small win: dead space stopped being a problem at week 95
Confession thread, sort of.
I went from 0.25mg to 10mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 23 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 21 reads it before doing the same thing.
best — the order this archive was captured in
20mg vial, 2mL water, concentration is 20/2 — write it on the vial afterwards
swirl, do not shake, or you are courting oxidation
Tracking number removed. It identifies both ends of a shipment.
the concentration on the vial in marker is the most important step
Crossposting this to c/semaglutide because the people who need it are not reading this community.
bacteriostatic and sterile water are not interchangeable, do not use them that way
the concentration on the vial in marker is the most important step
stopper coring on the 5th draw because you keep using the same entry point. rotate.
stopper coring on the 5th draw because you keep using the same entry point.
Disagree on that part. 98.1% and 98.4% on the same vial is normal.
Small correction: the trial was 20 weeks, not 9. Does not change your point but people will quote it.
Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 5–5. Practical consequence: what you feel in week 1 is not what that dose does.
Respectfully this is a sample of one presented as a finding.
bacteriostatic and sterile water are not interchangeable, do not use them that way
Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 5–5.
Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.
show your working or it is unhelpful
Are you using a u-100 or u-40 syringe? That changes everything.
Dead space ate 3 units on a low-volume draw. Tiny impact at 2.5mg, massive impact at 1.0mg.
Dead space ate 2 units on a low-volume draw. Tiny impact at 2.4mg, massive impact at 10mg.
Cosigning. The concentration on the vial in marker is load-bearing.
Sceptical. If this were true we would see it reflected in the data and we do not.
Yeah, showing the arithmetic is the fastest way for someone to spot the error.
stopper coring on the 7th draw because you keep using the same entry point. rotate.
Did you write the concentration on the vial?
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