Due to the prices charged at a local compounding pharmacy, I reluctantly turned to canadadrugpharmacy to fill my HCG order. I had been using Novarel for many years, and when I ordered a generic on line, I asked for powder. But I received Bharat’s HUCOG in a premixed vial, 10,000 I.U.'s in 1 ml.
Several questions.
- They actually shipped the vials with a small ice pack. You’ll be shocked to learn that on its way from India to the United States, the ice pack melted.
Am I correct that, unopened, HUCOG does not need refrigeration?
- I am reading online that the liquid in HUCOG is the customary Sodium Chloride. But the box says “Disodium Hydrogen Phosphate Dihydrate.”
Am I correct that I just use bacteriostatic water to fill out the dosage?
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Am I right that the only danger of injecting without adding water is that the amount would be so small, it would be hard to measure out the dose? If my math is right, intending a 500 I.U. dose, I’d be drawing 1/20th of a 1ml / 10,000 I.U. vial, which would be .05 ml. That’s do-able, I guess, but a little nutty.
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Here’s what the insert from HUCOG says:
“Hypogonadotropin hypogonadism and cryptochidism: HUCOG HP 2000 I.U. twice weekly concomitant with Menotropin Inj. (HUMOG HP) (1 vial three times a week) if necessary for a minumum period mof four months.”
Man, that seems like a lot of HCG. Up to 3,300 I.U. per shot times 3 per week? Baffled.
Thanks.
I had trouble following your post, but my inclination is that your math and/or understanding of the product label may be incorrect. I’m pretty sure 0.05 mL is too little fluid for the concentration given. But hard to tell without seeing the product myself.
Unfortunately, it’s true. The label describes it as “highly purified,” and the brand name Bharat has a large market share for dieters. It’s a small vial with maybe a quarter inch of bac water.
So the math is sadly correct, I believe: if there’s 10,000 I.U’s in 1 ml, there’d be 1000 I.U’s in .1ml (one tenth of the vial), and 500 I’U’s in .05 ml (one twentieth of the vial). This isn’t practical, as it means a syringe draw so tiny, even with a 28 gauge insulin needle.
Bharat also ships it pre-mixed in 5000 and 2000 I.U. versions, both of which would have made a 500 I.U. injection more feasible.
I found a lot of questions online from lifters who ordered powder and received this instead. The funny thing was, most of the comments came from mid-2010, a small avalanche of posts. So I assume this is when they started shipping it.
Ok so you can probably just buy some BAC water and add it to the vial (if its big enough) or buy some bigger vials and transfer it all into that with more water. I wouldn’t feel comfortable injecting anything less than about 10 cc due to the amount you lose with each injection. 20 cc would be better, but not sure if you could fit 3x the water in there.