dosage of igf

just making sure im doing this right, if i was taking 50mcg daily of igf (which mine is muscle chemistry version) am i correct in thinking that 50 mcgs is 5 ticks on a 100 units slin pin? just wanting to make sure of the correct dosage, thanks for the help

100 unit slin pin? I didn't know they made them that small. It's really hard to give you a clear answer without seeing the actual pin and knowing the dosage of the product you bought. Can you post a picture of the pin if it really is 100 units? Offhand, I'd say you are probably right? MC's product is 1000 mcg / 1 ml.

Hopefully that helps somewhat.

If your pin has 4 hash marks in between numbers then its 20mcg per hash mark. If it has 9 then its 10mcg per hash mark. So, if you have the second type with more hash marks, you would be correct.

mine is labeled 100 units and goes 10 thru 100 on the bold faced numbers with 4 marks in between each set of numbers, with that being said then am i right in thinking that the first marck or tick would be 20mcgs, then 40 and so on up to 100 mcgs wich would be the first set of numbers wich is 10. ( if any of that shit makes sense to ya) basically i guess im asking with 4 ticks in between each set of numbers, is my first number 10 going to be 100 mcgs? thanks for the help guys.

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mine is labeled 100 units and goes 10 thru 100 on the bold faced numbers with 4 marks in between each set of numbers, with that being said then am i right in thinking that the first marck or tick would be 20mcgs, then 40 and so on up to 100 mcgs wich would be the first set of numbers wich is 10. ( if any of that shit makes sense to ya) basically i guess im asking with 4 ticks in between each set of numbers, is my first number 10 going to be 100 mcgs? thanks for the help guys.

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your right each tick is 20mcg.

I have trouble measuring out my IGF, I just got it and I have 1 CC slin pins.

They are labeled at 10, 20 30 in bold and have a total of 50 ticks.

I understand 1 tick would be 20mcg but thats very little to measure out.

Are their other pins out there that have more precise measurements?

on a 100iu slin pin, 5 ticks is 5iu is 50mcg when using 1000mcg/ml solution

that is so confusing...so far i have been doing on the 10 number mark...I have the 100 iu unit slin syringe....So i hope i haven't been doing 100mcg a day for the past five day...not to mention i do look alot leaner,....but then again i don't know..i am on 5days on and 2 off...So i have the weekend to make sure that i am running it right...Any help and input are welcome...

i can't believe you people are running this shit without knowing how to measure it properly. :nope:

mango's right. each line on a 100iu slin pin -- and yes, they exist -- represents .02ml, which is 20mcg. in general though, a "tick" is .01ml by definition.

tonykemp, you've made some very dangerous mistakes in your post. an iu does not have any correlation to any unit of mass or volume but is instead an ultra-retarded unit of "potency". 1iu of slin is 1/2.6mg, whereas it's 1/3mg of gh, etc. since insulin is dosed at 100iu/ml, each 10 "iu's" on a slin pin equal .1 ml, but if you went by that rule for GH you could massively under or overdose yourself. there is no defined iu/mg conversion ratio for igf-i, much less lr3igf-i.

brymc, your slin pins are not 1cc. they're .5cc. slin pins generally come in 100iu, 50iu, and 30iu flavours, which are 1cc, .5cc, and .3cc respectively.

if you want to make it easier to measure you need to add more BA to the vial itself, generally, but then you'll get more painful shots and the shit dissolves so poorly to begin with. i wish mc used AA and i'm not going to use them next time because of that.

edits to make things as painfully explicit as possible.

okay then who can say the precisely how to get 33mcgs of igf ED...on a 1 cc insulin syringe,....it has number ranging from 10,20,30,40....100.. in between every 10 there is 4marks and so on and so forth,...so if i were to drain 33mcgs...would be at the 1.5 tick b4 the number 10 on the syringe or at the number 30?...really confused....?

1.5 hashes in, .03ml, or 3 ticks. the 30 mark -- 30 ticks -- would be .3ml or 300mcg when dosed at 1mg/ml like this igf-i.

okay bro thanks alot....

yeah dude, not your fault. i just HATE the whole asswad IU system. it goes beyond useless to detrimental and confusion-inducing. good luck.

Thanks for clearing that up Marble, I've edited my post. The IU system never has been that clear, and that was the definition I was always told, and it's probably how lots of other people understood it too.

We were told how to measure the IGF according to its potency in a 1 cc slin pin, so I don't believe we were measuring it incorrectly. The real problem was ultimately related to confusion about the "IU" since the reference is on the slin pin and the different sizes of slin pins, i.e., 1/2 cc and 1 cc pins. I did a search and found the following for those that are interested:

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/chem99/chem99136.htm
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Question:
What's the International Unit (IU) in pharmacology? How much is 1 IU?
alessandro brunelli

Answer:
Hi! it seems to me, Alessandro, that my last answer didn't satisfy
you. OK! I'll try to be clearer... When you deal with commom units,
let's say using the Metric System,you say 1 l of water, or 1 l of
milk, or 1 l of oil, all 3 volumes will be the same even though their
weights will be different due to density difference... The same applies
when you speak of 1 kg of sugar, 1 kg of salt or 1 kg of cheese...
But...when we speak of International Units (I U) in Pharmacology,
these units are determined based at the biological activities.
For ex. let's take some vitamins:
Vitamin A 1 IU all-trans retinol 0.300 micrograms
Vitamin D 1 IU Vitamin D crystalline 0.025 micrograms
Vitamin E 1 IU dl-alphatocopherol acetate(s.) 1 milligramm
The I U is analogous with the United States Pharmacopeia unit (USP)
that also is based on measured biological activities. See?
The use of IU is mostly connected with nutrition and nutritional
daily needs or requirements for human species and also for animals
and all kind of living organisms, aiming to provide one adequate diet
that will include the needed amount of a substance, mineral, factor,
essencial to life. So, if a specified factor is suspected of being
essential for the growth or maintenance of an organism, a systematic
series of procedures at the biological level must be used to determine
its function, effects of deprivation, and quantitative requirements in
various organisms. The results will then be expressed in terms of I U
of these factors...For extention the IUs are used to characterize the
amount of substances that are lethal, etc.
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Bump. this is good educational read for those confused on the whole I.U. slin pin thing.

Bump was confused at first with IU and Mcgs..but now a piece of cake....Bump it

do you guys always use a new pin for every inj. if your doin 2x a day can you put both doses in the pin and use 1 in the am and leave the 2nd dose in the pin till later. with pins for gear i use a few times just cause i dont have a huge supply of them

Yes, _always_ use a new one. They are normally single-use only. Bro, you are contaminating your gear if you use a pin and then use it to draw again. You can get pinz pretty cheap from getpinz.com.