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Hey, I picked up a 10 mg vial and mixed it with 1 mL. That means 10 units = 1 mg. Each dose I take is 5 units. So far I've done 10 doses, which should come to 5 mg if I'm doing the math right. Yet my vial is already empty...

I ran this by ChatGPT to see what could be going on. It mentioned that a little liquid might stay behind in the needle or syringe and get lost. Or perhaps I didn't put in exactly 1 mL on the first day by accident—I'm not sure.

Has this ever happened to you? A vial running out much faster than you expected?

(i used Ai to translate my post from french to english)
 
Nope — I've never seen a vial deplete at a much quicker pace than I anticipated, and certainly not at double the rate. On top of that, I write the number of doses I expect to get on every vial and pen.

That said, I'd go back over your math. For standard insulin pins, 100 units = 1ml in most situations. In your post, if your vial was 10mg/ml, then 10 units = 1 mg (not 10). Still, you correct yourself in the following section, where you state that 5 units x 10 doses = 50 units, which ought to be 5mg.

So something wrong has occurred. In 99.99% of cases this is user error. But I would think that if you were taking twice as much you would notice a difference right away, not after the entire vial is empty, even when its halfway empty after 5 doses. Though this depends on what peptide you are taking (you didn't say).
 
Galapagosfit said:

Hey, I picked up a 10 mg vial and mixed it with 1 mL. That means 10 units = 1 mg. Each dose I take is 5 units. So far I've done 10 doses, which should come to 5 mg if I'm doing the math right. Yet my vial is already empty...

I ran this by ChatGPT to see what could be going on. It mentioned that a little liquid might stay behind in the needle or syringe and get lost. Or perhaps I didn't put in exactly 1 mL on the first day by accident—I'm not sure.

Has this ever happened to you? A vial running out much faster than you expected?

(i used Ai to translate my post from french to english)
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Galapagosfit said:

Hey, I picked up a 10 mg vial and mixed it with 1 mL. That means 10 units = 1 mg. Each dose I take is 5 units. So far I've done 10 doses, which should come to 5 mg if I'm doing the math right. Yet my vial is already empty...

I ran this by ChatGPT to see what could be going on. It mentioned that a little liquid might stay behind in the needle or syringe and get lost. Or perhaps I didn't put in exactly 1 mL on the first day by accident—I'm not sure.

Has this ever happened to you? A vial running out much faster than you expected?

(i used Ai to translate my post from french to english)
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I've run into this too, but with a 1 ml reconstitution the amount I might lose from air purging is 5 units or less, roughly 5%. A 50% volume loss is way too big for that, so I suspect there's another problem with how you're measuring.

10units = 1 mg / using 1 ml for a 10mg vial
 
Galapagosfit said:

Hey, I picked up a 10 mg vial and mixed it with 1 mL. That means 10 units = 1 mg. Each dose I take is 5 units. So far I've done 10 doses, which should come to 5 mg if I'm doing the math right. Yet my vial is already empty...

I ran this by ChatGPT to see what could be going on. It mentioned that a little liquid might stay behind in the needle or syringe and get lost. Or perhaps I didn't put in exactly 1 mL on the first day by accident—I'm not sure.

Has this ever happened to you? A vial running out much faster than you expected?

(i used Ai to translate my post from french to english)
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When you reconstitute it that way, 5 units comes out to just 500 mcg, which works out to 20 doses in total.
 
yrrdead said:

Nope — I've never seen a vial deplete at a much quicker pace than I anticipated, and certainly not at double the rate. On top of that, I write the number of doses I expect to get on every vial and pen.

That said, I'd go back over your math. For standard insulin pins, 100 units = 1ml in most situations. In your post, if your vial was 10mg/ml, then 10 units = 1 mg (not 10). Still, you correct yourself in the following section, where you state that 5 units x 10 doses = 50 units, which ought to be 5mg.

So something wrong has occurred. In 99.99% of cases this is user error. But I would think that if you were taking twice as much you would notice a difference right away, not after the entire vial is empty, even when its halfway empty after 5 doses. Though this depends on what peptide you are taking (you didn't say).
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appreciate it, I fixed my mistake.

laansasa said:

Galapagosfit said:

Hey, I picked up a 10 mg vial and mixed it with 1 mL. That means 10 units = 1 mg. Each dose I take is 5 units. So far I've done 10 doses, which should come to 5 mg if I'm doing the math right. Yet my vial is already empty...

