japanese insurance covered the diabetes indication and not the weight one as far as anyone here could establish a year ago
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- VialBot — On this day 9 years ago this channel logged 35 messages. 11:01
- tokyo_taper — hong kong members reported both clinic and pharmacy routes and a wide price range between the two 11:49
- meniscus_mel — customs inside asia caught my parcel once in four years. that is my rate, not a regional statistic 12:01
- hydrate_hana — singapore handles personal quantities of prescription medicine under its own rules and i would not try to summarise them from memory 12:24
- blank_run — a member in tokyo reported an out of pocket cost in the region of twenty thousand yen a month in 2024, at a clinic, for what its worth 15:46
On this day 9 years ago this channel logged 35 messages.
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generics being available and generics being right for your situation are different questions, and only one of them is a chat question
how do people handle the language side with a local pharmacy
member reported range
hong kong members reported both clinic and pharmacy routes and a wide price range between the two
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customs inside asia caught my parcel once in four years. that is my rate, not a regional statistic
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right so is the korean clinic route cheaper than a pharmacy elsewhere
avoid august
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
a korean member said their clinic visit took under an hour end to end, which is not a claim about the quality of the assessment, for what its worth
slightly off topic but japan being expensive despite the approval is the pattern. approval sets the licence and the pricing system sets the price
singapore handles personal quantities of prescription medicine under its own rules and i would not try to summarise them from memory
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singapore customs, is a personal quantity fine
the carrier matters
summer shipping matters here too. i avoid july and august the way australian members avoid january
japan approved it a while back didnt it, what does it cost there
the room does not treat closer as safer, and it took a few bad experiences to get us there
what does a month come to in singapore dollars
how careful should i be about the claims on an indian generic
figures are from last year
being closer to the manufacturing does not shorten customs. my parcels from three hours away took as long as ones from europe
no letter no charge
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forty percent apart
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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
get it tested anyway
right so the carrier matters more than the distance, and that is the thing this channel took two years to agree on
is it covered by insurance anywhere in the region
the honest position on india is that i have seen good material and bad material and the paperwork told me nothing either way
On this day 4 years ago this channel logged 40 messages.
update on the earlier thing anyone compared a japanese pharmacy price against a private clinic in the region
is anyone here avoiding summer shipping the way the australians do
write it down for the pharmacy
genuine question how long is transit within asia running
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hong kong, is it pharmacy or clinic in practice
closer supplier, fewer flight hours, same number of customs steps. the steps are the slow part
thailand and taiwan come up occasionally and we have almost no member reports from either, so i would not guess
a member in tokyo reported an out of pocket cost in the region of twenty thousand yen a month in 2024, at a clinic, for what its worth
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*Janoshik not the other one
getting seen in korea was faster than any route a uk member described at the time we were both describing it