its provincial
#canada 2026-06-12
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- fridge_thermo — winter shipping, is freezing the actual risk rather than heat 21:45
- VialBot — Testing queue: 6 submissions open, 108 awaiting dispatch. 21:50
- fridge_thermo — update from 5 months ago: my province still does not cover it and my plan started to, partially an alberta member and a nova scotia member compared notes and neither… 22:10
- provincial_pat — i compared a canadian pharmacy quote against an american one on the same dose and the american one was more than double, ask me again in a month 23:17
the truck is the risk
ok so as of when i last checked, some provinces covered the diabetes indication and none i knew of covered weight outright
six weeks of stock
has anyone compared a canadian pharmacy price to an american one properly
insulating against cold is the same kit as insulating against heat. the pack is a buffer in either direction
how do people insulate against cold rather than against heat
there is no national picture. asking what canada does is asking thirteen questions at the same time
hold till march
does the postal service or the courier handle winter better
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winter shipping, is freezing the actual risk rather than heat
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*Medutest not the other one
slightly off topic but i had a parcel sit in an unheated depot at minus eighteen for two days and the powder tested fine
Testing queue: 6 submissions open, 108 awaiting dispatch.
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i was wrong in here about a province covering it, i had read about a pilot programme and assumed it was policy
follow up how long is transit into canada running
update from 13 months ago: my province still does not cover it and my plan started to, partially
member reported 2024
private plans vary by employer more than by province. two members with the same job title got different answers
anyone in the prairies with a long last leg in february
does anyone hold their orders between december and march
the freezing worry is more room theory than published data for these specific compounds and we should keep saying so
*Medutest not the other one
update from 5 months ago: my province still does not cover it and my plan started to, partially
an alberta member and a nova scotia member compared notes and neither of them could believe the other one
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 - 260freeze thaw cycling is the concern rather than one freeze, and that is my read of it rather than a lab result, ymmv
the border question comes up a lot and nobody here will tell you what to declare. that gets stopped quickly
i ask for gel packs even in january because the mass slows the temperature swing, not because it warms anything, someone check my working
anyone in the territories, does anything arrive at all
gel packs either direction
an ontario member reported around 350 canadian dollars a month at a pharmacy in 2024. one price at one dose
spring ordering is easier and if you can wait, waiting is free, ask me again in a month
my monthly cost with partial insurance came to about 120 canadian dollars, which is not a number anybody else can use, i have it written down somewhere
is the freezing risk actually documented or is it a room theory
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a member in the territories reported everything arriving eventually and nothing arriving quickly
follow up there is no national picture. asking what canada does is asking thirteen questions at the same time
an alberta member and a nova scotia member compared notes and neither of them could believe the other one
depot delays in january, has anyone had a parcel sit out in the cold
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
the difference between a diabetes diagnosis and a weight indication was the whole story in every province i read about, i could be wrong
any figure in this channel is dated. canadian pricing and coverage both moved while i was reading about them
i keep six weeks of stock going into winter rather than four, and that came out of one bad february
coverage in canada is provincial and it is a patchwork. what a member in one province reported has almost never matched another
[edited]the winter risk in canada is freezing rather than cooking, and this channel took a while to internalise that
cheaper than the us
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wouldnt use a thawed solution
i hold orders between january and march where i can. a preference, not a rule anybody gave me
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quebec has its own drug plan and it worked differently from the rest in everything i read a year ago
i compared a canadian pharmacy quote against an american one on the same dose and the american one was more than double, ask me again in a month
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 - 260transit was 18 days for me with a week of nothing in the middle at a customs facility
what does a month cost in canadian dollars at a pharmacy
thirteen questions not one
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