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c/newbiequestions·submitted 11 months ago by u/ilias_cabrera

[Question] beginner — what am I missing here

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beginner — what am I missing here. If this has been answered properly somewhere, link me and I will delete. The vocabulary, once, since half the questions here are really vocabulary questions. Titration is stepping the dose up slowly for tolerance. Reconstitution is adding water to a freeze-dried powder.…

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u/santiago_ndiaye186 points·11 months ago

Titration is a tolerance ladder. Each step exists so the gastrointestinal effects settle before the next increase, which is why the intervals are what they are.

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u/wholesome_lurker66 points·11 months ago

Agreed — week two with nothing on the scale is so common it should be in the sidebar. It probably is.

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u/piotr_grimaldi18 points·11 months ago·edited

research-use-only material is not approved for human use, and that belongs in every beginner thread

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u/ilias_cabreraOP33 points·11 months 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/curious_panel_only149 points·11 months ago

Nothing on this board is medical advice, and the people answering you — including me — are members with spreadsheets rather than clinicians.

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u/greta_perrin50 points·11 months ago

no question is too basic here, that is the entire point of the board

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u/ilias_cabreraOP29 points·11 months ago·edited

What week are you in?

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u/yusuf_kirchner24 points·11 months ago

Spent my first fortnight comparing myself to the loudest posters. Do not do that; they are not the middle of the distribution.

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u/low_appetite_lisa7 points·11 months 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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[deleted]73 points·11 months ago

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u/ffmi_watcher78 points·11 months 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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