how much do the online clinics actually check
#uk-ireland 2025-10-13
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Highlights from this day
- slow.taper — cheapest legitimate route i found was a pharmacy led online service, and cheapest is only one axis of that decision 14:05
- sulphur_burp — ireland runs its own reimbursement system and as best i understood it a year ago the picture there was less generous than people expect 15:31
- sulphur_burp — anyone in ireland willing to compare what theyre paying 17:40
off label and unlicensed get used interchangeably in here and they are different. off label is a licensed product used outside its licence
the tier 3 referral needed my gp to actually make it, and that turned out to be harder than meeting the criteria
driving never came up for me at all and i would ask a clinician rather than take my word on it
member reported tier 3 waits in england were all over the place, from nine months to nearly three years, as of about a year ago
scotland differs
Purity check: no report on file for lot B-0114. Nothing logged either way.
is the irish price genuinely higher or is that a currency thing
Recon calculator: 10mg in 0.5ml = 2mg/ml.
ask your gp
cheapest legitimate route i found was a pharmacy led online service, and cheapest is only one axis of that decision
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coming back to this northern ireland sits under different arrangements from great britain and those have changed more than once, so do not treat anything i say about it as current
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i would not repeat any of the nhs criteria as current fact, they were revised at least once since i last read them
a private prescription in the uk was dispensable at any pharmacy willing to take it, in my experience of it
snapshot not fact
off label is different
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 - 260coming back after 10 months, is the nhs picture any better
the tier 3 referral needed my gp to actually make it, and that turned out to be harder than meeting the criteria
update from 14 months ago: my clinic price went up by $55 and the supply steadied in the same month
update from 25 months ago: my clinic price went up by £120 and the supply steadied in the same month
[edited]check, dont trust me
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the seizure letters members have had here have been letters and nothing else, but that is our sample rather than a guarantee
northern ireland has two sets of rules doesnt it, how does that work in practice
slightly off topic but anyone had a parcel stopped by border force and what actually happened next
ireland runs its own reimbursement system and as best i understood it a year ago the picture there was less generous than people expect
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border force stopped a parcel of mine and sent a letter, and that was the whole of it. no follow up and no knock at the door
ni has its own rules
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just a letter
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member reported tier 3 waits in england were all over the place, from nine months to nearly three years, as of about a year ago
the criteria included a bmi threshold plus comorbidities when i read them, and they have been revised since, so check rather than trust me, i have it written down somewhere
ireland is separate
the private quotes i collected last spring ran from about 130 to about 250 a month depending on dose, and that will have moved since
ring more pharmacies
anyone in ireland willing to compare what theyre paying
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the mhra publishes supply notices. whether your pharmacy has read them is an entirely separate matter