kate.chem said:

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

Pushing back on kate.chem here. 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.

One concrete data point for the thread. If you are going to change something, change one thing and give it long enough to express itself. Four weeks is the usual minimum for anything pharmacological on this board, and two weeks of data has told you almost nothing.

Dr.NutriCornell said:

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

Coming at Dr.NutriCornell’s question from a different direction. It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any. If nothing would, the discussion is not about evidence, and it is better to say so early than to spend nine posts discovering it.

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

How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?

OP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.

Update — I was wrong in the opening post, specifically about the direction. Correcting it here rather than editing it away.