[Discussion] the compounding advice in here is 3 years out of date
the compounding advice in here is 3 years out of date. Change my mind, genuinely — I have no stake in being right about this.
3 years. Those are measured, not estimated, and not rounded up in my favour.
Someone posted US advice in an Australian thread and it took four replies to untangle it. Say your country.
The two decisions that this whole board turns on, kept apart.
Registration means a product may lawfully be supplied. Subsidy listing means the public system will fund it, for a defined indication, against published criteria. They are made by different bodies on different timetables, and a product can be registered and unsubsidised for a given use for a long time.
Almost every "why can I not get this" thread here is really a question about the second decision being answered with facts about the first. Say which one you are asking about and the thread resolves in two replies.
Tell me where this is wrong. That is the useful part of posting it.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Where to look instead of asking, which will nearly always be faster.
The national shortage database is public, searchable and carries expected resolution dates. The subsidy criteria for each indication are published. Your pharmacist can check wholesaler availability in a few minutes, which is a different question from what is on the shelf.
Between those three, most questions on this board are answerable in half an hour with primary sources. The board is genuinely useful for experience, pricing comparison and the parts that are not written down anywhere — it is a poor substitute for a document that exists.
Checked the shortage database myself instead of reading the coverage. Expected resolution date was right there and the panic thread was wrong.
the TGA shortage database is public and it is the source, not the news
personal importation rules exist and are narrow
That figure is a private price at one pharmacy, not a national one.
compounded supply arrangements changed and the threads have not caught up
Read the published criteria for my indication rather than asking. Twenty minutes, and it answered everything I had been guessing at.
I would not treat one pharmacy’s quote as the national price. Variation between them is substantial.
I would not treat one pharmacy’s quote as the national price.
Adding the quickest step — ask the pharmacist to check the wholesaler.
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