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c/reconstitution·posted 2 years ago by u/ruben_cabrera

units is the most under-discussed thing in c/orforglipron

Question Clean Column ×6 Long Haul ×2

Week 56 update. 7kg down from the start, reflux basically gone since about week 96.

Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I want to. Things that did not: everything I bought on the internet to help with reflux.

The part that surprised me is how much of this is admin. Ordering, storing, logging, remembering. Nobody mentions that the hard bit is not the drug, it is the routine.

Happy to answer anything. Please do not ask me what dose you should be on.

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u/units_not_mgsyringe math103 points·2 years ago

Crossposting this to c/cagrilintide because the people who need it are not reading this community.

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u/marta_weiss81 points·2 years ago

Yeah, showing the arithmetic is the fastest way for someone to spot the error.

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u/sofia_danquah78 points·2 years ago

Crossposting this to c/cagrilintide because the people who need it are not reading this community.

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/ruben_cabreraOP53 points·2 years ago

Reconstituted at 3mL when I meant 6mL. Caught it because the units looked wrong. Write the concentration.

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u/declared_value_dv18 points·2 years ago

i am begging people to write down the concentration

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u/tuva_kirchner54 points·2 years ago

I am going to push back on this slightly.

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u/vial_math_verasyringe math19 points·2 years ago

swirl, do not shake, or you are courting oxidation

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u/emil_okwuosa47 points·2 years ago

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/ruben_cabreraOP20 points·2 years ago

Yeah, showing the arithmetic is the fastest way for someone to spot the error.

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u/vial_math_veraMOD26 points·2 years ago

Tracking number removed. It identifies both ends of a shipment.

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u/arto_falk0 points·2 years ago

Show the arithmetic. Where did the units come from?

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u/rasmus_kuipers17 points·2 years ago·edited

The evidence standard in c/vendorvetting gets called too strict about once a month, and every time, the thread ends with the complainant agreeing.

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