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Medication conversion -help?

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13 years 11 months ago #24497 by Sandi
Medication conversion -help? was created by Sandi
Does anyone know how many mg's are in 1/2 ml?

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13 years 11 months ago #24501 by Ann
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ml as in liquid measure millilitre? If so it depends on the drug.

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13 years 11 months ago #24504 by eklein
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What Ann said. I think it's an apples and oranges thing. One is a liquid measure, and what is the concentratoin of the liquid - and one is a measure of I think weight. If we were cooking and you needed 2 mg of vanilla, I couldn't say how many ml it would be, depends how you liquify it.
But not totally sure - Erica
And she was!
Diagnosed May 2005, lowest count 8K.
4/22/08: 43K (2nd Rituxan)
10/01/09: 246K, 1/8/10: 111K, 5/21/10: 233K
Latest count: 7/27/2015: 194K

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13 years 11 months ago #24506 by Sandi
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Well, I started back on the MTX last night, and I had different syringes. Color me stupid, but I guessed at the dose. I'm pretty sure I injected 12.5 mg's, which is half of what I'm supposed to take, but I wanted to go back on slowly. The bottle is a total of 250 mg's.

I survived, that's all that matters.

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13 years 11 months ago #24511 by Ann
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You need to know how much is in the bottle to work it out. So 250mg in how many mls. Looking online it suggests that it is 10mls so for 12.5mgs you need half a ml. So you need to use a one ml syringe. Any larger syringe would be impossible to be accurate.

And that's only if it's right that it's 250mg/10ml.

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13 years 11 months ago #24515 by Sandi
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I'll call my pharmacist tomorrow. Thanks!

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