International price comparison — January 2024

TrialNerd_Beth said:

Denials are usually procedural rather than clinical, and the order that works reflects that.

Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. Import rules are jurisdiction-specific and this board keeps giving US-shaped answers to non-US questions. What is a personal-import allowance in one country is a controlled-import offence in another.

kate.chem said:

Living somewhere the domestic route does not exist, which makes most of the advice on this board inapplicable to me.

International shipping tracking for cross-border ordering orders: my experience with customs in the US when ordering from overseas:

Required FDA import alert review, delayed 10 days.

Tips: always include a copy of your prescription, declare medication properly on customs forms, keep quantities reasonable (personal use = 3 month supply max), and use a vendor who has experience shipping to your country.

sarah.morrison said:

Import rules are jurisdiction-specific and this board keeps giving US-shaped answers to non-US questions.

Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. Take it one variable at a time. Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent argument can untangle them after the fact.

A narrower follow-up, since the general answer is now clear:

What actually works on a prior-authorisation denial, as opposed to the list of things that sound like they should work?

Reporting back.

Follow-up — getting the denial reason in writing was the step that mattered. It named the criterion, and the criterion was a document I already had.