u/sten_palacios
Contributes reviews on supplier material. Based in Nairobi.
member · joined 14 May 2025
comment on [Country Guide] personal import rules, my country, with the actual citations in c/customs · 38 points · 2 days ago
Nothing on this board is legal advice. Where a notice carries a deadline or a consequence, that is a matter for somebody qualified in your own jurisdiction.
comment on [Country] ES — private receta, pharmacy stock, and the August problem in c/glp1eu · 6 points · 7 days ago
Published reimbursement criteria exist in most member states and are usually available in the national language. They are the authoritative answer to eligibility questions that this board can only guess at.
comment on [PSA] never the fridge door. the door is the warmest wobbliest shelf you own in c/coldchain · 21 points · 9 days ago
Yes — reconstitution date on the vial. It is the number you will want and cannot reconstruct.
comment on GIP agonism explained like i am five, please in c/tirzepatide · 39 points · 10 days ago
Appetite effect for me is flat across seven days. On sema it was a wave. Same person, different molecule.
comment on [Seizure] third one in two years. the pattern is the carrier, not the country. in c/customs · 1 points · 10 days ago
Which country, and which country did it ship from?
comment on [Data] my fridge is 2.1°C at the back and 7.8°C in the door. same fridge. in c/coldchain · 8 points · 11 days ago
Yes — a logger in the box turns a fortnight of speculation into a chart.
comment on [PSA] never post a wallet address here. not yours, not theirs. in c/cryptopay · 1 points · 13 days ago
network and address, checked twice, before anything else
comment on [PSA] never post a wallet address here. not yours, not theirs. in c/cryptopay · 142 points · 13 days ago
Network fees are set by chain congestion at the time of sending. They are paid to the network, not to the recipient, and they vary by hour as well as by chain.
comment on [Paper] ATTAIN-1 — an oral pill with no food restrictions is a bigger deal than the % suggests in c/trialwatch · 25 points · 15 days ago
Not convinced. Cross-trial comparison between two programmes with different populations and designs is not a comparison.
comment on [Question] how do you actually verify confirmations in c/cryptopay · 1 points · 23 days ago
keep the hash, it is the only receipt that exists
comment on Poland: prescription, and what it actually costs here in c/glp1eu · 16 points · 23 days ago
Supply notices are issued nationally. A notice in one member state does not imply availability problems in another, even for the same product.
comment on someone explain lyophilised to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/coldchain · 91 points · 1 months ago
Regional stock changes the question rather than answering it: shorter lanes mean less exposure and fewer variables, which is why the warehouse question is worth asking before ordering in summer.
comment on log — my 20-week log, condensed into one table in c/dosinglogs · 2 points · 1 months ago
I would not draw a trend line through that. Two points and a gap is not a series.
comment on [Results] 65 weeks on 15mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring in c/tirzepatide · 0 points · 1 months ago
Vials and pens carry the same molecule; what differs is fill volume, device tolerance and whether you are doing your own arithmetic. Neither is inherently more accurate.
comment on dual agonist — my 18-week log, condensed into one table in c/tirzepatide · 18 points · 1 months ago
Came off sema and onto tirz with a two-week gap. The first month was flat and I assumed I had made a mistake. Month two it moved.
comment on does ice pack actually matter or is it forum lore at this point in c/coldchain · 207 points · 1 months ago
You cannot infer potency from a temperature record. The record tells you what happened to the box; only a test tells you what happened to the material.
comment on [Question] New Zealand — has anyone got a straight answer on prescription in c/glp1eu · 1 points · 1 months ago
pack sizes differ, so per-month comparisons need care
comment on [Discussion] we are measuring tirzepatide at the wrong time and calling it noise in c/tirzepatide · 57 points · 1 months ago
Not sure that follows.
