Buying of insulin in Madrid

Hello, I would like to know if a medical recipe is needed to buy insulin or if you can get to know what brand you use and buy it in a particular way if you have to go through a doctor who gives you the recipe, thanks already, I wait for your answers

You need a recipe to buy it in the pharmacy.

You need a medical recipe, but if they know you sell it to you but it comes out for € 80.
I have once bought it and then I have taken the recipe.

anaisabel said:
you need a recipe to buy it in the pharmacy.

Do you need a recipe for an endocrinologist or a general doctor can it be prescribed?Sorry, I ask a lot but I don't live there and I need to inform me about that, thank you

ruthbia said:
you need a medical recipe, but if they know you sell it but it comes out for € 80.
I have once bought it and then I have taken the recipe.

With recipe does it cost the same?For the recipe I need a endocrinologist or a general practitioner can?Thanks for answering 😊

It is not necessary to be endocrine, they can do it at the health center or a private doctor.
If you do not belong to Social Security, you have to pay it at the price of pharmacy.

With recipe are about 4 euros.
The recipe as Regina tells you can make a doctor.

The recipe is made by a doctor, but if it is not from the Spanish Social Security it will cost you about 80 euros.If a doctor does here are about 4 euros.

ruthbia said:
The recipe is made by a doctor, but it is not of Spanish Social Security will cost you about 80 euros.If a doctor does here are about 4 euros.

Can I access social security being from another country?🤔

@Mono, I think you have to be registered here.

I went to the Summa on Espronceda Street on a Sunday because I had spoiled all the slow insulin in the fridge (incredible, the fast was perfect) and I just put it in the morning.

I was overwhelmed and there the doctor on guard gave me a kind of report, as a provisional recipe for the pharmacy, warning that they should sell it even if I had no recipe.

In the pharmacy they told me that I did well to go through the Summa, because without a recipe or some document like the one they gave me they could not sell it to me.They sold me the insulin at full price (more than € 80) and they told me that they would return the corresponding if I took the recipe.I did so after a couple of days.Without recipe you pay everything even if you have a document (different from the recipe) that allows you to buy it.

mono said:

ruthbia said:
The recipe is made by a doctor, but if it is not of the Spanish Social Security it will cost you about 80 euros.If a doctor does here are about 4 euros.

Can I access social security being from another country?🤔

I spend a link that, maybe it clarifies something.I get the conclusion that if you have been in Spain for 3 months, you can be part of the health system but if you are not at all.I hope it serves you;)

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