quick one singapore handles personal quantities of prescription medicine under its own rules and i would not try to summarise them from memory, take that with a pinch of salt
#asia 2026-02-23
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- ms_ms_mira — physical proximity to the manufacturing changed my shipping cost far more than it changed my shipping time 20:49
- quiet_head_qi — the room does not treat closer as safer, and it took a few bad experiences to get us there 20:50
- night_pin — right so japan approved it for both indications a while ago as i understood it, and the approval did not make it cheap 22:21
- quiet_head_qi — india generics, is that a real landscape now or mostly talk customs between asian countries has not been noticeably easier in anything members have reported. each… 22:32
the carrier matters
anyone in japan paying out of pocket and what does that look like
closer supplier, fewer flight hours, same number of customs steps. the steps are the slow part
same customs steps
physical proximity to the manufacturing changed my shipping cost far more than it changed my shipping time
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the room does not treat closer as safer, and it took a few bad experiences to get us there
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no letter no charge
as of about a year ago korea had the shortest path from deciding to starting of anywhere members here had described
avoid august
customs inside asia caught my parcel once in four years. that is my rate, not a regional statistic
Batch lookup SG-1177: 5 independent reports on file, earliest 2025-12-03.
diabetes indication only
coming back after 12 months, has anything changed on availability in the region
member reported range
forty percent apart
india has a real generics manufacturing base and a real domestic market. what a specific product is, and whether it matches its label, is a separate question every single time
summer shipping matters here too. i avoid july and august the way australian members avoid january
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korea is fast
unrelated but a parcel of mine was held inside the region and released after 13 days with no letter and no charge
hong kong members reported both clinic and pharmacy routes and a wide price range between the two
lot number first
figures are from last year
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closer isnt simpler
anyone shipped from inside the region and had it take longer than from further away
a member in tokyo reported an out of pocket cost in the region of twenty thousand yen a month in 2024, at a clinic
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right so 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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nobody here can tell you what will clear customs where you are and that is enforced in this channel
india generics, is that a real landscape now or mostly talk
customs between asian countries has not been noticeably easier in anything members have reported. each border is its own border
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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
genuine question a member in hong kong and a member in singapore compared the same dose and came out about forty percent apart
being closer to the manufacturing does not shorten customs. my parcels from three hours away took as long as ones from europe
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
is it easier to get seen about this in korea than in europe
approval isnt cheap
japanese insurance covered the diabetes indication and not the weight one as far as anyone here could establish a year ago
singapore was reported in here at around 400 to 600 singapore dollars a month a year or so ago, prescription only