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c/compounding·posted 9 months ago by u/ahmed_fonseca

503A — 12 things I got wrong before I got it right

Explainer Clean Column ×8 Long Haul ×1

Week 81 update. 37kg down from the start, early fullness basically gone since about week 32.

Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I want to. Things that did not: everything I bought on the internet to help with early fullness.

The part that surprised me is how much of this is admin. Ordering, storing, logging, remembering. Nobody mentions that the hard bit is not the drug, it is the routine.

Happy to answer anything. Please do not ask me what dose you should be on.

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u/bruno_dumitru148 points·9 months ago

Which state? Rules vary.

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u/honest_syringe83 points·9 months ago·edited

telehealth costs compounding plus compounding markup, total varies

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u/liv_vukovic43 points·9 months ago

state board rules differ, say which state

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u/tobias_vukovic105 points·9 months ago

API transparency is the question that separates good compounders from sketchy ones

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u/enzo_ferrari51 points·9 months ago

API transparency is the question that separates good compounders from sketchy ones

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 74 weeks to accept.

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u/elin_ferrari83 points·9 months ago

telehealth costs state board plus compounding markup, total varies

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u/joaquin_trevino47 points·9 months ago

Yeah, 503A and 503B are different regulatory animals.

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u/quiet_moderatorMOD105 points·9 months ago

This is an urgent-care question wearing a forum question's clothes. Please contact a clinician rather than waiting for replies.

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u/receptor_bias_rick65 points·9 months ago

This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.

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u/ayesha_radich33 points·9 months ago

Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 18–5. Practical consequence: what you feel in week 1 is not what that dose does.

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u/tb500_tangent8 points·9 months ago

regulatory claims need a citation to the actual rule, not interpretation

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