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c/newbiequestions·submitted 1 year ago by u/intent_to_treat

how much of what we believe about beginner actually comes from what is threads

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how much of what we believe about beginner actually comes from what is threads. If this has been answered properly somewhere, link me and I will delete. Asked what a COA was in my first week. Somebody linked the explainer and I have been reading them ever since. The injection was scarier in my head than in reality.…

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u/ffmi_watcher528 points·1 year ago

The vocabulary, once, since half the questions here are really vocabulary questions.

Titration is stepping the dose up slowly for tolerance. Reconstitution is adding water to a freeze-dried powder. Bacteriostatic water contains a preservative; sterile water does not. COA is a certificate of analysis — a lab document about one batch. Area percent is a purity measure from that document, and it is not the amount of peptide in the vial. Units are a volume on an insulin syringe, not a dose.

That is most of the jargon on this site. The wiki has the longer version of each and it is linked in the sidebar.

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u/nausea_notesside effects765 points·1 year ago

The vocabulary, once, since half the questions here are really vocabulary questions.

Slight disagreement with this bit only, because a beginner reading it might take it as a plan rather than a description.

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u/intent_to_treatOP453 points·1 year ago

What is the actual question underneath the question? Happy to answer both.

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u/reads_the_wiki664 points·1 year ago

What is the actual question underneath the question?

Adding the one habit worth starting today: write the concentration on the vial.

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[removed]426 points·1 year ago

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u/tidy_vialdrawer_pls-37 points·1 year ago

no question is too basic here, that is the entire point of the board

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u/piotr_grimaldi473 points·1 year ago

Is this your first step up or the starting dose?

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u/ilias_cabrera106 points·1 year ago

Took three weeks to understand titration and about ten seconds once somebody explained it as a tolerance ladder.

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