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c/compounding·posted 1 year ago by u/tb500_tangent

[Discussion] the compounding advice in here is 2 years out of date

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the compounding advice in here is 2 years out of date. Not a hot take, just something I have not seen said plainly here.

The numbers the title promised, since a headline without them is worthless: 2 years. Everything below is context for those.

Salt form matters for mass: a preparation specified as one salt and dosed as the free base gives you a different amount of peptide for the same number on the label.

Potency and sterility testing on the finished preparation are separate from any certificate covering the starting material. Ask which you are being shown.

Research-use-only material is not approved for human use and nothing here should be read as a recommendation to use it.

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u/santiago_rasmussen144 points·1 year ago

The shortage list is the legal hinge: the permissions that allow certain compounding to happen at scale are tied to a drug’s shortage status, which changes.

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u/rina_sobczak66 points·1 year ago

Push back: "compounded is fine because a pharmacy made it" skips every question this board exists to ask.

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u/step_count_stan110 points·1 year ago

Correction: patient-specific refers to the prescription, not to a bespoke formulation. Common misreading and it changes the argument.

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u/sofia_nascimento87 points·1 year ago

Not convinced. You are comparing a compounded concentration with a branded one and assuming they match.

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u/clara_danquah71 points·1 year ago

The shortage list is the legal hinge: the permissions that allow certain compounding to happen at scale are tied to a drug’s shortage status, which ch

Adding one thing — ask for the facility name. Most will give it, and the ones that will not have answered you.

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u/formulary_fighterMOD152 points·1 year ago

Left up. It describes an arrangement with specifics and it is honest about the jurisdiction.

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u/tb500_tangentOP33 points·1 year ago

What is the beyond-use date and what is it based on?

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u/milos_mensa8 points·1 year ago·edited

What did the intake actually ask you?

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u/pavel_kravchenko-24 points·1 year ago

Nothing in this thread is medical advice, and the choice between arrangements is one for you and a prescriber who knows your history.

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u/dario_stanescu-28 points·1 year ago

compounded is not generic, there is no equivalence claim

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u/camila_mensa78 points·1 year ago·edited

503A or 503B — do you know which?

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u/mateusz_adebayo54 points·1 year ago

Concentration on the compounded vial was different from what I had been using and I nearly did the arithmetic on autopilot.

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u/tb500_tangent18 points·1 year ago

the API source is the question nobody asks and everybody should

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u/camila_sandvik65 points·1 year ago

Asked for the beyond-use date basis and got a real answer with a stability reference attached. Not universal, apparently.

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u/cold_chromatogram3180 points·1 year ago

if a clinic will not name the facility, that is your answer

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u/liver_enzyme_liz54 points·1 year ago

Kept the label from every vial. When the shortage status changed, having the paper trail made the conversation much shorter.

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