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Re: US Residents: I went to Mexico to find Moclobemide

Posted by JohnX on April 17, 2001, at 2:59:25

In reply to US Residents: I went to Mexico to find Moclobemide, posted by SalArmy4me on April 15, 2001, at 8:32:32

> I went to Tijuana, Mexico today.  It wasn't easy to find Moclobemide in the town. That's surprising because there are 50 pharmacies in town, and one of the places Moclobemide is made is in Mexico.  Anyway, I finally found it in a pharmacy, but they wouldn't honor an American prescription.  But the pharmacist directed me to a local Mexican doctor.  He wasn't a psychiatrist, but he can practice all kinds of medicine, presumably because there aren't many qualified doctors down there.  For $30 US I got a prescription for Moclobemide (called Aurorex down there), and $80 got me 120 of the 150mg tablets.  At 4 tablets per day, that should last me 30 days.  I think I got a good deal. {Addendum: they don't sell the 300 mg tablets there, and the doctor will only write you a prescription for the 150 mg tablets.  That's because the manufacturer of Moclobemide down there put a 300 mg per day maximum on the prescribing reference}.
> Getting the stuff through U.S. Customs was very easy.  I declared that I had the medicine, and Customs didn't even look at what the medicine was.  So I then put my back-pack through the scanning machine and just went to the bus which took me over the border to the United States again.
>
> I bet I could have found Reboxetine down there, but I didn't try. 

my anecdotal moclobemide experience:

I also wanted to give moclobemide a shot since it seemed to have such a benign side effect profile. At the time I was very concerned about customs issues, but my doctor was willing to write me a prescription if I could get it. I opted not to go to mexico from Texas because there were reports of people using moclobemide to enhance the effects of other recreational meds and the texas customs was on the border (no pun intended) of using their discretion to stop moclobemide import. Anyways, I later found out that if I got it and customs said no to the import into the us, it wouldn't have been a legal issue.

The way I got moclobemide was by calling Roche Pharmaceuticals and asking for their advice. There are patients, etc, who use moclobemide in other countries where it is approved and need to get the medication while traveling in the US so Roche has suggestions for importation. Anyways, a very kind nurse on the phone took the time to answer all my concerns and she redirected me to a UK pharmacy www.idis.co.uk. They are a boutique pharmacy specializing in "logistical" methods to ship medication internationally (i.e. they are good at the legal mumbo-jumbo). The idis pharmacy only deals directly with physicians (he had to register on their web site and place the order). The medication had to be shipped to the physicians office, but they were able to bill me directly. I felt very comfortable with this approach since the pharmacy was recommeded by Roche and the med was being shipped to a physician. Seemed like customs would be very unlikely to do anything.

Anyways, I got moclobemide and tried it for 2 months at doses upto a strong 600 mg with no results. It did however have absolutely no side effects which was a first for me.

In the future I'll be less paranoid about importing meds since I understand the legal aspects better...

Hope your trial goes well!!!

-John



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