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c/reconstitution·submitted 6 days ago by u/viktor_kirchner

sterile water is not bacteriostatic water and it is not close

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Quick one. Canada here. reconstitution works very differently where I live than in the threads that dominate the front page, and I keep seeing people confidently given advice that simply does not apply outside the US. Specifics: the route I used took 23 weeks and cost roughly what I expected. The admin was worse than…

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u/vito_beaulieu154 points·4 days ago

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

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u/dilara_szabo-7 points·4 days ago

Slight fix: the number was 98.7, not 98.3. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/nabila_espinoza1 point·4 days ago

bacteriostatic and sterile water are not interchangeable, do not use them that way

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u/runa_cabrera46 points·4 days ago·edited

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

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u/viktor_kirchnerOP19 points·4 days ago

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

Disagree on that part. 97.9% and 97.6% on the same vial is normal.

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