Retatrutide Single Chamber 30 mg

Retatrutide Single Chamber is a solution for injection in a single-chamber pen. The medicine is already mixed and ready to inject. Retatrutide acts on three signals the body uses to control appetite and blood sugar (GLP-1, GIP and glucagon). Your doctor has prescribed it to be injected under the skin once a week. The pen holds 30 mg and is marked to give 10 mg at each dose. It is prescription-only and must not be used by anyone else.

Read this section before the first injection. The pen lives in the refrigerator and must never be frozen.

Warnings and precautions

• +Talk to your doctor before using it if you have diabetes and take insulin or a sulfonylurea tablet. Your blood sugar can fall too low, and those doses may need to come down.
• +Talk to your doctor before using it if you have kidney trouble, stomach trouble, or have had gallstones.
• +Drink enough fluid. Nausea, vomiting or diarrhoea can dry you out, which is harder on the kidneys.
• +Stop and get medical help if you get severe pain in the stomach that will not go away, with or without vomiting. It can be a sign of an inflamed pancreas.
• +A lump in the neck, hoarseness, or trouble swallowing should be reported to your doctor.

Other medicines and Retatrutide Single Chamber

Tell your doctor or pharmacist about all other medicines you take, including ones bought without a prescription. It is especially important to mention insulin and sulfonylurea tablets, because together they can make your blood sugar fall too far; warfarin or other blood thinners; thyroid tablets; and the oral contraceptive pill, because this medicine slows the stomach and can change how tablets are absorbed.

Pregnancy, breastfeeding and fertility

Do not use this pen if you are pregnant or planning to become pregnant. Stop it before a planned pregnancy and tell your doctor, because the medicine stays in the body for days after the last dose. Do not use it while breastfeeding. Ask your doctor or pharmacist for advice before using any medicine.

Driving and using machines

This medicine is not expected to affect driving by itself. If you take it with insulin or a sulfonylurea and your blood sugar falls, do not drive until it is normal again.

Always use this medicine exactly as your doctor has told you. Check with your doctor or pharmacist if you are not sure. It is injected under the skin of the abdomen, thigh or upper arm, once a week, on the same day each week. The pen is a single chamber: the liquid is already inside. Attach a new needle, set the dose your doctor told you (the carton is marked 10 mg per dose), inject, then remove the needle and put the cap back on. Use a different spot each week. Do not inject into a vein or a muscle. Do not share the pen, even with a new needle. If you miss a dose, ask your doctor what to do. Do not inject two doses to make up for a missed one.

Like all medicines, this medicine can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them.

Other possible side effects

• +Feeling sick, or being sick
• +Diarrhoea or constipation
• +Stomach pain or indigestion
• +Less appetite
• +Redness or itching where you injected
• +Feeling tired
• +A faster heartbeat
• +Low blood sugar if you also take insulin or a sulfonylurea

Keep this medicine out of the sight and reach of children. Store the unused pen in a refrigerator at 2–8 °C. Do not freeze it. Keep it in the carton to protect it from light. After you start using it, put it back in the refrigerator with the cap on, and never leave a needle on the pen. Do not use it after the expiry date on the carton. Do not use the pen if the liquid is cloudy or coloured. Needles and the used pen must go back to a pharmacy or into a sharps bin, not into household rubbish.

The active substance is retatrutide. The pen contains 30 mg of retatrutide as a solution for injection and is marked to give 10 mg once weekly. The carton contains 1 single-chamber adjustable-dose pen and 10 disposable needles. The other ingredients are printed on the carton. The carton is marked ERD/INJ-28, Rx only, serialised, and for export only. Manufactured under GMP conditions by Ergopharm Advanced Research Centre, Tandalja, Vadodara, Gujarat 390012, India.