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Pharmacy price differences in one city

Started 27 January 2026 · 15 replies · 115 hearts · read 2.5k times

GwennoPwllheli, UK · 27 January 2026
6 months ago

Something I have been sitting with: Pharmacy price differences in one city Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Money post. No apologies, this circle is for it.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

I have written down what has actually happened, in order, because I find that more useful than my summary of it.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

Sorry for the length. If anyone has been here, I would very much like to hear it.

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MoBradford, UK
#1

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

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ZoëHackney, UK
#2

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#3

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

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PeronelCanterbury, UK
#4

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

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OttoPrague, CZ
#5

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

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NadirCasablanca, MA
#6

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

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HettieLancaster, UK
#7

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

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LlianCarmarthen, UK
#8

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

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IlyaAlmaty, KZ
#9

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

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GavinDundee, UK
#10

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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SaffHastings, UK
#11

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

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GwennoPwllheli, UK
#12

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

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MoBradford, UK
#13

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

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PetraFacilitatorMelbourne, Australia
#14

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

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KateBelfast, NI
#15

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

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