Why Do You Use Prescription-Free Online Pharmacies, Rather Than Getting A Prescription From Your Doctor?

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I am just wondering: what are the reasons that people choose to use online prescription-free pharmacies, rather than getting a prescription from their doctor, and then buying their drugs from a regular high street pharmacy, or from a regular online pharmacy that requires prescriptions?

Presumably lower cost is going to be one reason, but I am curious to learn of any other reasons why people use online prescription-free pharmacies.


In my own case, I have used online prescription-free pharmacies for many years, mainly because the medical condition I have (chronic fatigue syndrome, CFS) is not really taken seriously by doctors in the UK, so it is hard work to get my doctor to let me try a drug that may have benefits for CFS. Thus I find it a lot easier to just order the drugs I want to try online at a reputable prescription-free pharmacy.

So in my case, it is an issue of accessibility to drugs: without online prescription-free pharmacies, I may not have been able to road test the dozens of different drugs I have tried out that can have benefit for CFS. It actually often costs me more to use these online pharmacies, because with the NHS socialized medicine system in the UK, any drug prescibed by your doctor costs a standard subsidized fee of £8.20. So it would be cheaper for me to get a prescription from my doctor, as I could then have any drug for £8.20. But I have found that online prescription-free pharmacies provide hassle-free accessibility to drugs, which is why I use them.


I also understand that those from the transgender community often prefer using online prescription-free pharmacies, rather than trying to convince their doctors to put them on the feminizing hormonal protocols they require. It may also be an issue of sensitive personal matters: transgender individuals may not want to discuss their orientation and sexuality with their doctor. So here is another reason to use an online prescription-free pharmacy.

I would think that some people who require pain medications may need to obtain these at online prescription-free pharmacies, if their doctor is refusing to prescribe them.


So here are some reasons why one might choose an online prescription-free pharmacy: cheaper costs, hassle-free accessibility to drugs, because of sensitive personal matters, and because of uncooperative doctors.


My question is: are there any other reasons why people might choose to use online prescription-free pharmacies?
 
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In my case, it is to get access to a drug not readily available in the USA.

I have gastroparesis, and my Dr recommended that, if I could afford it, to try domperidone instead of the US drug Reglan. He said I could get it from any Canadian pharmacy and wrote me a prescription.

I filled it this way for a while, but I found the taste of these pills to be utterly vile. Taking something 4 times daily for nausea etc. that makes one gag is counterproductive and very unpleasant.

Later, I found that the other versions at IOPs sell a version of domperidone with a thin gelatin coating. It's just enough to mask the harsh taste but not impede absorption. What a blessing!!

So I told my Dr about it and even showed him a blister pack. He was very impressed. I told him that I don't need a prescription to order and that I will keep taking at his recommended dosage etc.

He is fine with this arrangement and I don't have to suffer as much. Win - win!!! :)
 
For me, its a personal revolt against my health insurance.
I could get all of my meds from my doctor if I was willing to pay the deductible that was forced on me by the ACA. Its bad enough I have to pay for that ridiculous coverage (although not terribly expensive, more annoying) and I'll not meet the deductible unless admitted to hospital so yeah, I took management of my chronic issues into my own hands. I have been on these meds for a long time and the last time I went to the doctor, my ailments were stable.

That said, if I were to develop a new problem or need something that I have not been prescribed in the past, I would go to the doctor. Self prescribing can be dangerous. I may be delusional but I use IOP basically to maintain and not have to go to the doctor as often.
 
There are a few reasons. I have insurance but the cost of some meds like Viagra etc are much higher even with insurance and a prescription. I am allowed 4 pill per month of 50 mg viagra and each pill is $16 with the insurance. I am paying under $ 2 per pill of 100 mg generic viagra. I think there are no generic brands sold in the USA for VIAGRA or CIALIS and that may be the reason for the high price. Another reason is privacy. I suffer from mild anxiety and when I was prescribed a med it was on my Record. I would always see the Docs take a double take when they would see me for other reasons like there was some mental issues with me. Once the prescription ran out I got my Stuff Online for about the same price (co Pays etc) and it is now off my record.

If you are embarrassed about Low testosterone or your Doc does not believe in HRT (afraid of law suit Attorney) then it is worth it. My insurance will not even pay for HRT so i would have to go to a private Doc and Pay $$ to get the same thing for a fraction of that and it is not on my record.

