Do You Filter Your Peptides Before Use?

[FlowerFairy]

After being advised on here to filter, I ordered some of these: https://peptidetest.com/products/tisch-scientific-filter-syringe-22μm-pes-4mm-sterile-individually-wrapped-exp-10-31-27

Seems a lot of folks don't have any trouble without filtering, but I figure I might as well. One filter per vial is not too expensive relative to other costs. After seeing posts about people finding visible stuff in their vials, I was pretty set on going the filter route. Maybe my room air isn't suitable for a biolab, but I rarely see shit floating in it.

As far as ampule filtering goes, I have these for ampules: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07D95XVN6 and I would definitely recommend filtering any ampule draws to avoid injecting yourself with glass.

You don’t need different filters for ampules. The filter needles are an unnecessary expense. Use one kind of filter for everything.

 

[zpped]

You don’t need different filters for ampules. The filter needles are an unnecessary expense. Use one kind of filter for everything.

I don't know if this is accurate. The glass from the ampule could damage the finer membrane on a syringe filter. But I'm just theorizing.

 

[FlowerFairy]

I don't know if this is accurate. The glass from the ampule could damage the finer membrane on a syringe filter. But I'm just theorizing.

I used them in the hospital when drawing up ampules (I’m old, they don’t generally use them anymore), so I’m going from experience. It was 30 years ago, but experience. Ativan, morphine and mag sulfate used to come in ampules.

 

[zpped]

I used them in the hospital when drawing up ampules (I’m old, they don’t generally use them anymore), so I’m going from experience. It was 30 years ago, but experience. Ativan, morphine and mag sulfate used to come in ampules.

You drew from an ampule with a syringe filter on? They are meant to be used only in the other direction. I'm not negating your experience, but maybe it was a different filter design 30 years ago?

 

[FlowerFairy]

You drew from an ampule with a syringe filter on? They are meant to be used only in the other direction. I'm not negating your experience, but maybe it was a different filter design 30 years ago?

No, I drew from the ampule with a 4mm filter between a needle and the syringe…

Ok, I see the confusion. Someone was saying they bought both kinds of filters. I said the syringe filters weren’t necessary. I wasn’t talking about syringe filters…

 

[esdsafepoet]

Thanks for the insights. I bought the filter needles when ampules were the only use case I had in mind. GLP filtration is new territory for me. I do think filter needles are cheaper, though, which is an advantage if ampules are your only use case.

 

[FlowerFairy]

Thanks for the insights. I bought the filter needles when ampules were the only use case I had in mind. GLP filtration is new territory for me. I do think filter needles are cheaper, though, which is an advantage if ampules are your only use case.

Yes, and you made me research the filter needles- those are the ones for drawing from ampules; they only filter 5 microns vs 22, which catches glass but lets everything else through. Now I’m off to get filter needles, because I filter ampules too.

 

[AndyPanda]

Yes, and you made me research the filter needles- those are the ones for drawing from ampules; they only filter 5 microns vs 22, which catches glass but lets everything else through. Now I’m off to get filter needles, because I filter ampules too.

I get a box of 100 from Amazon for $51.

 

[FlowerFairy]

I get a box of 100 from Amazon for $51.

I found a box of 100 for $38.00.

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[AndyPanda]

I found a box of 100 for $38.00.

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They charge for shipping 😔

 

[FlowerFairy]

They charge for shipping 😔

Well foot. 🫤

 

[zpped]

Not if you buy 300 needles

 

[AndyPanda]

Not if you buy 300 needles

True.

 

[syndet2x]

thanks folks (hat tip to AndyPanda) snagged box to deal with imported carnitine and glutathione in amps

 

[cammiecam224]

I filtered my latest vial and I don't think I did it right, so now I don't wanna do it again but I know I should. 😭

 

[zpped]

I filtered my latest vial and I don't think I did it right, so now I don't wanna do it again but I know I should. 😭

What did you do that you think was wrong?

 

[cammiecam224]

What did you do that you think was wrong?

I think I should have used a smaller filter. I had a 13mm and I probably should have had a 4mm. I also tried to flush what was left in the filter but I don't think I did it correctly. I think it may be the reason my first pin of Tirz using that vial was less "potent" I guess than my previous vial that I didn't filter.

 

[zpped]

I think I should have used a smaller filter. I had a 13mm and I probably should have had a 4mm. I also tried to flush what was left in the filter but I don't think I did it correctly. I think it may be the reason my first pin of Tirz using that vial was less "potent" I guess than my previous vial that I didn't filter.

nothing wrong with 13mm vs 4mm. they both work fine.

Losing some in the filter wont change the concentration.

Every vial is slightly different anyways, and you can't judge anything based on how it felt.

 

[Laniebug007]

Anyone pre-wet filter & rinse? …& where do we find sterile vialls? Thanks! 🙂

Step-by-Step Best Practice

1. Dissolve peptide in appropriate buffer or solvent.
2. Pre-wet your filter with 0.2–0.5 mL of the same solvent.
3. Filter slowly — do not force it too hard, which can shear molecules or cause binding.
4. Measure final volume to account for any loss.
5. (Optional) Rinse filter with a small amount of solvent to recover residual peptide.

(Thx ChatG!) 😉

 

[zpped]

Anyone pre-wet filter & rinse? …& where do we find sterile vialls? Thanks! 🙂

Step-by-Step Best Practice

1. Dissolve peptide in appropriate buffer or solvent.
2. Pre-wet your filter with 0.2–0.5 mL of the same solvent.
3. Filter slowly — do not force it too hard, which can shear molecules or cause binding.
4. Measure final volume to account for any loss.
5. (Optional) Rinse filter with a small amount of solvent to recover residual peptide.

