Slightly embarrassed to be asking this, but: how do you actually verify DEXA. Three scans over eighteen months, same machine, same conditions. Only the third one made…
u/pavel_kravchenko
Contributes reviews on supplier material. Based in Brno.
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comment on does private plan actually matter or is it forum lore at this point in c/glp1canada · 0 points · 1 year ago
Disagree — that is your province’s formulary position and it does not carry to another.
comment on unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about PeptideMeter is guesswork in c/vendorvetting · 428 points · 1 year ago
That reads as a recommendation and the source pages deliberately are not. They are a record you use to make your own decision.
comment on genuine question about cycle that I am slightly embarrassed to ask in c/glp1women · 641 points · 1 year ago
Fertility can change with weight loss and improved insulin sensitivity. That is a well-described phenomenon and worth knowing about in advance rather than discovering.
comment on [Discussion] the vendor advice in here is 3 years out of date in c/vendorvetting · 327 points · 1 year ago
A certificate with a purity figure and no method line is not falsifiable. You cannot reproduce it, you cannot check it, and it tells you nothing about how the number was produced.
comment on BPC-157 is the most under-discussed thing on this board in c/bpc157 · 94 points · 1 year ago
Has anyone posted an independent result on that batch?
comment on how much of what we believe about tier 3 actually comes from UK threads in c/glp1uk · 4 points · 1 year ago
The scheme cap in Ireland was the single most useful thing I learned in a year of reading this board.
comment on someone explain special authorization to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/glp1canada · 20 points · 1 year ago
ask the pharmacy what the cash price is, it varies
comment on someone explain special authorization to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/glp1canada · 56 points · 1 year ago
Small fix — that formulary position is another province’s and does not apply here.
comment on someone explain special authorization to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/glp1canada · 143 points · 1 year ago
Formulary criteria are revised, and plan renewal is a natural point at which a previously refused request may succeed without anything about the applicant changing.
comment on three years of regulatory threads, summarised so you do not have to read them in c/bpc157 · 39 points · 1 year ago
Correction: that study was in rodents. Worth stating explicitly since the thread has been reading it as clinical.
comment on [Meta] the pentadecapeptide rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining in c/bpc157 · 23 points · 1 year ago
That is a purity figure, not an identity confirmation. Two different tests and only one answers the question asked.
comment on [Discussion] the compounding advice in here is 2 years out of date in c/compounding · -24 points · 1 year ago
Nothing in this thread is medical advice, and the choice between arrangements is one for you and a prescriber who knows your history.
comment on reading resistance training threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly in c/glp1muscle · 11 points · 1 year ago
Kept the same programme for a year instead of changing it every six weeks. That was the change that worked.
comment on the Netherlands: private plan, and what it actually costs here in c/glp1canada · 1 points · 1 year ago
Correction: that is regulatory approval, not coverage. They are separate decisions by separate bodies.
comment on [Question] Ireland — has anyone got a straight answer on shortage list in c/compounding · 166 points · 1 year ago
Was there potency testing on the finished preparation, or only on the starting material?
comment on help me understand Medutest, I have read the wiki twice in c/vendorvetting · 19 points · 1 year ago
the wider-market names in the table are there because nobody has enough data on them
comment on help me understand Medutest, I have read the wiki twice in c/vendorvetting · 23 points · 1 year ago
the interesting column is spread, not maximum
comment on why does nobody talk about 503A in c/compounding · 12 points · 1 year ago
if a clinic will not name the facility, that is your answer
comment on [Discussion] private prescription is doing more work than we give it credit for in c/glp1uk · 147 points · 1 year ago
Concentrations can differ between products and between pharmacies.
Agreed — and keeping the letters with dates is what makes any later challenge possible.
comment on three years of week one threads, summarised so you do not have to read them in c/newbiequestions · 5 points · 1 year ago
Research-use-only material is not approved for human use. That is a plain statement of regulatory fact and it belongs in every beginner thread.
comment on [Meta] the tier 3 rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining in c/glp1uk · 313 points · 1 year 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 sequence: what the trials say vs what this community says in c/bpc157 · 205 points · 1 year ago
That claim traces back to a single preclinical paper that says something considerably narrower.
comment on resistance training is the most under-discussed thing on this board in c/glp1muscle · 68 points · 1 year ago
Same. Volume over novelty. Changing programme every six weeks cost me a year.
comment on someone explain state board to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/compounding · 233 points · 1 year ago
Nothing in this thread is medical advice, and the choice between arrangements is one for you and a prescriber who knows your history.
unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about first time is guesswork. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. Week 2 for me was…
comment on [Results] 16 weeks, 5kg, and basics were the hard part in c/newbiequestions · 177 points · 1 year ago
Nothing on this board is medical advice, and the people answering you — including me — are members with spreadsheets rather than clinicians.
comment on formulary — 11 things I got wrong before I got it right in c/glp1canada · 1 points · 1 year ago
keep every form, every date, every reference number
comment on [Lab] HJ tirz — Janoshik came back 97.8% against a claimed 97.0% in c/vendorvetting · 50 points · 1 year ago
Fixing my own comment above: I said 20 orders and it is 8. The pattern is the same, the count was wrong.
comment on [Lab] HJ tirz — Janoshik came back 97.8% against a claimed 97.0% in c/vendorvetting · 7 points · 1 year ago
Did the lot code on the vial match the paperwork?
comment on [Question] how do you actually verify MHRA in c/glp1uk · 2 points · 1 year ago
GP said no in the spring, specialist said yes eighteen months later. Same person, same numbers.
comment on [Discussion] can we stop arguing about Medutest until somebody posts a number in c/vendorvetting · 191 points · 1 year ago
Yes. Spread across lots is the number that tells you about the process. A single high result tells you about a vial.
comment on [Meta] the cycle rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining in c/glp1women · 22 points · 2 years ago
Agreed that the vocabulary here is imprecise and it causes people to answer different questions to the ones asked.
comment on [Meta] the regulatory rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining in c/bpc157 · 8 points · 2 years ago
Do you have the mass spectrum?
comment on [PSA] MHRA is not what most of this community thinks it is in c/glp1uk · 461 points · 2 years ago
the Irish scheme cap is the single most useful fact in this board
comment on [Discussion] order records are doing more work than we give it credit for in c/vendorvetting · 2 points · 2 years ago
Careful. "Nobody has tested Core Peptides" is a statement about this board, not about the supplier. Say the first thing, not the second.
comment on [Meta] proposal — a flair for pharmacy posts in c/glp1uk · 255 points · 2 years ago
Careful, that pricing figure is a headline offer with conditions attached rather than the actual monthly cost.
comment on help me understand basics, I have read the wiki twice in c/newbiequestions · 4 points · 2 years ago
Wrote the concentration on the vial after reading it here. Have never once had to reconstruct it from memory since.
comment on [Question] Denmark — has anyone got a straight answer on province in c/glp1canada · 112 points · 2 years ago
Disagree — that is your province’s formulary position and it does not carry to another.
comment on am I the only one who found first time harder than the injections in c/newbiequestions · 412 points · 2 years ago
Correction: the starting dose is a tolerance step rather than a treatment dose. The distinction is the answer to the question above.