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c/compounding·submitted 1 year ago by u/rekha_mwangi

compounding — 17 things I got wrong before I got it right

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Confession thread, sort of. I went from 2.5mg to 1.0mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 8 weeks later, at which point I had no way of knowing whether the dose increase did anything or whether it would have broken anyway. So now I have early…

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u/liver_enzyme_liz480 points·1 year ago

shortage list status is 503A, check the actual list

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u/yannick_petrov-9 points·1 year ago

No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.

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u/elise_ramos1 point·1 year ago

the Poland situation is different from the US, different regulations

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u/marit_laurent1 point·1 year ago

Strongly agree. API source transparency matters.

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[removed]1 point·1 year ago

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u/sigrid_kaufmann1 point·1 year ago

the shortage list is temporary, it ends and compounding becomes illegal again

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u/clara_danquah156 points·1 year ago·edited

shortage list status is 503A, check the actual list

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 79 weeks to accept.

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u/ismael_pires123 points·1 year ago·edited

the 503A/503B distinction is load-bearing, do not blur it

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u/rekha_mwangiOP48 points·1 year ago

Moved states and the compounding landscape changed completely. Different rules, different pharmacies, different costs.

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