How to Measure Liquidex
As Posted By Riker29 at Elitefitness.com
Liquidex, the liquid sort of "generic"
version of Arimidex, is a very concentrated substance, with 4 mg/ml being its
rated concentration.
Arimidex is very potent (and not cheap either) and in many
cases a person only needs to do like 1/4 mg of it for it to be effective.
But at that concentration,
1/4 mg of Arimidex,
in Liquidex at 4 mg/ml, means that ,
you would need to adminster 1/16 of a ml (cc)!
How the hell do you measure that?
Well, here is what I did.
The formulation of a "drop" of a liquid is actually a fairly
controlled and repeatable process. Meaning, if all factors (liquid viscosity,
temperature, pressure, etc.) are the same, the amount of liquid in each drop is
fairly constant (if the drop is formed around a constant source .... like ....
the head of a hollow needle .....).
So, I took a syringe, and sucked up like 3 CCs+ into it.
With an 18 gauge needle on the syringe, I carefully, slowly, pushed down the
plunger, ....... and counted each drop ....
And after several trials, with very low amount of "drift" or changes
in data, it turns out that ...
Liquidex, through an 18 gauge needle, at room temp,
with the needle held stright down, will create 50 drops
per ml.
So, extraploating from that (with a slight amount of "rounding"
error),
When using Liquidex, take an 18 gauge needle and with
the liquid at room temp, and with the needle held straight down,
for 1 mg Arimidex, 1/4 ml of Liquidex, measure 12 drops.
for 1/2 mg of Arimidex, 1/8 ml of Liquidex, measure 6 drops.
for 1/4 mg of Arimidex, 1/16 ml of Liquidex, measure 3 drops.
Hope this helps some people out there.
And for those that were thinking "did this guy WASTE all of that Liquidex?"
- not a chance. I "dropped" it into the back end of another syringe,
and then placed it back into the vial.
You can recreate this for yourself.
Grab 2 syringes. No, you wont waste any liquidex by
doing this.
Remove the plunger from syringe A so that you have access to the back of the
syringe cavity.
Use syringe B, and withdraw 3+ cc (ml) of Liquidex (thats
a bit MORE than 3 ml).
Now hold syringe A straight up (upright) so that you can "drop" the liquidex
into the back of it (the end opposite the needle end).
Now start pushing on the plunger for syringe B, and make sure that the liquidex
which drips out falls into the back of the syringe A cavity.
Now as you push down on syringe B, watch how much
liquid is in the syringe. When you hit the 3 ml (cc) mark on syringe B, start
counting drops. Keep pushing slowly and surely, and
keep counting drops.... keep counting until you get to
the 1 ml mark on syringe B.
(Why? There are always inaccuracies at the very end and beginning of the
syringe-adminstration process. By starting at 3+ ml, you actually get things
flowing regularly. By going from the 3 to 1 ml mark, you have a full 2 cc to
measure across. But stopping the measuring at the 1 ml mark, you dont deal with
the inaccuracies of the end of the syringe cavity).
Now, you just counted how many
drops were in 2 ml of liquid. Divide that by 2 (the 3
cc - 1 cc marks) to get the number of drops in 1 ml of
liquid.
Now go ahead and push the remainder of the liquidex in
syringe B into the back of syringe A - empty syringe B into it. Now, place the
needle from syringe A into the liquidex vial, and place
the plunger into the top of the syringe, and push the liquidex
into the vial.
Hope that helps.
Now by knowing that Liquidex is 4 mg/ml, and now
knowing how many drops
are in each ml, you can figure out how to administer a
specific dose to yourself.
I you cant do the Math, the either you should have paid more attention in math
clas, or you are just too dumb to be doing AS anyway.
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