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comment on [Discussion] can we stop arguing about Medutest until somebody posts a number in c/vendorvetting · 414 points · 1 year ago
three independent results beat thirty forum posts
comment on [Discussion] the constipation advice in here is 2 years out of date in c/sideeffects · 237 points · 1 year ago
Keeping a log, and what to put in it.
One line a day: dose, day since injection, what the symptom was and how bad out of five, and roughly what you ate. Two months of that fits on one page and the pattern is obvious on paper in a way it never is in your head.
Mine showed a clean day-two-to-day-four window I had been describing as "random". Once you can see the pattern you can plan around it, and planning around it is most of the relief.
comment on small win: perimenopause stopped being a problem at week 52 in c/glp1women · 34 points · 1 year ago
This. Anything involving pregnancy or contraception goes to a clinician, and this board should keep saying so.
comment on my TSH moved and I cannot work out whether sulphur burps are why in c/sideeffects · 119 points · 2 years ago
Has anything else changed in the same window?
comment on [Discussion] mg/mL is doing more work than we give it credit for in c/reconstitution · 143 points · 2 years ago
The whole calculation, once, with real numbers.
You have a 10mg vial. You add 3mL of bacteriostatic water. Concentration is mass over volume: 3.33mg/mL. A U-100 insulin syringe is graduated at 100 units per millilitre, so one unit is 0.01mL.
To draw 0.5mg you need 0.5 divided by 3.33 millilitres, which is 15 units on the barrel. Write "3.33mg/mL" on the vial in marker before you put it away, and you never have to do this again for that vial.
comment on three years of Australia threads, summarised so you do not have to read them in c/glp1aus · 83 points · 2 years ago
Compounded supply arrangements have changed materially in recent years. Advice predating that change describes a situation that no longer applies.
comment on [Question] testing — what am I missing here in c/vendorvetting · 1 points · 2 years ago
Where a supplier holds regional stock, ask which lines are actually held there rather than drop-shipped. It changes the lead time and it changes the customs question.
comment on small win: sulphur burps stopped being a problem at week 55 in c/sideeffects · 1 points · 2 years ago
Right, and the hair thing is worth repeating: it tracks the rate of loss rather than the compound, and it stops.
comment on [Meta] the dead space rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining in c/reconstitution · 9 points · 2 years ago
Yes, and the dead-space point is worth repeating: it is small, it is real, and it is the same for every draw.
comment on what changed for me between month 8 and month 12 in c/sideeffects · 97 points · 2 years ago
Small fix — the shedding follows the rate of weight loss, not the compound, and it is temporary.
comment on heart rate — my 6-week log, condensed into one table in c/sideeffects · 28 points · 2 years ago
nobody warns you about how much of this is timing rather than dose
comment on someone explain Janoshik to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/vendorvetting · 3 points · 2 years ago
ask for the batch record before you ask for a discount
comment on unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about concentration is guesswork in c/reconstitution · 81 points · 2 years ago
twice as much water halves the concentration and doubles the units for the same dose
comment on someone explain nausea to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/sideeffects · 527 points · 2 years ago
What is intake actually looking like — fibre and water especially?
comment on someone explain Medutest to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/vendorvetting · 104 points · 2 years ago
the lot on the vial has to match the lot on the certificate, every time
comment on nobody warned me about fatigue and I would have liked the warning in c/sideeffects · 191 points · 2 years ago
Nothing in this thread is medical advice, including this comment. I am describing a mechanism, not telling anybody what to do about their own week.