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#canada 2025-10-05

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  • reta_resting_hr — has anyone had a vial actually freeze in transit 17:10
  • fridge_thermo — is there a national picture at all or is it entirely provincial 17:38
  • halifax_hplc — an ontario member reported around 350 canadian dollars a month at a pharmacy in 2024. one price at one dose 20:36
VI

a frozen and thawed reconstituted vial is the one thing i would not use, and i cannot point you at a study for that

VI

i keep six weeks of stock going into winter rather than four, and that came out of one bad february

sorry to jump in canadian pharmacy pricing was well below the american equivalent in every comparison members have made in here

does private insurance cover it in canada or only some plans

VI

canadian pharmacies stocked it reliably in the periods members reported on, better than the uk did at the same time

winter shipping, is freezing the actual risk rather than heat

FT

is there a national picture at all or is it entirely provincial

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ok so freeze thaw cycling is the concern rather than one freeze, and that is my read of it rather than a lab result

TT

follow up has anyone compared a canadian pharmacy price to an american one properly

TT

i was wrong in here about a province covering it, i had read about a pilot programme and assumed it was policy

TT

postal handled winter better than the courier for me, mostly because the courier van sat outside for hours, someone check my working

TT

the winter risk in canada is freezing rather than cooking, and this channel took a while to internalise that, happy to be corrected

the last leg across the prairies in february is the risk. the flight is heated and the truck is not

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

private plans vary by employer more than by province. two members with the same job title got different answers

VO

i compared a canadian pharmacy quote against an american one on the same dose and the american one was more than double
the depot delay in winter runs longer than in summer and that is the part people do not plan for

HH

an ontario member reported around 350 canadian dollars a month at a pharmacy in 2024. one price at one dose

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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