I guess it is a way around the system.
 
I can't afford monthly payments to insurance for something as simple as a re-accruing prescription for a sleep aid or a script for tramadol.. Its just a matter of saving money and convenience for me i guess.

Since the hardest drug i've ever ordered was a tablet of xanax i find its easier to do that then sit in some random dr's office for an hour waiting to be seen, Then try and convince the prescriber that no i don't want Trazadone, Im not depressed.. No i don't want hydroxine paomate I don't have the frickin hives, im not puking.. Yes ive tried all the OTC crap doc, Yes ive tried meletonin, Yes tried that stuff your about to suggest too...

For golly sakes its a sleeping pill, Im sorry some people choose to abuse them for whatever rec vaule they have, I just wanna frickin sleep at night is that tooo much to ask?!

And then it becomes well lets get to the root of why you can't sleep, I know why i can't sleep talking to you or any other professional about it is not going to change the fact, nor is it going to stop my mind from wandering at night.

Tho, I will say this the new drug on TV Belsomra? Makes me wanna go talk to a doctor about it cause that commerical explaines exactly why i can't frickin sleep at night! Racing thoughts! They won't stop, and nothing but a high power benzo or much preferably a hypnotic.

But i digress, as i said it would just be another one of those throw every other drug at the problem but the one that works.

Dr's these days are paid by pharma companys to hawk a line up of drugs over another line up, I remember going to the dentist a few years ago and instead of getting the usual antibiotic ammoxicillin, I was given clyndamyican which caused some seriously nasty heartburn / indigestion symptons and i was forced to call the dr and get the ammox, What was interesting in that instance was the pharmacy i filled the script at actually called me to check on me and that script cause i guess ALOT of people complain about it, yet here the doc is writing scripts for it, KNOWING the side effects can be brutal...Paid to do so tho...

Another instance same dentist, I had 3? teeth pulled at once, Insisted on IV sedation, Dr battled me for 20 mins arguing that i would not need it and novicane and n20 would be more then enough.. Why do i have to fight with my dentist to get a fricking IV of what was prolly midozlam, CMON! Im paying for my health care god damnit you will give me what i want or i leave.. I got the I.V. only after i about walked out.

Also prior to being put under i was also very clear on the fill out form and talking to both the nurse and the dentist that i have a VERY low tolerance to pain, and that the usual T3 shit they hawk (ALWAYS!) WILL NOT CUT IT! I also did not want hydrocodone as the tylonol in that causes me very bad nasuea, I told him 5mg Oxycodone would be suffient and he sort of argued that the oxy would make my naseua worse and i tried explaing to him that its not the opium thats doing it, its the friggin Tylonal, I told him i can take Ty's by them selfs and 30 mins later feel like im going to puke, but if i take oxy by its self im fine, I explained that i would only need 1/2 the tablet so he could scribe be 1/2 the amount he normaly would. Again after back and forth for 20 fricking mins he agreed put me under did the duty and that was it, Or so i thought.

When i awoke i asked my partner who drove me what the script was for, they could not read the writing and i was way to high off the IV stuff to care much, so off to the pharmacy we went, What i got was not what we agreed to, I was given 30 T3's and 30 of those horse sized ibuprofin... I went home, waitied for the novicane to finally wear off and decide how bad the pain was, Well it was pretty fricking bad, so i took 2 t3's ( said i could take up to 2) waited the given 45-1hour and of course not a dent in my pain relief.

Angry i called the dr' and demanded to speak with him, well he was in surgery so i was forced to explaine once again in full detail why tylonal 3 sucks, finally the nurse said and i still to this day think something fishy was going on, but she said to bring in the T3 and i can " Trade them with her " For a script for Oxycodone written by the dr..

To this day im not sure if they trashed the pills, kept them for them selfs, or what, it seems odd that i was forced to bring in a full bottle of T3 hand those over to the nurse BEFORE they would give me oxycodone.

Did they think i was going to pop shitty t3's and oxy's at the same time? The point of that would be????? Cmon.

So yeah its stuff like, Making me feel like im some sort of drug addict beause i know what works for my body and does not work.

