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.
Quick start
Leuprolide at a glance — the figures, plus how it's commonly run. Reference only, not medical advice.
- Typical dose
- 1–7.5 mg per administration
- How often
- Every day
- Where
- Subcutaneous — abdomen, thigh, or upper arm Sites and rotation
- Time to steady level
- ~15 hours — about five half-lives
- Storage
- Dry vial kept cold and dark; a mixed vial in the fridge at 2–8 °C. Details
A research and community reference, not medical advice. Figures are descriptive, vary between sources, and are not a recommendation for use.
Work out your draw
These numbers are a starting point — change any of them.
Vial label
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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.