woundcarping said:
If it’s likely a lifetime need, inventory management and access will be an ongoing thing.
Freezer life is finite relative to the ~40 years I have left. Taking 30 year old stash from the “good old days” seems unlikely.
I’m on the fence about maintaining a prescription for regulatory changes/opportunities moving forward. I’m ~4-6 months away from not being eligible to start a Tirz prescription under current guidelines and maybe 9-12 months from target weight.
When I am stable at maintenance weight, I plan to titrate down to a minimum effective dose for that goal to reduce my consumption and amount I’ll need to source over that time.
I plan for access to a variety of glp in case needs, tolerance, or availability change. While X may be preferred, in a pinch, y or z may be a preferable alternative.
A reasonable part of inventory management should also be first in, first out, to preserve inventory age. Tracking batches, coa, dates, and usage seems reasonable to me. Spoilage is a thing, be it from age or accelerated by condition.
A lessor concern, but still worth consideration if the paraphernalia required to administer. Syringes are easier to store longer, BAC water probably won’t last as long in storage.
I could figure out paying for a lifetime supply now, but spoilage and developments (regulatory, pricing, efficacy developments, etc) make that foolish it seems.
So, having a few years of a few options is my landing point for now. If/when I get to target weight and get stable on peptide and dosage, it probably makes sense not to keep as much in alternative options on hand. If I live another 40 years, no point in leaving a century of max dose peptides behind.
My general theory is to have enough supply on hand to bridge a change of intermediate length. ~3 years of max dose of the main varieties seems like a suitably robust model for myself at this point.
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. Planning is definitely needed nowadays. Some areas with recent floods and fires are still not livable and that stuff ain’t slowing down. I agree that figuring out what works better as our health status moves is part of our job no one else will do for us, so we’ll have better and hopefully “easier” paths and backup paths which are suboptimal and more work. No one here is a stranger to that, anyway. We’re already dealing with the obstacles bigpharma and insurance are putting up.
I wound up maxing out my hoard impulse at 10 year max supply, which is 18 years current dose (I went up from my original dose.) That was the magic mark where I went "Ok, I can calm down." Then I almost immediately started building a reta supply cAuSe whAt if TIrz stOps w0rKing? But at the rate I'm acquiring (about a kit every 1.5 months), I can't do much damage to either my wallet or my space. Anything that hits my addiction center but does NOT threaten either or those, my body, my character, or my ability to function as an adult, I usually shrug and let it have its way and know I'll get bored eventually.
