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c/compounding·posted 1 year ago by u/mikkel_correia

compounding is the most under-discussed thing in c/hplc

Question Receipts ×7

Week 76 update. 22kg down from the start, muscle cramps basically gone since about week 33.

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 muscle cramps.

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/clara_danquah42 points·1 year ago

Are we talking 503A or 503B?

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u/lina_ndiaye-12 points·1 year ago

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

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u/bruno_dumitru28 points·1 year ago
well that is my evening gone, thanks for the paper
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u/step_count_stan16 points·1 year ago

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

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u/marit_laurent7 points·1 year ago

Small correction: the trial was 23 weeks, not 5. Does not change your point but people will quote it.

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u/mikkel_correiaOP4 points·1 year ago

Small correction: the trial was 23 weeks, not 5.

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 47 weeks to accept.

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u/prior_auth_painMOD19 points·1 year ago

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

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u/lipid_panel_larrybloodwork8 points·1 year ago

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

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u/discount_math_dm5 points·1 year ago

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

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u/niels_roos2 points·1 year ago

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

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 36 weeks to accept.

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u/step_count_stan17 points·1 year ago

The telehealth + compounding combo cost 503A plus 15% markup. Not cheap but covered by insurance depending on state.

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Compounded GLP-1s as a supply route: the 503A/503B distinction, the shortage-list mechanics that made compounding legal and then didn't, state board rules, telehealth prescriber models, and what a compounding pharmacy will and will not tell you about its API source.

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