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

is it normal to get constipation at week 11

Week One Long Haul ×7 Receipts ×3

is it normal to get constipation at week 11. Numbers below. Ask me the boring questions, they are the useful ones.

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

I confused two very similar words on my first order and asked here, expecting to be mocked. Three people explained it properly instead.

Research-use-only material is not approved for human use and nothing here should be read as a recommendation to use it.

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u/halima_mbeki69 points·1 year 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/aurel_boatengOP26 points·1 year ago

write the concentration on the vial, you will thank yourself

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u/britta_boateng34 points·1 year ago

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

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u/yusuf_kirchner28 points·1 year 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/yannick_salinas9 points·1 year ago

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

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u/piotr_bruun4 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/farid_jansen4 points·1 year ago

Which country?

Agreed, and for anyone finding this later: that is the normal experience, not a warning sign.

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u/elin_trevino21 points·1 year 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/rekha_vestergaard17 points·1 year ago

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.

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u/aurel_boatengOP9 points·1 year 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/ffmi_watcher5 points·1 year ago

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/ines_ekstrom5 points·1 year ago·edited

Titration is a tolerance ladder.

Adding the one habit worth starting today: write the concentration on the vial.

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u/reads_the_wiki0 points·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/yusuf_kirchner1 point·1 year ago·edited

week two with nothing happening is normal

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u/aurel_boatengOP1 point·1 year ago

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

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u/yusuf_kirchner1 point·1 year ago

bacteriostatic water has a preservative, sterile water does not

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