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

6 months in and insulin syringe is still the thing I get wrong

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Posting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful. Setup: 12.5mg, week 39, constipation present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable — bacteriostatic water — and tracked it for 4 weeks. Result: a difference, but a small one, and well inside what I would call noise if someone else…

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u/ilias_cabrera809 points·2 years ago

Reconstituted at 3mL when I meant 12mL. Caught it because the units looked wrong. Write the concentration.

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u/gradient_goblin263 points·2 years ago

Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.

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u/vial_math_verasyringe math89 points·2 years ago

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

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u/ines_lindqvist79 points·2 years ago

dead space is real and the syringe matters

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