How do I know how many units to draw?

Enter the vial strength and your prescribed dose. Steady suggests the water, draws the fill line on a syringe, and it is arithmetic on your numbers, never a dose recommendation.

Does Steady track my vial supply?

Yes. Vials live in your supply screen with doses remaining and days since mixing, so running out or aging out stops being a surprise.

Does Steady tell me what dose of Compounded tirzepatide 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 tirzepatide 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.

Guide

Tracking Compounded tirzepatide with Steady

Compounded tirzepatide runs on a seven-day rhythm, and the week has a shape you can learn. This guide covers what tirzepatide 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 tirzepatide is

Compounded tirzepatide is the same molecule as Mounjaro and Zepbound, prepared by a compounding pharmacy, usually as a powder vial you mix and draw yourself. The mixing math is where mistakes happen, and it is the part Steady takes off your plate.

A vial plus insulin syringe. Milligrams on the prescription, units on the syringe, and the water you add decides the conversion. Steady’s calculator holds that whole chain.

The dose schedule on the label

Dose	When	What it is for
Your prescriber sets the schedule		typically mirroring the branded 2.5 mg start with four-week steps

Same discipline as the branded pens, the difference is that the dose is measured by you. The calculator shows the units for the dose your prescriber wrote, and your dose log proves what you actually drew, week by week.

The shape of the week

Day 0dose day

Day 1strongest effect

Day 2queasiness most common

Day 3steadier

Day 4steadier

Day 5appetite creeps back

Day 6next dose tomorrow

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 tirzepatide 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 water, draws the fill line on a syringe, and it is arithmetic on your numbers, never a dose recommendation.
Does Steady track my vial supply?: Yes. Vials live in your supply screen with doses remaining and days since mixing, so running out or aging out stops being a surprise.
Does Steady tell me what dose of Compounded tirzepatide 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 tirzepatide 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.

Related guides

Tracking Mounjaro with Steady

Tracking Zepbound with Steady

Tracking Compounded semaglutide with Steady

Bacteriostatic water and reconstitution

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Steady 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 tirzepatide belong with you and your prescriber. Dose schedules above are the manufacturer's published label, summarized.