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c/compounding·posted 8 months ago by u/ignacio_vanhecke

[PSA] shortage list is not what most of this community thinks it is

PSA Cold Box ×4

Confession thread, sort of.

I went from 10mg to 2.5mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 12 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 muscle cramps I did not need and a data point I cannot interpret. Two lessons in one.

Posting it in the hope that somebody at week 77 reads it before doing the same thing.

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u/usp_appendixcompendial27 points·8 months ago

Water content matters more than people think. If a vial is carrying residual moisture, your "10mg" is not 10mg of peptide.

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u/burned_once_twice7 points·8 months ago·edited

The telehealth + compounding combo cost state board plus 19% markup. Not cheap but covered by insurance depending on state.

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u/usp_appendixcompendial2 points·8 months ago

Sceptical. If this were true we would see it reflected in the data and we do not.

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u/yannick_petrov26 points·8 months ago
four days. it took four days for me.
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u/emil_okwuosa9 points·8 months ago·edited

Strongly agree. API source transparency matters.

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u/burned_once_twice-24 points·8 months ago

I am going to push back on this slightly.

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u/zaid_grimaldi17 points·8 months ago

Did they tell you their API source or dodge the question?

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u/usp_appendixMOD9 points·8 months ago

Retitled to remove editorialising. Put the evidence in the body.

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u/prior_auth_painappeals6 points·8 months ago

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

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u/ignacio_vanhecke6 points·8 months ago

Retitled to remove editorialising.

Disagree on that part. 96.8% and 96.2% on the same vial is normal.

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u/camila_mensa2 points·8 months ago·edited

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

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u/niels_roos6 points·8 months ago

Strongly agree. API source transparency matters.

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u/ruben_cabrera10 points·8 months ago

Rodent data is rodent data. Dose scaling is not linear and the models tell you what to investigate, not what to expect.

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u/ignacio_vanheckeOP5 points·8 months ago

The telehealth + compounding combo cost telehealth plus 14% markup. Not cheap but covered by insurance depending on state.

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u/honest_syringe1 point·8 months ago

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

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u/emeka_chowdhury8 points·8 months ago

shortage list status is compounding, check the actual list

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u/runa_grimaldi6 points·8 months ago

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

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u/ignacio_vanheckeOP3 points·8 months ago

The 503A pharmacy I used lost their shortage list eligibility. Same day, compounding became illegal. Rules are real.

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