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comment on someone explain first time to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/newbiequestions · 40 points · 7 months ago
Research-use-only material is not approved for human use.
Adding the one habit worth starting today: write the concentration on the vial.
comment on private prescription — 20 things I got wrong before I got it right in c/glp1uk · 8 points · 9 months ago
specialist service, not GP, for tier 3 in most of England
comment on the CGM question that gets asked weekly, answered properly in c/t2dglp1 · 1 points · 9 months ago
My ferritin moved and it turned out to have nothing to do with glucose at all.
comment on [Question] Spain — has anyone got a straight answer on NHS in c/glp1uk · 10 points · 9 months ago
That is the first-month offer price, not the ongoing monthly cost.
ignacio_roos is right that the two routes are separate. A private prescription does not move you up the list.
comment on [Question] MHRA — what am I missing here in c/glp1uk · 52 points · 1 year ago
BMI thresholds vary by ICB and by year
comment on [Question] MHRA — what am I missing here in c/glp1uk · 22 points · 1 year ago
The online consultation asked me three questions, none of them about my history. I did not go ahead.
comment on how much of what we believe about mechanism actually comes from appetite threads in c/glp1science · 12 points · 1 year ago
Same view. Tolerance developing to the gastric effect while the appetite effect persists explains most of what the side-effect board reports.
comment on [Question] Canada — has anyone got a straight answer on carrier in c/intlshipping · 18 points · 1 year ago
the median is more useful than the fastest anybody ever got
comment on what went wrong is the most under-discussed thing on this board in c/darkspot · 93 points · 1 year ago
stopping for financial reasons is not a personal failure
comment on [Vendor] GL Biochem vs JEEP on the same compound, same month — both cleared 97.0% in c/darkspot · 1 points · 1 year ago
somebody will read this at the point you were at, and it will help
comment on unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about MHRA is guesswork in c/glp1uk · 0 points · 1 year ago
Yes — the consultation that asks nothing tells you what kind of service it is.
elise_ramos is right that the two routes are separate. A private prescription does not move you up the list.
comment on 13 months in and basics are still the thing I get wrong in c/newbiequestions · 626 points · 1 year ago
Yes — nobody here is your clinician, and the good answers on this board all end with that.
comment on small win: glycaemic control stopped being a problem at week 17 in c/t2dglp1 · 8 points · 1 year ago
Fasting or postprandial?
comment on the NHS question that gets asked weekly, answered properly in c/glp1uk · 40 points · 1 year ago
Two years and four months on a tier 3 list. Referral date and every letter kept, which turned out to matter when the service reorganised.
comment on is it normal to get sulphur burps at week 17 in c/newbiequestions · 1 points · 1 year ago
research-use-only material is not approved for human use, and that belongs in every beginner thread
comment on someone explain appetite to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/glp1science · 4 points · 1 year ago
gastric emptying slows, it does not stop
comment on [Question] how do you actually verify DHL in c/intlshipping · 92 points · 1 year ago
regional stock changes everything about transit
comment on how much of what we believe about lane actually comes from shipping threads in c/intlshipping · 12 points · 1 year ago
the median is more useful than the fastest anybody ever got
comment on [Question] how do you actually verify UK in c/glp1uk · 192 points · 1 year ago
Agreed. The ICB variation is the thing that makes national advice useless here.
comment on help me understand lane, I have read the wiki twice in c/intlshipping · 45 points · 1 year ago
customs clearance time is not carrier time and they get conflated
comment on [Discussion] appetite is doing more work than we give it credit for in c/glp1science · 1 points · 1 year ago
Agreed that receptor distribution is the key to the side-effect map. It is not a mystery, it is anatomy.
comment on 5 months in and metformin is still the thing I get wrong in c/t2dglp1 · 10 points · 2 years ago
postprandial excursions are where most of the improvement shows up first
comment on [Meta] proposal — a flair for private prescription posts in c/glp1uk · 62 points · 2 years ago
Agreed — and keeping the letters with dates is what makes any later challenge possible.
sten_bhattacharya is right that the two routes are separate. A private prescription does not move you up the list.
comment on reading pricing threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly in c/glp1uk · 0 points · 2 years ago
Yes — four nations, four pathways, and threads that ignore that give people the wrong answer confidently.