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PACK IN HAND · ONE-PAGE CHECK

Medicine pack check sheet

Print this sheet or fill it in before speaking with a pharmacist or clinician. Copy only what is printed on the pack in hand. The published fields below are starting points from this record, not proof that your pack is the same product.

Published record starting point

Record display name
Victoza
Generic name / active ingredient
liraglutide
Dosage-form class
Subcutaneous injection(as listed in the 2010 FDA label archive and 2025-11 DailyMed public label)
Route
Subcutaneous injection
Record reviewed
2026-08-17

Copy from the pack in hand

Source-linked reading points

  • “18 mg/3 mL” describes the stated total medicine amount and liquid volume in the prefilled pen; “6 mg/mL” describes concentration. Neither answers how much someone should inject today or whether another injection pen can be treated as the same.
  • The label’s 0.6 mg, 1.2 mg and 1.8 mg are dose settings stated for that exact device, not rules a reader may use to independently start, increase, reduce or interchange with another GLP-1 product from a webpage.
  • A prefilled pen is a single-patient-use device. Appearance, needles, injection site, storage and whether it can be used with another injectable product all require the current instructions, prescription and professional guidance for the exact product.
  • If insulin or other glucose-lowering medicines are also used, persistent gastrointestinal symptoms occur, or an injectable-product change is being considered, bring every medicine and the actual package to a pharmacist or prescribing team; do not self-convert from a photo or total milligrams.

Reviewed presentation examples — compare every field

  • 18 mg/3 mL total per pen (6 mg/mL); labelled selectable settings are 0.6, 1.2 or 1.8 mg; 2 pens per cartonNDC 0169-4060-12
  • 18 mg/3 mL total per pen (6 mg/mL); labelled selectable settings are 0.6, 1.2 or 1.8 mg; 3 pens per cartonNDC 0169-4060-13

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Last reviewed
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