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c/glp1uk·posted 2 years ago by u/ahmed_iyer

someone explain UK to me like I have not read a paper in years

NHS Cold Box ×2 Slow Clap ×1

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

I have been tracking UK against triglycerides for 29 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/chidi_abubakar281 points·2 years ago

Strongly agree. NHS is region-specific.

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u/boots_or_bustMOD213 points·2 years ago

Flair changed to match the content. Read the sidebar before posting next time and we are square.

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u/ahmed_iyerOP121 points·2 years ago

England or Scotland? Different pathways.

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u/ilias_steiner196 points·2 years ago

I love that this community will spend 40 comments on a detail. That pedantry is why the numbers here matter.

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u/jonas_eriksen102 points·2 years ago·edited

Strongly agree. UK is region-specific.

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u/ahmed_iyerOP82 points·2 years ago

What is today's date for the pricing?

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u/nordic_pricing-17 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/ines_lindqvist1 point·2 years ago

MHRA supply notices change monthly, follow the actual list

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u/lina_bruun133 points·2 years ago

MHRA supply notices change monthly, follow the actual list

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u/nhs_waitlist_nUK72 points·2 years ago

Strongly agree. UK is region-specific.

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u/heart_rate_bump59 points·2 years ago

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

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u/anya_rautio60 points·2 years ago

Dead space in the needle hub holds a small but non-trivial volume. On low-volume draws that can be several units.

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u/lane_map_larrylogistics33 points·2 years ago

Boots stock is hit-and-miss by location

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u/cormac_erdogan59 points·2 years ago

private 0.5mg is pricing in Spain this month

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u/ireland_drugs_pay49 points·2 years ago·edited

Slight fix: the number was 99.1, not 93.7. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.

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u/clara_danquah25 points·2 years ago

the tier 3 pathway is the only free route, it is slow

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u/vomit_free_since33 points·2 years ago

the Scottish pathway is different from the English one

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u/sorted_by_new16 points·2 years ago

Boots stock is hit-and-miss by location

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u/ahmed_iyerOP11 points·2 years ago

Yeah, the NHS waitlist is genuinely two years in most places.

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u/slow_logbook_notes8 points·2 years ago

Boots stock is hit-and-miss by location

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u/diego_almeida16 points·2 years ago

the Scottish pathway is different from the English one

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u/helga_vermeulen48 points·2 years ago

Strongly agree. tier 3 is region-specific.

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