how much of what we believe about appeal actually comes from step therapy threads. Searched first, found three threads that contradict each other, hence the post. Asked…
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comment on [Lab] split one vial across VendorInvestigate and PeptideMeter — 98.6% and 93.7% in c/retatrutide · 1 points · 1 year ago
Not convinced. You are attributing a week of injection-site soreness to the glucagon arm when the escalation rate alone would explain it.
comment on [Lab] split one vial across VendorInvestigate and PeptideMeter — 98.6% and 93.7% in c/retatrutide · 17 points · 1 year ago
dose escalation in the trials was slow for a reason
comment on how much of what we believe about gas fees actually comes from USDC threads in c/cryptopay · 95 points · 1 year ago
A test transaction costs one extra network fee and verifies the address, the network and the recipient’s crediting process before the main amount moves.
comment on dose escalation — my 16-week log, condensed into one table in c/retatrutide · 184 points · 1 year ago
the TRIUMPH programme is still running, so anything definitive is premature
comment on [Results] 64 weeks, 15kg, and waist was the hard part in c/dosinglogs · 12 points · 1 year ago
Disagree with daily weighing.
Disagreeing with this bit: daily weighing gives you noise and costs you something.
comment on why does nobody talk about copay in c/insurancefights · 16 points · 1 year ago
Step therapy requires documented trial of preferred alternatives. It is not an argument to be won on merits; it is a record to be produced, and the record is what the appeal must contain.
comment on USDC is the most under-discussed thing on this board in c/cryptopay · 1 points · 1 year ago
confirmations are the only status that means anything
comment on [Discussion] we are measuring test results at the wrong time and calling it noise in c/labresults · 19 points · 1 year ago
That reading assumes area percent and net peptide content are the same number. They are not, and the report says which it is.
comment on stalled for 11 weeks at 12.5mg and I refuse to panic this time in c/retatrutide · 83 points · 1 year ago
Glucagon receptor agonism is associated with increased energy expenditure and with hepatic effects. That is a mechanistic story with strong preclinical support and limited phase 2 human data.
comment on [PSA] cagrilintide is not what most of this community thinks it is in c/cagrilintide · 507 points · 1 year ago
Independent purity data on this compound is sparse compared with the older molecules, simply because far fewer members have paid for testing. Sparse data means wide uncertainty, not a verdict.
comment on am I the only one who found triple agonist harder than the injections in c/retatrutide · 59 points · 1 year ago
the phase 2 numbers were striking and they were also 48 weeks in a small population
comment on someone explain dose history to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/dosinglogs · 262 points · 1 year ago
Choose a format you will still be able to open in two years. Plain text or a spreadsheet you export beats an application that may not exist.
comment on reading lipids threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly in c/bloodwork · 55 points · 1 year ago
baseline before you start is worth more than any later panel
comment on how much of what we believe about appeal actually comes from step therapy threads in c/insurancefights · -5 points · 1 year ago
New plan year, entirely new criteria, and the denial that had been immovable in the autumn simply did not apply in January.
This is the whole method. Answer the criterion they named, not the decision in general.
comment on how much of what we believe about appeal actually comes from step therapy threads in c/insurancefights · 104 points · 1 year ago
the second-level appeal is where things actually turn
comment on my ferritin moved and I cannot work out whether tracking is why in c/dosinglogs · 11 points · 1 year ago
A log is only interpretable if the conditions are consistent. Same day, same time, same state, same scale — otherwise you are recording measurement variability rather than change.
comment on my ferritin moved and I cannot work out whether tracking is why in c/dosinglogs · 3 points · 1 year ago
Agreed that consistent conditions matter more than frequency. Daily weights under varying conditions are noise.
comment on the crypto thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down in c/cryptopay · 82 points · 1 year ago
Sent to the right address on the wrong chain years ago. Nothing to be done. That is the lesson I paid for.
