The Shot Guide is here to help you understand what is happening, not to treat you. Everything on this site is general educational information about GLP-1 receptor agonist medications, and it is not medical advice. Reading these pages does not create a clinician-patient relationship between you and us or anyone who reviews our work, and nothing here is tailored to your body, your history, or your prescription. For your own care, always talk to a licensed clinician, and follow your prescriber's instructions over anything you read here. If something feels like an emergency, do not sit on a web page reading: call your local emergency number. This is general information, not medical advice.
Please read this part carefully. It explains what The Shot Guide is and, just as honestly, what it is not.
We are a companion, not your clinician
We write this site for the person at the kitchen table at 11pm, trying to tell "normal and temporary" from "call someone now." That is a real and useful job, and we take it seriously. But it is not the same job your prescriber does.
We have never met you. We do not know your other medications, your kidney function, your history, or the hundred small things a clinician weighs before deciding what is right for you. So please read everything here as background that helps you ask better questions, never as a verdict on your own situation. Talk to a licensed clinician before you start, stop, or change any medication, and when their advice and our pages disagree, follow them. Nothing you read here, and no page you land on, makes anyone here your doctor.
In an emergency, do not wait on a web page
This is the one we most want you to hear. The Shot Guide cannot help you in an emergency, and no website can. If you are having severe or frightening symptoms, the right move is not more reading. It is to get help now.
Call your local emergency number, contact your clinician, or go to urgent care. If you are not sure whether what you are feeling counts, our guide to the warning signs that mean get help now lays out the red flags in plain language. When in doubt, treat it as the emergency, not the footnote. A few minutes of "maybe I am overreacting" is a price worth paying.
No doses, no prescriptions, no self-administration steps
You will notice we never tell you how much to take or how to inject it. That is on purpose.
We do not publish dosing prescriptions, self-administration instructions, or "draw this many units" steps, full stop. Where we mention titration, the slow, step-by-step way these medicines are usually increased, we describe it only as typical, prescriber-directed background so you know what to expect, never as an instruction to do it yourself. Dosing decisions belong to you and your prescriber, who can see your whole picture. If a tip on this site helps you feel better, please still run any change to your dose past them first.
We try hard to be accurate, but medicine moves
We work to keep these pages correct and current, we cite primary sources, and we date our reviews so you can see how fresh a page is. We would rather tell you plainly when the evidence is thin than fill a gap with a confident guess.
Even so, medicine changes, labels get updated, new studies land, and honest mistakes are possible. So we cannot promise that any page is complete, current, or free of error, and we are not responsible for decisions made based on what you read here. If something on the site looks wrong or out of date, we genuinely want to hear about it so we can fix it.
Brand names belong to their owners
Ozempic, Wegovy, Rybelsus, Mounjaro, Zepbound, Saxenda, Trulicity, and the other product names you see on this site are trademarks of the companies that make them. We use them in the plainest possible way: to tell you which medication we are talking about, because "the semaglutide one" is not how the box in your fridge is labeled.
Using those names does not mean any of those companies endorse us, sponsor us, or have anything to do with this site. They do not.
We are independent, and we want you to know it
We are not owned by, paid by, or affiliated with any drug manufacturer, pharmacy, or telehealth seller. No company gets to approve, soften, or veto what we publish. That independence is the whole reason a worried person can trust what they read here, so we protect it carefully and explain exactly how it works on our independence page.
The short version: our loyalty is to the person reading, not to anyone selling a shot.
How we reviewed this: this is a policy page, not a medical guide, so it explains our terms rather than diagnosing anything. The standards behind everything else on the site, how we research, source, and review our content, are spelled out in our editorial and review policy. If anything here is unclear, or if you think a page is out of date, please tell us so we can make it right.
Every medical claim above is cited to a primary source such as an FDA label, the NIH, or a named clinical trial. See how we review and our sourcing & fact-check standards.