right so border force stopped a parcel of mine and sent a letter, and that was the whole of it. no follow up and no knock at the door
🧊4
#uk-ireland 2025-07-19
Saturday33 messages7 participantstimes are UTC
Highlights from this day
- knees_first — northern ireland sits under different arrangements from great britain and those have changed more than once, so do not treat anything i say about it as current 17:14
- VialBot — Verification log updated: CPC — evidence added, status unchanged. 18:15
- triple_ag_tom — has anyone been asked for id at a pharmacy counter for this 18:43
- void_volume — i paid €185 a month at a private clinic in 2024 and the price went up twice while i was with them, ask me again in a month 19:42
- step_one_sian — unlicensed in mhra terms means there is no uk marketing authorisation for that product. it is not the same as illegal and it is not the same as approved 20:54
ni has its own rules
👀1🔥1
is the pharmacy supply gap the manufacturer or the wholesalers
i would not repeat any of the nhs criteria as current fact, they were revised at least once since i last read them
cheapest legitimate route i found was a pharmacy led online service, and cheapest is only one axis of that decision
as of when i last looked, nhs access ran through specialist weight management services and the criteria were tight
off label is different
that was last year
[edited]cheapest legitimate route i found was a pharmacy led online service, and cheapest is only one axis of that decision
[edited]northern ireland sits under different arrangements from great britain and those have changed more than once, so do not treat anything i say about it as current
👀8
slightly off topic but driving never came up for me at all and i would ask a clinician rather than take my word on it, not advice obviously
cheapest legitimate route i found was a pharmacy led online service, and cheapest is only one axis of that decision
is the picture in ireland completely separate on reimbursement
gp said they cant prescribe it at all, is that national or a local budget thing
😂4
when i checked last year my local specialist service was quoting eighteen months to two years, and that was for a first appointment, still working it out
unlicensed isnt illegal
i was wrong in here about what unlicensed meant for about six months until somebody sorted me out
i moved from private to nhs and the handover was messy. one experience in one area, nothing more than that
Verification log updated: CPC — evidence added, status unchanged.
anyone moved from a private clinic to nhs or the other way round
has anyone been asked for id at a pharmacy counter for this
🧊13🙏4
scotland ran a different process from england when i looked into it, and a member there reported a shorter wait, take that with a pinch of salt
i rang eleven pharmacies and the twelfth had it. that was one winter, and it is not a strategy
👀4
off label and unlicensed get used interchangeably in here and they are different. off label is a licensed product used outside its licence
the mhra publishes supply notices. whether your pharmacy has read them is an entirely separate matter
a member in dublin said their pharmacy supply was steadier than mine in england, which surprised both of us
member reported only
there was a two year limit in the nhs guidance i read. what happened at the end of it was not clear to me then and may be clearer now, someone check my working
i paid €185 a month at a private clinic in 2024 and the price went up twice while i was with them, ask me again in a month
fridge-thermometer.png
800 × 800 · 634 KB · not retained in the public archive
nobody here can tell you what your gp will do. the variation between practices is the whole story in england
wales was reported in here as slower to get started and steadier once you were in, and that was second hand
*that should say weekly
unlicensed in mhra terms means there is no uk marketing authorisation for that product. it is not the same as illegal and it is not the same as approved
🧊8😂5⚠️1
does the two year wait figure people quote come from anywhere real
the criteria included a bmi threshold plus comorbidities when i read them, and they have been revised since, so check rather than trust me
🤝2🧊1