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c/newbiequestions·posted 4 months ago by u/piotr_bruun

stalled for 2 weeks at 15mg and I refuse to panic this time

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stalled for 2 weeks at 15mg and I refuse to panic this time. I have gone back and forth on this for months.

2 weeks and 15mg. Those are measured, not estimated, and not rounded up in my favour.

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

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

If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something. Alone it is an anecdote.

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u/aurel_mwangi108 points·4 months 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/rt_shift_reggie41 points·4 months ago

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

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u/micro_bump_mick77 points·4 months ago

a COA is a certificate of analysis, the lab document for a batch

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u/piotr_bruunOP55 points·4 months ago

the injection is easier than you are imagining

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u/clara_danquah43 points·4 months ago

write the concentration on the vial, you will thank yourself

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u/graph_it_gary11 points·4 months ago

Cosigning the wiki point, and also: ask anyway. The wiki cannot tell you it understood your question.

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u/piotr_bruunOP36 points·4 months 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/santiago_ndiaye20 points·4 months ago

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

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u/britt_zamora61 points·4 months ago

Gently disagree with the framing — nothing has gone wrong. Week 6 looking flat is the ordinary experience.

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u/ffmi_watcher42 points·4 months ago

Not quite. Bacteriostatic and sterile water are different products and only one is intended for repeated entry.

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u/liver_enzyme_liz34 points·4 months 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/fabio_nkemelu28 points·4 months ago

ask the dumb question, three other people are searching for it

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u/lina_adebayo8 points·4 months ago

Is this your first step up or the starting dose?

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u/ffmi_watcher27 points·4 months 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/britt_zamora22 points·4 months ago

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

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

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u/escrow_evangelist-6 points·4 months ago

What does the wiki page on this say — genuinely asking, not deflecting?

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u/dario_bakken1 point·4 months 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/liver_enzyme_liz13 points·4 months ago

Did you write the concentration on the vial?

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u/britta_boateng3 points·4 months ago

I would not panic about that. It is on the list of ordinary first-month experiences.

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u/piotr_bruunOP10 points·4 months ago

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

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u/renzo_yildiz15 points·4 months ago

week two with nothing happening is normal

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u/mariam_cabrera12 points·4 months ago

Correction: the starting dose is a tolerance step rather than a treatment dose. The distinction is the answer to the question above.

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u/curious_panel_only11 points·4 months 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/yusuf_kirchner7 points·4 months ago

Research-use-only material is not approved for human use.

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

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u/low_appetite_lisa3 points·4 months ago

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

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