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

tried dead space for 3 weeks. here is what happened.

Discussion Clean Column ×8 Slow Clap ×1 Well Actually ×3

Week 75 update. 16kg down from the start, reflux basically gone since about week 32.

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/hedda_ekstrom633 points·2 years ago·edited
batch number?
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u/ismael_nwosu0 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/elin_ferrari286 points·2 years ago

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

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u/runa_grimaldi115 points·2 years ago

Show the arithmetic. Where did the units come from?

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u/lurker_for_years147 points·2 years ago

Did you write the concentration on the vial?

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u/adaeze_cabrera161 points·2 years ago

Three years on this site and the questions have not changed at all. Which is depressing or reassuring depending on the day.

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u/hub_opssite staff45 points·2 years ago

more water means more units for the same dose, which means finer resolution

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u/kenji_kimani94 points·2 years ago

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

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u/zaid_balogun-13 points·2 years ago

Is that 15mg vial or 33mg?

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u/cesar_ivaturi1 point·2 years ago

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

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u/georgi_adebayo1 point·2 years ago

10mg vial, 2mL water, concentration is 10/2 — write it on the vial afterwards

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u/piotr_bruunOP1 point·2 years ago

never post a calculation as advice without stating the concentration

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u/bac_water_banditreconstitution1 point·2 years ago

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

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u/bac_water_banditMOD60 points·2 years ago

Retitled to remove editorialising. Put the evidence in the body.

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u/priya_guerrero38 points·2 years ago

Cored the stopper on my 13th draw because I kept using the same entry point. Rotate the puncture site.

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u/cardio_endpoint_c23 points·2 years ago

Did you write the concentration on the vial?

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u/viktor_erdogan19 points·2 years ago·edited

never post a calculation as advice without stating the concentration

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u/quiet_reader_9929 points·2 years ago

You have restated the marketing copy. What is the actual substance here.

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u/georgi_adebayo9 points·2 years ago·edited

stopper coring on the 3th draw because you keep using the same entry point. rotate.

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u/arne_restrepo3 points·2 years ago

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

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u/sock_puppet_spotter19 points·2 years ago

Did you write the concentration on the vial?

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 79 weeks to accept.

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