Taking Foundayo: doses, missed tablets, storage and travel
The practical stuff no one explains properly: how the dose builds up, what to do if you forget one, how to store your tablets, and how to travel with them. Your Patient Information Leaflet and prescriber always come first; this is the plain-English companion.
Last verified: 11 August 2026
The one-line routine
One tablet, once a day, any time of day, with or without food. Swallow it whole with a drink; don't break, crush or chew it. That's genuinely it, and it's Foundayo's biggest practical advantage: the Wegovy tablet demands an empty stomach, a small amount of water and a wait before eating, while Foundayo fits around your life instead of the other way round.
One habit worth building anyway: pick a rough time that suits you and stick to it. Consistency makes tablets harder to forget, even when the medicine itself doesn't mind.
The dose ladder
Like all GLP-1 medicines, Foundayo starts low and builds gradually, which gives your body time to adjust and keeps side effects manageable. The MHRA-approved schedule moves through six strengths, spending at least one month at each step before moving up:
Minimum one month at each step. Your prescriber decides the pace and your maintenance dose; plenty of people settle at a middle dose rather than the top one, and the trials showed meaningful results at 5.5 mg and 9 mg too.
Never move up the ladder on your own initiative, and never take extra tablets to "catch up" or speed things along. If you feel your dose isn't working, or side effects are rough at a new step, that's a conversation with your prescriber, not a DIY adjustment.
Missed a dose?
- Take it as soon as you remember that day.
- Never take more than one tablet in a single day.
- If a whole day has passed, skip the missed tablet and simply carry on with your next scheduled dose.
- Missed several days in a row? Contact your prescriber before restarting, as they may want you to step back down the ladder.
Storing your tablets
- Room temperature is fine: no fridge needed, which is a welcome change from the injections.
- Keep tablets in their original bottle and carton, which protects them from light and moisture.
- Avoid hot cars, sunny windowsills and steamy bathrooms.
- Keep them well out of the sight and reach of children.
- Check the expiry date, and return unused tablets to a pharmacy rather than binning or flushing them.
The exact storage wording for the UK pack will be in the Patient Information Leaflet on the MHRA Products website; treat that as the final word.
Travelling with Foundayo
- Hand luggage, always. Hold luggage can be lost and cargo holds get cold. Tablets in original packaging sail through security without special rules.
- Carry proof. A prescription copy or dispensing label with your name matching your passport avoids questions at borders, and some countries expect it.
- Time zones are easy with Foundayo. Because it's once daily with no food rules, shift your dose time gradually to local time, keeping roughly a day between tablets and never taking two in 24 hours.
- Heat. Room temperature storage still applies on holiday: a shaded bag beats a beach towel or a parked car.
- Take spares. A few days' extra supply covers delays and cancellations.
When to speak to a clinician
Contact your prescriber or pharmacist if side effects at a new dose feel unmanageable, if you can't keep fluids down, if you've missed several doses, or if anything about your health changes (including a new pregnancy or planning one). For suspected side effects, you can also report directly via the MHRA Yellow Card scheme.