three 5mg pens, so it is much more cost-effective.