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c/glp1uk·posted 1 year ago by u/ravi_sandvik

[Question] Sweden — has anyone got a straight answer on MHRA

Question Slow Clap ×1 Sourced ×3 Long Haul ×2

Posting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful.

Setup: 15mg, week 11, sulphur burps present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable — pricing — and tracked it for 4 weeks.

Result: a difference, but a small one, and well inside what I would call noise if someone else posted it. So I am putting it here rather than presenting it as a finding. If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something.

Not medical advice, obviously. This is one person with a spreadsheet.

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u/jarno_karlsen509 points·1 year ago

Boots stock is hit-and-miss by location

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u/ahmed_iyer295 points·1 year ago

Boots stock is hit-and-miss by location

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/ahmed_okafor-15 points·1 year ago
controversial sort brought me here and it was worth it
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u/ravi_sandvikOP1 point·1 year ago

Spain: 11 month NHS wait, gave up, went private, cost was private prescription monthly.

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u/ahmed_iyer277 points·1 year ago
post the spreadsheet
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u/halima_boateng115 points·1 year ago

pharmacy stock is UK, check before traveling

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u/vitamin_d_void97 points·1 year ago

France: 3 month NHS wait, gave up, went private, cost was pharmacy monthly.

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u/sten_bhattacharya22 points·1 year ago

You have restated the marketing copy. What is the actual substance here.

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u/ravi_sandvikOP10 points·1 year ago

Which Boots location?

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u/nhs_waitlist_nMOD190 points·1 year ago

Retitled to remove editorialising. Put the evidence in the body.

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u/ravi_sandvikOP124 points·1 year ago

the Scottish pathway is different from the English one

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u/clara_danquah203 points·1 year ago

The tier 3 pathway in my area: 13 month wait, then 26 months for review, then approved. Total pharmacy.

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u/emil_wojcik154 points·1 year ago

the tier 3 pathway is the only free route, it is slow

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u/boots_or_bust91 points·1 year ago

no naming online pharmacies that prescribe without a consultation

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u/bence_ibarra104 points·1 year ago

Every time this gets posted it hits the front page and every time someone has to re-explain it.

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u/priya_guerrero47 points·1 year ago

You have restated the marketing copy. What is the actual substance here.

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u/rina_nascimento0 points·1 year ago

private prescription routes vary by region

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u/jonas_eriksen1 point·1 year ago

private prescription routes vary by region

Adding to this: NHS is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/heart_rate_bump1 point·1 year ago

Yeah, the NHS waitlist is genuinely two years in most places.

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u/emil_wojcik75 points·1 year ago

The evidence standard in c/vendorvetting gets called too strict about once a month, and every time, the thread ends with the complainant agreeing.

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u/a1c_arcT2D51 points·1 year ago

Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.

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u/the_poster_in_question_202618 points·1 year ago

pharmacy stock is pharmacy, check before traveling

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u/careful_gradient_notes7 points·1 year ago

Not convinced. The evidence does not support that reading.

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u/blunt_coldbox2932 points·1 year ago

pharmacy stock is private prescription, check before traveling

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u/ice_pack_auditcold chain27 points·1 year ago

the tier 3 pathway is the only free route, it is slow

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u/sten_palacios19 points·1 year ago

pharmacy stock is private prescription, check before traveling

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 55 weeks to accept.

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u/jonas_eriksen54 points·1 year ago

The tier 3 pathway in my area: 20 month wait, then 16 months for review, then approved. Total private prescription.

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u/helga_vermeulen29 points·1 year ago

I am going to push back on this slightly.

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u/ice_pack_auditcold chain20 points·1 year ago

No. This is the kind of confident post that gets copied into a screenshot and repeated for years. Where is the evidence.

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