AlexanderPate
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Hello,
I am planning to take a long holiday, around 6 - 7 months, and I am wondering what is the best way to go about getting prescriptions while away. I will take a large amount to start with anyway, but can't feasibly take enough to last me the whole trip, particularly with the insulin that will need to be refrigerated. I will be doing some long journeys in hot countries, one or two of these would be fine but after three months or so I can imagine the insulin will start getting cloudy/unusable.
I am a type one diabetic and so will need novorapid and lantus insulin, as well as 6mm needles and testing strips.
The countries I will be visiting are Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, china, Taiwan, South Korea and Canada.
Obviously I am happy to pay for the prescriptions/items themselves while abroad, its just the matter of getting them. Do people with any experience of traveling round these countries know if the items I have listed above are widely available to buy in pharmacies in the above countries?
If people are going to say talk to my doctor, I have already done so and she did not really have any answers so we agreed to both do our own research and get back to each other. I have found lots of advice online for small holidays but nothing on longer trips, so any other tips or advice people have is very welcome.
Thanks,
Alex
I am planning to take a long holiday, around 6 - 7 months, and I am wondering what is the best way to go about getting prescriptions while away. I will take a large amount to start with anyway, but can't feasibly take enough to last me the whole trip, particularly with the insulin that will need to be refrigerated. I will be doing some long journeys in hot countries, one or two of these would be fine but after three months or so I can imagine the insulin will start getting cloudy/unusable.
I am a type one diabetic and so will need novorapid and lantus insulin, as well as 6mm needles and testing strips.
The countries I will be visiting are Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, china, Taiwan, South Korea and Canada.
Obviously I am happy to pay for the prescriptions/items themselves while abroad, its just the matter of getting them. Do people with any experience of traveling round these countries know if the items I have listed above are widely available to buy in pharmacies in the above countries?
If people are going to say talk to my doctor, I have already done so and she did not really have any answers so we agreed to both do our own research and get back to each other. I have found lots of advice online for small holidays but nothing on longer trips, so any other tips or advice people have is very welcome.
Thanks,
Alex