Am I being a dork for taking notes? Actually, what else should I track?

[Ruckus4519]

Am I being too much of a dork for documenting my research lmao

Planning to note when I reconstituted each vial, and then when I first pierce each aliquot for use, and when I discard it and why (finished vs. NASTY DISGUSTING EWWWW vs. accidental breakage). Maybe note how long it has been since reconstitution.

And then per aliquot, take notes of when I pinned?

I don't know what else to keep track.

In terms of routine, I'll take my weight and measurements on the morning of pin day. Saturdays, as of now. I've yet to get a smart scale.

I did get DEXA and labs, but it's just CBC, CMP, lipids, HbA1c, and thyroid stuff. I didn't think to check for iron, or vitamins, or anything else.

 

[Turbo-Farmer]

A big part of scientific research is documentation.

Sounds good to me, I have a journal which I document every calculation and then date and time every reconstitution. I also write little labels for the vials, with the date, dosages, concentrations, ECT.

I also plan ahead on a paper calendar.

 

[Cyberpunk]

I love taking notes, I'm always putting something in my notes app.
Sounds like a great idea man.

My recommendation:
Note the date you recon a vial AND note the date you initially opened your BAC water vial, especially if you are recon-ing multiple times with the BAC water over a span of days or weeks

can you explain what aliquot means?

 

[Ruckus4519]

also plan ahead on a paper calendar

What info goes there? Pin days, dosage?

can you explain what aliquot means?

Aliquot just means the vials you filter into. I use the term because I choose to filter, and I wanted to differentiate between the source vials and the reconstituted, filtered vials.

 

[HereKittyKitty]

From one dork to another: Nerd out!!!! Research is documentation. This is all for you. Do it however you want.

I write down all sorts of things I want to keep track of in my journey.

 

[lessthanhalf]

I have every dose of every peptide for the last 10 months written down in a txt file on my pc along with the date, side effects and weights and dose changes and why, and markers for when I started something so I can find it again.

 

[Fostradamus]

I keep a diary of what I've taken on what day and what dosage. If I didn't my feeble brain would just forget, and that way madness lies.

 

[Foggy-Hollow]

Am I being too much of a dork for documenting my research lmao

Planning to note when I reconstituted each vial, and then when I first pierce each aliquot for use, and when I discard it and why (finished vs. NASTY DISGUSTING EWWWW vs. accidental breakage). Maybe note how long it has been since reconstitution.

And then per aliquot, take notes of when I pinned?

I don't know what else to keep track.

In terms of routine, I'll take my weight and measurements on the morning of pin day. Saturdays, as of now. I've yet to get a smart scale.

I did get DEXA and labs, but it's just CBC, CMP, lipids, HbA1c, and thyroid stuff. I didn't think to check for iron, or vitamins, or anything else.

I found I didn’t document enough.
What I bought, from where, how much did I recon with. Pin location, any ISR, what I’ve tried to do to cure ISR.

Symptoms: how online up with blood levels?

These were the big holes I’ve found.

 

[Turbo-Farmer]

What info goes there? Pin days, dosage?


Aliquot just means the vials you filter into. I use the term because I choose to filter, and I wanted to differentiate between the source vials and the reconstituted, filtered vials.

When I am running as new experiment, I plan out which days on a calendar. For example if something is 3x week then I plan that out until the end by writing down what each week consists of and then how much from each vial, how many vials.

 

[ambot88]

I did none of those things because I'm lazy and disorganized, but in retrospect I wish I had, seems like cool info to have.

 

[BNLFL]

I keep an Excel spreadsheet with dates of shots, pin amount, my weight, fat%, what vendor, vial mg, total mg per COA, BAC mg, when they were reconstituted, reconstituted pin mg conversion for R50 and over and how many pins I should get out of a vial.
I have a smart scale and app that I transfer the weight and fat to Excel.

 

[Turbo-Farmer]

I did none of those things because I'm lazy and disorganized, but in retrospect I wish I had, seems like cool info to have.

It’s never too late to start.

The best benefit is if you’re going through a whole kit that you do the calculations one time for 10 reconstitutions.

 

[Estarossa19]

I would say the method you're doing is much more in line with what research actually is. I'm currently going straight off of vibes.

My wife and I recently had a newborn and I'm not sure if I took my dose of BPC this morning due to the lack of sleep. Writing something down probably would help 🤣

 

[CranberryRocker]

I’m a big fan of spreadsheets, and documenting dates, volumes, injection sites doses, supplier, cost, sides, measurements… but then I am an actual chemist/nerd and do actual research, so goes with the territory. But information is power. There’s no point in changing stuff if you have no idea why you are changing it.
I find this forum like cat nip, and it feeds my obsession. 😎

 

[Airborne Daddy]

Am I being too much of a dork for documenting my research lmao

Planning to note when I reconstituted each vial, and then when I first pierce each aliquot for use, and when I discard it and why (finished vs. NASTY DISGUSTING EWWWW vs. accidental breakage). Maybe note how long it has been since reconstitution.

And then per aliquot, take notes of when I pinned?

I don't know what else to keep track.

In terms of routine, I'll take my weight and measurements on the morning of pin day. Saturdays, as of now. I've yet to get a smart scale.

I did get DEXA and labs, but it's just CBC, CMP, lipids, HbA1c, and thyroid stuff. I didn't think to check for iron, or vitamins, or anything else.

You have to. I use my phone calender: 10mg reta, 2mg sema.... next day: 5mg mots c , next day: 5mg tirz for da bride.... and i label the vials and the kit cuz after a month or so i either really like it or am unimpressed with this kit, only i forgot the vendor, so its labeled "WBS 5/25....Same with bac water, i label it w/ my 20 dollar printer "opened 3/15"

 

[randompersonrandom]

I have a calendar I keep up to date with how much of what I did when plus the plan going forward. When I change the plan, I go to the date where the plan is changing, update "this and following events" and switch it. So I've always got a record of what was happening.

