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#reconstitution 2026-03-31

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  • pin29g — 5mg in 2ml gives 2.5mg/ml, 0.25mg is 10 units. good for a starting dose, anyway 13:54
  • peak_split — 10mg in 2ml is 5mg/ml. so 0.5mg is 0.1ml which is 10 units on a u100, for what its worth 14:30
  • peak_split — anyone else find the 10mg vials harder to get fully dissolved than the small ones 14:50
  • peak_split — while im here took me a year to stop over-diluting. the measurement error at 4 units is worse than the convenience pick the volume so your dose is a whole number of… 14:53
P2

can i add more bac water later to a vial ive already reconstituted

P2

5mg in 2ml gives 2.5mg/ml, 0.25mg is 10 units. good for a starting dose, anyway

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P2

while im here bacteriostatic water for anything multi-use. sterile water has no preservative in it at all

whats the smallest volume you would trust yourself to measure on a u100

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the jewellery scale is a good habit but calibrate it, they drift badly

10mg in 2ml is 5mg/ml. so 0.5mg is 0.1ml which is 10 units on a u100, for what its worth

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thats 5mg/ml

while im here took me a year to stop over-diluting. the measurement error at 4 units is worse than the convenience
pick the volume so your dose is a whole number of units. thats the entire trick

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coming back after 12 months, has the pinned recon volume advice changed