So, again, coming at this from a diabetic perspective, ya might try researching around or talking to people from other countries about this.

I had heard similar for insulin in the US. If its unrefrigerated, it will most likely go bad after about a month, but I had heard in the UK and some of europe, their guidance says 60 days.

The other thing is: thats for unrefrigerated. I’m not sure what ya’ll are taking and if it has to be kept refrigerated or not like insulin does, but for insulin, if its kept refrigerated, even as you’re using the vial, it will last muuuuch longer in the fridge, like years.

Take all of this with a grain of salt because if I have a bad vial of insulin, I can tell immediately with diabetes as my blood sugar will start to sky rocket, and I can correct it with other insulin I’ve stockpiled.

If your medication starts to go bad and you use it, I’m not sure how that manifests and how harmful that will be to your goals with going trans.

So, just passing by as a diabetic, but not trans, and I’m confused a bit about the contamination part.

I use insulin that seems to come in a vial exactly like this, and have had to only throw a vial or 2 out over the 10 years I’ve been type 1 diabetic, and thats been either from:

1. the vial being bad from the pharmacy that turned it kinda almost gelatin or soap-like texture (maybe it wasn’t kept cool, somewhere in the transportation process)

Or 2. From bacteria contamination that turned the vial cloudy.

But most or the time, I can use the vial as many times as I need until the insulin is finished. This is the first I’ve heard of particulate contamination being a problem like you’re saying.

Is this just the difference between the liquids inside the vial, and how sensitive the human body is to the contamination? Because based on my diabetes experience, I would just continue using the vial as is, unless it actually causes some sort of problem for me.

Who knows if this is true because I don’t have the expertise to understand if it is or not, but supposedly the explanation given by the GrapheneOS team is that the pixel phones were the only phones that had the hardware security strong enough to provide the security model GrapheneOS wanted.