Curious whether you're seeing it loosen up in your own country or just reading about Italy and Germany. My pharmacy here still feels like a coin flip month to month.
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Portugal here and mine's been steady, though I'm only a few months in so I haven't hit the patchy stretches others describe yet. Do you find it varies a lot city to city?
honestly curious whether anyone outside the big three markets is seeing the same loosening, my corner of Portugal still feels like a coin flip month to month
The standing pickup list thing has been the difference for me too, my local pharmacy in Italy just sets a box aside when their delivery comes in. Before that I was doing the ring-around every single month and it got old fast.
Italy here, my pharmacist just told me last week that stock is steadier than it was in spring but the smaller dosages still come and go. Are you finding it's specific strengths that are tricky or just the timing?
Florida here so not quite your situation, but my pharmacy only just stopped making me call around every month. Curious whether the standing pickup list thing is a Europe-only setup or if I could ask for something similar here
my pharmacy in Portugal still makes me call on the day and hope, so refill week is a small gamble every time. Down about 53 lbs myself and honestly the supply side has been the annoying part, not the med
the standing pickup list thing is new to me, is that something your pharmacy set up or did you have to ask for it? My refill week is still a bit of a coin flip here.
Here in Portugal the pharmacy has to order it in each time, so it's never sitting on a shelf, but it does turn up within a few days now instead of the vague maybe-it'll-come answer I used to get.
Italy here, and my pharmacy has gone from "come back Tuesday" to actually having it on the shelf the day I walk in. Still checking before every trip though, old habits.
How's the pharmacy pickup list actually work where you are, do they just text you when it's in stock?
How did you actually go about setting up that standing pickup slot, was it just asking the pharmacy straight up or did you have to chase it?
how is it actually easier for you, are you calling pharmacies and finding it in stock or is your regular one just not running dry anymore? I only ask because mine still feels like a coin flip month to month
Winter is the real test, that buffer pen in the fridge is the only thing keeping me calm heading into it
I'm in Portugal and mine came through without a hitch this month too, though I'm not ditching my habit of ordering a couple weeks early just yet.
curious whereabouts you are, because my pharmacy in Portugal has been dead easy lately but a friend two towns over keeps getting pushed back a week.
tbh i'm in Portugal and my pharmacy had to order it in this month, took about four days. Curious whether you're somewhere that needs the fridge shipped or you can just walk in.
idk, winter is exactly why I stopped trusting a single pen on the shelf. Last November my pharmacy went quiet for almost three weeks and I was rationing like it was wartime.
My pharmacy has been steady for a couple months now but I'm still holding one spare pen after getting caught out last winter. Curious whether yours is a big chain or a small local one, since that seems to make a difference.
Curious where you are exactly, since my pharmacy in Portugal has been steady but a friend two countries over still has to call around
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