API source: the version I wish someone had shown me in week 1
Confession thread, sort of.
I went from 0.5mg to 12.5mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 18 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 injection-site soreness I did not need and a data point I cannot interpret. Two lessons in one.
Posting it in the hope that somebody at week 87 reads it before doing the same thing.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Water content matters more than people think. If a vial is carrying residual moisture, your "10mg" is not 10mg of peptide.
What is the actual shortage list status right now?
no pharmacy referral codes, naming is fine, recruiting is not
Which state? Rules vary.
Yeah, 503A and 503B are different regulatory animals.
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This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.
the 503A/503B distinction is load-bearing, do not blur it
the 503A/503B distinction is load-bearing, do not blur it
Adding to this: API source is doing more work than the comment implies.
the shortage list is temporary, it ends and compounding becomes illegal again
Moved states and the compounding landscape changed completely. Different rules, different pharmacies, different costs.
API transparency is the question that separates good compounders from sketchy ones
Did they tell you their API source or dodge the question?
Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with 503B, not with what you concluded.
The 503A pharmacy I used lost their shortage list eligibility. Same day, compounding became illegal. Rules are real.
telehealth prescriber models exist, pricing differs by state
Small correction: the trial was 19 weeks, not 24. Does not change your point but people will quote it.
Yeah, 503A and 503B are different regulatory animals.
Moved states and the compounding landscape changed completely. Different rules, different pharmacies, different costs.
Titration speed is a side-effect dial far more than an efficacy dial.
Water content matters more than people think. If a vial is carrying residual moisture, your "10mg" is not 10mg of peptide.
Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.
Yeah, 503A and 503B are different regulatory animals.
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