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c/reconstitution·posted 4 months ago by u/runa_cabrera

[Discussion] we are measuring reconstitution at the wrong time and calling it noise

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Posting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful.

Setup: 10mg, week 23, sulphur burps present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable — concentration — and tracked it for 16 weeks.

Result: a difference, but a small one, and well inside what I would call noise if someone else posted it. So I am putting it here rather than presenting it as a finding. If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something.

Not medical advice, obviously. This is one person with a spreadsheet.

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u/nabila_espinoza3 points·4 months ago

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

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u/niels_roos1 point·4 months ago

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

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u/lyophile_lou1 point·4 months ago

No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.

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u/tl_dr_tina2 points·4 months ago·edited

The practical rule people converge on is 28 days at fridge temperature after first puncture, and that comes from the preservative, not the peptide.

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u/ledger_modmod · vetting1 point·4 months ago

Cored the stopper on my 2th draw because I kept using the same entry point. Rotate the puncture site.

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u/gradient_goblin1 point·4 months ago

i am begging people to write down the concentration

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u/declared_value_dv-14 points·4 months ago

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

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u/vial_math_veraMOD1 point·4 months ago

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

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u/lurker_for_years1 point·4 months ago

u-100 syringe, not u-40, or your math is off by factor of 4

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u/priya_guerrero1 point·4 months ago

Show the arithmetic. Where did the units come from?

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