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c/reconstitution·submitted 2 years ago by u/arne_restrepo

the mg/mL thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down

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Confession thread, sort of. I went from 1.7mg to 0.25mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 4 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/yusuf_achebe165 points·2 years ago

dead space is real and the syringe matters

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u/rasmus_mensah121 points·2 years ago

What was the vial size and how much bac water?

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u/andres_sorensen53 points·2 years ago

10mg vial, 2mL water, concentration is 10/2 — write it on the vial afterwards

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u/iman_falk12 points·2 years ago

10mg vial, 2mL water, concentration is 10/2 — write it on the vial afterwards

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 59 weeks to accept.

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u/dexa_twice_yearlybody comp116 points·2 years ago

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

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