u/anya_antonsen

What concentration did you actually reconstitute at, rather than what did you intend to?

Same view. If the intake asked you nothing, the intake was a formality and you should factor that in.

That is not what patient-specific means. It refers to the prescription, not to a customisation of the formula.

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

The lyophilised cake displaces a small volume, so the true concentration is very slightly lower than the arithmetic suggests. It is a fraction of a percent and it is dwarfed by fill tolerance.

That only works if the fill weight is exactly the label weight, and it usually is not exactly anything.

Formulary criteria are revised, and plan renewal is a natural point at which a previously refused request may succeed without anything about the applicant changing.

How many confirmations does it show?

Agreed, and the bit people skip is that the ladder is a tolerance ladder. It is not a potency ranking.

do the arithmetic before you reconstitute, not while holding a syringe

What concentration did you actually reconstitute at, rather than what did you intend to?

This is the sentence that makes the rest unnecessary. Write it on the vial and the problem is gone.

Agreed — units are volume. Once that lands, the rest of the arithmetic is one division.

Quantity limits restrict how much may be dispensed in a period even where coverage exists. They are a distinct barrier and require a distinct request.

Bacteriostatic water contains benzyl alcohol as a preservative, which is what makes repeated entry into the same vial reasonable. Plain sterile water has no preservative.

the scale is the least sensitive instrument you own

This is the part I would underline for anyone skimming. Everything else in the thread is downstream of it.

ask which networks they actually accept before you order

That figure is the 68-week trial mean, not a weekly rate. Dividing it by the weeks gives you a number that does not mean anything.

say the province or the answers will be wrong

Same view — private and provincial plans are genuinely different processes with different appeal routes.

Weight change and appetite change are different endpoints on different timescales. Conflating them is where most of the confusion on this board starts.

gas is not the supplier’s fee

The lyophilised cake displaces a small volume, so the true concentration is very slightly lower than the arithmetic suggests. It is a fraction of a percent and it is dwarfed by fill tolerance.

sema is weekly for a reason, the half-life does the smoothing

Pushback on the syringe advice: a U-100 barrel reads units of volume. Calling them "doses" is how the confusion starts.

bacteriostatic water has the preservative, sterile water does not

My stall was eleven weeks. Eleven. Then it moved again without me changing anything at all.

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

Agreed — units are volume. Once that lands, the rest of the arithmetic is one division.