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c/reconstitution·posted 1 year ago by u/santiago_ndiaye

bacteriostatic water is the most under-discussed thing in c/survodutide

Question The Quiet One ×5 Slow Clap ×1

Confession thread, sort of.

I went from 15mg to 7.5mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 18 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 muscle cramps I did not need and a data point I cannot interpret. Two lessons in one.

Posting it in the hope that somebody at week 31 reads it before doing the same thing.

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u/quarter_dose_queenlow and slow358 points·1 year ago

Respectfully this is a sample of one presented as a finding.

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u/alcohol_aversion-23 points·1 year ago

show your working or it is unhelpful

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u/ilias_steiner0 points·1 year ago

Is that 10mg vial or 30mg?

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u/batch_number_bertievetting1 point·1 year ago

Is that 10mg vial or 30mg?

Disagree on that part. 93.7% and 99.3% on the same vial is normal.

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u/nadia_kjaer1 point·1 year ago

This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.

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u/units_not_mgMOD185 points·1 year ago

Removed a chain here. The rule is one line long and it is not negotiable.

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