HGH Humatrope Math

Pharma / TRT
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So, I’m trying to figure out dosing using 72iu/26 mg HUMATROPE cartridge.
I have no pen, just insulin syringes… the math is making me crazy. The totality of the cartridge is well over 100 iu’s As marked on a insulin syringe. I’d like to figure out the math for a 4-6 daily IU use… but again the math is escaping me. Can anyone help explain this to me? Thanks again.

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Well if it’s 26mg I can save you some trouble. Lilly does not make Humatrope in 26mg cartridges.

But assuming you meant 24mg and assuming your question was meant to be something else then you need to know the following:

1iu = .333mg
Use that to make conversions whenever necessary. Your insulin syringe is ticked by ml not mg. So four ticks is 4iu (or .04ml) if your solution is mixed at the proper ratio. If it’s not mixed properly or the density of the diluent is not the same as bacteriostatic water then…well then it’s going to be off.

But if it’s mixed properly already then the insulin syringe has given you your answer by having the units of measure marked on the barrel. That’s kind of the whole point of insulin syringes. They are there to give you your dosage in the appropriate units in very small measurements. A .25ml barrel will hold 25 units. A 100ml barrel will hold 100 units. Etc. How did you mix it? What amount of water did you mix with the powder?

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Thank you iron_yuppie for your help.
And you’re right I meant 24mg (x3 = 72iu) the cartridge had to be loaded into a contraption that injected the mixed solution, I’m unsure as to how much diluent was mixed.

What bothers me, is that I took my insulin syringe, shows up to 100 IU or 1CC and was able to easily fill up to 100iu with much more left in the cartridge. This proved to me that my understanding was off.

Looking to use 4-6 IU a day was going to be an estimation already when my syringe starts at 20, but my ability to pull 100 iu from a 72iu cartridge… my understanding of dosage with this premix I fear is off.

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Follow up:
72IU was mixed with 3.15ml of Diluent

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This is easy then. You take the total volume (3.15ml)and add the displacement value of the hgh, then divide it by the original concentration (72iu). Since 24mg of HGH represents .024ml your solution is 3.174ml after it was mixed. No matter how diluted or concentrated the hgh is it will still only ever be 72iu. So you just work backwards and divide the total volume of mixed solution by the original amount of hgh with which it was mixed. I get something like 44 units for 1iu.

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Ok, I think I understand.

  1. A CC and an ML are approx. the same thing.
  2. in an insulin syringe 100 units equals 1CC
  3. 72iu mixed with 3.15ml can me broken down (roughly) by the following 72 divided by 3.15 = 22.85.
  4. 22.85 represents approx. IU’s in one CC/ML of liquid.
  5. one full 100 unit/1CC, sub-q, syringe would contain 22.85 IU of HUMATROPE.
  6. 22.85 divided by 10 = 2.28. Every 10 marker on the syringe equals 2.28 IU’s of HUMATROPE.
  7. a approx 15 unit pull would yield approx. 3.5 IU go HUMATROPE.
  8. I’ll start with 3.5 IU HUMATROPE daily.

Thank you iron_yuppie for taking the time to pint me in the right direction. That was more math than I’ve done in 20 years… But I couldn’t have figured it out w/o your help.

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