Originally Posted by SKU
Sorry for being a dummy, so, if I’m reading this correctly, The supplied dropper is 1ml, or, 25 mg. For the vardenafil, I’d want to take something unscientific like half the supplied droppers worth (roughly .5ml equalling around 12.5 mg for a mid range dosage? I’m not so worried about taking too little, that’s fine, I just don’t want to take too much.
The dropper that’s built into the cap is not 1ml. The dropper in the cap is some arbitrary and know quantity.
If you bought the $.99 "1 Ml measuring Dropper" which is a syringe (without a needle) then that has graduated lines to tell you in 1/10ths of a ml.
If you’re using the optional syringe, then what you said is right. Vardenafil is actually 10mg per 1ml. Maybe you meant sildenafil which is 25mg per 1ml. Either way, yes 0.5 ml is half of those doses.
The only way to know what’s in that cap dropper is to test it. What I did is rinse it out, fill it with water, and fill the syringe one drop at a time counting the drops. I took the plunger out of the syringe, covered the tip with my finger, and dropped the drops in the top watching it fill. I got 34 drops for 1ml and 17 drops for 1/2 ml. I did it 5 times. Someone else in a previous comment got a different measurement so there might be more than one dropper size out there. Either that or they vary on the size of the tip (the size of the drop they make) from bottle to bottle and you can’t just standardize on one measurement for all of them.
So if I want to ballpark it, I use 17 drops for 1/2ml. So far that has been relatively consistent for me and I’m not too concerned with exact measurements.
But I would not suggest you go by my measurements. Figure out a way to measure it yourself or use a known means of measuring.
At the very least get one of those little liquid measuring cups that come with cough syrup. Usually the bottom line is 1ml. See how many drops of your med it takes to fill to the 1ml line. Or use water and do it a few times. Either way you’ll get a close indication of how many drops get you to 1ml, then just divide by that number for half dosage.
Even better, check Petco or another major pet supplier for a pet medicine feeding syringe like this one but make sure you get one that has measurements of tenths of a ml (0.1ml to 1.0ml) not one that starts at 1ml (1ml to 5ml).
You can also find syringes on Amazon or get some cheap Pipettes . The Pipettes have 4 marks at .25, .5, .75 and 1.0. I wouldn’t have thought to use them but progenpeptide gives them with your order complimentary (since they don’t ship dropper bottles) and I find they’re really convenient for sucking a dose out really fast. The syringe is more accurate but you need two hands. Just something to consider. I’d get a syringe either way, though.
If you have the syringe already and I’m mistaken, then sorry for going on about this (maybe the info will help someone else.)
If the bottle says 25mg x 30ml. Then that’s 25mg per 1ml, and there are 30ml in the bottle.
For fractions of a dose, just take the fraction. 0.5ml will be 1/2 of 25mg which is 12.5mg.