Yeah, it seems pretty obvious to me but Van is a smart guy so I feel like I'm missing something here. He wants to know how much one IU of water is, well, isn't it the first tick on an insulin pin? Now if HGH came pre-mixed and it was 1mg for 3 units then I get it. Just like the example you gave with slin. But it doesn't. HGH has to be reconstituted with water. So the amount of water will determine the concentration.
You're right in what you say. 1IU is the first tic on an
insulin pin. But you can draw up the water with any type of syringe. My long winded attempted explanation started after Lurker said IU is a volume measurement and that HIV+ patients don't use 16IUs of hGH. There is no such thing as 1IU of water since IU is an internationally agreed upon measurement of drugs, vitamins, etc and it differs between substances. True, you can pull up "1IU" of water on an insulin pin but that IU is supposed to say how much insulin you're taking, not how much water you're injecting. If you say you injected 20IU of water it's a meaningless statement unless you qualify it by saying that you were talking about the ticks on an insulin syringe.
Am I making any sense

See the guy's post
Regarding HIV patients and GH. They are instructed to take the FULL VIAL of GH once it is constituted. And refering to taking 16ius at once is simply retarded because in HIV treatment the doseage per day is for MGS. Not IUs.
A Serostim 6mg vials will yield a total of 6mg for the patient whether it is mixed with 10ius of water or 100ius. IUs don't mean jackshit. Strength is determined by MGs.
If I say I'm taking 10IU of hGH it means 3.3mg of hGH. Has nothing to do with the amount of water. See how wrong Lurker is. Both IU and mg can be used, like I said:
Serostim® [somatropin (rDNA origin) for injection] is available in the following forms:
Serostim® vials containing 5 mg (approximately 15 IU) somatropin (mammalian-cell) with Sterile Water
for Injection, USP. Package of 7 vials. ...NDC 44087-0005-7
Serostim® vials containing 6 mg (approximately 18 IU) somatropin (mammalian-cell) with Sterile Water
for Injection, USP. Package of 7 vials. ...NDC 44087-0006-7
Serostim® vials containing 4 mg (approximately 12 IU) somatropin (mammalian-cell) with Bacteriostatic
Water for Injection, USP (0.9% Benzyl Alcohol). Package of 7 vials. ........................ .................NDC 44087-0004-7
Serostim® vials containing 8.8 mg (approximately 26.4 IU) somatropin (mammalian-cell) with
Bacteriostatic Water for Injection, USP (0.9% Benzyl Alcohol). Package of 4 vials. ..........NDC 44087-