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c/compounding·submitted 1 year ago by u/rt_shift_reggie

help me understand 503B, I have read the wiki twice

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503B. That is the whole post, but I will justify it. Everything else people worry about in c/t2dglp1 is downstream of it. Titration speed, reflux, the endless dose arguments — most of it resolves if you sort 503B out first, and almost nobody does. I say this having got it wrong for 2 months. My ApoB was the thing…

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u/usp_appendixcompendial253 points·1 year ago

Mechanistically the bit that matters is 503B. It explains most of the early profile and a decent chunk of the outcome.

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u/ahmed_fonseca159 points·1 year ago

state board rules differ, say which state

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u/niels_roos97 points·1 year ago

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

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u/vikram_mbeki36 points·1 year ago

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

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u/rt_shift_reggieOP-8 points·1 year ago

shortage list status is state board, check the actual list

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u/tove_ogunleye1 point·1 year ago

shortage list status is state board, check the actual list

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

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u/solene_eriksen1 point·1 year ago

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

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u/dario_stanescu1 point·1 year ago

You have restated the marketing copy. What is the actual substance here.

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u/sigrid_kaufmann1 point·1 year ago

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

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u/ismael_pires41 points·1 year ago

Are we talking 503A or 503B?

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u/naomi_erdogan53 points·1 year ago

shortage list status is compounding, check the actual list

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