When is the best time to inject cagrilintide?

There’s no evidence-based best time of day, and we give no injection guidance for people. In clinical trials, cagrilintide was given once weekly as a subcutaneous injection, and its fatty acid chain keeps exposure steady across the week, so time of day matters less than with short-acting amylin drugs like pramlintide, which is taken before meals. Pramlintide is the only amylin drug FDA approved so far.

In the lab, timing does matter. Rodents eat mostly at night, so dosing relative to the dark cycle can change food intake readouts in amylin studies. Record dosing time against the feeding cycle and keep it consistent across arms. The same applies to eloralintide, which also lasts days. Read our research purposes only policy, then Shop eloralintide.