中国产Tirz的质量与礼来相比如何?

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差别真的很大吗?在配药论坛上,有人说礼来公司的原料、设备和设施都比中国产的TIRZ好得多。

还有人说我们买到的灰色TIRZ基本上都是垃圾。我反驳说,市面上的TIRZ也都是中国产的,虽然有一份绿色清单供配药药房采购前体,但清单上的原料没有一种是中国产的。

在Reddit上,我们也看到过一些礼来公司的TIRZ笔,也是中国制造并从中国发货的。所以……灰色市场的TIRZ和礼来公司的TIRZ,从实际层面来说,到底差别有多大?
 
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Gr33dyOctopus said:
差别真的很大吗?在配药论坛上,有人说礼来公司的原料、设备和设施都比中国产的TIRZ好得多。

还有人说我们买到的灰色TIRZ基本上都是垃圾。我反驳说,市面上的TIRZ也都是中国产的,虽然有一份绿色清单供配药药房采购前体,但清单上的原料没有一种是中国产的。

在Reddit上,我们也看到过一些礼来公司的TIRZ笔,也是中国制造并从中国发货的。所以……灰色市场的TIRZ和礼来公司的TIRZ,从实际层面来说,到底差别有多大?
我认为只有三点不同。

第一种情况是装得太满。你只需要注意一下就行了。

第二个区别在于你需要做更多的准备工作。将BAC水与粉末混合,然后填充到注射器或注射笔药筒中。

The third .. money. I spent $1000 to get my first 2 months of Wegovy from the pharmacy. I knew I would burn through my medical savings in about 6 months time. After that I would have to start making budget cuts. I didn't want to do that. So instead I spent about $300 for my first kit of sema and the supplies to mix, store and deliver it. I expect this kit to last for at least a year. It will probably last longer than that to be honest.
 
If your vial of cheap chinese Tirz contains the correct drug, then there is essentially zero difference.

I have no doubt that the manufacturer formulation is superior in terms of long term peptide stabilty, which it needs to be as it has to have a long shelf life after being mixed with water which is how they sell it. But given that the lyophilised peptides are only mixed with bac water as needed, and used in the next month or so, it really does not matter if the mixture is as stable over months to years after being mixed.

Apart from that, dosage accuracy is not as precise due to under or overfilling but the worst I have seen is 20%, and most are within plus or minus 10%. In practical terms this really makes no difference either unless you are especially sensitive to adverse effects from tiny dose changes.

The biggest risks are of being ripped off by a fake seller or one who gets busted, but even this is usually cheaper than paying for the original version. A loss of a few hundred to a bad seller is still way less than the cost of a one month prescription.

It is not impossible to get a product that has nothing in it or worse has a different peptide or toxic contaminants, it happens but is not common. The only way to be sure this is not going to happen is to get your batch independently tested, before you use it, either yourself or through a group.

Bacteria or endotoxin are possible as well, I have still never come across a case of someone complaining about infections at injection sites, so presumably this is quite rare, and tiny amounts of endotoxin are not likely to be any worse than the amounts that leak through your gut into your blood every day.
 
There are two major issues:

1) Quality - we all have heard or experienced quality issues that are probably much more likely with gray than brand name. Therefore, I would never perform research without quality third party testing. Even then, still likely more risk.

2) Risk of any Gray market (and this is not the only one)- scammers, shipping issues, crypto, refunding problems. Things you don't have to deal with when you buy from Amazon.

I think each of us must weigh the risks (which are real) and benefits (which is mostly cost).

Even if I never went gray, I have learned more valuable information from this community that I would have ever known otherwise.

That said, If Lily would lower their price or my insurance would cover and it cost me $100/month let me tell you that I will be done with gray.
 
Over the course of May 2023 to February 2024 I lost more than 50 pounds, from 195 to 140, without any other lifestyle changes. Last night I checked and I was 143. I've tried Chinese sema, Chinese cagri, Chinese survo, and a few other peps, so it definitely works.

This week I decided to finally go to the gym. Without having first lost the weight, I don't think I would have had the confidence to step foot in the gym.
 
Most of the compounders buy from China and recon anyway. If they're spouting off BS, I lose even more trust in them.

There are some differences that the others have mentioned (testing, constant dose, purity, B12 etc) and there are others like the "free" autopen, more preservatives for room temp shipping, and a freebase form rather than acetate that the grey market provides. Manufacturing for LL is likely significantly different just due to scale, and of course there's not a lyophilization and recon steps.

