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c/newbiequestions·posted 1 year ago by u/cato_batista

[Meta] the week one rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining

Discussion Long Haul ×4

the week one rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining. Comments open, and the wording is genuinely up for discussion.

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

Week 11 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.

Please do not ask me what dose you should be on. I genuinely do not know and neither does anyone else here.

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u/constipation_clubside effects15 points·1 year ago·edited

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/enzo_fonseca4 points·1 year ago·edited

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

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u/ms_fragmenter10 points·1 year 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/elise_grimaldi6 points·1 year ago

Not quite. Bacteriostatic and sterile water are different products and only one is intended for repeated entry.

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u/cato_batistaOP4 points·1 year ago

appetite change usually shows up before the scale does

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u/laila_delgado3 points·1 year ago

search first, but a repeat question is not a crime

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u/dario_bakken3 points·1 year ago

This. Ask the basic question; the answers are what make the board searchable for the next person.

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u/lina_adebayo1 point·1 year ago

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.

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u/cato_batistaOP1 point·1 year 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/cato_batistaOP1 point·1 year 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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