 

[Ruckus4519]

I found I didn’t document enough.
What I bought, from where, how much did I recon with. Pin location, any ISR, what I’ve tried to do to cure ISR.

Symptoms: how online up with blood levels?

These were the big holes I’ve found.

Do you organize your inventory...? Any tips? I only have one pep, and the rest are supplies, but I bought a box of needles for recon and wew, recon and filtering take a lot of those. I'm trying to figure out the best way to organize them so I know what I should stock up on. (My goto BAC vendor ran out... Tiktok discovered them 😭 )

 

[Ruckus4519]

I’m a big fan of spreadsheets, and documenting dates, volumes, injection sites doses, supplier, cost, sides, measurements… but then I am an actual chemist/nerd and do actual research, so goes with the territory. But information is power. There’s no point in changing stuff if you have no idea why you are changing it.
I find this forum like cat nip, and it feeds my obsession. 😎

Of all the basic things I forgot to document, I should've documented the costs and cash flow. It'll probably be easy to backtrack. Painful though. I had some crypto sitting in Solana before it crashed to 79 🙄 Rookie mistake.

I wanna do the injection site doses though, just in case I get any ISRs. I marked a 2x2 square, and I hope 4 weeks is enough to fully heal. Besides, what're the odds of hitting the EXACT same spot from before right?

 

[BNLFL]

Do you organize your inventory...? Any tips? I only have one pep, and the rest are supplies, but I bought a box of needles for recon and wew, recon and filtering take a lot of those. I'm trying to figure out the best way to organize them so I know what I should stock up on. (My goto BAC vendor ran out... Tiktok discovered them 😭 )

Hence my reasoning for stocking up on Reta and supplies. Looking for 4 kits of the at least 30mg Reta. I keep all my stuff in the original boxes in a garage cabinet. I have 2 containers for my stuff in the freezer and I label them with who I got it from, vial size and dates I got them. That cheap little $16 label maker from Amazon is awesome.

 

[BNLFL]

Of all the basic things I forgot to document, I should've documented the costs and cash flow. It'll probably be easy to backtrack. Painful though. I had some crypto sitting in Solana before it crashed to 79 🙄 Rookie mistake.

I wanna do the injection site doses though, just in case I get any ISRs. I marked a 2x2 square, and I hope 4 weeks is enough to fully heal. Besides, what're the odds of hitting the EXACT same spot from before right?

I got a rare bruise on my belly a couple weeks where I pinned myself. I should try my butt. Hahahaha

 

[Foggy-Hollow]

Of all the basic things I forgot to document, I should've documented the costs and cash flow. It'll probably be easy to backtrack. Painful though. I had some crypto sitting in Solana before it crashed to 79 🙄 Rookie mistake.

I wanna do the injection site doses though, just in case I get any ISRs. I marked a 2x2 square, and I hope 4 weeks is enough to fully heal. Besides, what're the odds of hitting the EXACT same spot from before right?

Also, if you’re hitting up multiple peps, you’ll want to keep track of which goes where. Even if it’s a rough “tirz upper right thigh, NAD+ outer r thigh” type of deal. That way you can remember which gave the mosquito bite looking welt. 🙃

 

[FartfulCodger]

Am I being too much of a dork for documenting my research lmao

Are you kidding? I've got a massive spreadsheet of every dose and the time administered. I can calculate exactly how much I juice I got from each of my empties.

 

[PAPoots]

I fill out my spreadsheet a week at a time. I highlight the date green if I took it, yellow if I forgot.

All bloodwork goes into the same conversation in CoPilot so it remembers the history and can create trends,

 

[sheilarae74]

I think it is smart to document everything. I wish I would have been doing that since day one.

 

[BinaryPinecone]

I did take notes the first week, but I stopped really fast. Much like how I take workout notes at first then completely stop. I probably should continue, but it's a lot of work. Today for example and I have no idea how I got blood into my convipen cartridge during my injection. I luckily managed to transfer more than half of my tb500 into another cart without the bits of blood, but it was weird. If I took notes it would probably help me figure out how it happened.

 

[joseblo]

I track everything from vial source $ price and COA to calculate mass mg and concentration mg/ml, then date/week and units (to calculate dose) of each pep (and half-life) with estimated blood concentration in Excel. I plot those with weekly weight, resting HR/BP, which I copy in from other tracking apps. I keep track of total units used so I know when to recon new vials/carts and how long they'll last. I mark when my blood work is done/scheduled, but I haven't been including results.

I'm about 500 days in, but I've just collapsed the top few hundred rows. I'll say it really did help initially, and when switching/titrating peps.
If I was serious, I'd probably track macros, but I'm on maintenance so I don't care as much any more.

If you're tracking your poops, you've gone to far!

 

[bjw76]

As a newbie I hadn't even thought about this level of documentation! Some great info here though, thanks for sharing folks!

 

[RascalRaccoon]

 

[Ruckus4519]

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[spyke65]

As a former chemist, I have a journal tracking most things. However, after reading this thread, I realize that I could have tracked more 😆

What I track:

For inventory: vials purchased, purchase date, supplier, COAs, price, vials remaining

For stockpile/future purchase: total quantity in hand, target quantity, next purchase quantity, entire/due quantity

Reconstitution: supplies inventory, reconstitution calculations, label information

Pinning: date, dosage(mg), units, peptide

General notes: price tracking, weight tracking, protocol notes, and other random thoughts.

What I am missing, I now realize, is tying pins back to lot numbers and injection site information. Time to tweak my journal.