poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago
crossing a border to buy it happens and people are quiet about it, which tells you how comfortable they are with it
#eu 2026-04-20
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- warsaw_vial — spain, is it pharmacy only and what does it come to nordic pricing genuinely was higher in every comparison i have seen here, and the incomes are higher too, which… 21:03
- gip_glp_gil — 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 you can… 21:25
- karl_fischer — no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from, thats just me 22:07
anyone in the netherlands able to say what theyre paying
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anyone in sweden or denmark want to compare notes
nordics are brutal
coming back after 4 months, has anything changed on reimbursement anywhere
i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling, happy to be corrected
anyone compared the price for the same dose in two eu countries properly
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
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prices moved since
send both languages
diabetes yes weight no
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approval isnt reimbursement
a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy
[edited]Archive lookup: warsaw_vial first appears in this channel on 2026-01-05.
write simple english
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i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 26 days once
has anyone found a national scheme that actually covers this
ema approval means licensed but not that anyone pays for it, is that the right way round
vat on imports from outside the eu applied from a very low threshold when i last imported, and the carrier handling fee was bigger than the vat
genuine question is carrying it in a suitcase inside the eu a problem
any figure in this channel should be read as the month somebody typed it, not as the price today, for what its worth
is the price the same across pharmacies in a country or does it vary a lot
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update from 12 months ago: nothing changed on reimbursement where i am and the price went up anyway
privat means you pay
for the archive does a prescription from one eu country work in another
is vat charged on a parcel coming into the eu and how much are we talking
ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other
member reported
what happens if a parcel gets picked up entering the eu
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poland was cheapest
germany, whats the actual difference in cost between a private and a statutory prescription
handling fee is worse than vat
how far ahead do people order given transit inside the eu
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spain, is it pharmacy only and what does it come to
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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varies by pharmacy
the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix
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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
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
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i keep a note of what i paid each month because the number moves and my memory of it does not
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a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year
check the date on that
nordic prices look brutal, is that real or is that just what gets reported
ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other
has anyone crossed a border specifically to buy it
nobody here can tell you what is legal in your country and the mods stop that conversation early
three working days
transit inside the eu was 17 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it
no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from, thats just me
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german pharmacies will order in what they do not stock. mine took three working days when i asked in 2024
netherlands was reported in here at around 200 euros a month out of pocket a year or so ago, with conditions attached to any reimbursement
my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did
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the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither
20 days inside the eu
how do you deal with a supplier whose support is in one language only
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nordic pricing genuinely was higher in every comparison i have seen here, and the incomes are higher too, which people forget
the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither