Purity check: no report on file for lot F-1330. Nothing logged either way.
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#eu 2025-12-12
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- amber_vial — i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 8 days once 15:24
- karl_fischer — statutory insurance in germany did not cover it for weight when i last read about it. for the diabetes indication it was a different conversation, i think 16:14
- nordic_price_nils — a prescription from one member state is meant to be recognised in another under the cross border rules. whether the pharmacist knows that is another matter 19:10
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
can you legally buy in one eu country and take it to another
[edited]slightly off topic but i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same paperwork
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no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from, for what its worth
the language barrier with support is real. i write in short plain english and it works better than good english does
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vat on imports from outside the eu applied from a very low threshold when i last imported, and the carrier handling fee was bigger than the vat
anyone in the netherlands able to say what theyre paying
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nobody here can tell you what is legal in your country and the mods stop that conversation early
the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither
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a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy
spain, is it pharmacy only and what does it come to
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parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly, take that with a pinch of salt
i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 8 days once
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netherlands was reported in here at around 200 euros a month out of pocket a year or so ago, with conditions attached to any reimbursement
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
i keep a note of what i paid each month because the number moves and my memory of it does not
ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other
as of about a year ago statutory cover in germany for weight indications still was not there, so check before quoting me on it
statutory insurance in germany did not cover it for weight when i last read about it. for the diabetes indication it was a different conversation, i think
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prices moved since
is vat charged on a parcel coming into the eu and how much are we talking
ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other
the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year
has anyone found a national scheme that actually covers this
any figure in this channel should be read as the month somebody typed it, not as the price today
german pharmacies will order in what they do not stock. mine took three working days when i asked in 2024
check the date on that
a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries
poland pricing, has anyone compared it against germany
approval isnt reimbursement
diabetes yes weight no
anyone in sweden or denmark want to compare notes
update from 9 months ago: nothing changed on reimbursement where i am and the price went up anyway, ill dig out the number
*Medutest not the other one
send both languages
how do you deal with a supplier whose support is in one language only
pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more
poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago
varies by pharmacy
a prescription from one member state is meant to be recognised in another under the cross border rules. whether the pharmacist knows that is another matter
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how are people managing when support only speaks one language and it isnt yours
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is the customs handling fee worse than the vat itself
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, ill dig out the number
poland was cheapest
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a member in spain said their pharmacy price was lower than germany when they compared in 2024, and i cannot verify that
quick one translate your message and send both versions. that got me answers when english alone had not
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handling fee is worse than vat
nordics are brutal
crossing a border to buy it happens and people are quiet about it, which tells you how comfortable they are with it, i have it written down somewhere