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c/reconstitution·submitted 1 year ago by u/katrin_marchetti

help me understand units, I have read the wiki twice

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bacteriostatic water. That is the whole post, but I will justify it. Everything else people worry about in c/intlshipping is downstream of it. Titration speed, early fullness, the endless dose arguments — most of it resolves if you sort bacteriostatic water out first, and almost nobody does. I say this having got it…

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u/katrin_marchetti512 points·1 year ago

Dead space in the needle hub holds a small but non-trivial volume. On low-volume draws that can be several units.

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u/units_not_mgMOD319 points·1 year ago

Removed a chain here. The rule is one line long and it is not negotiable.

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u/saskia_rahimi389 points·1 year ago

swirl, do not shake, or you are courting oxidation

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u/freya_onwuka181 points·1 year ago

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

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