james_edin said:They are two different exemptions from the same federal requirements and they buy different things.
Agreeing with james_edin, and the qualification matters more than the agreement. Worth adding the genuine exception, because it is real and narrow: a change made for an identified patient where the prescriber determines it produces a significant clinical difference for that patient. A grid of fixed doses offered to everybody is not that, whatever the intake form says.
Worth separating that from compounded supply, which this thread keeps folding into the same question. They behave differently and the advice does not transfer.
Dr.EndoEP said:True, though the ladder is longer and that is not a neutral detail — six dose steps means six opportunities to stall on the way up, and plenty of…
Thank you — that is the clearest version of this I have read, and I have read a lot of them. I will report back once I have actually tried it.
james_edin said:They are two different exemptions from the same federal requirements and they buy different things.
Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. A research-chemical supplier selling lyophilised powder labelled research use only is not compounding and is not claiming to. It is a different legal universe with no pharmacy oversight, no patient relationship and no content guarantee, and conflating the two in these threads helps nobody.
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That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.
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