[Vendor] QST order #23 — Denmark, 25 days, no drama, receipts inside
Something I noticed reading old threads that I have not seen said out loud. The advice on New Zealand in this community changed substantially around the start of last year, and nobody went back and updated the older posts. So depending on which thread the search engine hands you, you get two contradictory answers…
The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.
Australia here. Waited 24 months on a list, gave up, went private, and the total cost was roughly what I expected.
This is correct. PBS listings matter.
New Zealand is different on the two sides
The nausea was genuinely awful for three weeks and then simply stopped. I know that is not useful information, but it is what happened.
I am going to push back on this slightly.
unfunded-means-full-price is the NZ reality
Week 73 for me and the honest summary is: 11kg down, fatigue manageable, and I have thought about food maybe four times today.
Mechanistically the bit that matters is TGA. It explains most of the early profile and a decent chunk of the outcome.