Stunning! Thailand cheapest place for medicines in the world, says survey

[Tops]

I am a diabetic and allergic to methformide what you can get in every pharmacy in Thailand.

How ever I need as a replacement Diamicron and Trajenta. In The Netherlands only € 4.90 and € 7.80 for a pack of 30 days. In Thailand at the whole sale 850 and 1950 THB  for the same 30 days. They're imported and heavily taxed. When getting them in my hospital 1950 and 3950 THB !!! Every time someone is coming over from The Netherlands I have my doctor in NL subscribed them and have them picked up in a local pharmacy.

 

Thailand cheap???
NO F#ck!ng way !!!!

[emptypockets]

1 hour ago, billd766 said:

I live in rural Khampaeng Phet and I order my meds by email from a pharmacy in Nakhon Sawan. order one day, transfer the money and the meds arrive the next day by EMS for 50 baht.

 

You need to go online and type the name of the drug and check for a genetic version. Sometimes you won't find the generic name and will have to buy the original. Then go and check the prices at 4 or 5 pharmacies to get a feel for a reasonable price. See if they have all the meds that you need, and if they will send by EMS, and play it by ear from there.

 

I used to buy mine from BKK until I came up here

 

I take

Co-Diovan 80/125 mg cost 598 per pack of 28 and I take 1/2 tablet per day.

Dilatrend 25 mg cost 280 for 10 take 1 tablet daily

Bestatin 20 mg cost 155 for 100 take 1 tablet daily

Orfarin 3 mg cost 475 per 100 take 1 1/2 tablet daily

Orfarin 5 mg cost 550 per 100 take 1/2 tablet daily

Glucophage 500 mg cost 27 strip of 10 take 2 tablets daily

 

I have been using them for over 10 years now with no ill effects

 

 

I hope you have had a few check ups over the last ten years with a doctor to make sure the medicine and dosage as still appropriate.

[saengd]

1 minute ago, FNQ said:

Agree.

Then you haven't looked very hard, there are generic brands of these things all over the place at a fraction of the brand name cost.

[emptypockets]

11 minutes ago, Misab said:

Cheap?  Must be for Thai people 

I pay about the same price here for lung medicine as I did i Europe

 

A packet of smokes in Thailand is less than 20 percent of the cost in Australia.

[zydeco]

10 hours ago, LennyW said:

All the small local pharmacies are incredibly cheap.

I stopped buying my medicine at the hospital pharmacy. Now, after every appointment with the physician, I walk to the nearest P&F. It's about 40 percent cheaper.

[annabel]

2 hours ago, emptypockets said:

I hope you have had a few check ups over the last ten years with a doctor to make sure the medicine and dosage as still appropriate.

Yup on a yearly basis and my Doc confirmed tat every one  of the ones I bought in India were as good and in some cases better

[Mac98]

I went to a clinic attached to a dental hospital in Chiang Mai suburbs. Saw a doctor, then a specialist, and was given two prescriptions to pick up after payment to cashier. The cashier wouldn't take my Visa card. She said the minimum I could charge was 500b and my bill was 400b. Even with Medicare insurance in the U.S. that whole thing would have cost at the very least 2100b. I'm happy with my medical bills, so far.

[Sheryl]

2 posts discussing illegal activity and one troll post removed

[Sheryl]

13 hours ago, gimo said:

  I take a generic brand of Micardis , used to reduce high blood pressure . Right now here in Australia , one month's worth costs $6 . A few years ago the cheapest I could get in BKK was the equivalent of $28 . That comparison is as bad as wine and cheese , both of which I also need .

There is no locally made generic of this in Thailand. So here you are buying the brand name which is imported.

 

Imported meds are expensive here. Not only is there the cost of importing on top of the original retail price,  but there is a customs tariff applied. So imported drigs will cost more here than in most western countries.

 

Locally made drugs on the other hand are usually quite affordable.  Thai generics cost more in Cambodia than in Thailand. Western imports cost much less in Cambodia than in Thailand.

[DPKANKAN]

16 hours ago, atyclb said:

 

where is omeprazole 20 baht for 10 capsules?

Yaidee Pharmacy Kanchanaburi. Last time I bought a years worth!! 5555

[billd766]

14 hours ago, emptypockets said:

I hope you have had a few check ups over the last ten years with a doctor to make sure the medicine and dosage as still appropriate.

Every month for the last 10 years or so.

[Wake Up]

On 12/3/2019 at 6:09 PM, ripstanley said:

They must have not checked the Pharmacies at Private Hospitals.

Even the most expensive hospitals in Bangkok are cheap for medicine and health care compared to USA. A bargain 

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Meds are cheap as long as they are produced here and you buy them in independent drug stores, not in international chain stores.

 

[justin case]

if you pay half here and end up being a fake...

[jonclark]

On 12/4/2019 at 9:49 AM, ezzra said:

Facts: cheap is a relative compression, cheap as in what? cost of living, and salaries earned, most medicines sold in Thailand are of an inferior qualities either manufactured here or imported from neighbouring countries with more filler material than the medicine compounds needed, others sold in leading hospitals ARE NOT cheap by any stretch of imaginations, others are mostly fakes or heavily diluted...

 

Absolute nonsense. 

[ParkerN]

On 12/4/2019 at 9:09 AM, ripstanley said:

They must have not checked the Pharmacies at Private Hospitals.

Yep, 100 baht for a 9-baht card of Metformin at RAM hospital. Gotta make a profit of course...

[billd766]

50 minutes ago, ParkerN said:

Yep, 100 baht for a 9-baht card of Metformin at RAM hospital. Gotta make a profit of course...

How many mg and how many tablets per strip?

 

I buy Glucophage 500 mg (the generic name for Metformin) at 23 baht for a strip of 10 in a pharmacy.

[metisdead]

A post advertising the sale of medicine has been removed as this is not a for sale forum. 

[StayinThailand2much]

On 12/4/2019 at 9:05 AM, webfact said:

Stunning! Thailand cheapest place for medicines in the world, says survey

Over the counter, perhaps. But not if you get them from a hospital at highly inflated prices.