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jmbran11
Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Location: U.S.
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 Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:49 pm Post subject: How can I receive presciption meds from the U.S.? |
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I've seen this issue in the past, but I can't find the post.
Somewhere, someone said that I can have my U.S. pharmacy ship my prescription medication to a Korean pharmacy (legally), if I pay the courier charge. If anyone has actually done this, please tell me which pharmacy you used.
I am not concerned with whether my health insurance will cover it. I just want to know if this is possible, and which pharmacy may be willing/able to do it.
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Location: Goseong
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| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:49 am Post subject: |
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Are you 100% sure that you can not get medication here in Korea?
Prescriptions are much cheaper here if you can find a pharmacy that carries it. |
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poker player
Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Location: On the river
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| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 6:43 am Post subject: |
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| Milwaukiedave wrote: |
Are you 100% sure that you can not get medication here in Korea?
Prescriptions are much cheaper here if you can find a pharmacy that carries it. |
If they carry it. A foot problem I had here was diagnosed incorrectly as gout. Anyway, when they gave me the presciption for it the doc said that it would probably cause diarrhea. OMFG was he ever right and it didn't help. It was finally diagnosed correctly as something else -nothing to do with gout. Anyway, when I went back to Canada and told my doctor about this he just laughed. He said, well if it had been gout what they gave you was something we stopped giving gout patients about 20 years ago and what they prescribe for gout now has no side effects. He then asked if the doctor here had misread my blood test when he diagnosed gout. I said "what blood test?" He just shook his head and said there is no way to know if someone has gout without a blood test.
So, not only did I undergo 3 terrible days of never being far from a john, but I was given a drug that not only I didn't need but 1 that hasn't been used in North America for 20 years.
I intend never to get sick here again. |
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justagirl
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Cheonan/Portland
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| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 8:20 am Post subject: |
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There is an International Global Priority mailer. It's heavy cardboard and available at the post office. Have your mom get some socks for you. Didn't you need new socks anyway? Put cotton in the pill bottle so they don't rattle. Fill the mailer up with socks, or with candy, etc. Tape that baby shut. Write on the label: Socks and candy for holiday treat. The Korean post never opens these up. THey'd be impossible to reclose if they did. However, they do sometimes open boxes.
Anyway. That's how I got mine to Korea. Found out that Korea only had one dosage of the medication I take, as it's not a common problem for Koreans. In the States, there are over 10 dosage levels.
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