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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The compounded meds could be anything. Norvo Nordis has strongly advised again taking them. I don't know why anyone would based on that alone. [/quote]

Norvo Nordisk makes Ozempic. Obviously they want to scare people into paying a much much higher price for their drugs. [/quote]

Maybe not. Compounding is only legal because Ozempic and Wegovy are listed as in shortage by the FDA. Right now, NN is selling every vial they can make.  If anything, compounded meds get people started, and to maintain, they will have to switch to Wegovy/Ozempic if/when it comes out of shortage. And if they work well, keep the hype going. What they do have a stake in is keeping badly compounded meds off the market. Side effects like OP’s give their product a bad name, even if NN has nothing to do with the manufacturing process. [/quote]

There cannot possibly be a shortage of compounded, that's the whole point. Ingredients are cheap and readily available. Compounded products don't have competition from Ozempic at all until Ozempic lowers prices dramatically and produces much more.[/quote]

Ingredients are NOT readily available because only Norvo-nordisk owns the patent for the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) -semiglutide. The APIs used in compounded preparations must be sourced from an FDA-approved supplier. Because Novo Nordisk, the only FDA-approved supplier of these semaglutide drugs, is currently facing a shortage, any compounded semaglutide is NOT being sourced from them. Furthermore, they’ve explicitly stated they do not provide semaglutide for compounding.

So where are compounded pharmacies getting semiglutide? This is the million dollar question! You don't know! Some compounding pharmacies are using a slightly different version using semaglutide salts, which are not eligible for compounding. Because the salt forms of semaglutide are not FDA-approved, they have not been the subject of clinical trials to demonstrate their safety or effectiveness and should not be used in compounded preparations as a semaglutide substitute. This is especially important because these “semaglutide” compounded preparations are administered as injections, allowing any unknown substances to enter systemic circulation immediately. [/quote]

HALLELUJA! A person that knows about compounded drugs that isn't me.

It's terrifying how little you all know about what drugs you are taking. Its especially terrifying given that these are non-FDA approved sterile injectables. Not everyone needs to be a drug regulation expert, but if you are going to get what are essentially illegal knock-off drugs and inject them into yourself, you should probably know a bit more about them than you all are demonstrating here.

The semaglutide salts being used here are in all likelihood coming from bulks manufacturers in India or China. Those countries produce the overwhelming majority of bulk APIs used worldwide. Many of the facilities are FDA registered and inspected...but many are not, including where the semaglutide salts are coming from.

FDA has been very clear that there is no legal basis on which to compound these drugs currently. [/quote]

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