Understanding Your Options
This section outlines the three main approaches discussed. Understanding the characteristics, requirements, and risks of each path is essential before you proceed. Decide which route matches your budget, skill level, and risk tolerance.
🔗 Jump to your path:​
- Path A: Ready-to-Use – pens, pre-filled syringes, tablets (minimal preparation)
- Path B: Authentic Vial – branded single-dose vials shipped from India
- Path C: DIY Powder – lowest cost, highest risk, requires home reconstitution
Option A: (Pen, Pre-filled Syringe, Tablet)​
This option includes GLP-1 products sold as ready-to-use pens, single-dose syringes, or tablets. They need almost no preparation and are often imported through gray-market channels that bypass local prescription requirements.
- Single-Use Injector PensPens
- Pre-filled SyringesSyringes
- Oral TabletsTablets
Single-Use Injector Pens (Tirzepatide)
The "Tizaro" pen (tirzepatide) from Ziska Pharmaceuticals, shipped via India, delivers one weekly dose per pen. Operation is straightforward, but the supply chain is not formally regulated.
Pre-filled Syringes (Tirzepatide)
The "Tizaro" pre-filled syringe from Ziska Pharmaceuticals contains a single weekly dose that is ready for immediate injection.
Oral Tablets (Semaglutide)
Rybelsus® tablets (semaglutide) from Novo Nordisk are legally approved but often imported through gray-market suppliers to lower costs or bypass access barriers.
Who is this for?
Option B: (Mounjaro® Tirzepatide Vial)​
Mounjaro® (tirzepatide) single-dose vial – Eli Lilly IndiaIndian-market Mounjaro vials are manufactured by Eli Lilly and use the same serialised packaging as US products. You can confirm authenticity with scan.lilly.com. Thanks to purchasing-power parity, the price per vial is lower in India, making this the safest and most cost-effective gray-market choice.
Vials are available only in 2.5 mg and 5 mg strengths. If you need a larger dose such as 10 mg, buy two 5 mg vials and inject both. Each vial is single use, so no dose measurement is required – draw the entire contents into a syringe and inject once.
Who is this for?
Option C: The DIY Powder (Lyophilized Peptides)​
Lyophilized peptide powder labelled "Research Use Only"This route buys semaglutide or tirzepatide as freeze-dried powder from online "research chemical" vendors. Labels state "for research use only" and not for human use.
You must master several technical steps:
Per-dose cost is lowest, but hazards are highest – unknown purity, sterility, and potency, plus a much larger chance of user error. Independent lab testing is expensive and rarely performed.