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c/newbiequestions·posted 2 months ago by u/ilias_cabrera

reading what is threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly

Answered Cold Box ×5 Long Haul ×3

reading what is threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly. Making the case below, and I expect to lose some of it in the comments.

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

My first question here was genuinely basic and it now shows up in search for other people asking it.

Spent my first fortnight comparing myself to the loudest posters. Do not do that; they are not the middle of the distribution.

If somebody has the same thing measured a different way, post it next to mine and we will see whether they agree.

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u/ines_ekstrom216 points·2 months ago

Bacteriostatic water contains a preservative, which is what makes repeated entry into a vial reasonable. Sterile water does not, and the two are not interchangeable for that purpose.

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u/marisol_kravchenko68 points·2 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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[deleted]30 points·2 months ago

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u/ilias_cabreraOP13 points·2 months ago

Small correction, said kindly: those are two different products with similar names, and the difference matters for a multi-draw vial.

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u/dexa_twice_yearlybody comp194 points·2 months ago·edited

That comparison is between two different products at two different concentrations, which is where the confusion is coming from.

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u/nayeli_iyer85 points·2 months ago

bacteriostatic water has a preservative, sterile water does not

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u/ruben_almeida20 points·2 months ago

Pen or vial?

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u/greta_chukwu11 points·2 months ago

the first month is a tolerance check, not a results phase

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u/food_noise_gonemaintenance7 points·2 months ago·edited

week two with nothing happening is normal

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u/asks_dumb_questionsMOD113 points·2 months ago

Removed the specific dose recommendation. Describe what you did; do not tell a new member what to take.

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u/ffmi_watcher84 points·2 months ago·edited

Push back on the advice above: nobody here can tell a member what dose to take, however confidently it is phrased.

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u/liver_enzyme_liz61 points·2 months ago

Week 23 for me was completely flat and I was convinced something was wrong. It was not. Month two was where everything happened.

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u/neha_falk38 points·2 months ago

Asked what a COA was in my first week. Somebody linked the explainer and I have been reading them ever since.

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u/britt_zamora40 points·2 months ago

I would not panic about that. It is on the list of ordinary first-month experiences.

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