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comment on [Question] Canada — has anyone got a straight answer on chargeback in c/cryptopay · 1 points · 5 months ago

a payment sent on the wrong network is usually gone

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comment on [Question] Canada — has anyone got a straight answer on chargeback in c/cryptopay · 0 points · 5 months ago

Small fix — that is the network fee, not a supplier charge. The distinction matters for the complaint you are making.

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comment on [Question] Canada — has anyone got a straight answer on chargeback in c/cryptopay · 86 points · 5 months ago

Which network, exactly?

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comment on 20 months in and FFMI is still the thing I get wrong in c/glp1muscle · 1 points · 5 months ago

Hydration status and fasting state affect the lean mass estimate.

Agreed — and same machine, same conditions, or the two scans are not comparable.

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comment on help me understand formulary, I have read the wiki twice in c/insurancefights · 3 points · 5 months ago

Small fix — external review is independent of the plan. The second-level internal appeal is not.

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comment on [Meta] the chargeback rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining in c/cryptopay · 82 points · 6 months ago

Confirmation took forty minutes on a busy evening and I had already written half an angry message. Deleted it.

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comment on why does nobody talk about discontinuation in c/tapering · 45 points · 6 months ago

Disagree with the framing. Regain is the documented outcome after discontinuation; calling it a personal failure is both wrong and corrosive.

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comment on [Results] 38 weeks, 14kg, and T2D was the hard part in c/t2dglp1 · 5 points · 6 months ago

a1c can be affected by things that have nothing to do with glucose

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comment on [Discussion] we are measuring USDC at the wrong time and calling it noise in c/cryptopay · 0 points · 6 months ago

Keep every transaction hash in a note file with the order reference. It has resolved two queries instantly.

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comment on [Results] 89 weeks on 1.7mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring in c/semaglutide · 100 points · 6 months ago

Same. I sat at 0.5mg for three months because it was working and there was nothing to fix.

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comment on the chargeback question that gets asked weekly, answered properly in c/cryptopay · 125 points · 7 months ago

How many confirmations does it show?

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comment on help me understand interval stretching, I have read the wiki twice in c/tapering · 15 points · 7 months ago

Push back: that is a taper schedule aimed at another member and this board does not host those.

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comment on three years of denial threads, summarised so you do not have to read them in c/insurancefights · 1 points · 7 months ago

the denial letter names the criterion, start there

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comment on [Meta] proposal — a flair for 2.4mg posts in c/semaglutide · 5 points · 7 months ago

week 74 plateau is the most predictable thing in this entire board

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comment on [Results] 69 weeks, 14kg, and T2D was the hard part in c/t2dglp1 · 536 points · 8 months ago

Postprandial excursions typically respond earlier than fasting glucose, so the sequence people observe is not a sign that something is not working.

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comment on anyone else notice resistance training kicking in around week 92 in c/glp1muscle · 35 points · 8 months ago

I would not change the programme on the strength of one scan. The measurement error is larger than the effect you are reacting to.

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comment on [Discussion] formulary is doing more work than we give it credit for in c/insurancefights · 1 points · 8 months ago

Is this a prior authorisation denial or a formulary exclusion?

janoshik_junkie is right that this is documentation rather than persuasion. It took me a year to accept that.

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comment on the confirmations question that gets asked weekly, answered properly in c/cryptopay · 28 points · 8 months ago

The transaction hash is the canonical receipt: it is public, verifiable by either party, and it is what a support query should quote.

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comment on the confirmations question that gets asked weekly, answered properly in c/cryptopay · 0 points · 8 months ago

Got a quote with a fifteen-minute expiry and assumed it was a pressure tactic. It was just a held rate.

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comment on [Discussion] can we stop arguing about T2D until somebody posts a number in c/t2dglp1 · 20 points · 8 months ago

A1c reflects average glycaemia over roughly the preceding three months, weighted towards the most recent weeks.

This is the distinction that resolves most of the confusion here — average versus shape.

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comment on the external review thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down in c/insurancefights · 1 points · 8 months ago

That criterion is from the previous plan year. The current bulletin has different wording.

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comment on help me understand appeal, I have read the wiki twice in c/insurancefights · 178 points · 9 months ago

A denial letter is required to state a reason and to reference the criterion applied. That reference is the handle: request the clinical policy document by its identifier and answer it point by point.

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comment on my A1c moved and I cannot work out whether TRIUMPH is why in c/retatrutide · -5 points · 9 months ago

small trial, big effect, wide error bars

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comment on reading weekly dosing threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly in c/semaglutide · 6 points · 9 months ago

That figure is the 68-week trial mean, not a weekly rate. Dividing it by the weeks gives you a number that does not mean anything.

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comment on tried food noise for 14 weeks. here is what happened. in c/semaglutide · 14 points · 10 months ago

The weekly interval comes out of the half-life — roughly a week — so you are on a smooth curve rather than a series of spikes. That is also why moving your day slightly does very little.

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comment on [Discussion] can we stop arguing about TGA until somebody posts a number in c/glp1aus · 25 points · 10 months ago

That figure is a private price at one pharmacy, not a national one.

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comment on Sweden: external review, and what it actually costs here in c/insurancefights · 0 points · 10 months ago

That advice is jurisdiction-specific and this board spans several. Say where you are.

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comment on why does nobody talk about glucagon in c/retatrutide · 208 points · 11 months ago

Yes — the comparison threads are apples to oranges and they generate more heat than anything else here.

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comment on [PSA] tapering is not what most of this community thinks it is in c/tapering · 8 points · 11 months ago

interval stretching is the most commonly described approach here

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comment on [Question] Canada — has anyone got a straight answer on escrow in c/cryptopay · 5 points · 11 months ago

Did you send a test amount first?

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comment on three years of appeal threads, summarised so you do not have to read them in c/insurancefights · 113 points · 11 months ago

That advice is jurisdiction-specific and this board spans several. Say where you are.

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comment on [Discussion] denial is doing more work than we give it credit for in c/insurancefights · 11 points · 12 months ago

Missed a deadline because I counted from when I opened the envelope. That mistake cost me an entire cycle.

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comment on how much of what we believe about tapering actually comes from discontinuation threads in c/tapering · 174 points · 1 year ago

Careful — interval stretching and dose reduction are different interventions and your post uses them interchangeably.

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comment on [Question] copay — what am I missing here in c/insurancefights · 7 points · 1 year ago

a template letter that quotes their own criteria back is the strongest one

Adding the underused one — external review. Independent, binding where it applies, and hardly anybody gets that far.

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comment on [Question] how do you actually verify DEXA in c/glp1muscle · 8 points · 1 year ago

Agreed — protein and resistance training. Everything else in these threads is a rounding error on those two.

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comment on 5 months in and dose escalation is still the thing I get wrong in c/retatrutide · 2 points · 1 year ago

Right, and it bears repeating that nothing here is approved anywhere and research material is not for human use.

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comment on tried triple agonist for 19 weeks. here is what happened. in c/retatrutide · 8 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.

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comment on the semaglutide thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down in c/semaglutide · 28 points · 1 year ago

First month I lost almost nothing and nearly quit. Month two and three were where it all happened.

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comment on someone explain discontinuation to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/tapering · 4 points · 1 year ago

Agreed. Appetite is the leading indicator and the scale is the lagging one. Watch the first, not the second.

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comment on [Lab] 9th independent test on QYB — 97.7% on a claimed 97.0%, and the trend is the interesting part in c/retatrutide · 839 points · 1 year ago

Which phase 2 arm are you quoting, and at what week?

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