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c/reconstitution·submitted 2 years ago by u/ilias_steiner

[Question] Sweden — has anyone got a straight answer on mg/mL

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Genuinely asking, not being difficult. Everyone in c/orforglipron repeats that reconstitution is important. I believe it, but I have never seen anyone show why, and when I search I get 23 threads of people agreeing with each other. Is there a paper? Is there a measurement? Or is this one of those things that is true…

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u/britta_nakamura107 points·2 years ago

Titration speed is a side-effect dial far more than an efficacy dial.

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u/katrin_marchetti79 points·2 years ago

Slight fix: the number was 98.6, not 98.7. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/rosa_mensah89 points·2 years ago

Titration speed is a side-effect dial far more than an efficacy dial.

Disagree on that part. 98.4% and 98.3% on the same vial is normal.

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u/arto_falk36 points·2 years ago

This is correct. 1mL versus 4mL is the common mistake.

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u/soren_zamora28 points·2 years ago·edited

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

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u/oskar_ibarra32 points·2 years ago

u-100 syringe, not u-40, or your math is off by factor of 10

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u/dexa_twice_yearlybody comp26 points·2 years ago·edited

dead space is real and the syringe matters

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