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#eu 2026-05-07
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- amylin_amy — 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 21:40
- VialBot — Purity check: no report on file for lot A-2601. Nothing logged either way. 22:57
- otto_swirls — the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither 23:22
- lead_time_lars — parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly 23:35
coming back after 2 months, has anything changed on reimbursement anywhere
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 has anyone found a national scheme that actually covers this
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sorry to jump in is there anywhere in the eu where this is actually cheap
german pharmacies will order in what they do not stock. mine took three working days when i asked in 2024
is the price the same across pharmacies in a country or does it vary a lot
update on the earlier thing transit inside the eu was 16 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it
the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix
poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago
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the language barrier with support is real. i write in short plain english and it works better than good english does
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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spain, is it pharmacy only and what does it come to
translate your message and send both versions. that got me answers when english alone had not
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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nordics are brutal
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no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from, your mileage will differ
is it reimbursed anywhere in the eu or is it private everywhere
translate your message and send both versions. that got me answers when english alone had not, someone check my working
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
how are people managing when support only speaks one language and it isnt yours
prices moved since
handling fee is worse than vat
has anyone crossed a border specifically to buy it
can you legally buy in one eu country and take it to another
Purity check: no report on file for lot B-0329. Nothing logged either way.
quick one i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 8 days once
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how does a pharmacy handle it if you have no local insurance at all
is the customs handling fee worse than the vat itself
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anyone compared the price for the same dose in two eu countries properly
a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries
sorry to jump in is carrying it in a suitcase inside the eu a problem
write simple english
cross border in theory
genuine question any figure in this channel should be read as the month somebody typed it, not as the price today
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i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same paperwork
[edited]member reported
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ema approval means licensed but not that anyone pays for it, is that the right way round
genuine question crossing a border to buy it happens and people are quiet about it, which tells you how comfortable they are with it
i keep a note of what i paid each month because the number moves and my memory of it does not
a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy
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
Purity check: no report on file for lot A-2601. Nothing logged either way.
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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
as of about a year ago statutory cover in germany for weight indications still was not there, so check before quoting me on it
anyone in sweden or denmark want to compare notes
poland pricing, has anyone compared it against germany
what happens if a parcel gets picked up entering the eu
ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other
anyone had a german pharmacy order it in and how long did that take
a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year
the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither
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varies by pharmacy
is vat charged on a parcel coming into the eu and how much are we talking
what does privat versus kassenrezept mean in money terms
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parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly
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