I am considering buying rapamycin from Turkey, as it seems the closest choice in the EU so far.
Can you share your sites in Turkey where you or someone you know have bought rapamycin from? (and if possible some details like date of purchase, manufacturer, brand, quality etc, is it ok to carry a bag with supplements and rapamycin through check-points)
Most Turkish pharmacies don’t ask for prescriptions so you should be able to go to any pharmacy and buy it. However, they might not have it in stock so you could call a few before. It’s OK to fly with supplements and drugs and go through safety. There are two pharmacies at the airport (IST), before passport control, you might be able to buy it, they speak English but better to call them beforehand as well (and they might be more expensive).
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You can bring prescription medication with you when flying into the EU, but there are some restrictions. In general, you’re allowed to carry up to about a 3 month supply for personal use, and you should keep it in its original packaging with your name on the prescription.
Be aware that customs in some EU airports pay closer attention to passengers arriving from countries like Mexico, India, or Turkey, they may specifically check bags for prescription medicines.
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What you say is true. That being said I always buy medications in Turkey and then fly to the UK or the EU and never had any issue. Should there be a control you can always print a prescription at home beforehand with your name on it and the problem is solved.
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Could it be possible to buy online (from the EU) from Turkish farmacies?
No, it’s illegal for Turkish pharmacies to sell out of the country by mail (I’ve read). Your best bet is the site BG pharma, I suspect. See this post: Is "Rapamune" worth the cost? - #2 by zmm
This BGPharma Rapamune Sirolimus 100x1mg seems incredibly cheap. Are there successful cases when people without a prescription bought from this pharmacy and the parcel was successfully transferred through the customs into the EU country, where it is a prescription drug?
It is noted at my country’s (L_T) customs that transfer of less than 10 packages of a drug per month for personal use is allowed, but it is implied that this is related to OTC drugs only.
Yes - see here: Has anyone from Europe (ideally Poland) Gotten Rapamycin From Abroad (India, etc)? - #10 by RapAdmin
He’s in Bulgaria I think - so it seems that its easy to send from one country within the EU to another.
But it seems he’s just one guy and is a little flakey in terms of his shipment schedule… sometimes he takes a while to respond. But generally, people here have reported good results.
Also - it seems EuDoctor website back up and running now: Success stories / ease of shipping rapamycin to countries in EU or Canada? - #35 by Curious
So far he has always delivered and his recent schedule has been better than it has been in months.
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It’s not incredibly cheap, but rather expensive for 10 tabs x 1mg. 1mg = €4.21
Yea, I erroneously thought it was the price for the product on the image which shows a 100 tablet package.
But seems like a good business model, with good marketing and getting much more people to buy, he could make it cheaper.
Not by much, though. In most EU pharmacies you’re looking at around 3.30–4.00 EUR per 1 mg tablet out of pocket . That’s for Rapamune Pfizer’s brand which they claim has about 30% better absorption than generics. That’s also the reason why generics aren’t allowed on the EU market yet.
But with grapefruit juice it should have ~80%< bioavailability for any brand?
Yes, it’s not just grapefruit juice, it’s any CYP3A inhibitor. Other more discussed were ketoconazole and ritonavir. But the list is longer…
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