how far ahead do people order given transit inside the eu
#eu 2025-07-24
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- fibre_first — quick one spain, is it pharmacy only and what does it come to 20:32
- fibre_first — does a prescription from one eu country work in another update from 4 months ago: nothing changed on reimbursement where i am and the price went up anyway 20:42
- invoice_mismatch — ema approval means licensed but not that anyone pays for it, is that the right way round 22:01
the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year
nobody here can tell you what is legal in your country and the mods stop that conversation early
is the customs handling fee worse than the vat itself
write simple english
quick one spain, is it pharmacy only and what does it come to
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does a prescription from one eu country work in another
update from 4 months ago: nothing changed on reimbursement where i am and the price went up anyway
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anyone had a german pharmacy order it in and how long did that take
three working days
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can you legally buy in one eu country and take it to another
follow up how does a pharmacy handle it if you have no local insurance at all
update on the earlier thing a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year
check the date on that
the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither
follow up how do you deal with a supplier whose support is in one language only
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nordic pricing genuinely was higher in every comparison i have seen here, and the incomes are higher too, which people forget
right so the language barrier with support is real. i write in short plain english and it works better than good english does, i have it written down somewhere
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diabetes yes weight no
poland was cheapest
nordics are brutal
what does privat versus kassenrezept mean in money terms
crossing a border to buy it happens and people are quiet about it, which tells you how comfortable they are with it
a member in spain said their pharmacy price was lower than germany when they compared in 2024, and i cannot verify that
poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago, happy to be corrected
german pharmacies will order in what they do not stock. mine took three working days when i asked in 2024
any figure in this channel should be read as the month somebody typed it, not as the price today
coming back after 22 months, has anything changed on reimbursement anywhere
ema approval means licensed but not that anyone pays for it, is that the right way round
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how are people managing when support only speaks one language and it isnt yours
crossing a border to buy it happens and people are quiet about it, which tells you how comfortable they are with it, ask me again in a month
a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries
the price for the same dose in two eu countries differed by about forty percent in the one careful comparison i have seen in here
ok so you can carry a personal quantity between eu countries in practice. the rules on quantity and prescription vary and i would not rely on my reading of them
prices moved since
update from 13 months ago: nothing changed on reimbursement where i am and the price went up anyway
Reminder set. I will post here in 2 days.
is there anywhere in the eu where this is actually cheap
in germany the split is privat versus kasse. a private prescription means you pay the pharmacy price yourself and when i checked last year that was a lot
nordic prices look brutal, is that real or is that just what gets reported
anyone compared the price for the same dose in two eu countries properly
is carrying it in a suitcase inside the eu a problem