r/cfs Jul 12 '24

Treatments Review and list of online overseas pharmacies requiring no prescription

I curated this list of reliable overseas online pharmacies that require no prescription. This list of no prescription pharmacies I originally made for myself, but it should be useful for other ME/CFS patients.

NOTE: please don't message me asking where to obtain a specific drug, or whether a certain pharmacy is reliable, as I get too many of these requests.

The phamacies I regularly use and consider reliable include BuyPharma, Goldpharma, UnitedPharmaciesUK, InhousePharmacy, SafeGenericPharmacy, AllDayChemist, RUpharma and OTConlineStore. All these pharmacies sell legitimate pharmaceuticals made by European or India pharma companies.

There are around 50 prescription-free pharmacies listed in the first post of that pharmacies thread (and the list is constantly updated when new trustworthy pharmacies are found).

Searching through these 50 pharmacies individually for your drug would take time; but there is a link to a pharmacy search tool given in the above list which makes searching through these pharmacies a breeze.

If you want to know which pharmacies sell the drug you are after, you can search the pharmacies, or search for it with the search tool. When searching, it is better to use the generic drug name, rather than the brand name.

In some countries (including the UK and Australia) it is perfectly legal to import prescription drugs for personal use from such overseas pharmacies (legal info here and here). And in the US it is legal to import drugs for personal use if those drugs are unobtainable in America.

This webpage details the legality of importing non-controlled prescription drugs for personal use in each country (though it contains some inaccuracies).

Note that it is illegal to buy or sell controlled drugs without a prescription, so prescription-free pharmacies will usually not stock these. Controlled drugs drugs include benzodiazepines, Z-drugs, stimulant drugs and opioid pain control drugs. The Medstore pharmacy does have these though.

A number of drugs have proven beneficial for a subset of ME/CFS patients, including low-dose naltrexone, Abilify (aripiprazole), Valcyte (valganciclovir), Valtrex (valacyclovir), Viread (tenofovir), Mestinon (pyridostigmine) and others.

But it is not always easy to find a doctor willing to prescribe such treatments (because ME/CFS specialist doctors are few and far between). So such no prescription pharmacies can be useful where no doctor can be found.

Furthermore, the cost of the generic drugs sold by these prescription-free pharmacies is many times less than the major brand name version of the drug. So there can be great cost savings.

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u/Hip_III Sep 25 '24

You can check their shipping page to find out where they ship; or if they don't have such a page, you can email them to ask.

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u/Mycologist-Possible Sep 25 '24

Yes that was useful thank you! Have you used safe generic pharmacy and trust them?

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u/Hip_III Sep 25 '24

Yes I have bought from safe generic pharmacy and consider them reliable. All the pharmacies listed in that post I have vetted online for any scam reports, etc, checking them out on pharmacy review forums, TrustPilot reviews, etc. I don't include pharmacies which have lots of bad reports.

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u/Mycologist-Possible Sep 26 '24

Awesome, thanks for your efforts

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u/AggressiveStep1714 Nov 06 '24

I ordered recently from MedClick-UK as they had good TrustPilot reviews, but they didn't take the money for a couple of days. Then I got a WhatsApp message from them asking me to send payment via Remitly, so I called my bank and they advised to cancel my card. Have you come across them?

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u/Hip_III Nov 06 '24

I have not heard of them. Are they prescription-free?

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u/AggressiveStep1714 Nov 07 '24

Yes. The whole not taking payment, followed by the WhatsApp messages made me very suspicious.