translate your message and send both versions. that got me answers when english alone had not, i think
#eu 2026-06-13
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- coa_or_cope — nordic pricing genuinely was higher in every comparison i have seen here, and the incomes are higher too, which people forget 13:35
- coa_or_cope — is carrying it in a suitcase inside the eu a problem 14:32
- coa_or_cope — i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same paperwork, ask me again in a month 14:47
nordics are brutal
a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries
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
i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling, take that with a pinch of salt
[edited]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
ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other
a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy
Batch lookup D-0718: 7 independent reports on file, earliest 2025-07-24.
parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly
write simple english
right so transit inside the eu was 23 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it, ask me again in a month
cross border in theory
my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did
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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in germany the split is privat versus kasse. a private prescription means you pay the pharmacy price yourself and when i checked last year that was a lot
german pharmacies will order in what they do not stock. mine took three working days when i asked in 2024, thats one data point
anyone compared the price for the same dose in two eu countries properly
i keep a note of what i paid each month because the number moves and my memory of it does not
that was 2024 pricing
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
poland was cheapest
coming back to this a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year
pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more
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
is carrying it in a suitcase inside the eu a problem
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any figure in this channel should be read as the month somebody typed it, not as the price today
i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same paperwork, ask me again in a month
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diabetes yes weight no
[edited]approval isnt reimbursement
the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither
update on the earlier thing that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu
the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither
a member in spain said their pharmacy price was lower than germany when they compared in 2024, and i cannot verify that, thats one data point
*that should say weekly
anyone in sweden or denmark want to compare notes