I'm an adult and dr's refuse to treat me like such, So i won't do business with them, same as any comidity in life if you treat me like shit i won't come back.
 
@G&H I think you covered the main reasons that most people will say are why they order online from IOP's. It's not just the cost but also it's the quantity. You can't go to a doctor and get an endless supply at one time of meds, you can get a prescription, maybe, and then get it refilled at a certain time. Here you can order and purchase a lot more than that. It's then up to you how responsible you are with those pills.

Now, I am just going to come out and say this because since you covered pretty much all of the basic reasons, I think you are looking for this answer, I hope.

There are a lot of people who order medications online, particularly certain benzos and painkillers for the purpose of getting high. Some, not all. In this forum there are quite a few people who do have real chronic pains and illnesses so they have some other reasons for ordering. But there are millions of people worldwide who can't get the pills they used to get on the street as easily, and turn to ordering them. Perhaps from the new classifications and doctor's holding back on pain med prescriptions, they are not as easy for people to find.

I am not condoning nor condemning the use of illegal narcotics to get high, so don't take it like that. To each their own, and if I personally see no problem with what an adult does for his/her own enjoyment, there are many more who do see it as a problem.

And we, whether for real pain issues or not, are all doing the same thing. Taking the same risks, going through the same processes to get what we want. Therefore, it shouldn't matter to me what the next person is ordering online for. What should and does matter to me is that everyone order as safely and trouble free as possible. Any problems for anyone's package is a concern to all who order online. That is another bonus of this forum, exchanging the latest shipping problems around the country(ies.) note: in reality you will likely never experience any real shipping issues, except slow orders.

So I hope this is the answer that you were curious about.
 
Thanks for your responses. I just asked this question as I was amazed to see such a diverse community of people using online pharmacies on this forum. Until now I never really paid much attention to the forums on this site, but have used Pharmacy Reviewer for many years in order to locate reliable online pharmacies, and highly rate this site.


I'd like to add another reason for using online pharmacies: for me it is the psychological comfort of being in command of your own health. I like the fact that through prescription-free online pharmacies, I can access prescription drugs relatively easily. It means I am not reliant on a doctor's opinion as to whether I can try a drug or not. I tend to be an experimental type anyway, who wants to try things just to see what benefits they may provide. But doctors often will not want to prescribe you a drug just for a speculative experimental purposes, especially if it is an off-label usage. Many drugs can advantageously be used off-label, like low-dose naltrexone for example.



davidpaul said:
It's not just the cost but also it's the quantity. You can't go to a doctor and get an endless supply at one time of meds, you can get a prescription, maybe, and then get it refilled at a certain time. Here you can order and purchase a lot more than that. It's then up to you how responsible you are with those pills.
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That's a point. I guess individuals can legally order up to three-months' worth of prescription drugs from online pharmacies overseas (I understand that the law in many countries allows 90 days' worth of meds to be imported from abroad). In practice, I imagine that you could probably order more than that, as nobody is going to be checking the quantities too closely.



davidpaul said:
There are a lot of people who order medications online, particularly certain benzos and painkillers for the purpose of getting high. Some, not all.
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I guess that is another category of online pharmacy user: people that buy drugs online in order to get high. Although I believe online pharmacies that sell controlled drugs are comparatively rare. At least none of the pharmacies that I regularly use sell them. I guess these days many people will also use "research chemical" suppliers to legally buy drugs to get high.



Mira said:
I were to develop a new problem or need something that I have not been prescribed in the past, I would go to the doctor. Self prescribing can be dangerous. I may be delusional but I use IOP basically to maintain and not have to go to the doctor as often.
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That I can definitely relate to. My health is a bit better these days, but a few years ago I had so much fatigue, brain fog and also anxiety, that going to a doctor was an arduous experience. So I found it much easier just to order a drug online.

I agree though that self prescribing could potentially be dangerous. I always use a good drug interactions checker before taking any drug. And I am in the habit of taking small doses initially (like a quarter of a pill) when I try out a new drug, in case there are any unpleasant side effects.



ilovebobsaget said:
My GP is iffy about prescriptions. And I don't want to go through months of therapy and a referal to a psychiatrist to get anxiety meds when I've been on them all before and know what works.
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That's another good reason: not to have to good through unnecessary hoops in order to get a prescription drug.
 