I ran this by ChatGPT to see what could be going on. It mentioned that a little liquid might stay behind in the needle or syringe and get lost. Or perhaps I didn't put in exactly 1 mL on the first day by accident—I'm not sure.

Has this ever happened to you? A vial running out much faster than you expected?

(i used Ai to translate my post from french to english)
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When you reconstitute it that way, 5 units comes out to just 500 mcg, which works out to 20 doses in total.
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yeah, that was the plan. looks like I messed up somewhere during reconstitution. it was Reta. my syringes are 1ml, so an air bubble could have been in there when I drew the bac water. so my dosing isn't precise. each dose likely ended up stronger than I assumed...
 
If it helps at all, I messed up with my first few vials and doses. These days I record everything and put the dose and injection amount on each vial's label.
 
Slightly off-topic, but I end up wasting roughly 1mg from each vial. I can't stand leaving even the smallest air bubble inside the syringe, even when I know perfectly well it's harmless. So I tap the bubbles upward and push the plunger until they're expelled along with some liquid. Does anyone else handle it the same way?
 
deleted.user.16 said:

Slightly off-topic, but I end up wasting roughly 1mg from each vial. I can't stand leaving even the smallest air bubble inside the syringe, even when I know perfectly well it's harmless. So I tap the bubbles upward and push the plunger until they're expelled along with some liquid. Does anyone else handle it the same way?
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At the start I did the same thing for a while, until I found out it wasn't risky. perhaps that contributed to the liquid that went missing ahah
 
deleted.user.16 said:

Slightly off-topic, but I end up wasting roughly 1mg from each vial. I can't stand leaving even the smallest air bubble inside the syringe, even when I know perfectly well it's harmless. So I tap the bubbles upward and push the plunger until they're expelled along with some liquid. Does anyone else handle it the same way?
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I don't, but if you feel like you have to, simply do it while the needle remains inside the vial and it's upside down, if that makes sense.
 
yrrdead said:

deleted.user.16 said:

Slightly off-topic, but I end up wasting roughly 1mg from each vial. I can't stand leaving even the smallest air bubble inside the syringe, even when I know perfectly well it's harmless. So I tap the bubbles upward and push the plunger until they're expelled along with some liquid. Does anyone else handle it the same way?
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I don't, but if you feel like you have to, simply do it while the needle remains inside the vial and it's upside down, if that makes sense.
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Wow, I feel really silly — that makes way more sense, haha. Thank you!
 
Do you inject on a weekly basis? Based on what little I know, going beyond 10 weeks usually isn't advisable. Regarding what's no longer in your vial, I could throw out a crazy theory or two, but it wouldn't be worth your time.
 
deleted.user.16 said:

yrrdead said:

deleted.user.16 said:

Slightly off-topic, but I end up wasting roughly 1mg from each vial. I can't stand leaving even the smallest air bubble inside the syringe, even when I know perfectly well it's harmless. So I tap the bubbles upward and push the plunger until they're expelled along with some liquid. Does anyone else handle it the same way?
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I don't, but if you feel like you have to, simply do it while the needle remains inside the vial and it's upside down, if that makes sense.
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Wow, I feel really silly — that makes way more sense, haha. Thank you!
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There are way too many TV doctor dramas where they spray out the air and the peptide. If 1ml was truly used, OP ought to have 20 doses at 5 units each. My theory: either the BAC water amount was wrong, or a ghost that loves Reta did it.
 
Do you use a pen? I believe I made the same mistake with my 10mg and 1mg. I really don't know what went wrong. I kept attempting to remove the bubble, and I alternate with my Tirz for the other weekly dose. I need to purchase a 2nd pen so I can stop doing this
 
BillC said:

Do you inject on a weekly basis? Based on what little I know, going beyond 10 weeks usually isn't advisable. Regarding what's no longer in your vial, I could throw out a crazy theory or two, but it wouldn't be worth your time.
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Two times per week
 
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