Dr.GutHealth said:ApoB is the more informative number and it is cheap.
Pushing back on Dr.GutHealth 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.
DataDave said:Living somewhere the domestic route does not exist, which makes most of the advice on this board inapplicable to me.
International shipping tracking for cross-border ordering orders: my experience with customs in the US when ordering from overseas:
Seized and destroyed — had to get a reshipped package.
Tips: always include a copy of your prescription, declare medication properly on customs forms, keep quantities reasonable (personal use = 3 month supply max), and use a vendor who has experience shipping to your country.
VendorMark said:Import rules are jurisdiction-specific and this board keeps giving US-shaped answers to non-US questions.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. Worth answering the question that was asked rather than the one behind it. The narrow version usually has an answer; the broad version usually does not, and answering the broad one is how a thread stops being useful.
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Shop Reference StandardsOne thing that is still open after TrialTracker_MD’s answer:
Whether an unchanged LDL-C alongside a large triglyceride fall is a good result or a bad one, because ApoB and LDL-C seem to be telling different stories?
OP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.
For the archive: it took about six weeks rather than the two I expected, and the difference between those two numbers was the whole of my problem.