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A major reason is medication that docs are unwilling to prescribe, usually benzo's or effective pain killer medication. The mere thought of prescribing these brings them out in a cold sweat in most countries.

People know what may help them and they decide to self-medicate and in many cases, it helps them overcome a health problem where there is no alternative through their normal medical channel.

It doesn't always work out for the best as self-medicating/ unsupervised dosage of certain meds can eventually lead to addiction issues but there is a wealth of help and support in here for helping to overcome such matters.
 
My reason is because some meds we use to be prescribed by our doc's are now being heavily controlled and harder to get. Doc's are scared to prescribe what they know a patient needs and have cut back, leaving us in more pain and anxiety. So, you have to help yourself now more than ever.

It's also nice not to have to sit in front of your doc or pharmacist begging for help and getting "the look".

I'm sure most of us would luv it if we didn't have to use IOP's because IOP's and SY's are not cheap, but it's what we have to do to remain functional. What other choice do we have?
It's horrible the way they are causing people to suffer needlessly. It's just wrong.
 
My wife has depression and I tried her meds. Some work for me and most do not. I wanted a Celexa. My Doc did not like that as he had a patient that had issues with it (he never told me the details). So I had to order online. The price was more than the HMO but nothing outragous.
 
Because of:
Doctors at the Veteran's Administration Medical Centers who have given up their own autonomy in favor of walking lock step with the draconian regulations handed down by bureaucrats who pass these regulations not for the betterment of the veteran patient population but to make themselves look good.
 
Well,

there are several reasons,depending on everyone,some does it because they do not have insurance,others because their doctors does not

prescribe the dosage they need,others because they are just drug abusers and so,and so.

Keep on reading!
 
I've been struggling with insomnia, nightmares, night terrors for over a year now. I can't function during the day, because I feel exhausted, tired, sleep deprevation causes me insane tinnitus all day and of course when it comes out at night, it's impossible to go to sleep. When I finally do after 2-3 hours of tossing and turning, I wake up in sweats and panicky.
I visited 5 doctors, and when I told them about what's going on, they started to give me their medical "advices", like "you should exercise more". "you should eat better". "try melotonin!"...etc. I was like "really??" That's why you became a doctor, so you can be my mom and tell me that I should check the label on the bottled Starbucks latte?
I told them, I need something that works, and something that has worked before, stuff that has been prescriped to me in the past, when I was younger.
All they had to say, they were reluctant to give me anything stronger than SSRIs, and Remeron and such.
It made me really mad, because I've been on those meds and they did NOTHING!

I mean, it's my body, I know what works, I just want to get a good nights' sleep, like most normal people do. I want to function during the day.
I'm not going to be out on the streets selling my benzos to kids for 3 dollars a pill.
So I gave up, and now I'm getting Rivotril (clonazepam) from my OP, and I can finally get relief. I can go to sleep, I can sleep without experiencing nightmares, and night terrors and without jumping out of bed of panic every hour.
And I don't even have insurance, so a doctor's visit cost me anywhere betweej a 100 and 200 dollars. And of course I was ready to pay the ridicilous amount for a bottle of Valium or Rivotril. But no, "just take a half of Remeron for a week!".
No, I will not take that stupid Remeron, it doesn't help.
Rivotril has saved my life. I can sleep. I can function.
I refuse to see a 6th or 7th doctor just to be turned down again, and get a ridicilous prescreption of Prozac after begging for something that helps for hours.
So, this is my story.
 
It is also the price per pill.. but I am going to be honest here... I know with an iop, I can get what I want without being judged. Doctors and nurses may just think you are a drug seeker. Yes, we may have records... but I don't like a man with a clipboard looking at me deciding if he wants to help me out or not for my problems... I get check ups too to see if any other problems exist...
 
Jammin' said:
It is also the price per pill.. but I am going to be honest here... I know with an iop, I can get what I want without being judged. Doctors and nurses may just think you are a drug seeker. Yes, we may have records... but I don't like a man with a clipboard looking at me deciding if he wants to help me out or not for my problems... I get check ups too to see if any other problems exist...
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That's interesting @Jammin'. That's been mentioned twice now: not liking being judged, or being given the "the look" as @gumbeaux mentioned above.
 
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