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c/reconstitution·submitted 1 year ago by u/britta_nakamura

switched from 0.25mg to 15mg and the injection-site soreness got better, not worse

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Posting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful. Setup: 1.0mg, week 49, sulphur burps present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable — insulin syringe — and tracked it for 3 weeks. Result: a difference, but a small one, and well inside what I would call noise if someone else posted it.…

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u/janek_ferrari32 points·1 year ago

Dead space ate 22 units on a low-volume draw. Tiny impact at 15mg, massive impact at 0.5mg.

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u/vito_beaulieu16 points·1 year ago

Is that 30mg vial or 26mg?

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u/kavya_radich5 points·1 year ago·edited

dosing errors come from people reconstituting two vials differently and forgetting which is which

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u/marisol_frisk13 points·1 year ago

u-100 syringe, not u-40, or your math is off by factor of 14

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u/britta_nakamuraOP8 points·1 year ago

more water means more units for the same dose, which means finer resolution

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