[Log] six months of 0.125mg bumps, the full boring spreadsheet
0.05–0.125mg increments the whole way, way smaller than the standard step sizes. My pharmacist has made a face at me more than once about it. My stomach has never once made a face back, so here we are. Posting the full log, six months, every bump and every side-effect note, because I only ever find people describing…
for anyone following along and confused why 0.05mg bumps are even measurable: it comes down to your reconstitution concentration. mg in the vial divided by mL added gives you mg/mL, and a fine enough concentration makes a 0.05mg step land on a clean, readable unit mark on a standard insulin syringe. get the concentration wrong and these small steps become guesswork.
and dead space matters more proportionally at these tiny doses too, 2-5 units of hub dead space is a much bigger fraction of a 0.05mg draw than of a 1mg draw
which is the actual argument for a more concentrated reconstitution specifically for this style of dosing, fewer total units per draw means the fixed dead-space loss eats less of the total
this is exactly what I ended up doing around month 3, reconstituted more concentrated once I noticed the dead-space math getting annoying at the smallest steps