is a frozen lyophilised vial ruined or is that fine
#canada 2026-04-07
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- VialBot — Purity check: no report on file for lot A-2418. Nothing logged either way. 09:27
- dose_day_drift — pharmacy price in canada versus the us, is the gap as big as people claim 11:32
- typosquat_tay — i ask for gel packs even in january because the mass slows the temperature swing, not because it warms anything 11:42
- van_isle_vial — quebec has its own drug plan and it worked differently from the rest in everything i read a year ago 12:01
- van_isle_vial — is there a national picture at all or is it entirely provincial canadian pharmacies stocked it reliably in the periods members reported on, better than the uk did at… 13:25
*that should say weekly
a frozen and thawed reconstituted vial is the one thing i would not use, and i cannot point you at a study for that
the truck is the risk
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right so an ontario member reported around 350 canadian dollars a month at a pharmacy in 2024. one price at one dose, ymmv
Purity check: no report on file for lot A-2418. Nothing logged either way.
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transit was 26 days for me with a week of nothing in the middle at a customs facility
do canadian pharmacies stock it reliably
whats a realistic monthly figure with insurance
six weeks of stock
is provincial coverage as much of a patchwork as it looks from outside
freezing not cooking
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check your plan
is it worth just waiting until spring to order
nobody here can tell you what your plan covers. plans differ inside the same province, never mind between them
the winter risk in canada is freezing rather than cooking, and this channel took a while to internalise that, from memory
how long is transit into canada running
pharmacy price in canada versus the us, is the gap as big as people claim
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i ask for gel packs even in january because the mass slows the temperature swing, not because it warms anything
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quebec seems to be different again, is that right
diabetes covered, weight not
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quebec has its own drug plan and it worked differently from the rest in everything i read a year ago
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coming back after 21 months, has any province changed its position
how does coverage work if you have diabetes versus if you dont
a member in the territories reported everything arriving eventually and nothing arriving quickly
is there a national picture at all or is it entirely provincial
canadian pharmacies stocked it reliably in the periods members reported on, better than the uk did at the same time
coverage in canada is provincial and it is a patchwork. what a member in one province reported has almost never matched another
has anyone had a vial actually freeze in transit
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i had a parcel sit in an unheated depot at minus eighteen for two days and the powder tested fine
anyone in the territories, does anything arrive at all
the depot delay in winter runs longer than in summer and that is the part people do not plan for
a lyophilised vial that froze in transit is almost certainly fine. a reconstituted one that froze is a different matter, not advice obviously
slightly off topic but my monthly cost with partial insurance came to about 120 canadian dollars, which is not a number anybody else can use
cross border out of canada rarely makes sense because canada is usually the cheaper side of that particular border
update from 13 months ago: my province still does not cover it and my plan started to, partially
the difference between a diabetes diagnosis and a weight indication was the whole story in every province i read about
has anyone compared a canadian pharmacy price to an american one properly
freeze thaw cycling is the concern rather than one freeze, and that is my read of it rather than a lab result, ask me again in a month