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[Results] 86 weeks on 5mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring

Math Clean Column ×2 Sourced ×1 Receipts ×3

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

Setup: 10mg, week 15, sulphur burps present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable — dead space — and tracked it for 6 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_espinoza615 points·1 year ago

show your working or it is unhelpful

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u/bac_water_banditMOD326 points·1 year ago·edited

This is an urgent-care question wearing a forum question's clothes. Please contact a clinician rather than waiting for replies.

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u/tl_dr_tina431 points·1 year ago

The single most useful thing I did was write the concentration on the vial. Stopped all the confusion after that.

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u/yusuf_nakamura0 points·1 year ago

Are you using a u-100 or u-40 syringe? That changes everything.

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u/honest_syringe_maybe-16 points·1 year ago

i am begging people to write down the concentration

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u/arto_falk157 points·1 year ago

The single most useful thing I did was write the concentration on the vial. Stopped all the confusion after that.

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u/escrow_evangelist124 points·1 year ago·edited

i am begging people to write down the concentration

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u/britta_nakamuraOP82 points·1 year ago

This is correct. 2mL versus 4mL is the common mistake.

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u/rasmus_mensah332 points·1 year ago·edited

show your working or it is unhelpful

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u/priya_weiss143 points·1 year ago

i am begging people to write down the concentration

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[deleted]68 points·1 year ago

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u/erez_perrin56 points·1 year ago·edited

This is correct. 1mL versus 10mL is the common mistake.

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u/lurker_for_years18 points·1 year ago

dosing errors come from people reconstituting two vials differently and forgetting which is which

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u/britta_nakamuraOP102 points·1 year ago

That is net peptide content, not purity. Different number, different meaning.

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u/bac_water_banditreconstitution51 points·1 year ago

bacteriostatic and sterile water are not interchangeable, do not use them that way

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u/sock_puppet_spotter29 points·1 year ago

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

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u/mateusz_achebe19 points·1 year ago

dosing errors come from people reconstituting two vials differently and forgetting which is which

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u/nadia_kjaer22 points·1 year ago

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

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u/piotr_bruun12 points·1 year ago

dosing errors come from people reconstituting two vials differently and forgetting which is which

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u/kenji_kimani107 points·1 year ago

Cosigning. The concentration on the vial in marker is load-bearing.

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u/oskar_kaufmann27 points·1 year ago

dead space is real and the syringe matters

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u/vial_math_verasyringe math125 points·1 year ago

show your working or it is unhelpful

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u/georgi_adebayo81 points·1 year ago

What was the vial size and how much bac water?

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