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c/newbiequestions·posted 8 months ago by u/kaplan_meier_kim

[Discussion] the normal advice in here is 2 years out of date

Discussion Long Haul ×2 Well Actually ×3

the normal advice in here is 2 years out of date — a position I have arrived at slowly and would like tested.

Pulling the figures out of the title: 2 years. All of it is written down as it happened rather than reconstructed.

A certificate of analysis is a document describing one batch: what was tested, by what method, and what the result was. Its value depends entirely on whether it names the batch and the method.

Titration is a tolerance ladder. Each step exists so the gastrointestinal effects settle before the next increase, which is why the intervals are what they are.

Would rather be corrected in public than confident in private.

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u/asks_dumb_questions142 points·8 months ago

Research-use-only material is not approved for human use. That is a plain statement of regulatory fact and it belongs in every beginner thread.

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u/gentle_correctionMOD94 points·8 months ago

Left up. It is a basic question asked clearly and it will help the next several people who search for it.

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u/plain_titration27 points·8 months ago

What does the wiki page on this say — genuinely asking, not deflecting?

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u/kaplan_meier_kimOP-24 points·8 months ago·edited

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

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u/rekha_teixeira1 point·8 months ago

The injection was scarier in my head than in reality. It took about ten seconds and I felt slightly silly afterwards.

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u/britta_nakamura1 point·8 months ago

The injection was scarier in my head than in reality.

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/sanne_laurent21 points·8 months ago

Concentration is mass over volume, and a U-100 syringe reads 100 units per millilitre. Those two facts are the whole of the arithmetic this board keeps explaining.

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u/kaplan_meier_kimOP53 points·8 months ago

That is area percent from a certificate, not the amount of peptide in the vial. Two different numbers and a very common mix-up.

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u/fabio_nkemelu24 points·8 months ago

titration means going slow on the way up

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u/elise_grimaldi58 points·8 months ago

Nothing on this board is medical advice, and the people answering you — including me — are members with spreadsheets rather than clinicians.

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u/piotr_grimaldi27 points·8 months ago

Agreed — week two with nothing on the scale is so common it should be in the sidebar. It probably is.

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u/dario_bakken42 points·8 months ago

research-use-only material is not approved for human use, and that belongs in every beginner thread

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u/kaplan_meier_kimOP25 points·8 months ago

week two with nothing happening is normal

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[deleted]17 points·8 months ago

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u/sigrid_kaufmann33 points·8 months ago

Correction: the starting dose is a tolerance step rather than a treatment dose. The distinction is the answer to the question above.

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u/nora_lundgren10 points·8 months ago

pens and vials are the same molecule with different logistics

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u/ruben_almeida7 points·8 months ago

Which country? Half the answers here only apply in one place.

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u/greta_chukwu3 points·8 months ago

ask the dumb question, three other people are searching for it

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