[Meta] the Canada rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining
Quick one. Canada here.
formulary works very differently where I live than in the threads that dominate the front page, and I keep seeing people confidently given advice that simply does not apply outside the US.
Specifics: the route I used took 6 weeks and cost roughly what I expected. The admin was worse than the cost. The thing that would have saved me the most time was knowing which document to ask for at the start.
Happy to answer questions from anyone in the same jurisdiction.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Half-life is about 168 hours, so steady state lands around week 2–5. Practical consequence: what you feel in week 1 is not what that dose does.
My version of this: I was so worried about the injection that I put it off for eleven days. The injection is the easiest part.
Strongly agree. Provincial variation is real.
Has anyone actually got this in writing, or is it forum lore at this point?
name your province, coverage is provincial
Slight fix: the number was 96.8, not 94.2. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.
Mechanistically the bit that matters is Canada. It explains most of the early profile and a decent chunk of the outcome.
Yeah, Poland coverage is not Poland coverage.
This is an urgent-care question wearing a forum question's clothes. Please contact a clinician rather than waiting for replies.
Did anything else change in the same window?
Strongly agree. Provincial variation is real.
private plans vary by employer
The thing nobody prepared me for was the quiet. Not the appetite, the quiet. The constant negotiation in my head about food just stopped.
Did anything else change in the same window?
cross-border pricing arbitrage is formulary but risky
special authorization is the cross-province difference
private plan details: redact your group number
This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.
the 15 province variation is real
provincial formularies differ sharply
Respectfully this is a sample of one presented as a finding.
special auth turnaround is province-specific
no cross-border purchasing instructions
I am going to push back on this slightly.
No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.
province is the cross-province difference
special authorisation is province-specific
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