Getting medicine to relative in China

[David and Ariana 2]

Does anyone have any experience obtaining medicine here in the US for a relative in China (or anywhere).

My wifes 60 yr old mother has advanced Parkinsons, in China. The medicine she needs, pramipexole hydrochloride, has become unavailable. I tried to go through a Canadian pharmacy but they could not accept the Chinese prescription I emailed to them - they needed an American doctor's prescription. Lucky me, I dont' have any physician friends I could ask to help get a prescription.

I'm sure there must be illegal mechanisms to get prescriptions and medicine, but I wouldn't know how to find them. But given that this must be a common situation for immigrants, I would think there there must be some legal mechanism to get a prescription for a foreign relative based on their local prescription. Any suggestions?

She lives in Hunan province, near Changsha so no where near any of the cities with a western presence (and she can't travel at this point), otherwise I would try to get her to a western doctor in China.

But I would think it would be possible to go to a Chinese American clinic in the US that could verify the prescription and then write a new English/US version of it.

[Pitaya 2,576]

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But I would think it would be possible to go to a Chinese American clinic in the US that could verify the prescription and then write a new English/US version of it.

This may be your only way. You will have to call around and see if you can find an American-licensed prescriber that will agree to participate with your transcription scheme.

Good luck in your venture, sounds like a noble cause.

Edited June 27, 2015 by Pitaya

[Darnell 8,478]

are you in or near SFO?

if yes,

drop off yer wife in Chinatown for 3 days, staying away from the Taiwan Association people, but asking around for a regular clinic with a regular doctor. Once she finds one, well, the rest is simply paying the monies to get it done.

[aaron2020 11,651]

If this is a prescription drug, then there is no legal way to send it to a person in China.

[aaron2020 11,651]

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This may be your only way. You will have to call around and see if you can find an American-licensed prescriber that will agree to participate with your transcription scheme.

Good luck in your venture, sounds like a noble cause.

Extremely poor advice mod.

This is drug trafficking.

One can not simply obtain a U.S. prescription for a person in China for a control substance and then have that control substance pass through multiple countries.