Issues testing SN or issues with DSL SN?

[user12976159]

Hi! I've been a long-time lurker of this forum, and I got very excited after I found DSL a few weeks ago. I just received my order. However, I'm not sure if I'm measuring incorrectly or something, as what I've received is testing positive for sodium nitrite doing the aquarium test, but at a much lower rate than expected, and I'd be really grateful to hear some feedback.

I've tried testing different amounts of the "sodium nitrite" in water (including much smaller amounts, like is recommended), but the tests weren't picking anything up. When I started testing for a couple of grams/L, that's when I started noticing something. In particular, the test measured ~5mg/L when I put ~2g in a L of water and ~10mg/L when I put ~4g in a L of water (see picture).


I haven't been able to mentally make myself to bleed much yet to fully do the blood test yet (I hate blood, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to…). But I did happen to bleed a bit, and when I put some of the substance on the tiny bit of blood, it didn't turn brown. I'm hoping this may be because I need to test with more blood?

I have a lot of brain fog right now so I find it hard to tell whether I'm doing something wrong in my testing, or if I actually got nitrate salt or something, which I know is what DSL actually advertises. I know many other people have had success with DSL, so I think it's more likely user error on my part…. if anyone knows what I'm missing and could help, I would greatly appreciate it!

 

[DanLip22]

Hi! I've been a long-time lurker of this forum, and I got very excited after I found DSL a few weeks ago. I just received my order. However, I'm not sure if I'm measuring incorrectly or something, as what I've received is testing positive for sodium nitrite doing the aquarium test, but at a much lower rate than expected, and I'd be really grateful to hear some feedback.

I've tried testing different amounts of the "sodium nitrite" in water (including much smaller amounts, like is recommended), but the tests weren't picking anything up. When I started testing for a couple of grams/L, that's when I started noticing something. In particular, the test measured ~5mg/L when I put ~2g in a L of water and ~10mg/L when I put ~4g in a L of water (see picture).
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I haven't been able to mentally make myself to bleed much yet to fully do the blood test yet (I hate blood, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to…). But I did happen to bleed a bit, and when I put some of the substance on the tiny bit of blood, it didn't turn brown. I'm hoping this may be because I need to test with more blood?

I have a lot of brain fog right now so I find it hard to tell whether I'm doing something wrong in my testing, or if I actually got nitrate salt or something, which I know is what DSL actually advertises. I know many other people have had success with DSL, so I think it's more likely user error on my part…. if anyone knows what I'm missing and could help, I would greatly appreciate it!

Commenting because I'm really curious to see the responses to this

 

[nitrogenous]

or if I actually got nitrate salt or something, which I know is what DSL actually advertises

I was reading your post and curious about this part, as far as I'm aware, it is advertised by him on his platforms as nitrite and not nitrate. Are you sure you bought it from the DSL we all thought of?

 

[user12976159]

Sorry, I mistyped - what I saw advertised was nitrite salt, but not pure sodium nitrite. I think I found the right DSL given the "" hint, which I think would otherwise be unlikely to find otherwise... plus the name you can pay to on the website was as expected based on hints on this site. But maybe I was still wrong?

 

[walliwalli]

not sure what's going on, but i received my DSL SN about two weeks ago and did the aquarium strip test yesterday. mine came out fine. are you definitely following the steps right?

edit: ah sorry i didn't see there was more text after the image. still not sure though. maybe message DSL to confirm what you received?

 

[user12976159]

not sure what's going on, but i received my DSL SN about two weeks ago and did the aquarium strip test yesterday. mine came out fine. are you definitely following the steps right?

edit: ah sorry i didn't see there was more text after the image. still not sure though. maybe message DSL to confirm what you received?

I'm glad yours turned out okay!

