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c/glp1uk·posted 1 year ago by u/meta_analysis_mo

private prescription — 23 things I got wrong before I got it right

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private prescription — 23 things I got wrong before I got it right, which sounds obvious until you try to state the evidence for it.

Concentrations can differ between products and between pharmacies. Switching mid-titration means redoing the arithmetic rather than carrying the old unit count across.

Switched pharmacies mid-titration and had to restart the ladder because the concentrations did not line up.

Read the MHRA notice rather than the news coverage and the actual scope was much narrower than the panic threads suggested.

Not medical advice, obviously, and nothing here is approved for human use. One person with a spreadsheet.

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u/rt_shift_reggie432 points·1 year ago

The two routes, described separately, because mixing them is where most of the confusion here starts.

The NHS route in England runs through specialist weight management services commissioned by your ICB. Criteria, waiting times and what happens at discharge are all local decisions, which is why a confident answer from somebody in a different area may be wrong for you.

The private route is an independent transaction: a consultation, a prescription and a pharmacy price. It does not affect your position on any NHS list and it is not a shortcut through one. Both are legitimate; they are simply not the same pathway and they do not connect.

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u/marisol_kravchenko631 points·1 year ago

The two routes, described separately, because mixing them is where most of the confusion here starts.

Disagreeing with this line: that is the arrangement in one nation and the question is about another.

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u/boots_or_bust326 points·1 year ago

I would not read a supply notice as a shortage in your pharmacy tomorrow. They are not the same thing.

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u/lane_watcherMOD269 points·1 year ago

Pharmacy staff name removed. The pharmacy itself can be named in a pricing post.

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u/dario_stanescu128 points·1 year ago

specialist service, not GP, for tier 3 in most of England

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