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c/newbiequestions·submitted 9 months ago by u/muscle_cramp_mo

unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about beginner is guesswork

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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…

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u/muscle_cramp_mo318 points·9 months 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/reads_the_wikiMOD193 points·9 months ago

Removed for rudeness. Bad questions are welcome here; being unpleasant to someone for asking one is not.

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[removed]127 points·9 months ago

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u/ilias_cabrera184 points·9 months ago

nobody here can tell you what dose to be on

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u/muscle_cramp_moOP66 points·9 months ago

What week are you in?

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u/lina_adebayo159 points·9 months ago

titration means going slow on the way up

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u/tidy_vialdrawer_pls-33 points·9 months ago

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

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u/muscle_cramp_moOP1 point·9 months ago

write the concentration on the vial, you will thank yourself

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u/mariam_cabrera101 points·9 months ago

titration means going slow on the way up

lina_adebayo has explained this better than the wiki does, which is saying something.

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u/muscle_cramp_moOP44 points·9 months ago

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

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