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by yetanotherdood 909 days ago
You can cop it on the cheap from Mexico FWIW
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You need a Mexican prescription though.

Here it is for $211 per month: https://www.farmaciasguadalajara.com/ProductDisplay?urlReque... though that’s only a deal if your insurance won’t cover it in the states.

I bet it’s not in stock.

Anyone can also buy it from Nevada from a website that has the word peptide and the other word sciences in the name. A few popular youtube people have pointed out the same, although they can’t say the name but they do show the label. If one is concerned about it, compound pharmacies will provide it with a prescription from an HRT clinic.
The thing is, if I were to buy a vial of some research chemical and disregard the warnings and actually want to take them, I’d still have no idea what to do with a vial of liquid. Presumably it involves needles which I’ve never prepared. What’s in there could be totally safe to take and I might still end up with an infection or some other nonsense because I don’t know what I’m doing. I do appreciate a certain hacker spirited, DIY approach to medicine, but it could be a bridge too far for me.
There is an oral name-brand formulation of semaglutide. If the peptide people can reproduce that, it should not (need to) involve needles. The company GP is talking about only sells an injectable formulation, though.
Not a bad idea actually - I live in South Texas so it should be pretty feasible. I’ve never gone there for any medical reasons but have known people to do that.