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unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about first time is guesswork

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unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about first time is guesswork. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down.

Week 2 for me was completely flat and I was convinced something was wrong. It was not. Month two was where everything happened.

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

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

Ask me anything specific. Anything general I will probably get wrong.

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u/nora_lundgren311 points·1 year ago

A certificate of analysis is a document describing one batch: what was tested, by what method, and what the result was. Its value depends entirely on whether it names the batch and the method.

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u/laila_yilmaz80 points·1 year ago·edited

A certificate of analysis is a document describing one batch: what was tested, by what method, and what the result was.

nora_lundgren has explained this better than the wiki does, which is saying something.

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u/georgi_chowdhury60 points·1 year ago

nora_lundgren has explained this better than the wiki does, which is saying something.

Slight disagreement with this bit only, because a beginner reading it might take it as a plan rather than a description.

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u/wholesome_lurkerMOD188 points·1 year ago

Flair set to Question and the wiki page linked in a comment rather than in place of an answer.

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u/aurel_boateng67 points·1 year ago

Flair set to Question and the wiki page linked in a comment rather than in place of an answer.

Agreed, and for anyone finding this later: that is the normal experience, not a warning sign.

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u/santiago_ndiaye196 points·1 year ago

Appetite change and weight change are different measurements on different timescales. The first is usually noticed first and the second lags it.

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u/sigrid_kaufmann144 points·1 year ago

The injection was scarier in my head than in reality. It took about ten seconds and I felt slightly silly afterwards.

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u/escrow_evangelist45 points·1 year ago

Concentration is mass over volume, and a U-100 syringe reads 100 units per millilitre. Those two facts are the whole of the arithmetic this board keeps explaining.

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