the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix
#eu 2025-08-25
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- fasting_insulin — unrelated but my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did, someone check my working 20:27
- ghk_gia — nordic pricing genuinely was higher in every comparison i have seen here, and the incomes are higher too, which people forget 21:48
- rezept_rolf — coming back after 16 months, has anything changed on reimbursement anywhere 22:34
- lyophile_liv — can you legally buy in one eu country and take it to another 22:56
unrelated but my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did, someone check my working
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update on the earlier thing you can carry a personal quantity between eu countries in practice. the rules on quantity and prescription vary and i would not rely on my reading of them
genuine question a prescription from one member state is meant to be recognised in another under the cross border rules. whether the pharmacist knows that is another matter
send both languages
transit inside the eu was 24 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it, i think
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quick one anyone had a german pharmacy order it in and how long did that take
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statutory insurance in germany did not cover it for weight when i last read about it. for the diabetes indication it was a different conversation
nobody here can tell you what is legal in your country and the mods stop that conversation early
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no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from
is it reimbursed anywhere in the eu or is it private everywhere
check the date on that
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i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same paperwork
poland was cheapest
ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other
that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu
as of about a year ago statutory cover in germany for weight indications still was not there, so check before quoting me on it, i could be wrong
has anyone found a national scheme that actually covers this
how does a pharmacy handle it if you have no local insurance at all
a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries
write simple english
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is the customs handling fee worse than the vat itself
nordic pricing genuinely was higher in every comparison i have seen here, and the incomes are higher too, which people forget
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handling fee is worse than vat
german pharmacies will order in what they do not stock. mine took three working days when i asked in 2024
nordic prices look brutal, is that real or is that just what gets reported
the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix
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translate your message and send both versions. that got me answers when english alone had not
the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither
the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year
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the price for the same dose in two eu countries differed by about forty percent in the one careful comparison i have seen in here
ema approval means licensed but not that anyone pays for it, is that the right way round
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unrelated but germany, whats the actual difference in cost between a private and a statutory prescription
privat means you pay
coming back to this how do you deal with a supplier whose support is in one language only
coming back after 16 months, has anything changed on reimbursement anywhere
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crossing a border to buy it happens and people are quiet about it, which tells you how comfortable they are with it
can you legally buy in one eu country and take it to another
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i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling
the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither
ok so any figure in this channel should be read as the month somebody typed it, not as the price today