My brother-in-law is supposed to start taking this drug called mounjaro for his kidney issues, and his insurance won't cover it. Cost is 1k monthly out-of-pocket, while it's about $200 in Mexico Anyone ever get prescriptions outside of the US?
Buying Prescriptions in Mexico
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Good question. I just know insurance won't cover it due to how his diabetes is classified. He's doing dialysis now at home. Id never even heard of the drug
One of Mounjaro's side effects is renal failure.
He's already there. He's on donor list but doesn't qualify unless he loses weight. Years of not taking care of himself caught up.
Go to Reddit and research this. I see stuff like this all of the time there. Surgeries, medications, dental work, etc. There are companies in the US that partner with Mexican clinics for weight loss surgeries and they seem to be popular with no more or less problems than the domestic process.
Well I’ll be that guy. My parents live on the border and they go to Mexico for everything. Dentist, doctor, the whole nine.
You can get z packs there just over the counter and I’ve got a ton of it in a drawer in the house. If I get real sick I pop them and haven’t had any issues yet.
You can get z packs there just over the counter and I’ve got a ton of it in a drawer in the house. If I get real sick I pop them and haven’t had any issues yet.
Those z packs are money to have on hand!
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About 10 years ago, my cousin lived in San Diego. She was a lifelong diabetic and used to cross the border regularly to purchase her insulin, because it was so much less expensive. She would buy as much as she could, and did it several times over the course of a few years, until one time when she was coming out of the pharmacy and Mexican authorities arrested her and threw her in jail. Apparently they'd had their eye on her, and hit her with charges that effectively amounted to "smuggling" and"intent to deliver". She spent almost 4 months in custody, before my uncle was able to get her out. Not a good situation. Not saying this is something that happens often, but in her case, it was pretty awful.
For people questioning, it's listed on the national Kidney foundation as a drug that can be effective treating kidney disease caused by type 2 diabetes.
https://www.kidney.org/news-stories/game-changing-medications-kidney-disease-and-type-2-diabetes
https://www.kidney.org/news-stories/game-changing-medications-kidney-disease-and-type-2-diabetes
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Well, unfortunately she passed away a couple years ago. Her husband, at the time of the incident, had a fairly high position in the military industrial complex, and had a security clearance. My uncle always suspected that that had something to do with her being targeted, but who knows.
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I'm not sure how it all went down officially, but I know that there was a five figure dollar amount that was exchanged for her release.
I have a client that lives down on the Texas border during the winter and they go over to Mexico to have dental work done and stock up on prescriptions.
Im sure that at the very least his position had something to do with regardless if he or the gov. did any talking or not.
This was actually my worst fear based on the amount and what I brought back to the US from most recent trip to Cozumel.
You can get compounded Tirzepitide for $250/mo at online compounders. Reddit groups have lists of the recommended retailers, but i hear radio ads for hims.com for these.
I would check around to see if there are other ways to get Tirzepatide that are cheaper than the brand name Mounjaro.
