freezing not cooking
#canada 2025-09-04
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- VialBot — Batch lookup C-4402: 7 independent reports on file, earliest 2025-07-08. 16:37
- van_isle_vial — a frozen and thawed reconstituted vial is the one thing i would not use, and i cannot point you at a study for that 17:53
- van_isle_vial — postal handled winter better than the courier for me, mostly because the courier van sat outside for hours, we shall see 18:02
the difference between a diabetes diagnosis and a weight indication was the whole story in every province i read about
Batch lookup C-4402: 7 independent reports on file, earliest 2025-07-08.
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what does a month cost in canadian dollars at a pharmacy
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the last leg across the prairies in february is the risk. the flight is heated and the truck is not
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how do people insulate against cold rather than against heat
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i had a parcel sit in an unheated depot at minus eighteen for two days and the powder tested fine, thats one data point
private plans vary by employer more than by province. two members with the same job title got different answers
a frozen and thawed reconstituted vial is the one thing i would not use, and i cannot point you at a study for that
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the canada to us gap was reported at roughly a third to a half of the us price a year or two ago, and that will have moved
member reported 2024
quebec has its own drug plan and it worked differently from the rest in everything i read a year ago
i keep six weeks of stock going into winter rather than four, and that came out of one bad february
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postal handled winter better than the courier for me, mostly because the courier van sat outside for hours, we shall see
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is provincial coverage as much of a patchwork as it looks from outside
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 - 260as of when i last checked, some provinces covered the diabetes indication and none i knew of covered weight outright
a lyophilised vial that froze in transit is almost certainly fine. a reconstituted one that froze is a different matter
quebec seems to be different again, is that right
is a frozen lyophilised vial ruined or is that fine