How many clicks is 5mg on a 15mg Mounjaro pen?
Dial 20 clicks.
On a 15mg pen each click delivers 0.250mg, and a full dose is 60 clicks.
- Clicks to dial
- 20
- mg per click
- 0.250 mg
- Volume per dose
- 0.2 ml
- Doses per pen
- ~12
How it's worked out
Every Mounjaro KwikPen gives a full labelled dose in 60 clicks, whatever its strength. To get a 5mg dose from a 15mg pen you take the fraction of a full dose you need and multiply by 60:
(5 ÷ 15) × 60 = 20 clicks
That works out to about 0.250mg per click, or 0.2ml for the whole 5mg dose. Because you're dialling less than the pen's full 15mg dose, a single pen stretches to roughly 12 doses of 5mg — about 12 weeks if you inject once a week, versus four weeks at the full dose.
A KwikPen holds 240 usable clicks in total (four full doses). If you're mixing dose sizes from one pen — for example while titrating up — the pen tracker keeps a running total of what's left, and the titration planner maps the clicks for each step.
Other doses from a 15mg pen
Frequently asked questions
- How many clicks is 5mg on a 15mg Mounjaro pen?
- Dial 20 clicks. A 15mg KwikPen delivers 0.250mg per click (60 clicks = the full 15mg dose), so a 5mg dose is (5 ÷ 15) × 60 = 20 clicks.
- How many 5mg doses are in a 15mg pen?
- A pen holds 240 usable clicks, so at 20 clicks per dose you get about 12 5mg doses per pen — more than the four full doses, because you're dialling a partial dose. Injecting weekly, that's roughly 12 weeks per pen.
- How much medicine is one click on a 15mg pen?
- Every click releases the same 0.01ml of liquid; on a 15mg pen that's 0.250mg. Your 5mg dose works out to 0.2ml (20 clicks).
Educational tool — not medical advice. This calculator is for general information only. Mounjaro (tirzepatide) is a prescription-only medicine. Always follow the dosing instructions given by your prescriber and the patient information leaflet, and never change your dose or use click-counting without professional guidance.