Does your provider have a patient portal? I would strongly suggest using that or calling and explaining the situation. They can just call your medication in to the pharmacy.
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I had been calling them to no success. Found a comrade who can spot me, and also found out I can schedule a 'fifteen minute telehealth appointment' with 24h notice. Which like good to know now but goddamn.
Anyways I might have to book it up to Canada sometime this week.
I always wondered how this worked. If you have an american prescription can you just, go buy your meds in canada for cheaper with no extra steps? I know its a thing for insulin but that's not controlled as tightly as other drugs right?
No, a prescription written by a US licensed provider is not valid in Canada and vice versa.
At least in the US, anything that is "prescription only" is essentially the same, you need an order from a doctor. There is some insulin available OTC in America, but then your insurance won't be paying anything.
There's an anecdote of The Butcher of Bengal, Winston Churchill getting medicinal alcohol during prohibition because of a foreign prescription. But that was a while ago and he was an important and rich person, so...
Probably not in the current day.
There are certain things that are technically OTC in Canada that are not in the US. Having a US script allows them to be transported across the border or shipped to the US legally and there is a cottage industry of Canadian pharmacies on this angle.
E: oh yeah, I was only talking about insulin lol.