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jazzgtrl4
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Posted 10/18/2019 8:30 AM (GMT -7)
Hi, well im back,,in a mini flare and trying to pull out. Hope everyone is doing well. was in remission for about 3 1/2 glorious years..and i had a good fkin time while it lasted lol...Been out of the loop as far as Canadian pharmacy go..i need to get some Canasa. Anyone prefer one over the other? or anyone know any cheap ways to get canasa?
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UCinGV
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Posted 10/18/2019 11:39 AM (GMT -7)
You can read my thread about this here. https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=38&m=4108816

In summary it's a very sketchy business to get into but the savings are enormous. It appears that for canasa, these sites actually do manufacture and fill the prescription from Canada which is good.

Check out pharmacychecker.com and search for Canasa.

Post Edited (UCinGV) : 10/18/2019 12:43:08 PM (GMT-6)

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MarkWithIBD
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Posted 10/18/2019 1:18 PM (GMT -7)
It's not that sketchy if you do your research. There are some really great Canadian pharmacies out there.

I don't know if we're allowed to name names, but one that I've used that was perfect quality and custom service was Mark's Marine Pharmacy in Vancouver, BC, Canada. They have everything and are super friendly.
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Posted 10/20/2019 8:26 AM (GMT -7)

UCinGV said...
You can read my thread about this here. https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=38&m=4108816

In summary it's a very sketchy business to get into but the savings are enormous. It appears that for canasa, these sites actually do manufacture and fill the prescription from Canada which is good.

Check out pharmacychecker.com and search for Canasa.

https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=38&m=4108816

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UCinGV
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Posted 10/21/2019 5:14 AM (GMT -7)

MarkWithIBD said...
It's not that sketchy if you do your research. There are some really great Canadian pharmacies out there.

I don't know if we're allowed to name names, but one that I've used that was perfect quality and custom service was Mark's Marine Pharmacy in Vancouver, BC, Canada. They have everything and are super friendly.

Interesting link. If you look up Lialda on that website it says the generic ships directly from India. I assume this means it doesn't go through a Canadian pharmacy subject to Canadian government safety regulations and supply chain auditing..

From the website of Mark's Marine Pharmacy:
"Through a lengthly and rigorous process we have partnered with a pharmacy India. Therefore, we offer the brand and generic medications, from Canada or Overseas, and educate on the differences and options. When the Canadian Flag appears next to the medicine, that means it ships from Canada. If it does not appear, that means the medicine ships from Turkey"

From everything I have read I haven't heard of any Canadian laws that regulate Canadian businesses/people who buy prescription drugs from one foreign country and sell them through the mail in another foreign country. Many of these sites say they don't ship to Canada, which is probably so they can stay in this legally unregulated area. So it's very much the Wild West.

It also doesn't say this site is approved by any of the third party agencies like CIPA, IPABC, or PharmacyChecker. (though I don't know how much you can trust any of these three, if at all)

Post Edited (UCinGV) : 10/21/2019 6:42:44 AM (GMT-6)

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iPoop
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Posted 10/21/2019 7:44 AM (GMT -7)
I've always been a little skeptical of the Canadian online pharmacies, they're not brick-and-mortor outfits within Canada (like walgreens, riteaid, or other local pharmacies are in the USA) but rather international sellers of medications with only websites.

Certainly, when you can get generics from the USA. There is now a generic Canasa available (Mylan pharmaceutical makes a generic of it, and there might be a few others who do too by now) which should be cheaper than the brand name. Often the mesalamine enemas are cheaper than the Canasa is, so you can always ask for that instead from your GI.
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deltaforce
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Posted 10/22/2019 6:21 AM (GMT -7)
Here is my experience, a bit dated https://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=38&m=2751917 If needed, I will order again.
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UCinGV
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Posted 10/22/2019 6:52 AM (GMT -7)
Question for the mods: Are there any rules against naming websites and pharmacies by name? I've been reluctant to do so but think it could be helpful to a lot of people.

Your guys' experience with Canasa seems to be the same as mine with oral mesalamine, it's 80+% cheaper to buy it overseas than in the US. And while there may be problems with customer service and such, I'm pretty happy to put up with bad customer service if it saves me 80% (several thousand dollars per year out of pocket)
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iPoop
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Posted 10/22/2019 7:21 AM (GMT -7)
You are fine to mention pharmacy names, product names, medicine names, and service names (i.e., ok for RiteAid pharmacy, remicade, VSL, Prometheus Labs IFX blood test, and RemiStart program) within your posts, signatures, profiles etc.

What we do not allow is linking directly to commercial sites with click-to purchase options (i.e., a link to amazon where you buy a specific supplement, a link to an online doctor's website offering tele-medicine) or linking to a form collecting people's information (i.e., hi, I'm a college student with this survey about UC. Visit my website and fill it in to help me with XYZ.).
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jazzgtrl4
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Posted 10/22/2019 8:14 AM (GMT -7)
Hi
thanks alot of the info everyone. ill check out a few of these.
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limey
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Posted 10/22/2019 1:32 PM (GMT -7)
One has to remember that these supposedly Canadian pharmacies are there to supply drugs to other countries like the USA . They do not supply to we Canadians so don't have to meet the standards required by our medical profession.Thats not to say that there is a problem with drugs supplied by them more a case of buyer beware.
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UCinGV
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Posted 10/23/2019 5:27 AM (GMT -7)
I've been buying generic Lialda from "TotalCareMart" which was recommended by my GI, who tells me he uses them frequently himself. He has their cards and flyers in his waiting room. The prices are 1/6 or 1/7 that of Expressscripts, and less than half the price of the drug if I went to a local pharmacy with a GoodRx coupon. I haven't had any customer service problems. However I did pay $50 for lifetime free shipping, after which they increased their prices a bit and switched dispensing pharmacies from Singapore to Mauritius. So I regret buying the lifetime free shipping.

My general practitioner office openly recommends "RxConnected", which has similar prices and a similar business model as TotalCareMart. But I haven't used them.

PharmacyChecker is a website that purports to verify that these websites are safe and won't steal your identity. However this is still very questionable - it's just a private business doing this, they don't get into any FDA-level safety verification or . You can type in your drug and search for which website has it the cheapest. If you tweet at them asking how we can know we won't get counterfeit drugs, they'll point to some study saying these import sites have fewer instances of counterfeit drugs than normal in-country pharmacies.

I've noticed something fishy, though. There are many of these sites that appear to be exactly the same with a different name and slightly different prices. For example, compare the websites for TotalCareMart, PharmStore.com, DrugMartDirect, and PlanetDrugsDirect. They're all exactly the same website, run from the same city (Winnipeg, Manitoba) out of a different PO box and different 1-800 phone number. They dispense the same drugs manufactured in the same countries and filled by the same countries, at slightly different prices. In fact if you sign up on one such website and then try to sign up on another using the same email address, it won't let you because they all have the same user database.


Of course they're also saving me thousands of dollars out of my pocket every year so I'm reluctant to bite the hand that feeds me. But it's very curious.

And there's at least one other website format that is exactly copied between a half dozen such companies, probably doing the same thing. Why in the world do they do this? Is this all just one company trying to make it look like there's 50? Is PharmacyChecker owned by the same people as all these shell pharmacies?


Anyway, for whatever drug you're buying, check out what country it's filled from. Google what your particular manufacturer's drug is supposed to look like and check that.

My GI told me that the problem of counterfeit drugs is more of a concern for expensive drugs, and he doesn't consider Lialda/Canasa an expensive drug.

Post Edited (UCinGV) : 10/23/2019 6:48:50 AM (GMT-6)

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