people did stockpile before the compounding change and some of them are still working through it
#anz 2025-10-02
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Highlights from this day
- quiet_head_qi — shipping into an australian summer, what do people actually do about it 20:50
- boots_supply — transit was 18 days for me and the tracking went dark for a week in the middle, which is normal for that route 21:10
- VialBot — Purity check: no report on file for lot H-2814. Nothing logged either way. 21:15
- pharmac_pen — an australian summer transit is the worst cold chain problem discussed in this channel and it is not close 22:40
- pharmac_pen — i pay for the fastest service in summer purely to shorten the hot part, not to get it any sooner 22:43
several members lost their compounded supply with roughly two months notice. that is the reported experience, not a rule i can quote at you
how bad is the heat problem in january really
powder survived
Reminder for sharps_bin_sid: dose day is today. Set 5 days ago.
a parcel of mine sat in a queensland depot for 6 days in summer, and it tested fine afterwards, which surprised me
are the rules in nz the same or completely separate
Archive lookup: sharps_bin_sid first appears in this channel on 2024-12-07.
three gel packs
an nz member put their monthly cost at roughly 500 new zealand dollars in 2024. one person at one dose, i think
i keep a spare month in the fridge specifically because summer ordering down here is a gamble
shipping into an australian summer, what do people actually do about it
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as far as i understood it a year ago, the pbs listing covered the diabetes indication and not weight management, and that split catches people out
sorry to jump in the seasonal thing works both ways. a july parcel into australia is an easy parcel
as of a year or so ago there was no nz reimbursement for weight indications at all, so check rather than taking that as current
supply steadied here
transit was 18 days for me and the tracking went dark for a week in the middle, which is normal for that route
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a member in perth and a member in melbourne reported completely different transit times on the same supplier in the same month
Purity check: no report on file for lot H-2814. Nothing logged either way.
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tga shortage notices were live for long stretches while i was following it. whether they are now i genuinely do not know
[edited]the pharmacist i asked was straightforward about supply and had no idea about anything else, which is fair enough
*Medutest not the other one
i keep a spare month in the fridge specifically because summer ordering down here is a gamble
three gel packs and a foil liner got mine through a january delivery. the packs arrived liquid and the powder was fine
update on the earlier thing tga and medsafe are separate regulators making separate decisions, and people conflate them constantly
i was wrong about the compounding change taking effect immediately, it was phased, and i had told three people otherwise
any pricing in this channel is a snapshot from whenever it was typed. australian prices moved a lot in two years
an australian summer transit is the worst cold chain problem discussed in this channel and it is not close
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dont order in january
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i pay for the fastest service in summer purely to shorten the hot part, not to get it any sooner
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the compounding rule change happened and it did stop the pharmacies that were making it, based on what members reported here at the time