I'm taking my first injection tomorrow. Just did the Ozempic pen at .25 for six weeks. The last two were vacation, and I didn't want to feel bad, so I stayed at .25 for an additional two weeks. Going to 0.5 starting tomorrow.
Anyway, I want to check my work before tomorrow. I have 5mg vials...
Why do all the calculators assume the medicine won’t displace any water? It has to go somewhere.
But if you put in round figures for the medicine and water every calculator simply divides evenly. The medicine has to displace water resulting in a weaker dosage than the calculators indicate.
Am...
I’m not injecting for a couple of weeks. Did you miss my post above where I asked about injecting 10 units of water into an 5mg vial, and one unit out equaling .5 dosage? Pretty simple method without needing a calculator.
Well I got my 5mg vials. The bottom 1/3
(or so) of the vial looks almost “frosted”. I’m assuming this is the drug itself?
There’s also a white piece of what appears to be plastic that will travel up and down the vial, slowly if coaxed so it seems to be a somewhat snug fit. What’s the purpose...
Thanks for all the help!
This may be an over-siplification so please correct me if I'm wrong.
If I'm getting 5mg vials and want a dose of .5mg than I should inject 1/10 of the amount of BAC water I add to the vial. The dose should be just a hair short based on volume of liquid displaced by...
Thanks for the replies. And yes, I’m new to all this mg vs volume stuff. Using an Ozempic pen that does .25 or .50 doses and cost me almost $400 WITH insurance!
Is there a good primer located in this forum that I can study to try and get up to speed?
Thanks again….
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