Does your GLP-1 shot wear off by day 5?

Each weekly shot adds to what is left of the last one. So for the first few weeks, each week's level starts a little higher than the week before. Then it settles into the same weekly rise and fall.

The tirzepatide labels say this steady pattern arrives after about 4 weeks. The semaglutide label for diabetes says 4 to 5 weeks.

A levels chart, like the one in Claritide, is an estimate. It takes the published half-life, the time to peak from the label and the shots you logged. Then it draws how the level likely rises and falls, as a share of its own recent peak.

It can show when in the week your level is highest and lowest. It can also show how a late or missed shot changes the curve.

It cannot measure your blood. It does not know your body or how you feel. It cannot tell you that a lower level is why you are hungry. It is a map of the week, not a verdict.

Because the late-week dip shows up on a chart, and some people feel it. In GLP-1 groups online, people describe splitting a weekly dose into two smaller shots. Others describe a shot every 5 days. The aim they give is a more even week.

The labels for these medicines describe one shot a week. Any other schedule is a change to your prescription, so it is a decision for your prescriber, made with you. If your prescriber does set a different schedule, Claritide can remind you on it. That includes twice a week or every few days.

A daily rating for three or four weeks gives you something real to look at.

1. 1.Once a day, at about the same time, rate your hunger from 1 to 10. If food noise is what you notice, rate that.
2. 2.Write down the day since your shot. Shot day is day 0.
3. 3.Add a few words about anything unusual: a late shot, poor sleep, a party, a new dose.
4. 4.At the end of each week, set the days side by side.

If days 5 and 6 come out higher week after week, that is a pattern. One rough week is not. In Claritide, appetite is one of the 1 to 10 scales you can log. It sits in the same record as your shots.

Bring the pattern, not just the feeling:

• your daily ratings, by day since the shot
• your shot days and times
• any shots that were late or missed
• your questions

A clear week-by-week picture is easier to talk through than a memory of the worst days. Claritide's one-page report puts your shots, side effects and weight on one page. You can print it or save it as a PDF.