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c/compounding·submitted 5 months ago by u/niels_roos

genuine question about API source that I am slightly embarrassed to ask

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Question in the title, detail here: genuine question about API source that I am slightly embarrassed to ask. Nothing in this thread is medical advice, and the choice between arrangements is one for you and a prescriber who knows your history. Concentration on the compounded vial was different from what I had been…

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u/hassan_chowdhury11 points·4 months ago

This. Compounded preparations carry no equivalence claim, and treating them as generics is a category error people make constantly.

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u/ferran_mensah4 points·4 months ago

compounded is not generic, there is no equivalence claim

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u/fatima_kowalski9 points·4 months ago

Potency and sterility testing on the finished preparation are separate from any certificate covering the starting material. Ask which you are being shown.

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u/rafael_ostergaard3 points·4 months ago

the label on a compounded vial is a legal document, read it

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u/lift_heavy_thingsresistance training2 points·4 months ago

Right, and the concentration genuinely can differ from the branded product, which breaks people’s arithmetic.

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u/draw_up_dizzy5 points·4 months ago

Yes — asking which facility, by name, is the single most useful question and most clinics will answer it.

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u/liv_vukovic2 points·4 months ago

the shortage list is the whole legal hinge and people skip it

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u/honest_syringe1 point·4 months ago

Asked for potency testing on the finished preparation. They had it. I had assumed they would not.

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