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tumbleweed_marijane
Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: anyang
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 Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:35 pm Post subject: question about buying meds |
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do you need prescriptions to buy medicines here? over-the-counter stuff like aspirins, digestive tabs and vitamins.
friend of mine went to buy some vitamins tabs and an inhaler in a drugstore near our house and the store guy said that she had to get a prescription from a doctor...to buy vitamins! |
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kat2
Joined: 25 Oct 2005
Location: Busan, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Depends on the vitamins. They are ungodly expensive too. Try to find some cheap on the blackmarket or at Costco. Jar of multivitamins at E-Mart 50,000. At Costco 15,000. Black Market 10,000. |
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tumbleweed_marijane
Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: anyang
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| Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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foooooo!
what about aspirins?like i get effn bad cramps every month AND what about digestives, tabs or otherwise?
will i need prescriptions for those as well? |
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kat2
Joined: 25 Oct 2005
Location: Busan, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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You can get Tylenol and other pain killers but at lot of places will sell you a pack of 8 pills for 2,000. A bit expensive. Also a lot of pharmacies will only sell you 1 pack at a time. Good for about half a day! There is PMS medicien, but I can't remember the name. If you aren't embarrassed, find a female pharamacist and start miming.
I recently bougt a bottle of 300 aspirin for 11,000 on the blackmarket near my house. Keep your eyes open.
In genreal a lot of stuff is over the counter here. Just go in and start miming. |
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chronicpride
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| You can buy Bayer Aspirin, Tylenol, and Tylenol ER over-the-counter w/o prescription. You can buy Advil at the black/grey markets, particularly the underground import markets of Namdaemun, which usually carry a good selection of imported OTC drugs. |
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kat2
Joined: 25 Oct 2005
Location: Busan, South Korea
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| Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Always check the expiratio ndate on anything fro the black market. |
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tumbleweed_marijane
Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: anyang
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| Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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| thank you muchly *bows head(cuz there's no 'bowing head' smiley) |
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braunshade
Joined: 19 Apr 2006
Location: Somewhere better!
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| Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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I have found that depending on the pharmacy I walk into- the workers will sell me something that is usually prescription only. For example, I needed some skin cram for eczema and they had no problem selling it to me. There have been a couple of other occassions like that too.
You can purchase asprin for ONLY 500 won!!!!! You only get 10 tabllets though. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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| braunshade wrote: |
I have found that depending on the pharmacy I walk into- the workers will sell me something that is usually prescription only. For example, I needed some skin cram for eczema and they had no problem selling it to me. There have been a couple of other occassions like that too.
You can purchase asprin for ONLY 500 won!!!!! You only get 10 tabllets though. |
Asprin 10 tabs for 500 won (50 cents) here or bring a 500 tab bottle from home for $5. Same for tylenol (brand name or generic).
OTC cold meds, about the same as home (24 tabs/caps for ~$5.)
Bring your vitimins from home. Here you pay 5x more for multi vitamins and 10x for individual stuff. |
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