Guide
Tracking Compounded semaglutide with Steady
Compounded semaglutide runs on a seven-day rhythm, and the week has a shape you can learn. This guide covers what semaglutide actually does, the dose schedule on the label, and how to keep a record in Steady that shows you where your hard days land, when appetite returns, and what to hand your prescriber.
What Compounded semaglutide is
Compounded semaglutide is the same molecule as Ozempic and Wegovy, prepared by a compounding pharmacy. It usually arrives as a powder vial that you mix with bacteriostatic water and draw with an insulin syringe, which means the arithmetic that a branded pen does for you is now yours to get right.
A vial plus syringe. Your prescription is in milligrams, your syringe reads in units, and converting between them depends on how much water went into the vial. This is the entire reason Steady has a reconstitution calculator.
The dose schedule on the label
| Dose | When | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Your prescriber sets the schedule | compounded prescriptions typically mirror the branded ladder, starting low and stepping up every four weeks |
Steady’s calculator takes the vial strength and the dose your prescriber wrote, suggests the bacteriostatic water, and shows the exact syringe units to draw on a picture of the syringe. It does the arithmetic on your numbers. It never chooses the dose.
The shape of the week
Not everyone's week looks like this, which is the point: after a few logged cycles Steady shows you your version of this strip, from your own check-ins.
Knowing the shape changes how you plan: people schedule dinners out for the back half of the cycle and keep the two days after the dose gentle. You only learn your own shape by logging it, which takes seconds a day.
Set it up in Steady
- Tell Steady your plan
Pick Compounded semaglutide during setup and set your dose day. Reminders and the weekly cycle view shape themselves around it.
- Mix, calculate, then log
When a new vial arrives, enter the vial strength, the bacteriostatic water you added and your prescribed dose into the calculator. It draws the exact fill line on a syringe. Log the dose when you take it and the vial supply counts down on its own.
- Do the ten-second check-in
Once a day, rate appetite and energy and note anything off. This is the data that turns into your pattern, and it costs less time than unlocking your phone usually does.
- Weigh on a rhythm
Same scale, same morning, once or twice a week, or let Apple Health sync it automatically. Steady charts weight over your dose history so changes trace back to what preceded them.
- Export before appointments
One tap builds a PDF of the whole record. Bring it, and the appointment starts from your data.
What your record shows after three weeks
This is where tracking stops being a chore and starts paying. Your side-effect logs cluster on the same one or two cycle days. Your appetite scores rise on the same late-cycle days. The trend view draws your weight with every dose marked underneath, so a plateau or a drop lines up with the dose change that preceded it. That one chart is the difference between telling your prescriber "week two was rough" and showing them exactly which day, at which dose, how severe.
For a compounded vial there is a second payoff: the supply screen counts doses left and days since mixing, storage questions have a straight answer in PEPAI, and every draw you logged is proof of exactly what you took, which is the part of compounded treatment a prescriber most wants documented.
Common questions
- How do I know how many units to draw?
- Enter the vial strength and your prescribed dose. Steady suggests the bacteriostatic water amount, renders the fill line on a syringe, and re-computes the units if you change any input.
- How long does a mixed vial keep, and where?
- In the refrigerator, and most protocols treat 28 days after mixing as the working shelf life. The supply screen in Steady tracks the days and the doses left in your vial, and PEPAI gives storage questions a straight answer.
- Does Steady tell me what dose of Compounded semaglutide to take?
- Never. The dose is your prescriber's call. Steady records what was prescribed and what actually happened, which is exactly the evidence that makes the next dose decision easier.
- What happens when I miss a dose?
- You log reality. The gap shows in your record, the cycle view restarts from the dose you actually took, and your prescriber sees an honest chart instead of a tidy one. What to do about a missed dose is a label and prescriber question, and the label's own guidance is printed on your medication insert.
- Where is my Compounded semaglutide record stored?
- On your phone. Steady keeps your health record on the device, and the only way it leaves is you exporting it.
- Can I bring my record to appointments?
- Yes, that is the payoff. One tap exports a clinician-ready PDF of doses, weight, side effects and labs, so a 15-minute appointment starts from evidence instead of memory.
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Get Steady on the App StoreSteady is a record-keeping and education tool. Nothing here is medical advice, and Steady never recommends a dose, a schedule, or a source. Decisions about Compounded semaglutide belong with you and your prescriber. Dose schedules above are the manufacturer's published label, summarized.