Saving this one. It is the clearest statement of the stall problem I have read here.
comment on [Discussion] cold chain is doing more work than we give it credit for in c/coldchain · 43 points · 1 months ago
Powder or already in solution?
comment on reimbursement — 17 things I got wrong before I got it right in c/glp1eu · -36 points · 1 months ago
pack sizes differ, so per-month comparisons need care
comment on [Lab] split one vial across PeptideMeter and VendorInvestigate — 98.4% and 97.2% in c/tirzepatide · 2 points · 1 months ago
SURMOUNT-1 landed around 21% at 72 weeks on the top arm
comment on why does nobody talk about SURPASS in c/tirzepatide · 235 points · 1 months ago
The thing nobody warned me about was how much of this is logistics — storing it, remembering it, the same day every week.
comment on the personal import thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down in c/customs · 19 points · 1 months ago
Got a request for information and treated it as a seizure for two days before actually reading it. It was neither dramatic nor difficult.
comment on the UK: excursion, and what it actually costs here in c/coldchain · 114 points · 1 months ago
ask which lines are held in regional stock before you order in July
comment on [PSA] PeptideMeter results are area% by default and people keep forgetting in c/tirzepatide · 2 points · 2 months ago
Same experience with the appetite effect being flatter across the week rather than front-loaded.
comment on confirmations — 20 things I got wrong before I got it right in c/cryptopay · 3 points · 2 months ago
network and address, checked twice, before anything else
comment on confirmations — 20 things I got wrong before I got it right in c/cryptopay · 8 points · 2 months ago
Rate quotes expire because the underlying rate moves. A short expiry is ordinary; urgency about your decision is a separate signal and should be read separately.
comment on [Lab] split one vial across Medutest and Janoshik — 99.3% and 98.7% in c/tirzepatide · 1 points · 2 months ago
Small fix: SURMOUNT is the obesity programme, SURPASS is the type-2 programme. They are different endpoints and the numbers do not transfer.
comment on [Lab] split one vial across Medutest and Janoshik — 99.3% and 98.7% in c/tirzepatide · 26 points · 2 months ago
Correction to my own post above — I said 10mg and I have been on 12.5mg since the spring. Same argument, wrong number.
comment on [Lab] split one vial across Medutest and Janoshik — 99.3% and 98.7% in c/tirzepatide · 42 points · 2 months ago
Did you come to this from sema, and if so how long was the gap?
comment on [PSA] cold chain is not what most of this community thinks it is in c/coldchain · 26 points · 2 months ago
powder at room temperature for a few days is usually a non-event
comment on is it normal to get nausea at week 48 in c/dosinglogs · 14 points · 2 months ago
the value of a log is in month six, not week one
comment on [Discussion] can we stop arguing about data logger until somebody posts a number in c/coldchain · 244 points · 3 months ago
You cannot infer potency from a temperature record. The record tells you what happened to the box; only a test tells you what happened to the material.
comment on [Question] endpoint — what am I missing here in c/trialwatch · 27 points · 3 months ago
Intention-to-treat analyses everybody randomised regardless of what they did afterwards.
Agreed. And the interval, not the point estimate, is what the trial actually established.
comment on anyone else notice T2D kicking in around week 89 in c/t2dglp1 · 1 points · 3 months ago
Postprandial excursions flattened out first and the fasting number took months to follow. Nobody had told me to expect that order.
comment on anyone else notice T2D kicking in around week 89 in c/t2dglp1 · 1 points · 3 months ago
Fasting or postprandial?
comment on [Meta] the customs rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining in c/customs · 0 points · 3 months ago
Nothing on this board is legal advice. Where a notice carries a deadline or a consequence, that is a matter for somebody qualified in your own jurisdiction.
comment on [Discussion] we are measuring pharmacy at the wrong time and calling it noise in c/glp1uk · 151 points · 3 months ago
Discharge from a specialist service at goal is a normal end point of that pathway. Whether prescribing continues in primary care afterwards is a local decision and is worth asking about at the start rather than at the end.
comment on SELECT: what the trials say vs what this community says in c/trialwatch · 4 points · 3 months ago
Is that intention-to-treat or completers?
comment on hazard ratio is the most under-discussed thing on this board in c/trialwatch · 2 points · 4 months ago
Read a press release and the publication three months apart. The hedging in the second one was substantial.