Iu's and CC's?

[THE G-MANN]

TweetCan someone tell me what is the difference is in the two,
I have hcg and only have 3cc syringes, so if i want to take 1000iu what is that in cc's.........or is it beter to get insulin syringes

[del1964]

TweetCan you figure out how many iu's per cc you have?

[Muscleguy40oz]

TweetWell on an slin pin a 100 ius = 1 cc or ml...So it just depends on the concentration.... If you have a 5000 iu vial of HCG and you mix it with 1 ml of BW then 10 ius on a slin pin would = 500ius of HCG...Hope this helps

[Gear101]

Tweetok then how many mg in a ml??? LOL

[superchicken]

Tweetan iu is not a measurement of VOLUME. it is a measuremment for a desired response for individual drugs and vitamins etc...

iu is not related to ml

iu is not related to mg

iu is international unit

if your confused you can kinda think of iu as mg, but its really not. but close.

you can have 126iu of hgh, and the actuall hgh will weigh 42mg. in the case of hgh, 3iu=1mg

but that only applies to hgh, for each drug, it will be diff.

take a look at the back of your multivitamin bottle, some stuff is listed in iu.

hcg id guess is prob about 100iu per mg(im guessing)

now if the susbstance isnt pure, it will be less iu per mg

you can see how this is rolling out.......

slin is commonly thought to be 100iu=1ml. this is USUALLY true. not always. its only true if your insulin is u-100 type, and your using u-100type insulin syringes. there are diff types. i doubt many people knew that and one of the reasons i always say people dont research slin enough.

now a u-100 type insulin syringe(again, there are diff types of insulin syringes too) 100iu=1ml

if you had some common hcg, 5000iu amp, its most likely 5000iu per ml. now if you loaded up a slin syringe to the 100iu mark, it would actually contain 5000iu of hcg. thats because iu is not related to ml.

[superchicken]

Tweetbtw bro, that link teek posted for you yesterday has all of this info in there, you must have missed it. i worte detailed instructions that asnwers the exact question your asking here.

[superchicken]

TweetWhat is an iu?

written by superchicken www.anabolic-alchemy.com

An IU stands for international unit. It is an internationally accepted amount of a specific substance. Its typically used for hormones, biologicals, enzymes, and certain fat soluble vitamins such as A, D, and E. Look on the back of your Centrum multi vitamin bottle, some stuff is listed in IU not mg or mcg like the other things.
Here’s a quick definition I pulled of the web:

1. The quantity of a biologically active substance, such as a hormone or vitamin, required to produce a specific response.

2. A unit of potency for similarly active substances based on this quantity and accepted as an international standard.

You can see they aren’t concerned with weight(mg) or volume(ml) much when it comes to IU’s. Rather, it is used to express how much biological effect it will have. There is a correlation between weight and iu’s, and to a much lesser degree, volume as well. But this is specific to each substance, as each substance is different.
So you can almost think of IU’s as weight(mg’s), just realize that the weight will be different for each compound.

A few examples of the correlation between iu’s and weight:

-1 IU represents 45mcg of a standard preparation of insulin (u-100 type insulin, there are other types and other types will not be 45.5mcg per iu!)

-1 IU represents 0.6mcg of a standard preparation of penicillin

-1 IU represents 0.33mg(333mcg) of human growth hormone(hgh)

-1 IU represents 0.3 microgram (0.0003 mg) for vitamin A

-1 IU represents 50 micrograms (0.05 mg) for vitamin C

-1 IU represents 25 nanograms (0.000025 mg) for vitamin D

So you can see, an IU does not mean a certain amount of weight if being used to compare 2 different substances.

Now this will probably come shockingly to many, but an iu also DOES NOT correlate to volume(ml). Here’s some examples of common preparations:

-when measuring U-100 type insulin(there is more than 1 type of insulin!), and measuring it with a U-100 type insulin syringe(theres more than 1 type of insulin syringe! And im not talking about bigger and smaller needles, or a syringe which holds more or less volume ie; 30/50/100iu syringes). But for U-100 1ml will equal 100iu. Again, if using diff types this will no longer hold true. But lets just say 100iu represents 1ml.

-HCG is typically presented with 1 amp of powder, and 1 amp of solvent. There is usually 5,000iu or 10,000iu of HCG in the kit. Lets use the 5,000iu kit as our example:

Every iu is in the powder amp. So adding more or less solvent to the powder will NOT change the total amount of iu of hcg that you have. If you add 1ml of solvent to the powder, you have 5,000iu/ml. If you add 5ml of solvent, you now have 1,000iu/ml, but have 5ml of it. You still have a total of 5,000iu all together.

Now lets say you prepared your hcg at 5,000iu/ml. if you draw that ml of hcg into a u-100 insulin syringe, it will be full, and the liquid level will read as 100iu on the graduated markings on the barrel of the syringe. But remember, were using a INSULIN syringe, but were drawing up HCG. So even though your syringe says 100iu, you in fact have 5,000iu in it.

Same goes for HGH. A typical vial has 18iu of powder in it. If you add 3ml of solvent, you now have 6iu per ml. So now if put into a U-100 insulin syringe, 1ml of your HGH will read as 100iu, but you in fact have only 6iu in there.

To figure out how many iu per ml you have, is simple math. Lets say we have 5,000iu. We add 5ml of solvent. Divide the iu by the amount (in ml) of solvent.

5,000iu/5ml=1,000per ml
5,000/5=1,000

Easy huh?