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ApoB over LDL-C and i will keep saying it
I have had 24 orders now and I keep a table, so here is the honest summary rather than a vibe. Material has been consistent. Communication has not. Shipping has varied…
u/bac_water_bandit
Bacteriostatic water, 0.9% benzyl alcohol, 28 days, room temp after first puncture. Write it down.
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comment on reconstituted vial left out for five hours — bin it or not in c/coldchain · 104 points · 1 days ago
you avoided it because the person who sold it to you sent the right one. that is the whole mechanism and it is not reassuring.
comment on [PSA] your bac water is fine, your fridge door is not in c/reconstitution · 10 points · 2 days ago
Retitled to remove editorialising. Put the evidence in the body.
comment on ApoB over LDL-C and i will keep saying it in c/bloodwork · 7 points · 3 days ago
Ferritin tanked from 6 to 27. Small appetite, reduced iron intake, nobody was testing it until I asked.
comment on ApoB over LDL-C and i will keep saying it in c/bloodwork · 37 points · 3 days ago
Baseline ferritin: 99.3. Week 59: 94.2. Same lab, fasted, same time of day. Trend matters.
comment on ApoB over LDL-C and i will keep saying it in c/bloodwork · 14 points · 3 days ago
I am going to push back on this slightly.
comment on [Correction] the concentration table going round is off by a factor of ten in c/reconstitution · 60 points · 6 days ago
Flair changed to match the content. Read the sidebar before posting next time and we are square.
comment on [Math] someone check my arithmetic before i draw this up in c/reconstitution · 1 points · 9 days ago
What was the vial size and how much bac water?
Disagree on that part. 95.1% and 96.2% on the same vial is normal.
comment on [Math] someone check my arithmetic before i draw this up in c/reconstitution · 59 points · 9 days ago
came here to say exactly this
comment on [Explainer] units are volume, mg are mass, this is the #1 error on this site in c/reconstitution · 48 points · 13 days ago
Dead space ate 11 units on a low-volume draw. Tiny impact at 5mg, massive impact at 2.5mg.
comment on cloudy after reconstitution — discard, right? right. in c/reconstitution · 47 points · 13 days ago
Retitled to remove editorialising. Put the evidence in the body.
comment on 24 months in and insulin syringe is still the thing I get wrong in c/reconstitution · 1 points · 23 days ago
Tracking number removed. It identifies both ends of a shipment.
comment on [Discussion] mg/mL is doing more work than we give it credit for in c/reconstitution · 23 points · 1 months ago
Not to be pedantic but concentration and insulin syringe are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.
comment on [Results] 26 weeks on 5mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring in c/reconstitution · 355 points · 1 months ago
Flair changed to match the content. Read the sidebar before posting next time and we are square.
comment on week 71 check-in — 6kg down, constipation manageable, one thing confusing me in c/reconstitution · 59 points · 1 months ago
dead space is real and the syringe matters
comment on 2 months in and mg/mL is still the thing I get wrong in c/reconstitution · 1 points · 1 months ago
Spent 11 weeks confused about concentration math until someone showed me the table. 5mg, 2mL, concentration is 5/2.
comment on the units thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down in c/reconstitution · 2 points · 2 months ago
This is an urgent-care question wearing a forum question's clothes. Please contact a clinician rather than waiting for replies.
comment on unpopular opinion: mg/mL is massively overrated in c/reconstitution · 61 points · 2 months ago
more water means more units for the same dose, which means finer resolution
comment on unpopular opinion: mg/mL is massively overrated in c/reconstitution · 201 points · 2 months ago
Tracking number removed. It identifies both ends of a shipment.
comment on baseline labs — 12 things I got wrong before I got it right in c/bloodwork · 19 points · 2 months ago
hs-CRP from 4 to 12 is movement, not noise