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c/reconstitution·posted 1 months ago by u/tuva_kirchner

[Results] 86 weeks on 2.4mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring

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Quick one. Canada here.

insulin syringe works very differently where I live than in the threads that dominate the front page, and I keep seeing people confidently given advice that simply does not apply outside the US.

Specifics: the route I used took 9 weeks and cost roughly what I expected. The admin was worse than the cost. The thing that would have saved me the most time was knowing which document to ask for at the start.

Happy to answer questions from anyone in the same jurisdiction.

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u/ismael_nwosu646 points·1 months ago·edited

I love that this community will spend 40 comments on a detail. That pedantry is why the numbers here matter.

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u/cesar_ivaturi-28 points·1 months ago

No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.

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u/tl_dr_tina1 point·1 months ago

No.

Disagree on that part. 98.7% and 98.9% on the same vial is normal.

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u/dexa_twice_yearlybody comp1 point·1 months ago

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

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u/spain_receta1 point·1 months ago

Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with insulin syringe, not with what you concluded.

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u/nabila_espinoza1 point·1 months ago

swirl, do not shake, or you are courting oxidation

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u/viktor_erdogan1 point·1 months ago

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

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u/vito_beaulieu1 point·1 months ago

dead space is real and the syringe matters

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u/hedda_ekstrom273 points·1 months ago

Mechanistically the bit that matters is bacteriostatic water. It explains most of the early profile and a decent chunk of the outcome.

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u/mateusz_achebe165 points·1 months ago

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

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u/emil_zamora43 points·1 months ago

u-100 syringe, not u-40, or your math is off by factor of 12

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