I think I did the aquarium test correctly. Unfortunately my brain fog has limited my ability to say for sure. What I did was the following:

1. I first used the test strip to test to be sure there was nothing originally in the water, which there wasn't.
2. Then I went to do the suggested method with smaller amounts from the bible, but they weren't showing anything on the test (putting a few grams in one 1L bottle, then using a syringe to take a couple mL from that bottle to put in a second bottle and testing the second bottle)
3. Then I went and put in a couple of grams in 1 litre of water, then directly tested this, which then only tested in the 5-10mg/L range, despite the fact that it had a couple of grams per L.

Since everyone else seems to be okay, I don't know if there's something I'm not seeing here... as nitrogenous mentioned, I may not have found the right DSL too...

When you originally reached out to DSL, did they say they were sending nitrite salt or pure sodium nitrite? Because in my initial e-mail to them, they said nitrite salt and I assumed this was a cover or something. But maybe that was just me being dumb... I plan on reaching out again to DSL, but was just hoping for a bit of a sanity check that my testing method was okay and that there's nothing else that could be missing before that! Then I'll be sure to update back here

 

[walliwalli]

When you originally reached out to DSL, did they say they were sending nitrite salt or pure sodium nitrite? Because in my initial e-mail to them, they said nitrite salt and I assumed this was a cover or something. But maybe that was just me being dumb... I plan on reaching out again to DSL, but was just hoping for a bit of a sanity check that my testing method was okay and that there's nothing else that could be missing before that! Then I'll be sure to update back here

hmmm. your process for the aquarium test does sound right. multiple grams directly in the water would definitely show a result.

sodium nitrite vs. nitrite salt might be it :( they didn't say anything specific to me (we only referred to it as the "food preservative" or whatever it was). i'm not sure if DSL actually sells nitrite salt, but when i was selecting my order i accidentally selected nitrite salt at first (thinking it was referring to SN), then i realized my mistake and messaged them asking for it to be switched to SN (the "food preservative"), which they did. again, not sure if that means they actually do have nitrite salt. but it's possible... hopefully messaging them will clear it up. fingers crossed for you.

 

[absolute failure]

From what I'm seeing you got Sodium NitrAte and not nitrIte. There are two options on the website if you look it up. So you might've gotten the wrong one for sure.

 

[user12976159]

SO I got my answer. I misunderstood and ordered the wrong thing (nitrite salt) from DSL instead of sodium nitrite (under the food preservative tab). I had a feeling my brain fog was the cause of the mix up instead of DSL, given the reputable source, it just seems the brain fog was on the ordering side and not the testing side....

He has been very gracious and understanding, and offered me a discount for my re-order to actually get sodium nitrite.

If you've ordered and discussed food preservative (as walliwalli mentioned) or sodium nitrite more directly with him, then I think you should be okay. He only ever talked about nitrite salt with me, and I had had thought it was some sort of "wink wink nudge nudge" term for sodium nitrite for liability issues or something, because he had responded to my initial inquiry for sodium nitrite responding back about nitrite salt, and I knew the website was right, so yeah just figured it was what I was supposed to order...

Thanks to you all for your feedback! I was able to slowly put together the pieces of where I went wrong.

 

[knowledgeseeking]

SO I got my answer. I misunderstood and ordered the wrong thing (nitrite salt) from DSL instead of sodium nitrite (under the food preservative tab). I had a feeling my brain fog was the cause of the mix up instead of DSL, given the reputable source, it just seems the brain fog was on the ordering side and not the testing side....

He has been very gracious and understanding, and offered me a discount for my re-order to actually get sodium nitrite.

If you've ordered and discussed food preservative (as walliwalli mentioned) or sodium nitrite more directly with him, then I think you should be okay. He only ever talked about nitrite salt with me, and I had had thought it was some sort of "wink wink nudge nudge" term for sodium nitrite for liability issues or something, because he had responded to my initial inquiry for sodium nitrite responding back about nitrite salt, and I knew the website was right, so yeah just figured it was what I was supposed to order...

Thanks to you all for your feedback! I was able to slowly put together the pieces of where I went wrong.

Just to make sure I got this right, what we want to order is the food preservative? That's what I ordered, but I haven't received it. Just want to make sure I ordered that right stuff.

