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comment on [PSA] no tracking numbers. they identify both ends. removed on sight. in c/intlshipping · 216 points · 4 days ago

Correction: that was clearance time, not carrier time. The lane table separates them for exactly this reason.

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comment on [Training] three full-body sessions a week through the whole cut in c/glp1muscle · 32 points · 4 days ago

Fat-free mass index is a ratio of fat-free mass to height squared. It moves when either term does, which makes it awkward to interpret during active weight change.

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comment on [Explainer] lyophilised powder is far more forgiving than you think in c/coldchain · 1 points · 5 days ago

the excursion that matters is the one after reconstitution

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comment on [Trial Data] TRIUMPH timeline — what we actually know vs what gets repeated in c/retatrutide · 204 points · 5 days ago

It is a triple agonist at the GLP-1, GIP and glucagon receptors. The glucagon arm is the genuinely novel component and it is the one with the least human outcome data behind it.

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comment on [Explainer] lyophilised powder is far more forgiving than you think in c/coldchain · 90 points · 5 days ago

ask which lines are held in regional stock before you order in July

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comment on the mean transit time is useless, the 90th percentile is what melts your pack in c/intlshipping · 5 points · 9 days ago

customs clearance time is not carrier time and they get conflated

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comment on [Discussion] FFMI not weight, or you will celebrate losing muscle in c/glp1muscle · 16 points · 9 days ago

Same. Volume over novelty. Changing programme every six weeks cost me a year.

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comment on [Lane Report] Wuxi → Germany, 8 days, best packaging i have seen in c/intlshipping · -12 points · 11 days ago

customs clearance time is not carrier time and they get conflated

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comment on [Lane Report] Wuxi → Germany, 8 days, best packaging i have seen in c/intlshipping · 20 points · 12 days ago

Push back: comparing a July transit with a February one on the same lane is not a comparison.

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comment on [Template] the three sentences that got my prior auth through in c/insurancefights · 3 points · 12 days ago

Documented eighteen months of what had been tried in a one-page table. That table was the appeal.

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comment on the retatrutide question that gets asked weekly, answered properly in c/retatrutide · -12 points · 16 days ago

Push back: quoting the phase 2 headline as an expected outcome is not a fair reading of a small trial with wide intervals.

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comment on is it bad that i am not nauseous at all in c/newbiequestions · 0 points · 17 days ago

Titration is a tolerance ladder.

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

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comment on [Data] packaging quality by vendor, scored on five things, 60 shipments in c/intlshipping · 37 points · 22 days ago

Same lane, four orders, 6 to 11 days, all four within a couple of days of the quote. That consistency is the actual finding.

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comment on three years of DHL threads, summarised so you do not have to read them in c/intlshipping · 28 points · 24 days ago

Total transit decomposes into first mile, international leg, clearance and last mile. Only the first two are meaningfully under the shipper’s control and most reported variance sits in the last two.

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comment on three years of DHL threads, summarised so you do not have to read them in c/intlshipping · -25 points · 25 days ago

summer and winter are different lanes with the same name

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comment on three years of DHL threads, summarised so you do not have to read them in c/intlshipping · 6 points · 25 days ago

Same. QYB quoted 17 days on my lane and it landed at 16, which is exactly what you want from a quote.

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comment on shipping is the most under-discussed thing on this board in c/intlshipping · 0 points · 1 months ago

Same lane in a different season for comparison?

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comment on [Discussion] the external review advice in here is 2 years out of date in c/insurancefights · 8 points · 1 months ago

Prior authorisation criteria are republished each plan year. A criterion that blocked you in one year may not exist in the next, so a denial is worth retesting after the turnover.

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comment on [Question] New Zealand — has anyone got a straight answer on prescription in c/glp1eu · 51 points · 1 months ago

The variation between pharmacies inside my own country was larger than the variation I had been chasing across the border.

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comment on [Question] New Zealand — has anyone got a straight answer on prescription in c/glp1eu · 5 points · 1 months ago

Kept the prescription and the receipt for a claim, purely because a thread here told me to. Both were requested.

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comment on reimbursement — 17 things I got wrong before I got it right in c/glp1eu · 22 points · 1 months ago

Read the published reimbursement criteria where I live rather than asking. Took twenty minutes and answered everything.

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comment on [PSA] EMS is not what most of this community thinks it is in c/intlshipping · 15 points · 1 months ago

Small fix — shipped from the regional warehouse, not from origin, which is why the number looks unusual.

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comment on unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about formulary is guesswork in c/insurancefights · 34 points · 1 months ago

Yes — quoting their own policy bulletin back at them is far more effective than arguing in general terms.

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comment on [Question] how do you actually verify ice pack in c/coldchain · 13 points · 1 months ago

Once in solution, the relevant risks are hydrolysis, aggregation and, for some sequences, oxidation. Refrigeration slows all three; freezing a solution introduces a separate risk at the ice interface.

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comment on how much of what we believe about copay actually comes from appeal threads in c/insurancefights · 4 points · 1 months 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.

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comment on [Discussion] can we stop arguing about retatrutide until somebody posts a number in c/retatrutide · 1 points · 1 months ago

a lot of the confident posting here is extrapolation

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comment on the bloodwork thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down in c/bloodwork · 1 points · 2 months ago

do not change three things and then read the panel

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comment on the bloodwork thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down in c/bloodwork · 9 points · 2 months ago

How many weeks between the two measurements?

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comment on [Results] 48 weeks, 18kg, and DEXA was the hard part in c/glp1muscle · 6 points · 2 months ago

the scale cannot distinguish tissue types and never could

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comment on [Results] 48 weeks, 18kg, and DEXA was the hard part in c/glp1muscle · 30 points · 2 months ago

How many weeks between the two scans?

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comment on unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about baseline labs are guesswork in c/bloodwork · 0 points · 2 months ago

What did the repeat show?

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comment on [Discussion] the EU advice in here is 3 years out of date in c/glp1eu · 8 points · 2 months ago

What pack size is that price for?

Disagreeing with this bit: that criterion belongs to one member state and is being quoted as general.

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comment on [Discussion] can we stop arguing about lyophilised until somebody posts a number in c/coldchain · 5 points · 3 months ago

Yes — reconstitution date on the vial. It is the number you will want and cannot reconstruct.

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comment on reading reship threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly in c/intlshipping · 1 points · 3 months ago

That is a packaging observation, not a transit observation. Worth posting, worth separating.

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comment on [PSA] private plan is not what most of this community thinks it is in c/glp1canada · 18 points · 3 months ago

That is an employer plan process, and the provincial route is different in both form and timeline.

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comment on reading TRIUMPH threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly in c/retatrutide · 11 points · 4 months ago

Sceptical of the extrapolation. Forty-eight weeks does not tell you about seventy-two, and the curve shape is exactly what is unknown.

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comment on unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about bloodwork is guesswork in c/bloodwork · 278 points · 4 months ago

Nobody here can interpret your panel and this comment is not doing so. What a board can usefully do is help you ask better questions of somebody who can.

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comment on how much of what we believe about transit time actually comes from reship threads in c/intlshipping · 254 points · 4 months ago

Four observations is not a distribution. The lane tables here only became predictive once individual routes had a dozen or more reports behind them.

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comment on [Meta] proposal — a flair for lane posts in c/intlshipping · 1 points · 4 months ago

a lane with four reports is not yet a lane

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comment on does prior authorization actually matter or is it forum lore at this point in c/insurancefights · 1 points · 5 months ago

Prior authorisation criteria are republished each plan year. A criterion that blocked you in one year may not exist in the next, so a denial is worth retesting after the turnover.

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