Sexual and reproductive health
Leuprolide
Also called Lupron, Leuprorelin
per administration
A human trial worked out how much to take and how often, so a dosing schedule is shown.
Licensed as a medicine in the US and EU.
Work out your draw
These numbers are a starting point — change any of them.
- Concentration
- 0.33mg/mL
- Volume per draw
- 3mL
- Units to dial
- 300
- Doses per cartridge
- 1
This is 300 units, past the 60-unit dial. Splitting it across administrations, or using less water to raise the concentration, brings it back into range.
Dial range varies by pen; 1–60 units is the common configuration.
Vial label
Copy this into your label printer.
Published research contexts for Leuprolide describe 1–7.5 mg per administration. Descriptive only, not a recommendation.
About 3 hours for the immediate-release peptide; the licensed depot releases over one to six months, with different kinetics.
A gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist, licensed as a medicine as both a 1 mg daily subcutaneous form and a long-acting depot; because the depot dominates use and no dose-ranging escalation applies, no schedule table is shown.
Modelled level — every day
1× is the peak after a single dose.
- Steady-state peak
- 1.00× single dose
- Time to steady state
- 15hours
- Administrations
- 7/ week
Read off the modelled curve, not an even-interval formula
About five half-lives
Where these numbers come from
- Leuprolide (Lupron) product literatureA licensed GnRH agonist given as 1 mg daily subcutaneously or as a monthly-to-six-monthly depot.