How to import Rapamycin into the EU Countries? Your Experiences Please

#21

I meant that if you travel for pleasure that you plan and choose holiday destination according to rapamycin prices :sweat_smile: :innocent:

I don’t think it is allowed to ship medicines in any of this countries I mentioned. As far as I know Germany and Netherlands are the only EU country that ship prescription medicines.

#22

thanks! thats really helpful!
btw I was in croatia ones (a long time ago). Very nice there. Unfortunatly I dont travel much.

#23

France has a good price too, 112 EUR for 30 pills… Maybe it is closer.

But if you don’t travel, maybe you know someone that could fill the prescription for you on his/her holidays…

#24

Your health insurance doesn’t cover rapamycin for you?

#25

Do they cover it for you? Where are you from? Here the insurance covers it only for renal transplant patients and upon special applications for some autoimmune diseases. Off label is at doctors discretion but it means that insurance does not cover or it has to go through application process which is for some medicines routine but I doubt they would allow it to be prescribed for “aging” which is not classified as disease :no_mouth:

#26

Netherlands and yes it gets covered

#27

you could try to get diagnosed with sporadic lymfangioleiomyomatosis (S-LAM) :wink:

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#28

sounds serious enough :grimacing:

#29

S-LAM was only diagnosed twice (with acuracy). So I am absolutly stunning to talk to such a unique person like you. HAHAHA. :slight_smile:
seems like your medical professional is a really nice person.

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#30

Living in the Netherlands I was excited having a prescription from EUdoctor. Come to find out you need a prescription from a Dutch Dr to declare the costs. Hard reality.:smiling_face_with_tear:

Perhaps gamble on Indian generic, it may or may not be confiscated…

#31

If we learn more if everolimus is equivelent to rapamycin, that would be cheaper. Grapefruit juice also makes it less expensive. I don’t think I am importing from India, they seem to know almost no packages makes it through.

Arhu prescribes it himself.

#32

I think the costums scan the packages, so even if you try declaring them as private without declaration it wouldnt get through.

btw I am prescribing it also myself (and I am glad I am not the only one here) but I have still to pay it myself.

#33

To reduce cost ketoconale or grapefruit juice

#34

ketoconazole has bad side effects i would only use it as a shampoo. But grapefruits are already my favourite fruit since some months.

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#35

Hi kerry! Can you recommend any manufacturer whose product was delivered/lab-tested by you?

#36

www.mesochem.com was suggested by @dan_hayes to me a while ago. I got a quote for rapamycin powder. They seem legit and their quote was 60 USD per gram (10 gram minimum quantity). I did not order at the end as I wanted rapamycin for homemade lotion that I decided to first try from pharmacy to see if it makes sense to order 10 grams of rapamycin.

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#37

There is another rapamycin powder supplier that was used by @Mac for his injection trial. Details here: Sirolimus Powder - 3rd party analysis

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#38

I now have rapamycin pills with a friend in Asia, how to get them into EU or Norway, is the best option that my friend brings it on the flight or send it as letter(s)/package?

Detailed questions:

  1. So I can ask my friend to take rapamycin in a suitcase on the flight to Norway. Is there a risk that my friend will be in trouble? Do the scan the suitcases? Is there a way to pack the rapamycin to reduce the risk of it being stopped? My plan was to ask my friend to get an empty supplement box (for example vitamin C), take out the supplement and replace it with the rapamycin pills.

  2. Send the pills in mail. Should I send to Norway or Sweden? I read on this forum that Sweden could work, and also the Indian supplier wrote that it has worked two times. The package will be sent from the Philippines. Any experience with shipping to Norway or Sweden?

  3. Assuming shipping as private, how should it be done? How should it be declared for customs? Should it be send as multiple letters (not so expensive so this is an option, for example up to 50 gram letters) or in one larger package?
    The user Qurestine on this thread Apr '23 wrote: “I think the customs scan the packages, so even if you try declaring them as private without declaration it wouldn’t get through.”
    Is this the case both to Sweden (EU member) and Norway? Is there a way to package to reduce the risk of it being stopped?

I have been lurking on this forum a while, thanks for all the interesting posts.
Note: I did not manage to get a prescription and just found out now on this forum that it is possible to get a prescription from anyone in the EU:
““EUDoctor’s prescriptions (like all prescriptions done in the EU) are also valid in the UK (source), Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway””

Still, rapamycin is much less expensive if purchasing from India.

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#39

You could try getting a prescription for everolimus 10 mg STADA or Sandoz.

Price could be around $270 for 30 tablets.

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#40

I have, twice tried to buy rapamycin from India and have it sent to Sweden. It did not get through. It was stopped in customs and sent back to India. I have not heard of anyone being successful in sending R to Sweden from India. It looks like we have an efficient customs service.

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