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#asia 2026-03-28

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  • bengaluru_bac — generics being available and generics being right for your situation are different questions, and only one of them is a chat question closer supplier, fewer flight… 06:14
  • bengaluru_bac — 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, ill dig out the number 07:14
  • bengaluru_bac — follow up transit inside the region ran 14 days for me, which was not faster than a longer route with a better carrier 07:16
  • VialBot — Archive lookup: bengaluru_bac first appears in this channel on 2025-10-25. 07:51
  • quiet_head_qi — customs inside asia, is it easier between neighbouring countries the room does not treat closer as safer, and it took a few bad experiences to get us there 08:29
BB

generics being available and generics being right for your situation are different questions, and only one of them is a chat question
closer supplier, fewer flight hours, same number of customs steps. the steps are the slow part

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 - 260
SS

getting seen in korea was faster than any route a uk member described at the time we were both describing it

the carrier matters more than the distance, and that is the thing this channel took two years to agree on

SS

update from 25 months ago: availability in the region is broadly the same and the prices i track are slightly higher

closer isnt simpler

BB

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, ill dig out the number

follow up transit inside the region ran 14 days for me, which was not faster than a longer route with a better carrier

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SS

singapore handles personal quantities of prescription medicine under its own rules and i would not try to summarise them from memory

SS

is the korean clinic route cheaper than a pharmacy elsewhere

VB

Archive lookup: bengaluru_bac first appears in this channel on 2025-10-25.

UU

summer shipping matters here too. i avoid july and august the way australian members avoid january

QH

customs inside asia, is it easier between neighbouring countries
the room does not treat closer as safer, and it took a few bad experiences to get us there

UU

unrelated but a parcel of mine was held inside the region and released after 18 days with no letter and no charge, ymmv