getting all the trimix out of vial

[old but young]

Interesting, I may try this. However it will only save a few cents. I think the pliers need to be sterilized as well.

No problem -- the pliers touch only the outer ring -- the inner cover remained on the vial.

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[happycamper59]

I was at the end of a vial. Didn't know how much was left, but figured it was not a full dose. My wife, a former medical assistant, used the syringe properly to drain the vial. It turned out to only be about 10 units. So she got the rest, another 50 units, out of a new vial, into the same syringe for the shot.

It didn't save much, but it was easy the way she did it. I fumble with those syringes. I thought I had gotten the full 60 units out of the nearly done vial, but turned out I shot myself with air but didn't know it. Needless to say, that was a disaster.

The trick, so she told me, is to insert the needle into the upside-down vial, just a little to get what is at the bottom. Sounds easy, but not for me.