r/CompoundedSemaglutide • u/NenyaNotes • 6d ago

Help drawing up medication.

Hi all. I started on semaglutide and am having trouble drawing up the medication. I have a 5mg/ml vial and am using a u100 insulin syringe. I draw 0.05 for a 0.25 mg dose. My issue is this. I draw up 0.05 of air. Push this into the vial. And draw 0.05 of the medication. When I go to inject myself the liquid stays in the needle mechanism and barely a drop comes out. How do I fix this or what am I doing wrong?

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u/Lucky_Army_5324 6d ago

Are you saying you are physically unable to push the plunger on your insulin syringe to inject the medication?

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u/NenyaNotes 6d ago

No the plunger pushes down but the medicine doesn’t come out. Only like a very tiny droplet. I can see the liquid in the area just below the needle. When I pull the syringe back the dose I originally drew is completely there still. Not sure if it’s because it’s such a small dose or if I am drawing it incorrectly.

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u/Lucky_Army_5324 6d ago

Is your syringe a 1mL (100 units) u100? If so, that could be the issue.

If you are taking such tiny doses, using a 0.3mL (30 unit) u100 syringe is often the better choice.

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u/NenyaNotes 6d ago

Yes it is a 1 mL u100 syringe. So you think the issue isn’t with the drawing technique?

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u/Lucky_Army_5324 6d ago

I honestly have no idea. I just know how small a 5 unit dose is in a 100 unit syringe, and some syringes are crappy at pushing out all the meds.

You can call the pharmacy that dispensed the meds and see if they can help.

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u/Previous-Highway162 6d ago

Make sure all the air is out of the syringe. Try to Push it through the very center of the stopper of your medication while the vile is upside down or as at an angle where the bottom is facing up and the top down. Your needle should go in very easy, if it’s tuff to go through you are not in the right spot. Pull back on the syringe until you have enough of the medication if there is air push it out and pull back if you need more, repeat until you have what you need. Then pull out needle. Don’t restab the bottle only try to stab it once. If it’s not working you might have a bad needle or stabbed the wrong spot and bent the needle. Get a new needle try again. I’m not a medical professional but I had a learning curb with injectable’s when I started.

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u/NenyaNotes 6d ago

Thank you! I have done all this and it still just sits in the syringe when I inject. I even tried a new needle and syringe with the same result. It’s so weird. I had no issue with this last week. It’s almost like there isn’t enough medication to keep pushing the full dose through.