private prescription — 20 things I got wrong before I got it right
private prescription — 20 things I got wrong before I got it right. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. Switched pharmacies mid-titration and had to restart the ladder because the concentrations did not line up. The scheme cap in Ireland was the single most useful thing I learned in…
keep every letter, the dates matter later
Why the monthly pricing tracker works, and the rule that makes it work.
Members post the pharmacy, the product, the month and the price they actually paid — not an advertised offer, not a first-month discount. No links of any kind are permitted, which removes the entire incentive to post anything other than what happened.
The result is that the spread between pharmacies in a given month is visible, and it is consistently larger than people expect. That single table has saved members here more money than every other thread on the board combined, and it survives only because the no-links rule is enforced without exception.
Why the monthly pricing tracker works, and the rule that makes it work.
Disagreeing with this line: that is the arrangement in one nation and the question is about another.
ask the pharmacy for the price list, not the headline offer
I would not read a supply notice as a shortage in your pharmacy tomorrow. They are not the same thing.
Why the monthly pricing tracker works, and the rule that makes it work.
Adding the practical bit — ask what happens at discharge before you start, not after.
This. The monthly pricing tracker is the most useful thing on this board and it works because nobody is allowed to link anything.
That is the first-month offer price, not the ongoing monthly cost. The tracker records the second one.