 

[user12976159]

Just to make sure I got this right, what we want to order is the food preservative? That's what I ordered, but I haven't received it. Just want to make sure I ordered that right stuff.

Based on walliwalli's post, yes! That seems to be what they ordered and they got sodium nitrite.

In my most recent interaction with DSL after saying I ordered the wrong thing with the nitrite salt, he was talking directly about sodium nitrite (probably to be sure he was being clear again as I misunderstood last time......). What I ordered that was wrong was "nitrite salt", so I can't say personally about the "food preservative" option. Maybe others can chime in

 

[knowledgeseeking]

Thanks for replying.

I just went back to the website and it does say the Nitrite Salt is safe.

Once I get mine in the mail I'll test and report back.

I'm sorry this happened. What a pain in the ass.

 

[SentientCreature]

SO I got my answer. I misunderstood and ordered the wrong thing (nitrite salt) from DSL instead of sodium nitrite (under the food preservative tab). I had a feeling my brain fog was the cause of the mix up instead of DSL, given the reputable source, it just seems the brain fog was on the ordering side and not the testing side....

He has been very gracious and understanding, and offered me a discount for my re-order to actually get sodium nitrite.

If you've ordered and discussed food preservative (as walliwalli mentioned) or sodium nitrite more directly with him, then I think you should be okay. He only ever talked about nitrite salt with me, and I had had thought it was some sort of "wink wink nudge nudge" term for sodium nitrite for liability issues or something, because he had responded to my initial inquiry for sodium nitrite responding back about nitrite salt, and I knew the website was right, so yeah just figured it was what I was supposed to order...

Thanks to you all for your feedback! I was able to slowly put together the pieces of where I went wrong.

Well I guess I'll have to test mine too when it arrives. He opened my message but didn't respond and there's no way to know what he sent now. When I asked about sodium nitrite he asked for my address and sent a payment link and that was our entire conversation. Oh well.

May I just ask if your bag was 50g or 200g? It seems like there's a 50g option only for the "food preservative" which is supposed to be SN.

 

[user12976159]

Well I guess I'll have to test mine too when it arrives. He opened my message but didn't respond and there's no way to know what he sent now. When I asked about sodium nitrite he asked for my address and sent a payment link and that was our entire conversation. Oh well.

May I just ask if your bag was 50g or 200g? It seems like there's a 50g option only for the "food preservative" which is supposed to be SN.

I had originally ordered 400g of the nitrite salt (it only says 200g on the website, so I asked for double), because I just wanted to make sure I had enough. Now I have a lot of something I will never use.

Then in my latest interaction today I said I wanted 200g of the sodium nitrite. I do see on the website (and the pic you shared) 100g and 200g options for the food preservatives, but I'm not sure?

 

[knowledgeseeking]

I had originally ordered 400g of the nitrite salt (it only says 200g on the website, so I asked for double), because I just wanted to make sure I had enough. Now I have a lot of something I will never use.

Then in my latest interaction today I said I wanted 200g of the sodium nitrite. I do see on the website (and the pic you shared) 100g and 200g options for the food preservatives, but I'm not sure?

I ordered 100 grams. I figured since we only need around 25 to CBT, 100 would be more than sufficient

 

[SentientCreature]

Please remove this.

Hmm okay I just did, although not sure why that was necessary since there was no identifying information in the screenshot

 

[opheliaoveragain]

Hmm okay I just did, although not sure why that was necessary since there was no identifying information in the screenshot

Please do not provide screenshots from potential sources. Further activity like this will result in a warning and potential ban Thank you.

 

[knowledgeseeking]

Hmm okay I just did, although not sure why that was necessary since there was no identifying information in the screenshot

I agree. No identifying information and also helpful.

Paranoia

 

[SentientCreature]

I agree. No identifying information and also helpful.

Paranoia

Yeah, I don't get it, I made sure I'd cut out the name of the website and only showed the menu with product names which are completely generic. People often reveal way more information than that without any screenshots