i compared a canadian pharmacy quote against an american one on the same dose and the american one was more than double
#canada 2025-09-28
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- yyz_vial — coming back to this the freezing worry is more room theory than published data for these specific compounds and we should keep saying so 21:35
- yyz_vial — private plans vary by employer more than by province. two members with the same job title got different answers 21:44
- fridge_thermo — is a frozen lyophilised vial ruined or is that fine the winter risk in canada is freezing rather than cooking, and this channel took a while to internalise that 21:53
- yyz_vial — ok so the canada to us gap was reported at roughly a third to a half of the us price a year or two ago, and that will have moved 22:26
- third_shift — depot delays in january, has anyone had a parcel sit out in the cold 23:02
*PeptideMeter not the other one
my monthly cost with partial insurance came to about 120 canadian dollars, which is not a number anybody else can use
postal handled winter better than the courier for me, mostly because the courier van sat outside for hours
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coverage in canada is provincial and it is a patchwork. what a member in one province reported has almost never matched another
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how long is transit into canada running
is it worth just waiting until spring to order
six weeks of stock
transit was 21 days for me with a week of nothing in the middle at a customs facility
a lyophilised vial that froze in transit is almost certainly fine. a reconstituted one that froze is a different matter
quebec has its own drug plan and it worked differently from the rest in everything i read a year ago
what does a month cost in canadian dollars at a pharmacy
does cross border make any sense from canada or is it not worth the bother
cross border out of canada rarely makes sense because canada is usually the cheaper side of that particular border
there is no national picture. asking what canada does is asking thirteen questions at the same time
i was wrong in here about a province covering it, i had read about a pilot programme and assumed it was policy
freeze thaw cycling is the concern rather than one freeze, and that is my read of it rather than a lab result
that was a pilot not policy
an alberta member and a nova scotia member compared notes and neither of them could believe the other one
coming back to this the freezing worry is more room theory than published data for these specific compounds and we should keep saying so
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spring ordering is easier and if you can wait, waiting is free
private plans vary by employer more than by province. two members with the same job title got different answers
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right so is provincial coverage as much of a patchwork as it looks from outside
is a frozen lyophilised vial ruined or is that fine
the winter risk in canada is freezing rather than cooking, and this channel took a while to internalise that
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does the postal service or the courier handle winter better
a member in the territories reported everything arriving eventually and nothing arriving quickly
quebec seems to be different again, is that right
has anyone had a vial actually freeze in transit
ok so the canada to us gap was reported at roughly a third to a half of the us price a year or two ago, and that will have moved
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follow up pharmacy price in canada versus the us, is the gap as big as people claim
[edited]check your plan
wouldnt use a thawed solution
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its provincial
i ask for gel packs even in january because the mass slows the temperature swing, not because it warms anything
depot delays in january, has anyone had a parcel sit out in the cold
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did anyone get stopped at the border bringing it back
coming back after 17 months, has any province changed its position
[edited]powder survived a freeze