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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Charlotte Cripps

Thank God I’ve stopped microdosing Ozempic – this is what it’s really like

Is it 32 clicks? Or 37 clicks? I’m holding my Ozempic pen, a prefilled injection containing the active ingredient semaglutide, and trying to remember how many clicks I should listen out for when turning the pen dial to split my 1mg dose in half to 0.50mg. But then I realise I have no more needles left – each pen has four doses and I’m trying to get six doses out of it.

Damn! I could buy another new box of them online for next-day delivery. I’ve done it before. Or should I leave this dose in the fridge for a rainy day – and bring it out if an insatiable hunger returns and I start laying into a loaf of bread?

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