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Was recently talking about this with a friend who gets this from her doctor and is paying out the ass even with insurance, and another whose doctor refuses to prescribe it because "there is a shortage". Semaglutide is like $40 for a 5ml vial from Chinese labs (that's about 2 weeks at the highest dose), but we are trained to be afraid of self-medding or even talking to doctors about sourcing our meds outside of "official" pharmacies.
The cost of pharmaceuticals is so artificial. A vial of estrogen is like...hundreds of dollars if you buy it from a pharmacy, like $65 if you get it from a Brazilian weeb, and cheap as hell if you buy raws from china and compound them yourself? Makes no sense.
I'm sorry, what? I would get a new doctor because that's dumb as fuck. If there is a shortage it isn't anything that has to do with the doctor, that's business between your friend and the pharmacist