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c/compounding·posted 2 months ago by u/lukas_delgado

am I the only one who found API source harder than the injections

PSA Receipts ×3

Long-ish post, sorry. tl;dr at the bottom.

I have been tracking telehealth against ApoB for 23 weeks because I could not find anyone who had. The correlation is weaker than I expected, which is itself mildly interesting given how confidently people link the two in here.

Caveats up front: one person, one lab, one assay, no control, and I changed my training in the middle of it, which was stupid.

tl;dr: probably real, definitely smaller than the threads imply, and not worth reorganising your week around.

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u/teodor_duarte95 points·2 months ago

Strongly agree. API source transparency matters.

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u/honest_syringe_202578 points·2 months ago

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

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u/rekha_mwangi25 points·2 months ago

regulatory claims need a citation to the actual rule, not interpretation

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u/vikram_mbeki58 points·2 months ago

Three years on this site and the questions have not changed at all. Which is depressing or reassuring depending on the day.

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u/lina_ndiaye44 points·2 months ago

Asked 20 compounders about API source. One told me, one dodged, one said they cannot say. The answer is the signal.

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u/draw_up_dizzy52 points·2 months ago

no pharmacy referral codes, naming is fine, recruiting is not

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u/hydration_hank27 points·2 months ago

telehealth prescriber models exist, pricing differs by state

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u/medutest_mel27 points·2 months ago

Strongly agree. API source transparency matters.

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u/maren_sorensen22 points·2 months ago

The practical rule people converge on is 28 days at fridge temperature after first puncture, and that comes from the preservative, not the peptide.

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u/mateusz_adebayo0 points·2 months ago

This is correct. The shortage list does expire and the rules change.

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u/lukas_delgado16 points·2 months ago

Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with 503B, not with what you concluded.

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u/lukas_delgadoOP23 points·2 months ago

Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.

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u/sofia_nascimento0 points·2 months ago

shortage list status is shortage list, check the actual list

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u/bilal_osei1 point·2 months ago·edited

telehealth costs API source plus compounding markup, total varies

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u/marit_laurent1 point·2 months ago

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

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u/runa_grimaldi13 points·2 months ago

503B compounding is different from 503A, different rules, different legality

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u/eu_apotheke_a17 points·2 months ago

Strongly agree. API source transparency matters.

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u/pavel_kravchenko11 points·2 months ago

This is correct. The shortage list does expire and the rules change.

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u/rekha_mwangi3 points·2 months ago

Not to be pedantic but 503A and shortage list are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/yusuf_kirchner-5 points·2 months ago

The telehealth + compounding combo cost API source plus 11% markup. Not cheap but covered by insurance depending on state.

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u/sofia_danquah6 points·2 months ago

This is correct. The shortage list does expire and the rules change.

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u/ffmi_watcher5 points·2 months ago·edited

Are we talking 503A or 503B?

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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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