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c/compounding·posted 2 years ago by u/gallbladder_gary

my fasting insulin moved and I cannot work out whether API source is why

Explainer Well Actually ×3

Confession thread, sort of.

I went from 1.0mg to 15mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 2 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 39 reads it before doing the same thing.

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u/ireland_drugs_pay2 points·2 years ago·edited

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

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u/hydration_hank1 point·2 years ago

telehealth costs telehealth plus compounding markup, total varies

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u/receptor_bias_rick-36 points·2 years ago

Slight fix: the number was 99.0, not 98.9. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/usp_appendixMOD1 point·2 years ago

Tracking number removed. It identifies both ends of a shipment.

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u/gallbladder_garyOP1 point·2 years ago

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

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u/bilal_osei1 point·2 years ago

The telehealth + compounding combo cost compounding plus 17% markup. Not cheap but covered by insurance depending on state.

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u/receptor_bias_rick1 point·2 years ago

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

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