At a glance
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Administration | A once-weekly injection. |
| Published half-life | about 4.7 days (roughly 112 hours) — Close to tirzepatide, and comfortably long enough to support weekly dosing. |
| Dosing interval modelled | 7 days |
| Used in Cafeity for | The decay constant behind the Cycle View, and nothing else. |
Half-life figures are published population averages, used only as the decay constant in Cafeity's schedule model. They are not your pharmacokinetics, and nothing on this page is dosing information.
What dulaglutide is, in one paragraph
Dulaglutide is a GLP-1 receptor agonist given once weekly. Clinical detail — indications, cautions, interactions, side effects — is deliberately not reproduced here; the sources at the foot of this page are the place for it.
This page is about the record: what a weekly cadence does to the shape of a week, and what Cafeity holds.
The week has a shape
A weekly cadence means the days after a dose and the days before the next are not equivalent, and a record that ignores that loses most of its explanatory power. Cafeity puts meals, symptoms and weights on the same timeline as the modelled level, so a difficult Thursday can be seen in context instead of remembered out of it.
As with the other weekly molecules, the first few weeks are not representative: the modelled level is still building towards its repeating pattern. The steady-state section below shows how long that takes for this half-life.
How the Cycle View is worked out
The Cycle View is a schedule model, not a measurement. It takes the dose dates you logged, assumes each dose decays exponentially with the published half-life above, and adds them together. In full: level(t) = Σ 0.5 ^ ((t − tdose) / half-life), with one unit added per dose.
That is the entire mechanism. It knows nothing about your blood, your metabolism, your kidney function or the actual amount you were prescribed — which is why the y-axis below is unitless and relative to a single dose. The shape is the only part that means anything.
Accumulation and steady state
Because a dose arrives before the previous one has cleared, the modelled level builds for the first few weeks and then repeats. These figures fall straight out of the half-life — you can check every one of them on the half-life calculator.
| Value | Where it comes from | |
|---|---|---|
| Remaining when the next dose is due | 35% | 0.5 ^ (7 days ÷ 4.7 days) |
| Peak once settled | 1.55× a single dose | 1 ÷ (1 − remaining fraction) |
| Time to reach roughly 97% | about 23 days | five half-lives |
In other words, the first 3 weeks or so are not a typical week — the record is still describing a rising baseline. That is worth knowing before comparing week one with week ten.
What the record holds
Every entry below sits on one timeline, so any of them can be read against where you were in the medication cycle when it happened.
- Doses — date, time, the amount you were prescribed, and the medication as a plain label.
- Injection site, on a body map, so rotation is visible rather than remembered.
- Meals, with protein, fibre and hydration derived from what you logged.
- Symptoms, in your words, with your own severity rating.
- Weight and measurements, shown as a trend rather than a daily verdict.
Inside the app
Screenshots from Cafeity on iPhone. The app is on the App Store; screens change as it is updated.
Beyond the dose record
The dose is the anchor, but it is not the whole record. Each of these has its own page.
- Protein comes first — appetite usually falls and total intake falls with it, so the figure worth watching is protein rather than calories. Cafeity derives a daily figure from body weight and shows the gap, without instructing you to change anything.
- Symptoms are recorded, not diagnosed — you log what you felt and how strongly; the app places it on the timeline and stops there.
- Weight is a trend, not a verdict — and never a prediction.
- Sites live on the dose record, so rotation is a glance rather than a guess.
Where your data lives
On your device and in your own account, under per-record permissions. Health data is never stored in iCloud, never sold, never used for advertising, and never used as training data.
You can export everything in one file at any time, and you can delete the record entirely. When you want to bring something to an appointment, the Visit Summary builds a one-page, print-ready PDF from a period and the sections you choose — and nothing leaves the phone until you do that yourself.
What Cafeity will never do
- Recommend, calculate or adjust a dose, or tell you when to take one.
- Interpret a symptom, name a condition, or suggest what is causing something.
- Predict how much weight you will lose, or when.
- Set a calorie target below 1,200 kcal, or a weight goal below a BMI of 18.5.
Cafeity is a general wellness product. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, mitigate or prevent any disease or condition. Questions about your treatment belong with a licensed healthcare professional.
Common questions
Does Cafeity support every GLP-1 medication?
Where does the half-life figure come from?
Can I log a dose I took late?
Is there an Android version?
Further reading
Cafeity is a record-keeping tool, not a drug reference. Anything clinical — what a medication is approved for, who should not take it, what to watch for, how it interacts with other medicines — belongs with the sources below and with your own prescriber.
- Dulaglutide Injection MedlinePlus
- Medicines A to Z NHS
- Drugs, Herbs and Supplements MedlinePlus, US National Library of Medicine
- DailyMed — FDA prescribing information US National Library of Medicine
External links open in a new tab. Cafeity is not affiliated with any of these organisations.