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Posted by SalArmy4me on March 2, 2001, at 9:15:30
I went to Tijuana, Mexico a while ago to buy foreign (non-U.S.) medications. It wasn't easy to find Moclobemide in the town. That's surprising because there are 50 pharmacies in town, and moclobemide is made in Mexico. Anyway, I finally found it in a pharmacy, but they wouldn't honor an American prescription. The pharmacist directed me to a local Mexican doctor. He wasn't a psychiatrist, but he can practice all kinds of medicine, presumably because there aren't many qualified doctors down there. For $30 US I got a prescription for Moclobemide (called Aurorex down there), and $80 got me 120 of the 150mg tablets. At 4 tablets per day, that should last me 30 days. I think I got a good deal. {Addendum: they don't sell the 300 mg tablets there, and the doctor will only write you a prescription for the 150 mg tablets. That's because the manufacturer of Moclobemide down there put a 300 mg per day maximum on the prescribing reference}.
Getting the stuff through U.S. Customs was very easy. I declared that I had the medicine, and Customs didn't even look at what the medicine was. So I then put my back-pack through the scanning machine and just went to the bus which took me over the border to the United States again.
I bet I could have found Reboxetine down there, but I didn't try. I have to see whether Moclobemide works or not.
Best wishes for your full recovery...
Posted by NikkiT2 on March 2, 2001, at 13:29:50
In reply to I went to Mexico to buy medications, posted by SalArmy4me on March 2, 2001, at 9:15:30
Sal, (may I call you sal?!)
I know you are just trying to help, but please, this isn;t really the est way - self medication can be really dangerous, and not everyone will be as good as you about it. Reboxatine had very serious side affects with me, where by I had to have emergency doc appointment - he would have beens eriously angry if I told him I'd bought drugs illegally and was prescribing myself.
please offer advice to anbyone asking about Mexico and drugs, but please do not encourage people to g o out and self medicate - It very worrying.
Nikki
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