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

bacteriostatic water vs units — genuinely asking which matters more

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Confession thread, sort of. I went from 10mg to 2.5mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 13 weeks later, at which point I had no way of knowing whether the dose increase did anything or whether it would have broken anyway. So now I have…

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u/viktor_erdogan56 points·1 year ago·edited

Sceptical. If this were true we would see it reflected in the data and we do not.

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u/emil_zamora43 points·1 year ago

the concentration on the vial in marker is the most important step

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u/runa_cabreraOP34 points·1 year ago

swirl, do not shake, or you are courting oxidation

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