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#asia 2025-07-19

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  • manila_meniscus — update on the earlier thing is it easier to get seen about this in korea than in europe 18:35
  • factory_direct_fi — singapore was reported in here at around 400 to 600 singapore dollars a month a year or so ago, prescription only 18:52
  • split_dose_sam — japanese insurance covered the diabetes indication and not the weight one as far as anyone here could establish a year ago, thats one data point physical proximity to… 19:29
  • split_dose_sam — the carrier matters more than the distance, and that is the thing this channel took two years to agree on 20:44
  • manila_meniscus — i keep the compound name and the dose written in the local language in my phone and it has been more useful than any app 21:03
MM

update on the earlier thing is it easier to get seen about this in korea than in europe

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FD

update from 5 months ago: availability in the region is broadly the same and the prices i track are slightly higher

FD

singapore was reported in here at around 400 to 600 singapore dollars a month a year or so ago, prescription only

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MM

anyone shipped from inside the region and had it take longer than from further away

SD

japanese insurance covered the diabetes indication and not the weight one as far as anyone here could establish a year ago, thats one data point
physical proximity to the manufacturing changed my shipping cost far more than it changed my shipping time

SD

i was wrong about japanese pricing by a factor of two when i quoted it in here, because i was quoting a clinic and somebody else was quoting a pharmacy

SS

the honest position on india is that i have seen good material and bad material and the paperwork told me nothing either way

SD

the carrier matters more than the distance, and that is the thing this channel took two years to agree on

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a member in tokyo reported an out of pocket cost in the region of twenty thousand yen a month in 2024, at a clinic

MM

summer shipping matters here too. i avoid july and august the way australian members avoid january

i keep the compound name and the dose written in the local language in my phone and it has been more useful than any app

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SS

as of about a year ago korea had the shortest path from deciding to starting of anywhere members here had described