Online Pharmacy

[aikorob]

Hey folks,
On her last trip home, Nata loaded up on her familiar medications---these have about run out. The local Russian shops here in ATL have a VERY limited selection of things.
Any recommendations of on line pharmacies where we can order Ukrainian/Russian OTC medications?

[Shadow]

No idea if they ship to the USA, but http://apteka.de is one site.

[SMS60]

I dont have any suggestions on websites but would like to ask a few questions if you dont mind.

What kind of discussions are you having with her about using the OTC medicines she can buy here?

I have run into the issue when my wife arrived. Sheesh...what an ordeal!! Finally got it resolved. She figured out what was what with cross reference.

[Faux Pas]

I dont have any suggestions on websites but would like to ask a few questions if you dont mind.

What kind of discussions are you having with her about using the OTC medicines she can buy here?

I have run into the issue when my wife arrived. Sheesh...what an ordeal!! Finally got it resolved. She figured out what was what with cross reference.

We've broached this recently after my wife had an abscessed tooth (luckily enough on a Friday night) and I gave her everything in the medicine cabinet, really good narcotics included. We tried some over the counter meds and nothing worked for pain relief except a few pills of some sort she brought from Russia that she said, worked on the pain, instead of knocking her out. I have no idea what it is. The end result here is, she is very unhappy with American medication and has vowed to bring back on her next trip to Russia everything she might possibly need. I'd like to find an online pharmacy where she can order what she wants. Ironically enough, her tooth was the result of some very bad Russian dental work

[SMS60]

We've broached this recently after my wife had an abscessed tooth (luckily enough on a Friday night) and I gave her everything in the medicine cabinet, really good narcotics included. We tried some over the counter meds and nothing worked for pain relief except a few pills of some sort she brought from Russia that she said, worked on the pain, instead of knocking her out. I have no idea what it is. The end result here is, she is very unhappy with American medication and has vowed to bring back on her next trip to Russia everything she might possibly need.

The power of the mind is incredible.

[facetrock]

 I remember having a cold once in Ukraine and bought some nose inhaler to clear me up. It cleared it up and I was high for about half an hour. Far stronger than anything here.
 I cant remember all the times I have been told by FSU women that our drugs are no good, our food is bad, blah blah blah.
 But there are some things we have that they want. About 4 years ago I was dating a woman from Ukraine and she had a friend with a bad case of hemorroids. I remember having to go to Walmart and buy 5 or 6 tubes of Preparation H. The girl at the counter just smiled.
 Another thing they always wanted were vitamims. The gilrs mother I was dating had heart problems and I would always bring a huge bottle of Lycene.
On another trip to Ukraine a friend of mine here called her mother because she needed a few medications for me to bring back. I was a walking pharmacy going through the airport. I dont think I have ever bought that much stuff in my life.
The guard at the Dnep airport just smiled when he opened my luggage and said. " Drugs, no good no good" Cost me 20 dollars to get out of there.

SMS. Congradulations on your marriage. Good job!!

[Shadow]

We have an extensive Russian medicin cabinet (courtesy of having Russian doctors in the family) and while the composition is different, the working components seem not very different.
Russian medicine still has a very direct link to the origin of the medicaments, which means that for the less strong ailments natural cures exist.

For instance to help skin repair a high amount of beets (borsch) is advised, as they contain indigo, which has a healing effect on the skin.

[facetrock]

  I remember being in Turkey and getting a natural treatment for sunburn. Mayonaise. Gross.

[Shadow]

  I remember being in Turkey and getting a natural treatment for sunburn. Mayonaise. Gross.

Yet the natural treatment for freezing might not be as gross. Vodka. 

[BillyB]

The end result here is, she is very unhappy with American medication and has vowed to bring back on her next trip to Russia everything she might possibly need. I'd like to find an online pharmacy where she can order what she wants.

A RW doctor I'm dating says she's not happy with American medicine either. First of all, not much good medicine is available for people without a prescription and doctors tend to prescribe too much medicine to cure people. She is not happy with Russian medicine because narcotics are not easily available.

At the Russian hospital the RW doctor worked at, the Sexologist cure for everything is.....sex. She tells me the Sexologist is also willing to cure his female patients personally.

[Chicagoguy]

My wife recently returned from Russia with many pills for maybe three ailments. Are the better or worse? I don't know. Are they cheaper? YES

And a Russian friend who is now an American MD had me take a whole bag of US meds over to Russia for her parents.

In the end I like cheap

[acctBill]

One of the arguments that I've had with my wife is about Russian pharmaceuticals, either prescription or over the counter.  With the Russian pharmaceuticals it's difficult or impossible to find out what the side effects are.  With western pharmaceuticals they can be looked up in pharmaceutical guides or on the Internet.  The Russian versions aren't so easy to track. 

In addition a Russian born doctor in the UK told my wife that even the prescription drugs in Russia aren't always as advertised and often vary in efficacy because of poor production practices in Russia.

[Shadow]

Strange that on all Russian pharmaceuticals I have there are guides that describe the possible side effects. They are in Russian of course, but still they are there. 

[acctBill]

Strange that on all Russian pharmaceuticals I have there are guides that describe the possible side effects. They are in Russian of course, but still they are there. 

Shadow I'm not a doctor but when a Russian speaking doctor in the UK tells me that she doesn't have the amount of information on Russian pharmaceuticals from the guides as she has with the western pharmaceuticals I'm going to take her word for it.   

[Rutherford]

My  wife tells me there in NO regulation  with  durgs in Russia,  much of the meds are fake or dangerous .

My  wife believes oscillococcinum  cures or prevents everything  .
We  keep a constant  supply of it around .

There is no regulating anything in Russia

[Daveman]

My  wife tells me there in NO regulation  with  durgs in Russia,  much of the meds are fake or dangerous .

My  wife believes oscillococcinum  cures or prevents everything  .
We  keep a constant  supply of it around .

There is no regulating anything in Russia

I've been told this as well from not only women but also the private doctor who took care of my back when I fell in a hole over there (Ukraine).  He told me that there are many fake/counterfeit drugs especially from little side corner Apteka's.  This has been echoed among other professionals I encountered.  I don't know the percentages as to fake vs real, but I'd be a little leery of taking a prescription medication here that's available over the counter there.

All my medications did have the enclosed pamphlet listing the side effects (though in German and Russian, as the meds were manufactured in Germany). Can't remember what it was, but it was some great stuff - knocked the pain right out and left me wanting to philosophize about life and the universe  in the incomprehensible language of slurred tonguenese.   

It's strange though... they swear by their OTC meds (for colds, pain, etc., and they seem to work for them), but nothing OTC I was ever given actually did anything for me at all - not for a headache, or even easing the sniffle symptom of a cold.  Damn cultural gap.