Are there doctors in the USA that let a Canadian come visit them in person and get a rapamycin prescription and then get it fulfilled at a pharmacy in the USA?
Do I need a USA address for the doctor or pharmacy?
I would expect to pay out of pocket for the doctor and the pharmacy prescription. Does anyone know the cost of the doctor visit?
I don’t want to order rapamycin online.
This is an interesting question… it hasn’t come up before really. Though I do know that Canadians used to come down to see Dr. Alan Green to get rapamycin prescriptions over the years.
You’d have to contact the doctors you’re considering directly and enquire. Usually doctors you are paying directly don’t care where you are from. See the list here: How to Get Rapamycin, Where to get a Prescription
Perhaps the easiest is to use one of the online providers (Healthspan or AgelessRX) and have the prescription mailed to a friend in the USA.
Okay, I will try to see if a doctor will agree to this! Thank you for the help.
Search for Anthony Azar, M.D. Great doctor. Understands Rapamycin. Has helped a number of forum members.
In New York, NY.
He might do a telemedicine session with you. Would likely need blood work.
Thank you. New York would actually be good due to it being close to the border.
I saw an online doctor for my prescription and was able to use Amazon Pharmacy. It shipped straight to my home. Is that an option?
Yes fot over 4 years… I get 90 pills every 3 months by mail.
Can you explain more about what you mean? Did you see an online doctor who is located in the US? And then the prescription was shipped to you in Canada? I would have assumed that Amazon Pharmacy only shipped to the USA?
They ship your rapamycin from a pharmacy in the USA to Canada? What pharmacy does this if you don’t mind sharing? Which doctor did you see and was it online or in person?
Thanks
Hey.
My prescription is shipped from CarelonRx in the United States to me in the United States.
Same here, US to US. But depending on what other meds you use or need it might be worth it to you to get a United States post office box right over the border. Medications could ship to the post office box and you could pick them up from there, or if you did something like a UPS store, you could pay for them to forward them to your home.
I think a doctor in the U.S. will need you to at least claim you’re physically in the U.S., and in a state where they’re licensed to practice medicine, in order to legally have a virtual visit with you to prescribe the medication. Otherwise, they’re practicing medicine internationally. A virtual medical service like Galileo will be prickly about that. A solo practitioner might not even bother asking. But, either way, it’s your supposed location on the day of the visit, not your citizenship, that matters. If you’re a U.S. citizen physically in Bangkok, a doctor might cancel the appointment. If you’re a Thai citizen physically in the U.S., no worries. So, maybe try to do a virtual appointment, or even an in person appointment, with one of the specific doctors or services the others are recommending here. (A service like Galileo or One Medical would be fine for something run of the mill, like metformin, but might have lots of questions before prescribing rapamycin, and insist on lab work first.)
I think the doctor can send the prescription to pretty much any pharmacy in the U.S. for you to pick up, or to an online pharmacy like Amazon Pharmacy for shipping to anywhere in the U.S. But, either way you’re going to need to either go to the pharmacy in the U.S. to pick it up, or give the online pharmacy an address in the U.S. You could probably use a PO Box or virtual mailbox service for that, and I think Bounce gets good reviews for accepting packages in NYC. If you google “package receiving service” that might help you find a good option near the border.
So, maybe check to see what the price is at a chain like Walgreens (you can probably find one near the border), and compare it to what Amazon Pharmacy and the online pharmacies other folks are recommending, and then you can decide whether to pick up your pills at a Walgreens, or have them shipped to a package receiving service.
If the doctor authorizes multiple refills, I think Amazon can just fill them all up front if you’re paying out of pocket, as opposed to waiting for each 90 day round of pills to run out. I’m not sure if that’s standard everywhere. (Insurance companies make you wait for each 90 day bottle.) Alternatively, once you have a prescription, Jase Medical is a compounding pharmacy that will do a virtual appointment to authorize a one-year supply, and ship it to an address in the U.S. (so, a package receiving service). I’m not sure if they carry rapamycin, or how their prices compare, but if you can only make one visit a year to get your meds, they might be a good option.
Hope that helps!