Cipro without a prescription

bruce3404

I use the Budanase from India; it's similar to Flonase. Budanase is around $3.50 (170 Rps) while Beconase is $40 in the US. You can buy real Beconase in Thailand for around $12. Ah, how the drug companies rip us all off here, part of the reason healthcare in the US is the most costly in the world.

edwardseco

A little difference in incomes too I think. In effect, we subsidize the drugs and their development for developing nations..

edwardseco

Could have multiple meanings in this, ahem, context..

Ooh, you miss what is said above about the symptoms often being the cure as with food poisoning and baccillary dysentary. This could have nasty results hence my suggestion use an Indian doctor. Course I met a a beautiful young doctor there that knew so little that she fed me dehydration salts in the powdered form! Still, the other idea about giving me a will to live and taking my mind off the illness (baccillary) worked just fine..

angangang

I started to get sick while in India in October. The first drug store I walked into in Varanasi had Cipro, and for $4 or whatever I walked out with an entire handful. It was great. You will resent western pharamacy prices after buying in India. I was shocked at all the pharmaceuticals available there.

If you wear glasses, take your prescription. I did not and wish I had. The eye glass places are everywhere, and I am sure that the prices are great.

giripriya

[QUOTE=angangang;710694]I started to get sick while in India in October. The first drug store I walked into in Varanasi had Cipro, and for $4 or whatever I walked out with an entire handful. It was great. You will resent western pharamacy prices after buying in India. I was shocked at all the pharmaceuticals available there.

If you wear glasses, take your prescription. I did not and wish I had. The eye glass places are everywhere, and I am sure that the prices are great.[/QUOTE]

Ooh, good point. I recently had cataract surgery and see so much better(I was legally blind without glasses before). I have put off getting glasses because I see so well now but I have the prescription, will only improve my vision from 20/30 now to 20/25 but really must get them sooner or later to protect my one good eye when I am not able to wear sunglasses. Maybe the opticians are not quite as good in Nepal as in India(?) but since I don't need Coke bottle lenses anymore the price will make it worthwhile.

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giripriya

Yep- I found real Flonase at the Abu Dhabi airport for $20 too(no script needed), so it's even cheaper than the US in the rich Gulf nations...

giripriya

I think the standard advice is only take loperamide if you need to be away from a toilet for awhile, especially if you are on a bus ... if you are able to get to the loo quickly it is best to let your body get rid of whatever is bothering it, just be sure to rehydrate.

RWeHavingFunYet

You could have gotten a prescription from an Opthalmologist or an Optometrist in india for less than $5.

Nick-H

--- you could have got a prescription free at some of the big-chain shops!

What they don't do here is specs-ready-in-an-hour (or at least the Chennai paces that I know don't) which all the big UK chains do --- so you have to be spending a few days in a place, or travelling back through it to pick them up.

bruce3404

We seem to subsidize them more than other first world nations, which explains, in part, why US citizens buy drugs from Canada.
Our lack of a universal health care system and dependence upon individual pharmacies (rather than a nationalized purchasing system) further drives up costs.

bruce3404

I was able to get a pair in Cochi in around 36 hours; not quite an hour, but a rather short wait. I picked them out and got tested around 8PM on a Thursday and had them in hand first thing Saturday morning. I did use one of the larger companies, with several branches around town, so I'd guess their pull at the lab was probably a bit better than a smaller shop might have. I've had them for about 6 months now and am very pleased with them (and the cost, which was less than 1/4 of what I would have had to pay at home).

Sadhu

I will soon be in India with a bunch of ladies there for the first time. Does anyone know of a doctor/pharmacy in Paharganj, just in case? I have never needed one, so I never noticed what is there. A doc would be nice, in case someone needs to get something checked, or a prescription written, as well as pharmacy.

Last time I was there with a group, one of the older gents went off looking for Viagra, but came back empty handed!

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bruce3404

It's very easy to get just about any drug in an Indian pharmacy; prescriptions might only be required for the most restricted drugs. Anyone who can't find Viagra in India isn't looking very hard (pun intended).

labrol

Here too there is a cost difference. Viagra has a fat price tag due to its name. Instead ask for penegra by Zydus Cadila and you get the same product from the reputed Indian multinational at a small fraction of the price.

Referring to a previous discussion, most diarrhoeas are traveler's diarrhoeas or bacillary. Loperamide is an absolute no no. Let the infection clear out. Take Cipro or Oflox to cover bacillary. Tinidazole is rarely needed, only when a doctor suspects it is amoebic. Tinidazole causes a bad reaction if alcohol is taken within a day of its use. In any case it causes a bad metallic taste in mouth and even nausea. Makes you feel very sick with or without alcohol.So avoid unless necessary.
Most doctors prescribe Tinidazole as a routine just so as to cover both bacillary and Amoebic infections. It is better to treat as bacillary if in doubt. Tinidazole can follow later if indicated.

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Haylo

Not because he needed a prescription, I'll wager...

Did he come back with a red face and five tubes of toothpaste?

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