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c/reconstitution·posted 3 months ago by u/adaeze_cabrera

[Vendor] QST order #5 — Denmark, 25 days, no drama, receipts inside

Explainer

Confession thread, sort of.

I went from 12.5mg to 5mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 3 weeks later, at which point I had no way of knowing whether the dose increase did anything or whether it would have broken anyway.

So now I have early fullness I did not need and a data point I cannot interpret. Two lessons in one.

Posting it in the hope that somebody at week 10 reads it before doing the same thing.

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u/piotr_bruun51 points·3 months ago·edited
^ this
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u/rina_bergstrom61 points·3 months ago

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

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u/ruben_cabrera0 points·3 months ago

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

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u/emil_zamora-10 points·3 months ago

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

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