Does it work the same? If it's pure and has the right concentration, Yep!
 
PopTart said:
I would also add to that fill “variation” across vials from the same batch.
Yeah. Honestly, though I don't think its all that serious. I mean are doctors adjusting meds based on our weight? Most of the time they don't. They just give us standardized amount and for most things its good enough.

I personally think that GLP1s are the same. Like if my 10mg sema vial was really a 12mg vial and my target dose was 0.5mg .. is it really that big of a deal if I end up having 0.6mg?

(this is what really happened with my first doses of grey)
 
Gr33dyOctopus said:
Is there a huge difference? On the comppunding forums they say that Lilly has better ingredients, equipment and facilities that put Chinese tirz to shame.

Look for third party testing.

It’s all the same molecule, like ibuprofen is ibuprofen . Tirz is tirz. Advil brand may put it in a nicer bottle. Lilly has it prepackaged in a pen. Lilly direct will tell you vials are one use only BUT their directions had to go through legal department. ( r/ CPAP has proven to me their legal department wasn’t wrong for the average American. )

Third party testing is the only way I trust grey personally.
 
Foggy-Hollow said:
Look for third party testing.

It’s all the same molecule, like ibuprofen is ibuprofen . Tirz is tirz. Advil brand may put it in a nicer bottle. Lilly has it prepackaged in a pen. Lilly direct will tell you vials are one use only BUT their directions had to go through legal department. ( r/ CPAP has proven to me their legal department wasn’t wrong for the average American. )

Third party testing is the only way I trust grey personally.

Yea im about third party testing too. Otherwise just no way. It could be anything. It could be anything anyway. But 3rd party tests offer at least a veneer of something to believe in lol
 
deleted.user.18 said:
Look… you’ve got brand name cereal, and store brand cereal. Some store brand cereal is actually pretty good and even preferred by the consumer. But it’ll never be the same. Some of it is just absolute 🤮 … I kind figure it’s the same with drugs. It’s all made with the same raw ingredients generally. But the finished product can vary drastically. End of the day if you can make a 💩 the cereal did its job.

More like Kirkland Signature French Vodka vs. Grey Goose.
 
Foggy-Hollow said:
Look for third party testing.

It’s all the same molecule, like ibuprofen is ibuprofen . Tirz is tirz. Advil brand may put it in a nicer bottle. Lilly has it prepackaged in a pen. Lilly direct will tell you vials are one use only BUT their directions had to go through legal department. ( r/ CPAP has proven to me their legal department wasn’t wrong for the average American. )

Third party testing is the only way I trust grey personally.

Yea im about third party testing too. Otherwise just no way. It could be anything. It could be anything anyway. But 3rd party tests offer at least a veneer of something
 
There is an interesting post on peppys that covers the finer points of the science of this stuff. There’s more than just the API in the vial, and it all has a role. Formulation is more complicated than most of us will ever wrap our heads around.
 
deleted.user.18 said:
There is an interesting post on peppys that covers the finer points of the science of this stuff. There’s more than just the API in the vial, and it all has a role. Formulation is more complicated than most of us will ever wrap our heads around.

Chemistry is a subject I “got through” in college and biochem is a whole other world. Maybe it would be easier now that I have something real-world to connect to & motivate learning.

Maybe I was too flippant in my post? Does the average grey user need more? I don’t know what I don’t know. About the time I seem to have a reasonable handle on gray the rabbit hole goes deeper. 🙂
 
Foggy-Hollow said:
Chemistry is a subject I “got through” in college and biochem is a whole other world. Maybe it would be easier now that I have something real-world to connect to & motivate learning.

Maybe I was too flippant in my post? Does the average grey user need more? I don’t know what I don’t know. About the time I seem to have a reasonable handle on gray the rabbit hole goes deeper. 🙂
I didn’t think you were flippant at all. Hopefully you didn’t take my comment as anything other than further engagement.

The peppys post blew my brain up. The guys discussing it must have phds or something.

But it did open my mind to things like binders, buffers, filers and the lyophilizing process can all affect the finished product. I’m sure some of it is fluff and marketing, but some of it is like… EL needs to satisfy the regulators, and deliver a durable product that can last through shipping and storage in a reconstituted state. Grey vendors don’t really care about that- shipped as powder and store properly by us it goes through a lot less rough treatment than the commercial product. At least that’s what my smooth brain is slipping on.
 
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