Both clear in minutes, and one of them changed its number
Neither of these lasts long. Sermorelin is recorded at 10–20 min and Tesamorelin at 8 min in healthy subjects, one 1.4 mg dose of EGRIFTA SV. On the axis below they sit almost on top of each other, at the far left of a scale whose right-hand end is measured in days.
The tesamorelin figure is worth a second look, because the number you meet elsewhere is usually a different one. The original EGRIFTA label, revised 11/2010, reported 26 minutes in healthy subjects and 38 in patients with HIV; the two current labels report 8 min and 11 minutes in healthy subjects after single dose subcutaneous administration of the 1.28 mg of EGRIFTA WR. What circulates as “26 to 38 minutes” is the older label’s two populations read as one span. What is tesamorelin sets the three labels side by side.
For a buyer the practical consequence is the same either way: both of these are daily injections, and the reason is not that the drug hangs around. It is what the drug sets off, which is measured in the days after the dose rather than the minutes.