korea has a clinic culture where this is straightforward to obtain, and members reported that as both a convenience and a concern
#asia 2025-10-25
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Highlights from this day
- tokyo_taper — the indian landscape is qualitatively different from research supply, it is a licensed pharmaceutical industry, and that is still not a guarantee about the vial you… 11:03
- plateau_pen — follow up generics being available and generics being right for your situation are different questions, and only one of them is a chat question 13:42
- quiet_head_qi — japan approved it for both indications a while ago as i understood it, and the approval did not make it cheap 13:51
hong kong, is it pharmacy or clinic in practice
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the indian landscape is qualitatively different from research supply, it is a licensed pharmaceutical industry, and that is still not a guarantee about the vial you received
japanese insurance covered the diabetes indication and not the weight one as far as anyone here could establish a year ago, ask me again in a month
customs between asian countries has not been noticeably easier in anything members have reported. each border is its own border, i have it written down somewhere
anyone shipped from inside the region and had it take longer than from further away
slightly off topic but singapore was reported in here at around 400 to 600 singapore dollars a month a year or so ago, prescription only
figures are from last year
genuine question update from 17 months ago: availability in the region is broadly the same and the prices i track are slightly higher
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
sourcing is physically closer here, why is it not simpler
closer isnt simpler
is the korean clinic route cheaper than a pharmacy elsewhere
language with a local pharmacy went better once i brought the compound name written down. spoken, it never worked once, anyway
as of about a year ago korea had the shortest path from deciding to starting of anywhere members here had described
follow up generics being available and generics being right for your situation are different questions, and only one of them is a chat question
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*VendorInvestigate not the other one
does a closer supplier actually mean fewer customs steps
coming back after 15 months, has anything changed on availability in the region
japan approved it for both indications a while ago as i understood it, and the approval did not make it cheap
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getting seen in korea was faster than any route a uk member described at the time we were both describing it