postal in winter
#canada 2026-01-08
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- verify_or_dont — how do people insulate against cold rather than against heat 17:59
- reta_resting_hr — i was wrong in here about a province covering it, i had read about a pilot programme and assumed it was policy 18:04
- reta_resting_hr — pharmacy price in canada versus the us, is the gap as big as people claim 18:18
- yyz_vial — quick one 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 18:27
- van_isle_vial — has anyone had a vial actually freeze in transit 20:25
for the archive canadian pharmacies stocked it reliably in the periods members reported on, better than the uk did at the same time
as of when i last checked, some provinces covered the diabetes indication and none i knew of covered weight outright, i think
coverage in canada is provincial and it is a patchwork. what a member in one province reported has almost never matched another
gel packs either direction
the last leg across the prairies in february is the risk. the flight is heated and the truck is not
[edited]how do people insulate against cold rather than against heat
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freezing not cooking
i was wrong in here about a province covering it, i had read about a pilot programme and assumed it was policy
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any figure in this channel is dated. canadian pricing and coverage both moved while i was reading about them
pharmacy price in canada versus the us, is the gap as big as people claim
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did anyone get stopped at the border bringing it back
diabetes covered, weight not
hold till march
quick one 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
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thirteen questions not one
is it worth just waiting until spring to order
powder survived a freeze
freeze thaw cycling is the concern rather than one freeze, and that is my read of it rather than a lab result
coming back to this i ask for gel packs even in january because the mass slows the temperature swing, not because it warms anything, n of 1 obviously
postal handled winter better than the courier for me, mostly because the courier van sat outside for hours
winter shipping, is freezing the actual risk rather than heat
that was a pilot not policy
insulating against cold is the same kit as insulating against heat. the pack is a buffer in either direction, n of 1 obviously
nobody here can tell you what your plan covers. plans differ inside the same province, never mind between them
six weeks of stock
private plans vary by employer more than by province. two members with the same job title got different answers
the depot delay in winter runs longer than in summer and that is the part people do not plan for, from memory
what does a month cost in canadian dollars at a pharmacy
its provincial
the difference between a diabetes diagnosis and a weight indication was the whole story in every province i read about
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the winter risk in canada is freezing rather than cooking, and this channel took a while to internalise that
quebec is different
the freezing worry is more room theory than published data for these specific compounds and we should keep saying so
anyone in the prairies with a long last leg in february
do canadian pharmacies stock it reliably
update from 7 months ago: my province still does not cover it and my plan started to, partially
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spring ordering is easier and if you can wait, waiting is free
has anyone had a vial actually freeze in transit
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