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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People are so weirdly against this - a lot of people don't have hard side effects and you can get compounded versions for a lot less.  People do all sorts of things with risks for vanity reasons (including major surgeries!).  You can think its vain and silly but I don't get the anger about this particular one.  The medications and compounding pharmacies have been around a long time - this isn't cheap surgery in a back alley of mexico, its known drugs with known profiles

Willow does Rx for non BMI reasons [/quote]

Compounding drugs are not approved by FDA. There is no way to know how safe (or effective) they are. These drugs have their one risk as well. They have a lot of impurities in them.[/quote]
“Impurities”? Compounding pharmacies aren’t a free-for-all. Most of the responses against clearly don’t have any experience with them. I mean, don’t take them if you don’t want to but drop the judgement. 
Being overweight/obese also has a lot of side effects. Only you can decide if it’s worth the trade off. [/quote]

The impurities are part of the drug not the compounding pharmacies. It is clear you have no understanding of how drugs are manufactured. Ignore is a bliss.
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Lol.

I worked on compounding pharmacy issues for YEARS, including negotiating the federal legislation to regulate them.

To say impurities are part of the "drug" (its called an active pharmaceutical ingredient, or API) and never part of the process of compounding is just an abject lie.

Ethical, high quality compounders can play important roles in healthcare delivery. Many involved in compounding GLP-1s are not ethical, nor high quality, especially the state regulated 503A facilities, but the 503B facilities as well. Overseas suppliers are not always great and frequently forge certificates of analysis, etc. that accompany the sales of the bulks. Sterile compounding raises risks of quality issues substantially. Self-dosing these medications has also proven to be highly problematic for a large number of patients who either intentionally or accidentally overdose themselves on GLP1s...something managed by branded autoinjectors. There are also a number of counterfeit GLP1s coming in from many, many places.

I work with medical associations and the FDA for a living. None of our physicians would ever recommend use of a compounded GLP1 and most major professional and patient societies have recommended against their use. Compounding of these drugs at all is due to some very creative, unethical skirting of the absolute outskirts of the law...the laws were drafted to prevent exactly what these companies are doing. [/quote]

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