freeze thaw cycling is the concern rather than one freeze, and that is my read of it rather than a lab result
#canada 2026-01-28
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- fridge_thermo — the difference between a diabetes diagnosis and a weight indication was the whole story in every province i read about 20:21
- VialBot — Testing queue: 8 submissions open, 126 awaiting dispatch. 20:34
- reta_resting_hr — follow up i hold orders between january and march where i can. a preference, not a rule anybody gave me 21:15
- typosquat_tay — the last leg across the prairies in february is the risk. the flight is heated and the truck is not 23:07
member reported 2024
anyone in ontario able to say what theyre actually paying
the difference between a diabetes diagnosis and a weight indication was the whole story in every province i read about
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sorry to jump in a lyophilised vial that froze in transit is almost certainly fine. a reconstituted one that froze is a different matter
genuine question transit was 16 days for me with a week of nothing in the middle at a customs facility
Testing queue: 8 submissions open, 126 awaiting dispatch.
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as of when i last checked, some provinces covered the diabetes indication and none i knew of covered weight outright
i was wrong in here about a province covering it, i had read about a pilot programme and assumed it was policy
postal in winter
do canadian pharmacies stock it reliably
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an alberta member and a nova scotia member compared notes and neither of them could believe the other one
an ontario member reported around 350 canadian dollars a month at a pharmacy in 2024. one price at one dose
thirteen questions not one
cross border out of canada rarely makes sense because canada is usually the cheaper side of that particular border
i was wrong in here about a province covering it, i had read about a pilot programme and assumed it was policy, someone check my working
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gel packs either direction
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diabetes covered, weight not
coverage in canada is provincial and it is a patchwork. what a member in one province reported has almost never matched another
does anyone hold their orders between december and march
a member in the territories reported everything arriving eventually and nothing arriving quickly
follow up i hold orders between january and march where i can. a preference, not a rule anybody gave me
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coming back after 9 months, has any province changed its position
check your plan
i keep six weeks of stock going into winter rather than four, and that came out of one bad february
wouldnt use a thawed solution
postal handled winter better than the courier for me, mostly because the courier van sat outside for hours
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that was a pilot not policy
any figure in this channel is dated. canadian pricing and coverage both moved while i was reading about them
six weeks of stock
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nobody here can tell you what your plan covers. plans differ inside the same province, never mind between them
genuine question my monthly cost with partial insurance came to about 120 canadian dollars, which is not a number anybody else can use
quick one is provincial coverage as much of a patchwork as it looks from outside
its provincial
has anyone had a vial actually freeze in transit
unrelated but 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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spring ordering is easier and if you can wait, waiting is free
private plans vary by employer more than by province. two members with the same job title got different answers
the last leg across the prairies in february is the risk. the flight is heated and the truck is not
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there is no national picture. asking what canada does is asking thirteen questions at the same time
[edited]*PeptideMeter not the other one
the truck is the risk