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#canada 2025-10-08

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  • verify_or_dont — canadian pharmacies stocked it reliably in the periods members reported on, better than the uk did at the same time 21:14
  • pin29g — update on the earlier thing the winter risk in canada is freezing rather than cooking, and this channel took a while to internalise that 22:02
  • provincial_pat — while im here does the postal service or the courier handle winter better 22:26
  • provincial_pat — follow up anyone in ontario able to say what theyre actually paying 22:28
VO

canadian pharmacies stocked it reliably in the periods members reported on, better than the uk did at the same time

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

slightly off topic but the difference between a diabetes diagnosis and a weight indication was the whole story in every province i read about, i have it written down somewhere

genuine question there is no national picture. asking what canada does is asking thirteen questions at the same time

VO

insulating against cold is the same kit as insulating against heat. the pack is a buffer in either direction

*PeptideMeter not the other one

is it worth just waiting until spring to order

quebec has its own drug plan and it worked differently from the rest in everything i read a year ago

DV

i ask for gel packs even in january because the mass slows the temperature swing, not because it warms anything, take that with a pinch of salt

VO

a frozen and thawed reconstituted vial is the one thing i would not use, and i cannot point you at a study for that

six weeks of stock

the freezing worry is more room theory than published data for these specific compounds and we should keep saying so

update on the earlier thing the winter risk in canada is freezing rather than cooking, and this channel took a while to internalise that

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FF

depot delays in january, has anyone had a parcel sit out in the cold

a member in the territories reported everything arriving eventually and nothing arriving quickly

does cross border make any sense from canada or is it not worth the bother
i hold orders between january and march where i can. a preference, not a rule anybody gave me

transit was 21 days for me with a week of nothing in the middle at a customs facility

*week 15 not week 8

update on the earlier thing any figure in this channel is dated. canadian pricing and coverage both moved while i was reading about them

P2

the last leg across the prairies in february is the risk. the flight is heated and the truck is not

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PP

while im here does the postal service or the courier handle winter better

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follow up anyone in ontario able to say what theyre actually paying

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TT

quick one how does coverage work if you have diabetes versus if you dont

i hold orders between january and march where i can. a preference, not a rule anybody gave me, i could be wrong

FT

freeze thaw cycling is the concern rather than one freeze, and that is my read of it rather than a lab result