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

[Question] the UK — has anyone got a straight answer on 503A

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Posting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful.

Setup: 10mg, week 65, injection-site soreness present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable — state board — and tracked it for 9 weeks.

Result: a difference, but a small one, and well inside what I would call noise if someone else posted it. So I am putting it here rather than presenting it as a finding. If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something.

Not medical advice, obviously. This is one person with a spreadsheet.

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u/usp_appendixcompendial98 points·2 years ago

The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.

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u/eu_apotheke_aOP73 points·2 years ago

Asked 16 compounders about API source. One told me, one dodged, one said they cannot say. The answer is the signal.

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u/dario_stanescu0 points·2 years ago

Asked 16 compounders about API source.

Disagree on that part. 97.4% and 98.3% on the same vial is normal.

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u/tove_ogunleye44 points·2 years ago

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

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u/formulary_fighterMOD81 points·2 years ago

Retitled to remove editorialising. Put the evidence in the body.

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u/honest_syringe65 points·2 years ago

Not to be pedantic but compounding and API source are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/chidi_demir18 points·2 years ago

The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.

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u/gallbladder_gary14 points·2 years ago

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

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u/julia_erdogan39 points·2 years ago

API source questions are on-topic and compounders dodging them is newsworthy

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u/eu_apotheke_a17 points·2 years ago

telehealth prescriber models exist, pricing differs by state

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u/prior_auth_painappeals21 points·2 years ago·edited

Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.

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u/neha_krastev14 points·2 years ago

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

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u/lift_heavy_thingsresistance training26 points·2 years ago

The evidence standard in c/vendorvetting gets called too strict about once a month, and every time, the thread ends with the complainant agreeing.

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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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