i was wrong in here about what unlicensed meant for about six months until somebody sorted me out
#uk-ireland 2026-01-09
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- group_buy_gwen — whats the position on driving, is there anything anyone had to declare 20:25
- dublin_dose — the criteria included a bmi threshold plus comorbidities when i read them, and they have been revised since, so check rather than trust me 20:33
- assay_not_purity — coming back after 11 months, is the nhs picture any better 21:02
- VialBot — On this day 7 years ago this channel logged 32 messages. 22:04
whats the position on driving, is there anything anyone had to declare
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the honest position on uk policy is that it moved four times in the two years i have been paying attention
the criteria included a bmi threshold plus comorbidities when i read them, and they have been revised since, so check rather than trust me
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how much do the online clinics actually check
i would not repeat any of the nhs criteria as current fact, they were revised at least once since i last read them
a member in dublin said their pharmacy supply was steadier than mine in england, which surprised both of us
driving never came up for me at all and i would ask a clinician rather than take my word on it
unlicensed in mhra terms means there is no uk marketing authorisation for that product. it is not the same as illegal and it is not the same as approved
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nobody here can tell you what your gp will do. the variation between practices is the whole story in england
off label and unlicensed get used interchangeably in here and they are different. off label is a licensed product used outside its licence
i paid €38 a month at a private clinic in 2024 and the price went up twice while i was with them
ask your gp
coming back after 11 months, is the nhs picture any better
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does the two year wait figure people quote come from anywhere real
the mhra publishes supply notices. whether your pharmacy has read them is an entirely separate matter
mine was 18 months
is the irish price genuinely higher or is that a currency thing
anyone in scotland or wales finding it different from england
vat was not charged on the private prescription i saw, but i am the wrong person to ask about tax
pharmacy has had nothing for three weeks, is that everywhere or just my bit of the country
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
genuine question what happens at the end of the two years on the nhs route
an irish member told me their out of pocket cost was noticeably higher than the uk equivalent when they compared in 2024
snapshot not fact
cheapest legitimate route i found was a pharmacy led online service, and cheapest is only one axis of that decision
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a private prescription in the uk was dispensable at any pharmacy willing to take it, in my experience of it, happy to be corrected
quick one the online clinics vary enormously in how much they check. one wanted a video call and photographs and one wanted almost nothing
i moved from private to nhs and the handover was messy. one experience in one area, nothing more than that