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

what changed for me between week 85 and week 39

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Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom. I have been tracking units against ApoB for 3 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker than I expected, which is itself mildly interesting given how confidently people link the two in here. Caveats up front: one person, one lab, one assay, no…

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u/sock_puppet_spotter521 points·2 years ago

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

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u/bac_water_banditMOD344 points·2 years ago

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

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u/emil_zamora507 points·2 years ago

20mg vial, 2mL water, concentration is 20/2 — write it on the vial afterwards

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u/adaeze_cabrera254 points·2 years ago

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

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u/lurker_for_years189 points·2 years ago

Respectfully this is a sample of one presented as a finding.

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u/rina_bergstrom63 points·2 years ago·edited

dead space is real and the syringe matters

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