unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about compounding is guesswork
unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about compounding is guesswork. I have gone back and forth on this for months.
Assumed the New Zealand position applied here. It does not, and someone corrected me politely with the actual source.
Subsidy criteria and authority requirements are published. For eligibility questions those documents are authoritative and this board is not.
Checked the shortage database myself instead of reading the coverage. Expected resolution date was right there and the panic thread was wrong.
Please do not ask me what dose you should be on. I genuinely do not know and neither does anyone else here.
best — the order this archive was captured in
The national shortage database is a primary source with expected resolution dates attached. It is public, searchable, and consistently more accurate than reporting about it.
Pharmacy-level availability and national supply are different questions: a pharmacy can be out while the wholesaler is not, and the pharmacist can check in minutes.
PBS listing and TGA registration are two different questions
Australia and New Zealand have different regulators, different funding bodies and different arrangements. An answer for one is not evidence about the other.
Rang three pharmacies for a private price and got three different numbers, all in the same city.
Kept the script and the receipt for a private health claim and both were requested.
Kept the script and the receipt for a private health claim and both were requested.
This is the distinction that makes the rest of the board legible.
Someone posted US advice in an Australian thread and it took four replies to untangle it. Say your country.
The compounded arrangements changed while I was mid-thread and I was arguing from a superseded position.