unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about beginner is guesswork
unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about beginner is guesswork. Not a hot take, just something I have not seen said plainly here.
Week 4 for me was completely flat and I was convinced something was wrong. It was not. Month two was where everything happened.
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.
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.
Screenshot none of this. Read the whole thread, including the parts where I am told I am wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
Removed for rudeness. Bad questions are welcome here; being unpleasant to someone for asking one is not.
nobody here can tell you what dose to be on
titration means going slow on the way up
Spent my first fortnight comparing myself to the loudest posters. Do not do that; they are not the middle of the distribution.
write the concentration on the vial, you will thank yourself
titration means going slow on the way up
lina_adebayo has explained this better than the wiki does, which is saying something.
What does the wiki page on this say — genuinely asking, not deflecting?
Took three weeks to understand titration and about ten seconds once somebody explained it as a tolerance ladder.
Took three weeks to understand titration and about ten seconds once somebody explained it as a tolerance ladder.
This is the answer. Everything else in the thread is elaboration on it.
no question is too basic here, that is the entire point of the board
What is the actual question underneath the question? Happy to answer both.
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