Guide
Tracking Victoza with Steady
Victoza is a daily medication, and consistency is the entire game. This guide covers what liraglutide actually does, the dose schedule on the label, and how to keep a record in Steady that shows you your real streak, how your appetite behaves, and what to hand your prescriber.
What Victoza is
Victoza is liraglutide for type 2 diabetes, taken once a day. Liraglutide copies GLP-1, a gut hormone that tells your brain you are full and slows how fast your stomach empties. Appetite gets quieter, small meals go further, and the effect is strongest in the day or two after a dose.
It comes as a multi-dose dial pen used at the same time each day.
The dose schedule on the label
| Dose | When | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| 0.6 mg | week 1 | starter, for tolerance |
| 1.2 mg | from week 2 | the usual maintenance dose |
| 1.8 mg | if needed | stepped up if more effect is needed |
A short ladder. If you also track glucose or A1C with your care team, Steady stores those lab results on the same timeline as your doses.
The shape of the day
A daily pen means the record is about the run of days, not any single one. The useful chart is your streak of taken days sitting under your weight curve, and that is exactly what Steady draws.
Set it up in Steady
- Tell Steady your plan
Pick Victoza during setup and set your dose time. Reminders and the daily streak shape themselves around it.
- Log each dose where you gave it
One tap logs the dose, a second picks the spot on a body map of six sites. Steady flags the site that has rested longest, because rotating protects the tissue under the skin.
- 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
The streak view shows your real consistency, not your remembered one. Your weight curve sits over the run of taken days, appetite scores show whether the medication is still quieting food noise, and any side effect you logged carries its time and severity. That is the record dose decisions get made against.
Common questions
- Can Steady hold my A1C results?
- Yes. Labs can be imported from a PDF or typed in, and they chart on the same timeline as your doses and weight, which is the view an endocrinologist actually wants to see.
- Does Steady tell me what dose of Victoza 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 Victoza 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 Victoza belong with you and your prescriber. Dose schedules above are the manufacturer's published label, summarized.