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c/newbiequestions·posted 2 years ago by u/nora_lundgren

three years of what is threads, summarised so you do not have to read them

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three years of what is threads, summarised so you do not have to read them. Not a hot take, just something I have not seen said plainly here.

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.

Tell me where this is wrong. That is the useful part of posting it.

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u/viktor_kirchner1.2k points·2 years ago

Research-use-only material is not approved for human use. That is a plain statement of regulatory fact and it belongs in every beginner thread.

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u/graph_it_gary580 points·2 years ago

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. Bacteriostatic water contains a preservative; sterile water does not. COA is a certificate of analysis — a lab document about one batch. Area percent is a purity measure from that document, and it is not the amount of peptide in the vial. Units are a volume on an insulin syringe, not a dose.

That is most of the jargon on this site. The wiki has the longer version of each and it is linked in the sidebar.

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u/asks_dumb_questionsMOD227 points·2 years ago

Removed for rudeness. Bad questions are welcome here; being unpleasant to someone for asking one is not.

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u/rina_bergstrom-1 point·2 years ago

Right, and writing the concentration on the vial is the single best habit anyone here can start with.

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u/denied_again_d1 point·2 years ago·edited

Right, and writing the concentration on the vial is the single best habit anyone here can start with.

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

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u/intent_to_treat1 point·2 years ago

Yes — nobody here is your clinician, and the good answers on this board all end with that.

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u/nora_lundgrenOP1 point·2 years ago

Yes — nobody here is your clinician, and the good answers on this board all end with that.

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/sulphur_burps_sue1 point·2 years ago

the first month is a tolerance check, not a results phase

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u/asks_dumb_questions1 point·2 years ago

the starting dose is not meant to be the dose that works

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u/reads_the_wiki1 point·2 years ago

write the concentration on the vial, you will thank yourself

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u/farid_jansen257 points·2 years ago

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

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u/laila_delgado202 points·2 years 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/halima_mbeki217 points·2 years ago

That comparison is between two different products at two different concentrations, which is where the confusion is coming from.

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u/fasting_insulin_f0 points·2 years 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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