volume too small
why does everyone say 2ml specifically and not 1ml
Spun off from a message in #reconstitution on 2025-05-25. 16 messages, 4 participants.
- private_script_pri — right, 40mg vial why does everyone say 2ml specifically and not 1ml 13:45
following up on the vial from earlier do you draw up with the same pin you inject with
right, 5mg vial 5mg in 2ml gives 2.5mg/ml, 0.25mg is 10 units. good for a starting dose, that is the whole trick really
too dilute imo
stupid vial question 10mg in 2ml is 5mg/ml. so 0.5mg is 0.1ml which is 10 units on a u100
[edited]small thing a u100 barrel is 1ml across 100 marks. the whole channel is people rediscovering that, assuming a u100 barrel
5mg in 1ml is 5mg/ml, so 0.5mg is 10 units. cleanest small vial numbers there are
i write the mg/ml on the vial with a sharpie the moment i reconstitute it, that was a 20mg vial
i weigh the vial empty and full now. it took one bad fill to make that habit stick
thats hub loss
cloudy after full dissolution is a bin it. cloudy at thirty seconds is just not dissolved yet, i wrote it on the vial
i reconstitute one vial at a time and it has never cost me anything except a few minutes
thats 0.01ml
dead space in a standard insulin syringe hub is small but it is not nothing over a month, your vial may fill differently
draw with a bigger pin and inject with a fresh one if the stopper is tough, but count the dead space, the pinned calculator agrees
does anyone actually bother weighing the vial before and after or is that just me, if anyone has a number