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c/newbiequestions·posted 1 year ago by u/ffmi_watcher

[PSA] basics are not what most of this community thinks it is

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Short public-service post: basics are not what most of this community thinks it is.

My first question here was genuinely basic and it now shows up in search for other people asking it.

Wrote the concentration on the vial after reading it here. Have never once had to reconstruct it from memory since.

Asked what a COA was in my first week. Somebody linked the explainer and I have been reading them ever since.

Research-use-only material is not approved for human use and nothing here should be read as a recommendation to use it.

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u/fasting_insulin_f75 points·1 year ago

How to ask a question here so that you get a useful answer.

Say what week you are in, whether you are using a pen or a vial, what country you are in, and what you have already read. Those four facts turn a question that gets three contradictory answers into one that gets a specific one.

And do ask. The basic questions get searched for constantly, so a clear answer here helps a stream of people who will never post. The only genuinely unwelcome thing on this board is being unpleasant to somebody for not knowing something yet.

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u/halima_mbeki51 points·1 year ago

Which country? Half the answers here only apply in one place.

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u/ffmi_watcherOP27 points·1 year ago

I confused two very similar words on my first order and asked here, expecting to be mocked. Three people explained it properly instead.

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u/britta_boateng24 points·1 year ago·edited

ask the dumb question, three other people are searching for it

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u/gentle_correctionMOD40 points·1 year ago

Removed the specific dose recommendation. Describe what you did; do not tell a new member what to take.

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u/halima_mbeki-32 points·1 year ago

search first, but a repeat question is not a crime

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u/saskia_rahimi50 points·1 year ago

appetite change usually shows up before the scale does

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u/swirl_dont_shakereconstitution33 points·1 year ago

What does the wiki page on this say — genuinely asking, not deflecting?

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u/ffmi_watcherOP18 points·1 year ago

That is area percent from a certificate, not the amount of peptide in the vial. Two different numbers and a very common mix-up.

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u/viktor_kirchner4 points·1 year ago

the injection is easier than you are imagining

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