Sydney Lepkin

So that changed things.

So now the compounded pill, at least for now, is no longer on the table.

The short answer is it depends.

It depends on who is making it.

It depends on whether they were making it in a sterile environment, whether they're licensed.

In the case of compounding, it's not, the FDA doesn't typically inspect your sort of small compounders.

It'll inspect your bigger ones, but a lot of these are made and they're regulated by state boards of pharmacy.

You know, when a drug goes generic, something called a USP monograph gets made.

And it's basically a recipe for like how – here's the standard for how you're supposed to make that ingredient.

And because this drug hasn't gone generic, there is no recipe like that.

So are they making it in a way that is –

and not going to have any like extra junk that you don't know about?

And like, is there going to be a long-term side effect that we're not seeing today?

Are the compounded versions effective?

I have definitely heard from people who have said, you know, like I my insurance coverage for Ozempic went away.

So I went the compounded route and it's been great for me.

I've heard from a lot of people like that.

But there are definitely real risks.

And most of the time what I when I hear from like emergency physicians and when I ask them about it, they'll say, you know, the issue is they either they miscalculated or perhaps it was too potent or it wasn't potent enough and it did nothing.

So like that's probably not going to send you to the emergency room.