(Thx ChatG!) 😉

When I do filter, I don't bother trying to reclaim $0.03 worth of peptide.

 

[zpped]

Anyone pre-wet filter & rinse? …& where do we find sterile vialls? Thanks! 🙂

Step-by-Step Best Practice

1. Dissolve peptide in appropriate buffer or solvent.
2. Pre-wet your filter with 0.2–0.5 mL of the same solvent.
3. Filter slowly — do not force it too hard, which can shear molecules or cause binding.
4. Measure final volume to account for any loss.
5. (Optional) Rinse filter with a small amount of solvent to recover residual peptide.

(Thx ChatG!) 😉

I got mine from Peptide Test, but Underground Supply looks good too.

Consider taking that conversation Here https://glp1forum.com/threads/vial-source.4172/

 

[cammiecam224]

nothing wrong with 13mm vs 4mm. they both work fine.

Losing some in the filter wont change the concentration.

Every vial is slightly different anyways, and you can't judge anything based on how it felt.

True. They were different vials from different vendors as well, so there's also that. I would imagine things vary with each vendor as well.

 

[FlowerFairy]

Not likely cellulitis (if self-diagnosed), per Google Gemini:

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Wasn’t cellulitis at all. It was an injection site reaction. All those antibiotics are why we have resistant strains of bacteria. If that is cellulitis I get it daily x6 with every shot I take. And it resolves in a few hours, or a day, without antibiotics. Would go away faster if I bothered to apply cold or heat, but I don’t bother. I just try not to scratch for the first 15 minutes (they itch).

 

[FlowerFairy]

My understanding is that most of the people who died had some preexisting condition that was complicated by the virus. Unlike a previous accusation on here, I know a lot of people from all of the Country. As selfish as it sounds, I work in an industry that never slowed down during the “pandemic” and I recall several of my coworkers and employees using COVID as an excuse to miss work, only to be seen on Facebook doing anything but suffering. Maybe I’m just jaded.

I didn’t lose people, but my previously healthy cousin’s husband was on a vent for 6 weeks and still has complications from it. A coworker’s healthy husband was left oxygen dependent. I got it 3 times and while I was lucky and never got super sick (also got the vaccine so that might have helped) but each time I was left so broken winded afterward that I couldn’t walk a block without stopping at least once to breathe for 6-8 weeks. I’m sure my lungs have some long lasting damage. And I saw my patients lose people. I was working hospice- home visits- and when a patient got Covid, the CNA was allowed to stay home and the nurse did total care… plus routine care for their other patients. That company was horrible- they fired me the last time I got COVID because I wouldn’t come in and see patients (I had already found a new job, they just saved me the stress of giving notice). Then 3 months later their director got caught doing something she should have lost her license for and she told the rest of the employees that she “just knew I had done it.” I was amused. And glad I was gone. The next company I worked for was completely different; if I had been working there I would have only gotten it once (first time was unofficial because they were only testing people who had been to China or had a positive contact who had been to China. I was caring for a special needs child whose dad had just come back from a classified security deployment. (I lived near Killeen/Fort Hood/Cavasos). He came home sick and his wife had what they said was the flu.. But she ended up in the hospital.

 

[desinr-gal]

I get a box of 100 from Amazon for $51.

are these for drawing out of ampules? thats why they're blunt. For the glutathione?

 

[AndyPanda]

are these for drawing out of ampules? thats why they're blunt. For the glutathione?

Yes. For drawing from ampules. Usually for B Complex and Vitamin D. For my glutathione I buy regular 1.5gm 5ml vials of ascorbic acid now.

 

[desinr-gal]

My understanding is that most of the people who died had some preexisting condition that was complicated by the virus. Unlike a previous accusation on here, I know a lot of people from all of the Country. As selfish as it sounds, I work in an industry that never slowed down during the “pandemic” and I recall several of my coworkers and employees using COVID as an excuse to miss work, only to be seen on Facebook doing anything but suffering. Maybe I’m just jaded.

Our friend Died in just 4 days. Not vaccinated, and no underlying conditions. I knew a guy who was bedridden for a month. His girlfriend had to keep him in a diaper. It really did kill so many people and ruined the lives of others with long Covid. Tragic and very sad.

 

[desinr-gal]

Yes. For drawing from ampules. Usually for B Complex and Vitamin D. For my glutathione I buy regular 1.5gm 5ml vials of ascorbic acid now.

So do you draw with blunt filter the remove and put on a sharp for injection or transfer to vial?
I have watched the peptide testers you tube, but theres a lot to remember in that one.

 

[AndyPanda]

So do you draw with blunt filter the remove and put on a sharp for injection or transfer to vial?
I have watched the peptide testers you tube, but theres a lot to remember in that one.

I just draw whatever it is into an EasyTouch syringe barrel using the filter and then replace the tip with an EasyTouch hypodermic needle and inject IM. I have done it the way you are explaining in the past with a few things.

 

[desinr-gal]

I just draw whatever it is into an EasyTouch syringe barrel using the filter and then replace the tip with an EasyTouch hypodermic needle and inject IM. I have done it the way you are explaining in the past with a few things.

I didnt know that the easy touch syringes come apart like the luer lock? I thought I needed those. Also Do the blunt syringes pierce the vial stoppers? I assumed not..