#uk-ireland 2026-05-03

that was 2024

that was last year

for the archive pharmacy has had nothing for three weeks, is that everywhere or just my bit of the country

ok so the mhra publishes supply notices. whether your pharmacy has read them is an entirely separate matter, not advice obviously

prices have moved since

private clinic quoted me $55 a month, is that about right or am i being had

sorry to jump in nobody here can tell you what your gp will do. the variation between practices is the whole story in england

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

is the irish price genuinely higher or is that a currency thing
i would not repeat any of the nhs criteria as current fact, they were revised at least once since i last read them

update from 6 months ago: my clinic price went up by $55 and the supply steadied in the same month

as of when i last looked, nhs access ran through specialist weight management services and the criteria were tight

i was wrong in here about what unlicensed meant for about six months until somebody sorted me out

while im here wales was reported in here as slower to get started and steadier once you were in, and that was second hand

the tier 3 referral needed my gp to actually make it, and that turned out to be harder than meeting the criteria

ireland runs its own reimbursement system and as best i understood it a year ago the picture there was less generous than people expect, i could be wrong

i paid £72 a month at a private clinic in 2024 and the price went up twice while i was with them

unrelated but there was a two year limit in the nhs guidance i read. what happened at the end of it was not clear to me then and may be clearer now

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, take that with a pinch of salt

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

i moved from private to nhs and the handover was messy. one experience in one area, nothing more than that

driving never came up for me at all and i would ask a clinician rather than take my word on it

i have never been asked for id at a pharmacy for this and other members here have, so it seems to be down to the individual pharmacist

anyone in ireland willing to compare what theyre paying

i rang eleven pharmacies and the twelfth had it. that was one winter, and it is not a strategy

unrelated but anyone in scotland or wales finding it different from england

member reported only

for the archive gp said they cant prescribe it at all, is that national or a local budget thing

everything in this channel about pricing is a snapshot. read any figure here as the month somebody typed it, ask me again in a month

check, dont trust me

ring more pharmacies

the criteria included a bmi threshold plus comorbidities when i read them, and they have been revised since, so check rather than trust me

how many pharmacies do people ring before giving up for the day
the seizure letters members have had here have been letters and nothing else, but that is our sample rather than a guarantee

a private prescription in the uk was dispensable at any pharmacy willing to take it, in my experience of it

an irish member told me their out of pocket cost was noticeably higher than the uk equivalent when they compared in 2024, i have it written down somewhere

has anyone been asked for id at a pharmacy counter for this