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sabina
Joined: 11 Nov 2010
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| Bread wrote: |
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I got really caught out with prescription medicine. Got a year's supply for my doctor but didn't realise until just before I left that for more than a few months you need to get a letter from your doctor and get it approved by the relevant japanese department to bring medication in with you.
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How does one go about doing this?? |
Since you're American, any normal insurance isn't going to cover more than a month in advance worth of medication. You'd be paying hundreds of dollars for even the cheapest medication. Assuming that you don't need one specific brand that isn't available in Japan, you should be able to get pretty much anything cheaper through the social health insurance over here. |
My insurance plan does cover several months of meds at a time. And since I already have the meds I'm curious to know how I get them approved by a Japanese dept.
Does anyone have experience doing this?? Is there some sort of form that I would fill out and bring with me? |
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Apsara
Joined: 20 Sep 2005
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Location: Tokyo, Japan
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 1:57 am Post subject: |
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| I have no experience with this myself, but I have heard that the Japanese Embassy/Consulate where you are are the people to contact to find out what you need to do in this situation. |
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kathrynoh
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| Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Check on the immigration website. I no longer have the link handy, sorry. |
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