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c/customs·posted 2 years ago by u/kian_balogun

jurisdiction is the most under-discussed thing in c/researchpeptides

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Confession thread, sort of.

I went from 15mg to 7.5mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 14 weeks later, at which point I had no way of knowing whether the dose increase did anything or whether it would have broken anyway.

So now I have sulphur burps I did not need and a data point I cannot interpret. Two lessons in one.

Posting it in the hope that somebody at week 68 reads it before doing the same thing.

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u/fridge_door_no-4 points·2 years ago
genuine question, not being difficult: how do you know
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u/kian_balogunOP1 point·2 years ago

seizure letters: redact everything identifying

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u/dhl_or_bust1 point·2 years ago

the 24mg import allowance is Denmark-specific

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u/dario_boateng1 point·2 years ago·edited

no advice on evading inspection or misdeclaring

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u/declared_value_dv1 point·2 years ago

Small correction: the trial was 23 weeks, not 38. Does not change your point but people will quote it.

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u/chidi_roos1 point·2 years ago·edited

the Spain import rules are specific to Spain

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u/diego_iyer1 point·2 years ago

no advice on evading inspection or misdeclaring

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u/greta_lokken1 point·2 years ago

genuine question, not being difficult: how do you know

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/appeal_letter_al1 point·2 years ago

the 16mg import allowance is the UK-specific

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u/gustav_lindholm0 points·2 years ago

customs holds vary by season

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u/hamza_weiss1 point·2 years ago

import countries have different thresholds

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u/nadia_trevino1 point·2 years ago

Do you have an import allowance in your jurisdiction?

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u/marit_laurent1 point·2 years ago·edited

personal-import allowances differ by country

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u/tb500_tangent36 points·2 years ago·edited

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/yannick_haddad9 points·2 years ago

personal-import allowances differ by country

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u/dario_boateng7 points·2 years ago

no advice on evading inspection or misdeclaring

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u/iman_castellanos28 points·2 years ago

Water content matters more than people think. If a vial is carrying residual moisture, your "10mg" is not 10mg of peptide.

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u/kian_balogunOP12 points·2 years ago

import countries have different thresholds

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