Bonus dose/ moving up ???

[Shmee1988]

Hi. Just after a bit of advice really. I am due my 5th dose of MJ tonight, have had 4 doses of 2.5mg and my new 5mg pen is in the fridge. I feel like I am ready to move up to 5mg as the suppression on 2.5mg has never been substantial for me. However, I really don't want to waste my binus dose as its a full dose. I think another week on 2.5mg would be futile as I'm surviving on will power at the moment. Any ideas on how I should proceed would be great. Should I just bin the bonus dose and start on my 5mg (loathe to do that as it's so bloody expensive), or is there a better alternative?

Could you do your bonus dose and then enough from the new pen to take you to 3.75? Or, are you wanting to go straight up to 5?

If so, I'd do the bonus and a half dose of the next pen then 5 as normal after that. If you're always a pen ahead anyway you can do the same with each new pen if that makes sense?

I agree with this but if you extract all your bonus dose with a syringe it will probably be more than 2.5mg anyway. If not you can use 0.3ml of new pen on top of 0.6 of current one to make 5mg. You've already done 4 doses of 2.5mg so time to go up

So I have just managed to twist the pen to '1' for my bonus dose. Would this be a full 0.6 dose?

It could be more, or less you would need to extract it and measure it in a syringe. Mine always breaks and just free twists on the bonus dose so it has never gone to 1, in theory it would be a full dose if it was sixty clicks I think.

Depends on how much you have used for priming, my first hard twist turned to 1 but only pushed back down to the 6 mark as the internal plunger hit the end of the vial giving me 2.25mg. I didn't have a syringe to extract at that point. I never noticed any difference in effect that week.

Just be aware if you take any out of your 5mg pen today, your bonus dose (if you have enough liquid left) from that pen will be on day 35 of pens first use.

That's a good point. I just twisted the pen to one with a hard break and added the needle on as usual, put it in and pushed. When I took it out there was still liquid in there so I changed the needle, chose a different injection site and did it again with all the rest I could get out. I hope that's okay. Luckily my pen came with 7 needle tips and 7 anti bacterial wipes. Fingers crossed I've done it okay. Seems such a waste to throw a full dose away. Up to 5mg next week.