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[Results] 16 weeks, 5kg, and basics were the hard part

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Six-word version is the title — 16 weeks, 5kg, and basics were the hard part — and the rest is context.

Hard numbers: 16 weeks and 5kg. Anything softer than that is flagged as an impression.

Bacteriostatic water contains a preservative, which is what makes repeated entry into a vial reasonable. Sterile water does not, and the two are not interchangeable for that purpose.

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

Sceptical readings welcome. The confident ones are the ones I distrust.

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u/asks_dumb_questionsMOD584 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/ines_ekstrom207 points·1 year ago

Removed the specific dose recommendation.

Adding the one habit worth starting today: write the concentration on the vial.

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u/dexa_twice_yearlybody comp186 points·1 year ago

read the wiki first, then ask anyway

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u/britt_abubakar434 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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u/saskia_bakker333 points·1 year ago

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

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u/blunt_coldbox_2024111 points·1 year ago

Careful — that is a dosing recommendation dressed as an anecdote, and this board removes those.

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u/pavel_kravchenko177 points·1 year 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/yusuf_kirchner111 points·1 year ago

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

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

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u/teodor_jansen58 points·1 year ago

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

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/marisol_kravchenko167 points·1 year ago

Has the appetite changed, even if the scale has not?

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u/nightowl_injector137 points·1 year ago

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

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u/viktor_kirchnerOP72 points·1 year ago·edited

the injection is easier than you are imagining

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u/nightowl_injector50 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/clara_danquah-25 points·1 year ago·edited

Is this your first step up or the starting dose?

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u/second_week_sceptic38 points·1 year ago

Took three weeks to understand titration and about ten seconds once somebody explained it as a tolerance ladder.

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[removed]94 points·1 year ago

[removed by moderator]

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u/bastian_moreau72 points·1 year ago

This. Ask the basic question; the answers are what make the board searchable for the next person.

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u/viktor_kirchnerOP54 points·1 year ago

This.

This is the answer. Everything else in the thread is elaboration on it.

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u/trialwatch_theotrial nerd39 points·1 year ago

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

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u/elin_trevino11 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/nl_verzekering72 points·1 year ago

Push back on the advice above: nobody here can tell a member what dose to take, however confidently it is phrased.

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u/aurel_boateng42 points·1 year ago

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

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u/viktor_kirchnerOP16 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/fabio_nkemelu8 points·1 year ago

The injection was scarier in my head than in reality.

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

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u/nl_verzekering3 points·1 year ago

pens and vials are the same molecule with different logistics

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u/rt_shift_reggie44 points·1 year ago

What week are you in?

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