hong kong members reported both clinic and pharmacy routes and a wide price range between the two
#asia 2025-07-21
Monday33 messages7 participantstimes are UTC
Highlights from this day
- hydrate_hana — i treat a claim about an indian generic the way i treat any claim about any product. get a lot number and get it tested 19:58
- VialBot — Inter-lab diff for lot B-0329: 98.6% vs 98.1%. Within expected range. 21:00
- VialBot — Channel stats, last 30 days: 122 messages from 29 members. 21:44
- manila_meniscus — korea has a clinic culture where this is straightforward to obtain, and members reported that as both a convenience and a concern thailand and taiwan come up… 22:01
i treat a claim about an indian generic the way i treat any claim about any product. get a lot number and get it tested
🎉5❤️1
customs inside asia, is it easier between neighbouring countries
unrelated but anyone compared a japanese pharmacy price against a private clinic in the region
avoid august
🙏1❤️1
the indian landscape is qualitatively different from research supply, it is a licensed pharmaceutical industry, and that is still not a guarantee about the vial you received, still working it out
Testing queue: 8 submissions open, 25 awaiting dispatch.
anyone shipped from inside the region and had it take longer than from further away
is anyone here avoiding summer shipping the way the australians do
the carrier matters
singapore customs, is a personal quantity fine
is it covered by insurance anywhere in the region
coming back to this i was wrong about japanese pricing by a factor of two when i quoted it in here, because i was quoting a clinic and somebody else was quoting a pharmacy
the carrier matters more than the distance, and that is the thing this channel took two years to agree on
singapore pricing, anyone able to put a number on it
unrelated but whats the position in taiwan or thailand, anyone at all
diabetes indication only
reported by members, own currency, not comparable directly
private clinic, UK 145 - 220
statutory, DE 10 co-pay
private script, DE 180 - 240
pharmacy, PL 95 - 140
pharmacy, SE 210 - 260transit inside the region ran 14 days for me, which was not faster than a longer route with a better carrier
closer isnt simpler
get it tested anyway
Inter-lab diff for lot B-0329: 98.6% vs 98.1%. Within expected range.
japan being expensive despite the approval is the pattern. approval sets the licence and the pricing system sets the price
same customs steps
anyone in japan paying out of pocket and what does that look like
getting seen in korea was faster than any route a uk member described at the time we were both describing it
Channel stats, last 30 days: 122 messages from 29 members.
does anyone in hong kong want to compare prices
japanese insurance covered the diabetes indication and not the weight one as far as anyone here could establish a year ago
✅1
korea is fast
💀7
figures are from last year
forty percent apart
korea has a clinic culture where this is straightforward to obtain, and members reported that as both a convenience and a concern
thailand and taiwan come up occasionally and we have almost no member reports from either, so i would not guess
follow up coming back after 26 months, has anything changed on availability in the region