#32

I got stood up twice in a row by Viktor. Always his “stuck in traffic” message. Such a classic on him.

And the lady is usually walking around her flat or something with such a poor connection that you barely get to communicate with her. It’s the usual “just tell me what you want prescribed”. Which is fair you know, but then again, getting a Croatian prescription to work in EU pharmacies isn’t easy in practice.

Btw I live in Spain and never found any pharmacist giving you stuff without prescription. What works better here is nexu.co

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#33

Oh, yeah they def seem unprofessional. So maybe we gotta find another “just tell me what you want prescribed” doctor.
Tho honestly, I’m satisfied with the “just tell me what you want prescribed” bc that’s pretty much all I need. I don’t expect them to give me thorough advice on my situation over a zoom call.

Also, about the Spain pharmacies, I’m not sure where u live but in touristy cities like Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, I was always able to get most things without a prescription. But it is probably because I pull off that I’m a “tourist” with my poor Spanish so they usually just give me what I ask for. Locals might have a harder time. Also it depends on the pharmacist in Spain. Some don’t care at all and are laid back. Others pharmacists are very arrogant and will not even look at u if u don’t have a prescription. It’s a hit or miss but if u shop around u can definitely find a laid back pharmacy. Especially for things like metformin, bp meds etc… they don’t really care about prescription. I have a few pharmacies that don’t care about prescriptions and I just stick to going to those now. Play the tourist act it will go a long way.
To Pat25’s point about getting metformin , Metformin is the easiest thing to get here or other laid back countries without a prescription as a tourist. For things like Rapamune , having a prescription is always easier. It’s really luck at that point for Rapamune.

Also, thanks for the nexu.co recommendation, I’ll try it out.

#34

It looks like EU doctor have free slots tomorrow.

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#35

EUdoctor is up and running on an irregular basis. This saturday evening they have free slots and plenty of openings Sunday.

#36

Ruben2 did you manage to get Rapamycin in Spain? I live in Spain too and I’m looking on ways to buy it as I have tried contacting pharmacies from India but they say they can’t guarantee they would pass through customs.

#37

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#38

Thanks. It looks like the price has gone up, it’s $490 now for 100 pills. So it may be similar or even cheaper at a local pharmacy. I was wondering if someone found a way to do that

#39

Nope. Legally it is too expensive. Illegally won’t pass xrays in customs.

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#40

I use Eudoctor and works perfectly in Spanish pharmacy here

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#41

Do they accept prescriptions in English?

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#42

Yes it was no problem

#43

I would like to add that in The Netherlands we can write off certain health care bills (one of which are prescribed meds)

Maybe your country has that too, worth looking into.

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#44

Has anyone used EUDoctor’s ‘Chronic Therapy Refill’ service? How does this differ from a regular ‘Doctor Consultation’? They always give a prescription that’s only valid for one month, so do you really need to have a video meeting every month?

#45

Strange, EUDoctor doesn’t have any available slots at all, and I need to renew my prescriptions. Has it ever been like this before, with no available slots for the next 2 months? It certainly doesn’t give a reliable impression of the service.

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#46

I switched to mobidoctor, let’s see how it goes.

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#47

It has happened before. The very same thing.

They have always had the site up and running again.

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#48

Hi @tj_long I wonder about your experience with mobidoctor? Do they prescribe rapamune? And what was your experience with the service?

It would be great to have an alternativ.

#49

I don’t know about rapamycin. I used a prescription renewal service that works by providing information and old prescriptions, a video consultation is not needed for this. I will probably return to using EUDoctor because it’s cheaper.

#50

Rapamune is the only version of sirolimus that is approved and available in the EU.

#51

Sharing my experience getting prescription Rapamycin in Spain…

  1. Had a consultation with MobiDoctor. I asked on their webchat before booking anything specifically to speak to a doctor with an understanding of longevity medicine who was interested in Rapamycin and they told me to book a specific slot. The doctor was very pleasant, wanted to make sure I understood this was off-label use and had certain risks and asked me to upload 2 documents before issuing the prescription: bloodwork from the last 12 months showing baseline values for basic things like glucose, lipids, liver panel and also a short written statement confirming I understand the risks and accept liability myself for off-label use. Whole process took a matter of hours and I got a 3-month prescription at a 5mg weekly dose in the form of a pdf doc with a QR code that links you to the mobidoctor website so you can see the doctor’s creds.

  2. I whatsapp’d about a dozen pharmacies in my local area. 1 of them refused any prescription that wasn’t in the original handwritten form. A few of them said they didn’t have it and couldn’t order it. A couple said no problem / they could order it. The first one I went to today ended up giving me a box of 100 1mg tablets (Pfizer Rapamune) for 390 EUR even though the QR code on my prescription apparently wasn’t ‘compatible’ with their system (the little point-of-sale scanner device they used didn’t recognise it as valid for some reason), and they weren’t very happy about having to visit the mobidoctor website to fulfill the prescription and said that in 3 months time they want me to come back with a compatible QR code.

Overall, not that tricky but I do feel like you need to shop around pharmacies in Spain to find one comfortable with any EU-wide telemedicine prescription. Hope that helps someone!

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