HERE NOW and we need a script refill!!!!

[Donald - my hero]

• Posted in the disability forum but thought someone here might have information related to us Canucks.....

Our daughter is on her way down here and just let me know she's let her puffer run empty. Her a asthma is humidity triggered so she needs it!!! Where is the closest clinic we can take solve this epic fail on her part? We have a car so transportation isn't an issue.

Kids, NEVER grow up, do they ? (She's almost w28 and married !)

 

[xlsm]

People frequently suggest Turner Drug. Your doctor can call in a prescription and from what I understand, they will deliver it to your resort.

(I'm not Canadian, but saw this pop up in "new threads", and wanted to help if I could!)

We had to take my son to urgent care on our most recent trip, and picked up his prescription at Walgreens near Disney Springs...after we got back I learned about Turner Drug. It's something I've filed away in my mental "just in case" file!

Good luck, I hope you can get her inhaler quickly and easily!!

 

[star72232]

Easiest (and cheapest) might be to have the script refilled at your DD's usual pharmacy and then send it down by Fedex, etc, if someone can do that for her. I'm not sure Canadian MD's can have scripts filled in the US. Plus, a lot of Rx are a lot more expensive in the US, so even using a courier to get it down might be less expensive.

 

[ottawamom]

Just googled the situation and this is what I managed to find out.

"I am traveling or living temporarily in the U.S. and I need to have my prescription medicine sent to me. What should I do?

As a general rule, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not allow prescription medications to be mailed to the U.S. However, if you are here temporarily and need to be sent your prescription medication, there are a couple of things you should do. Ask your physician to write a letter explaining that you are under their care, and that they have prescribed the drugs for your use. The letter should also explain the circumstances for sending the drugs to you, including that you are a citizen of (whatever) country, that you are temporarily in the U.S. (for travel, study, etc.) and have either run out of your medications, lost them, etc. The letter should accompany the package and be addressed to a CBP Officer or broker.

We strongly recommend that it be in English. If the medicine is sent through the mail, it could be informally detained by CBP until an FDA Inspector is available to examine it. This can take as long as a month. It is very important that the outside package be marked with a statement that the package contains a physician's letter so that the CBP Officer will be more proactive in bringing it to the FDA's attention. A better option is to send the package by a courier service. Ask the courier service how best to flag the package so that their U.S. Customs broker will be able to tell the FDA about the special circumstances for sending the package. For more information please email the FDA Import/Export Team at cderimportexport@fda.hhs.gov. See the FDA Regulatory Procedures Manual for Importations for more information.

Finally if none of that works, get a prescription in the US. Contact your travel health insurance provider (and maybe also your health insurance provider at home) for where to go. I imagine that bringing results from tests done at home, diagnosis and other relevant documents might greatly facilitate the process and save you from added costs."

Good luck, You may get lucky and a local clinic will just write the prescription based on the empty puffer. Call your DD insurance first and ask them how to proceed would be my suggestion.

 

[pigletto]

You remember all of our issues at FLL airport recently? We JUST got our luggage back. The only things not returned to us were the prescriptions. Both my husband and sons inhalers, dd's medication.. all my family lost their prescriptions. They can't be shipped over the border.
We were pretty much trapped in Fort Lauderdale without our things and many of us had medications we had to take before we could get home. Two of the members of our party were Doctors. They were very clear.. they have no subscribing privledges in the U.S. and it would very likely be disallowed to transfer a prescription to a U.S. pharmacy. The CVS we checked said we had to get a new prescription. Fedex can't send those inhalers, they were the company that went through the luggage and removed them all.

So.. I've used Centra Care Walk in Centers near Disney a few times. There are a few very close by. Google the closest location, make an appointment ONLINE (or you will wait forever). Sort out your health insurance before you go, bring the numbers with you, and have them write a new inhaler prescription. I'm afraid that is the only method that will work. Centra- Care is good though and we've always been able to pre-bill insurance and not pay out of pocket. Good Luck.

( and just reading Ottawamom's post above.. I still think your best bet is a new script. The above isn't guaranteed to work, could take a long time and you will need that inhaler. We discovered ours was missing when DH had an asthma attack on Saturday and I went digging through the luggage I picked up on Friday and saw it was all gone.)

ETA) And a Hug because I'm sure you can use one.

 

[ottawamom]

Donald post again when everything is resolved to let us know how it all worked out. Good lesson for those of us with prescription medications and upcoming trips to learn from.

 

[Aladora]

Ugh Jacqueline, I read this on the DisAbilities board and wanted to post something but your thread there was closed. Sorry you have had to deal with this, I hope you get it all sorted out soon!

 

[SaraMc]

Since the issue has been resolved I too am going to close this thread.