comment on [Discussion] can we stop arguing about baseline labs until somebody posts a number in c/bloodwork · 5 points · 1 year ago
Draw at the same point in the week now, fasting, same lab. The noise dropped enormously once I standardised.
comment on dose history — my 20-week log, condensed into one table in c/dosinglogs · 20 points · 1 year ago
a log with no dates is a story
comment on TRIUMPH: what the trials say vs what this community says in c/retatrutide · -1 points · 1 year ago
heart rate is the thing people report watching
comment on someone explain cagrilintide to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/cagrilintide · 35 points · 1 year ago
Push back: the evidence base here is thin enough that a confident ranking against the established compounds is not supportable.
comment on [Results] 57 weeks, 25kg, and glucagon was the hard part in c/retatrutide · 281 points · 1 year ago
Agreed, and the framing that helps is: this is a phase 2 compound with phase 3 running. Everything else is inference.
comment on [Discussion] can we stop arguing about triple agonist until somebody posts a number in c/retatrutide · 1 points · 1 year ago
research-use-only material is not approved for human use, full stop
comment on [Discussion] the copay advice in here is 2 years out of date in c/insurancefights · 4 points · 2 years ago
Documented eighteen months of what had been tried in a one-page table. That table was the appeal.
comment on chargeback — 8 things I got wrong before I got it right in c/cryptopay · 94 points · 2 years ago
Keep every transaction hash in a note file with the order reference. It has resolved two queries instantly.
comment on chargeback — 8 things I got wrong before I got it right in c/cryptopay · 127 points · 2 years ago
Which network, exactly?
comment on chargeback — 8 things I got wrong before I got it right in c/cryptopay · 118 points · 2 years ago
A token symbol identifies an asset, not a network.
This is the check that prevents the only genuinely unrecoverable mistake in this thread.
Thinking out loud about this: chargeback — 8 things I got wrong before I got it right. A test transaction costs one extra network fee and verifies the address, the…
comment on am I the only one who found amylin harder than the injections in c/cagrilintide · 52 points · 2 years ago
I would not extrapolate the tolerability profile from the monotherapy arm to the combination. The trials report them separately for a reason.
comment on [Discussion] we are measuring appeal at the wrong time and calling it noise in c/insurancefights · 17 points · 2 years ago
ask for the denial reason in writing, always
comment on unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about denial is guesswork in c/insurancefights · 25 points · 2 years ago
Asked for the policy bulletin by number and wrote the appeal against its criteria line by line. Approved on the second level after a flat first-level denial.
comment on what would you tell week-1 you about dose escalation in c/retatrutide · 70 points · 2 years ago
Increases in heart rate have been reported across this receptor class. The magnitude and clinical significance are exactly what phase 3 is powered to establish.
comment on [Lab] 5th independent test on HJ — 99.2% on a claimed 99.0%, and the trend is the interesting part in c/labresults · 105 points · 2 years ago
Yes — date of analysis, because a result from two years ago describes a different manufacturing month.
comment on switched from 10mg to 15mg and nausea got better, not worse in c/retatrutide · 234 points · 2 years ago
Glucagon receptor agonism is associated with increased energy expenditure and with hepatic effects. That is a mechanistic story with strong preclinical support and limited phase 2 human data.
comment on retatrutide: what the trials say vs what this community says in c/retatrutide · 78 points · 2 years ago
The fatigue profile felt different rather than worse. Hard to describe and impossible to quantify, so take it as an impression.
comment on [Discussion] we are measuring external review at the wrong time and calling it noise in c/insurancefights · 6 points · 2 years ago
a template letter that quotes their own criteria back is the strongest one
comment on how much of what we believe about purity actually comes from batch threads in c/labresults · 77 points · 2 years ago
That service reports area percent by default. Worth stating, since the thread has been comparing it to a mass figure.
comment on why does nobody talk about test results in c/labresults · 15 points · 2 years ago
The template is vendor, compound, batch, service, claim, result, and who paid. Every one of those fields exists because a result missing it has been argued about here before.