Does Dose Track list Victoza?

Yes. Victoza is liraglutide, which is in the app's library with Victoza and Saxenda as its brand names. You set your own dose and daily schedule.

How many days does a Victoza pen last?

Each pen holds 18 mg, which is 15 doses of 1.2 mg or 10 doses of 1.8 mg. Dose Track subtracts every dose you log so the count follows your actual use.

Can I track Victoza with insulin?

Yes. Add both medications with their own schedules. The Victoza label says they are separate injections that are never mixed and not given right next to each other.

Victoza Tracker App: Daily Doses & Pens

Dose Track reminds you to inject Victoza every day, logs each dose with its site, and counts the milligrams left in your pen. Your HbA1c sits next to your doses, and the step from 0.6 mg to 1.2 mg, or to 1.8 mg later, is recorded from its start date.

What is the Victoza schedule?

The label says adults start Victoza at 0.6 mg once daily for one week. This dose is meant to lower the risk of stomach side effects and does not control blood sugar in adults. After one week the dose goes to 1.2 mg once daily. If more control is needed after at least one week on 1.2 mg, it can go to the maximum of 1.8 mg daily.

From the FDA label for Victoza, section 2.1.
Who	Step	Daily dose	When
Adults	Start	0.6 mg	Week 1 (not effective for glycemic control in adults)
Adults	Increase	1.2 mg	After one week at 0.6 mg
Adults	Optional increase (maximum)	1.8 mg	After at least one week at 1.2 mg, if additional glycemic control is required
Children 10 years and older	Start	0.6 mg	From the start
Children 10 years and older	Optional increases	Up by 0.6 mg at a time	After at least one week on the current dose, if additional glycemic control is required
Children 10 years and older	Maximum	1.8 mg	Maximum recommended dose

Victoza has a short ramp: one week at 0.6 mg, then 1.2 mg. In Dose Track you record 1.2 mg from the day it starts, and 1.8 mg if your prescriber adds it later.

What form does Victoza come in?

Victoza comes in multi-dose pens of liraglutide at 6 mg/mL (18 mg in 3 mL) that you dial in mg. Dose Track counts the pen in mg, so you can see how many days are left at your dose.

Victoza is injected under the skin of the abdomen, thigh or upper arm once a day, at any time of day, with or without meals. Changing the site or the time does not require a dose change.

The label says to rotate injection sites within the same region to reduce the risk of cutaneous amyloidosis, a skin condition.

If used with insulin, the two are given as separate injections and never mixed. They may go in the same body area, but not right next to each other.

What should you track on Victoza?

Each row is something worth writing down for Victoza, why it matters for this medicine, and what Dose Track does with it.

What to track on Victoza and how Dose Track handles it.
What to track	Why it matters	In Dose Track
Daily dose	The label gives Victoza once a day at any time, with or without meals.	A daily reminder at your chosen time.
Dose step	0.6 mg for one week, then 1.2 mg; 1.8 mg after at least a week on 1.2 mg if more control is needed (2.1).	Record each new dose from the date it starts.
mg left in the pen	Each pen is 18 mg; at 1.2 mg a day that is 15 days.	Add your pen in mg and each logged dose is subtracted; you get a run-out date.
Gaps of more than 3 days	The label says to restart at 0.6 mg if more than 3 days have passed since the last dose (2.2).	Missed days show in the log, so a long gap is easy to see before your next shot.
HbA1c	Victoza is labeled to improve blood sugar control in type 2 diabetes.	Upload a lab report as a photo or PDF; HbA1c is read out and charted next to your doses.
Injection site	The label says to rotate sites within the same region (abdomen, thigh or upper arm).	Each dose is logged with its site, and the next one is suggested.

Which side effects does the Victoza label list?

In the label's placebo-controlled trials in adults, nausea was the most common side effect of Victoza: 18% on 1.2 mg and 20% on 1.8 mg, against 5% on placebo. Diarrhea, headache, vomiting and decreased appetite followed. Withdrawals for stomach side effects happened mainly in the first 2 to 3 months. The label carries a boxed warning about thyroid C-cell tumors seen in rodents.

Dose Track has quick picks for the side effects people on GLP-1 medicines log most: nausea, constipation, diarrhea, reflux or heartburn, tiredness, low appetite, injection-site reaction and headache. You can type in anything else, set how bad it was, and see it next to the dose and the dose step you were on.

Victoza side effects from the FDA label

What if you miss a Victoza dose?

If a dose is missed, resume the once-daily schedule with the next scheduled dose. Do not take an extra dose or increase the dose to make up for the missed dose. If more than 3 days have passed since the last dose, restart at 0.6 mg once daily. (2.2) Missed a Victoza dose.

In Dose Track a missed dose stands out in your history, so you can see the gap and count from the right day.

More about Victoza on Dose Track

Dose Track is a tracking app, not medical advice. It records what you and your prescriber decide; it does not recommend doses. Check any dose change with your prescriber.

Victoza tracker: daily shots, pen count and HbA1c