reading mg/mL threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly
Trying to settle this properly because the thread from last year went in circles. The claim: insulin syringe matters. The counter-claim: it is measurement error. Both sides have been asserting it confidently for about 16 months without either producing anything. What would actually settle it is 39 people measuring…
i am begging people to write down the concentration
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Adding to this: units is doing more work than the comment implies.
Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.
Reconstituted at 2mL when I meant 22mL. Caught it because the units looked wrong. Write the concentration.
The single most useful thing I did was write the concentration on the vial. Stopped all the confusion after that.
5mg vial, 2mL water, concentration is 5/2 — write it on the vial afterwards
never post a calculation as advice without stating the concentration
never post a calculation as advice without stating the concentration
Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 67 weeks to accept.
This is correct. 1mL versus 5mL is the common mistake.
never post a calculation as advice without stating the concentration
Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 66 weeks to accept.
5mg vial, 2mL water, concentration is 5/2 — write it on the vial afterwards
Disagree on that part. 99.0% and 98.9% on the same vial is normal.