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c/reconstitution·posted 10 months ago by u/tuva_kirchner

week 86 check-in — 7kg down, reflux manageable, one thing confusing me

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Quick one. Denmark here.

bacteriostatic water works very differently where I live than in the threads that dominate the front page, and I keep seeing people confidently given advice that simply does not apply outside the US.

Specifics: the route I used took 13 weeks and cost roughly what I expected. The admin was worse than the cost. The thing that would have saved me the most time was knowing which document to ask for at the start.

Happy to answer questions from anyone in the same jurisdiction.

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u/georgi_adebayo422 points·10 months ago

Did you write the concentration on the vial?

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u/vial_math_veraMOD219 points·10 months ago

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

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u/rasmus_mensah261 points·10 months ago

Did you write the concentration on the vial?

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/vito_beaulieu197 points·10 months ago

Two vials, two different concentrations, forgot which was which, almost made a 9 times error. Now I label everything.

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