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That figure is the starting material purity, not the finished preparation potency. Two different tests.

Yes. The shortage list is the legal hinge for the whole arrangement and its status is public.

this is the whole argument for tracking FFMI instead of just weight during any stall, it's the only number that flags "you're losing muscle" vs "you're recomping" vs "you're actually stalled"

Small fix — 503B facilities register with the regulator; 503A pharmacies are licensed by the state board. Different mechanisms.

a telehealth intake that asks nothing has told you what it is

track FFMI too if you can, celebrating a weight number that came partly from muscle loss isn't really "done" in the way that matters

this is why I track FFMI now instead of just weight during any flat stretch, it's the number that actually distinguishes "recomping fine" from "actually stalled" from "losing the wrong tissue".

What is the actual question underneath the question?

yannick_salinas has explained this better than the wiki does, which is saying something.

the "almost formulaic" framing is honestly a little humbling, apparently I'm not special, just predictable

steps stayed steady actually, just those two, but good instinct to check

This matches me almost exactly, right down to the food noise showing up on the second day and being gone by the fourth.

The five things that would have saved me the most time in month one.

One: the first month is a tolerance check, not a results phase. Two: appetite usually changes before the scale does, so watch that instead. Three: write the concentration and the date on the vial the moment you reconstitute anything. Four: the loud posts are not the middle of the distribution. Five: nobody here — including whoever answers most confidently — is your clinician.

None of that is advice about what to take. It is the shape of the first few weeks, which is what I actually wanted and could not find.

This. New Zealand has its own regulator and its own funding decisions and the answers genuinely differ.

compounded is not generic, there is no equivalence claim

Agreed — and the follow-up question is what the beyond-use date is based on.

What does the wiki page on this say — genuinely asking, not deflecting?

Adding the one habit worth starting today: write the concentration on the vial.

Wrote the concentration on the vial after reading it here.

This is the answer. Everything else in the thread is elaboration on it.

My stall was eleven weeks.

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

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

Small fix — that formulary position is another province’s and does not apply here.

Right, and the pharmacist can usually give a definite answer faster than a week of forum speculation.

Pen or vial?

ask which facility, then ask for their testing

Week 75: 21kg down, constipation basically gone since about week 2, and the honest headline is that nothing dramatic happened. It was boring and it worked.

post the claim next to the result or the number floats

Delayed gastric emptying is most pronounced early and attenuates with continued dosing, which is why the constipation usually fades at a stable dose.

ask which facility, then ask for their testing

The five things that would have saved me the most time in month one.

One: the first month is a tolerance check, not a results phase. Two: appetite usually changes before the scale does, so watch that instead. Three: write the concentration and the date on the vial the moment you reconstitute anything. Four: the loud posts are not the middle of the distribution. Five: nobody here — including whoever answers most confidently — is your clinician.

None of that is advice about what to take. It is the shape of the first few weeks, which is what I actually wanted and could not find.

Wrote the concentration on the vial after reading it here. Have never once had to reconstruct it from memory since.

Do you have the trace, or only the summary?

Push back on the advice above: nobody here can tell a member what dose to take, however confidently it is phrased.

research-use-only material is not approved for human use, and that belongs in every beginner thread

This. New Zealand has its own regulator and its own funding decisions and the answers genuinely differ.

inter-lab variance runs a point or two, plan your outrage accordingly

Small correction: 2.4mg is the maintenance ceiling on the label, not the starting maintenance dose. The distinction matters for anyone reading this later.

Left up.

Adding the one habit worth starting today: write the concentration on the vial.

Push back on the advice above: nobody here can tell a member what dose to take, however confidently it is phrased.

Not quite. Bacteriostatic and sterile water are different products and only one is intended for repeated entry.

Asked for potency testing on the finished preparation.

Agreed — and the follow-up question is what the beyond-use date is based on.

What did the pharmacy quote for the private price?

keep the script and the receipt for private health claims