Purchase of insulin in Spain

  
BegonaVivanco
07/29/2017 6:03 a.m.

Hello!I am a Spanish resident in Lima.Peru and I am close to travel to see the family.
My query is how I can buy an insulin pen and another from Apidra, since I know that the recipe of my doctor in Lima does not serve me to buy them there.
Would you have to pay a consultation with a local endocrine or will I emerge to make me a recipe?
Thank you very much for your answer
Greetings,
Mª.Begoña Vivanco

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losttotheriver
07/29/2017 11:14 a.m.

Tell your doctor to prescribe you more to buy them in Lima and come with everything ready

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BegonaVivanco
07/29/2017 2:59 p.m.

Thank you!
The problem is storage.I will make a 20 -day tour of some countries in Europe and from there I just arrived in Spain.I would have to travel with refrigerated insulin until you have to start.To avoid that, I asked how I could get it there.

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losttotheriver
07/29/2017 4:17 p.m.

You have it complicated.You can travel with cold wallets.
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Regina
07/29/2017 6:26 p.m.

Use that cold portfolio, which is going very well.
You can also go to a doctor here and buy it with recipe. Lantus and Apidra also are here in pharmacies, but recipe is needed.

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Gala
07/30/2017 9:57 a.m.

@Regina, no recipe is not necessary, they sell them without any problem but they charge them and they are a paste, around € 90 each.
It happened to me once in the town on vacation did not realize and the box of Lantus stuck to the back of the refrigerator and frozen and went to the doctor there and told me that oranges that had to be my doctorIn Madrid (bad drool of the doctor) and I had to buy it at the pharmacy without problems but they charged it,

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BegonaVivanco
07/30/2017 1:39 p.m.

Thanks for your answers.Actually what costs is a secondary problem (man! It also matters, but less), the main thing is how I can do to buy them.
It is difficult to have to wear a container with refrigerants while making a tour by.Europe.Only after 21 days I arrive in Spain.
We will see how this matter is resolved.
Thanks a lot

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xdr
04/07/2018 7:20 p.m.

begonavivanco said:
Thank you for your answers.Actually what costs is a secondary problem (man! It also matters, but less), the main thing is how I can do to buy them.
It is difficult to have to wear a container with refrigerants while making a tour by.Europe.Only after 21 days I arrive in Spain.
We will see how this matter is resolved.
Thanks a lot

Hi Begoña

What part of Spain do you come?I don't think any we will charge you anything for an insulin pen.

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Vanesa Sanchez Real
10/29/2019 8:29 a.m.

Good morning Begoña, I have Lantus to give you if you stop in Valencia
All the best

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Ignasi_p
10/29/2019 5:08 p.m.

I believe that if you go to any health center they will attend you as a passenger and facilitate the recipe without further ado.Bring a report from your doctor.

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Novorapid 4/6/6 (y lo que caiga por enmedio)
Glicosilada (30/4/19): 6.5

  
Lucero Masoch
02/24/2020 1:32 a.m.

I would like to help you
Lucero.masoch@gmail.com

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_Tacker_
02/07/2024 5:48 p.m.

Today in my health center when I went for the sensors, a nurse told me that if I wanted insulin that a patient had brought, ten boxes of three and ten of Novorapid.I have an entire and an almost novorapid and believed that I had a lot ...... but ten ..... what flipe

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diabestico
02/07/2024 8:17 p.m.

And I wonder ... what does a patient do with 20 insulin boxes?🤔

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isabelbota
02/07/2024 10:07 p.m.

diabetic said:
and I wonder ... what does a patient do with 20 insulin boxes?🤔

Good question, and aren't they expired? And how did you get them? 🤔

DM 2 con páncreas agotado desde diciembre 2020. 51 años entonces.
HG diciembre 2020: 15.9. Última HG: julio 2024 5.8
Abasaglar 9 unidades. Metformina, 1000/0/1000. Humalog junior: 2 unid en desayuno y luego en función de lo que coma.

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