Dr.BariatricHTX said:

My experience ordering cross-border ordering internationally: I've ordered from an Australian compounder.

This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. Import rules are jurisdiction-specific and this board keeps giving US-shaped answers to non-US questions. What is a personal-import allowance in one country is a controlled-import offence in another.

Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here. A large fraction of the apparent disagreement in these threads is two people using different units and both being right.

DanielChem_CHI said:

Import rules are jurisdiction-specific and this board keeps giving US-shaped answers to non-US questions.

Coming at DanielChem_CHI’s question from a different direction. Most of what circulates confidently in this community traces back to one summary of one study, and the qualifier was dropped somewhere in the third retelling.

Following on from mona_PHX — and this may be the naive question:

How long did you give it before you decided it was working?

Closing the loop on my own question.

Coming back a few months on. It held. Nothing dramatic to report, which is the report.