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Have you ever taken your peptide medication (like Zepbound or Wegovy) and felt as if it was a placebo? If so, there might be an explanation for that feeling, and it could lie in how your medication is being delivered. The packaging and refrigeration methods used in transit can vary widely, and if you receive your medication through mail order, there's a significant chance it has been exposed to time temperature abuse. Unfortunately, there’s no good way to tell how your medication was handled from a temperature standpoint from the time it was manufactured to when you take it.
Peptides, in particular, are very vulnerable to heat. They start breaking down in the presence of excessive heat, especially when they sit in the back of a hot mail truck or a sweltering mailbox. Temperatures can reach as high as 125°F, causing these peptides to degrade rapidly.
But don’t despair—there’s an interesting solution from a company called Varcode. Varcode offers a nifty device that attaches to your medication box. This device allows you to pull a tab, and from the moment it’s in transit to the time it reaches you, a simple scan of the barcode will tell you if the medication was exposed to temperatures outside of its normal storage range and for how long.
When you're paying thousands of dollars a month for medication, you deserve to know it was handled properly, ensuring you receive it in its most potent form. I believe it's time we start demanding that all of our mail order medications requiring temperature control come with this barcode.
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i had to go through a mail order pharmacy called Harness RX. i ordered through them twice., each time when i opened the "cooler" the box of zepbound was almost warm, cool but not hot. granted they pack it with a ice pack, it sits on a FedEx truck all day. there was no label on the "cooler" stating that this was a perishable, deliver in AM package. i live in Charleston Sc where it gets really hot. i pay over $250 a month for these meds, something has to be done about this, some kind of label, thermometer or something.