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#uk-ireland 2026-01-30
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- VialBot — Channel stats, last 30 days: 62 messages from 12 members. 18:34
- knees_first — cheapest legitimate route i found was a pharmacy led online service, and cheapest is only one axis of that decision 18:43
- 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 18:50
ireland runs its own reimbursement system and as best i understood it a year ago the picture there was less generous than people expect
off label and unlicensed get used interchangeably in here and they are different. off label is a licensed product used outside its licence
off label is different
the online clinics vary enormously in how much they check. one wanted a video call and photographs and one wanted almost nothing
cheapest legitimate route i found was a pharmacy led online service, and cheapest is only one axis of that decision
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driving never came up for me at all and i would ask a clinician rather than take my word on it
i was wrong in here about what unlicensed meant for about six months until somebody sorted me out
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
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the criteria included a bmi threshold plus comorbidities when i read them, and they have been revised since, so check rather than trust me
driving never came up for me at all and i would ask a clinician rather than take my word on it
the tier 3 referral needed my gp to actually make it, and that turned out to be harder than meeting the criteria
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anyone in ireland willing to compare what theyre paying
[edited]mine was 18 months