Calculator/Tirzepatide/12.5 mg in syringe units

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How many units is 12.5 mg of tirzepatide?

From a Zepbound 12.5 mg single-dose vial (25 mg/mL), 12.5 mg is the whole vial: 0.5 mL, the 50 mark on a U-100 syringe. From a Zepbound 50 mg multi-dose vial (20.8 mg/mL), 12.5 mg is the labelled 0.6 mL withdrawal, the 60 mark. From any other vial, divide 12.5 by the mg/mL on your label and multiply by 100.

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Which tirzepatide vial do you have?Read the box or the label

Single-dose vials0.5 mL · the whole vial is one dose
mg
Multi-dose vials2.4 mL · four 0.6 mL withdrawals
mg
Arithmetic only, not a dose recommendation. This converts the numbers you typed and nothing more. If anything here does not match your prescription or your label, stop and ask your pharmacist.
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This tool does not choose or check a medication, dose, concentration, diluent, syringe or route. It works from the numbers on your prescription and label, as you type them. A mark on a U-100 syringe is a volume, not a medication dose in units or IU. If anything here differs from what you were given, or you are unsure, do not prepare or inject: ask the prescriber or the dispensing pharmacist. No preset is a dose. Presets exist for FDA-approved products; any other vial is arithmetic on your own label.

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At a glance

Concentration12.5 mg isMark on U-100, 1 mL
4.17 mg/mL
Zepbound 10 mg multi-dose vial
2.998 mLdoes not fit (over 1 mL)
5 mg/mL
Zepbound 2.5 mg single-dose vial
2.5 mLdoes not fit (over 1 mL)
8.33 mg/mL
Zepbound 20 mg multi-dose vial
1.501 mLdoes not fit (over 1 mL)
10 mg/mL
Zepbound 5 mg single-dose vial
1.25 mLdoes not fit (over 1 mL)
12.5 mg/mL
Zepbound 30 mg multi-dose vial
1 mL100
16.7 mg/mL
Zepbound 40 mg multi-dose vial
0.749 mL75 (exactly 74.85)
20 mg/mL
Zepbound 10 mg single-dose vial
0.625 mL63 (exactly 62.5)
25 mg/mL
Zepbound 12.5 mg single-dose vial and 60 mg multi-dose vial
0.5 mL50

Arithmetic at the concentrations shown. The concentration on your own label is the one that counts; enter it in the calculator.

Why the answer depends on the vial

12.5 mg is drawn to the 50 mark from the 12.5 mg single-dose vial (25 mg/mL, the whole 0.5 mL) and to the 60 mark from the 50 mg multi-dose vial (20.8 mg/mL, one of four 0.6 mL withdrawals). The multi-dose concentration for this strength is printed as 20.8 mg/mL, a rounded figure; 50 mg in 2.4 mL is 20.83. That rounding is why the calculator shows 12.48 mg for a 0.6 mL draw rather than exactly 12.5, and why it does not flag the labelled withdrawal as a mismatch. If you are checking by hand and get 12.48, you have done it right. At 25 mg/mL, the single-dose concentration, 12.5 mg is exactly 0.5 mL and there is nothing to round.

The mistake to watch for. At 25 mg/mL the 12.5 mg single-dose vial and the 60 mg multi-dose vial share a concentration. A 12.5 mg dose is 0.5 mL from either, the 50 mark, but from the multi-dose vial the label describes 0.6 mL withdrawals of 15 mg. Same concentration, different labelled dose; the vial's own instructions decide which draw is described.

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