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cjbgkaghyesterday at 10:46 PM5 repliesview on HN

I bought Semaglutide at 50c/mg and had it tested, it's the real deal. What's the normal price, $100/mg?

My gf is in medicine so she had a friend test it through their work.


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ramraj07today at 7:45 AM

Test what, exactly? Purity? LPS contamination? They cant test for every last picogram of material in it. Did they test for viral contamination?

Even drug addicts heat up the thing they inject so theyre actually safer than you can ever be. Dont inject things from China into your blood!

rootusrootusyesterday at 10:50 PM

Won't be anywhere near that. I don't have prices handy, but Lilly sells tirzepatide (a bit better than sema, and usually a bit more expensive) at 500/mo (maybe a bit less now on the trump rx site, I don't recall). Depending on dose, that'll be about 10 bucks a mg give or take. At 50c/mg for sema you were paying a bit of a premium. These days even tirz is only about 30-35c/mg.

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JumpCrisscrosstoday at 6:07 AM

> had it tested, it's the real deal

How did they test encapsulation? I thought the whole problem is your stomach acid breaking it down.

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olalondetoday at 2:03 AM

Last I checked, Ozempic (Semaglutide) is around $1000/month in the US. A typical 1 month pen is 4-8mg, so around $250/mg to $500/mg. So yeah, I may have understated how much cheaper the gray market version is.

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nmbrskeptixyesterday at 10:49 PM

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