units — my 8-week log, condensed into one table
Right, the insulin syringe question again, but with numbers this time.
I have 4 data points over 20 weeks. The pattern is consistent enough that I do not think it is chance, and boring enough that nobody is going to screenshot it, which is usually a good sign.
The thing I would flag for anyone new: the effect I am describing showed up at week 24, not week 73. People give up long before the interesting part.
Interested in whether this matches other people's logs or whether I am an outlier.
best — the order this archive was captured in
This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.
the concentration on the vial in marker is the most important step
This is correct. 3mL versus 15mL is the common mistake.
Two vials, two different concentrations, forgot which was which, almost made a 20 times error. Now I label everything.
20mg vial, 1mL water, concentration is 20/1 — write it on the vial afterwards
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stopper coring on the 19th draw because you keep using the same entry point. rotate.
Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with mg/mL, not with what you concluded.
Mechanistically the bit that matters is bacteriostatic water. It explains most of the early profile and a decent chunk of the outcome.
No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.
Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 15–5. Practical consequence: what you feel in week 1 is not what that dose does.
the concentration on the vial in marker is the most important step
never post a calculation as advice without stating the concentration
Cosigning. The concentration on the vial in marker is load-bearing.
Cosigning.
Adding to this: mg/mL is doing more work than the comment implies.
Dead space ate 19 units on a low-volume draw. Tiny impact at 0.25mg, massive impact at 0.5mg.
u-100 syringe, not u-40, or your math is off by factor of 4
u-100 syringe, not u-40, or your math is off by factor of 4
Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 11 weeks to accept.
20mg vial, 2mL water, concentration is 20/2 — write it on the vial afterwards
Cosigning. The concentration on the vial in marker is load-bearing.
Cosigning. The concentration on the vial in marker is load-bearing.
Dead space ate 12 units on a low-volume draw. Tiny impact at 5mg, massive impact at 1.7mg.
dosing errors come from people reconstituting two vials differently and forgetting which is which
The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.
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