Archive for March 15, 2005

Buying drugs in Canada

Our cat is asthmatic. To
treat this we’ve been giving him a steroid (prednisone) and a
bronchial dilator but recently this just hasn’t seemed adequate so
we’re switching to an AeroKat
inhaler and Flovent. We had gotten the pills at a great price from href="http://www.1800petmeds.com/">PetMeds.com but they don’t seem
to carry the inhaler, so we need another supplier.

The drug for the inhaler costs a lot more than the pills had
(about $160 per order) so we started looking at getting the stuff from
Canada and I did a little research. The state of Washington offers href="http://rx.wa.gov/canadian.shtml">recommendations for people
considering buying drugs from Canada and link to information from
the state of Wisconsin’s website where you can find href="http://www.drugsavings.wi.gov/medicinelist.asp">pricing
estimates for drugs from Canada with links to various outlets. Our
cat’s inhaler drugs will cost about half of what we’d pay in the
states. There’s a wait time involved, though, and I was hoping that we
could simply drive to BC and pick up an order more quickly, but
evidently most of that 2-3 weeks is for new patient processing, so
whether we do mail order or just buy the drugs, it’ll be about the
same time. But the drugs from Canada are definitely a ton cheaper, so
if I need to buy drugs in the future and it won’t be covered by some
form of insurance, I would definitely do this again.

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