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Do You Have To Have A Prescription For Tamiflu And Relenza?
ByMy family and I have been looking everywhere for this stuff and no luck. Was it ever available over the counter? Or did they wipe it off the shelves for the hospitals?
My family and I have been looking everywhere for this stuff and no luck. Was it ever available over the counter? Or did they wipe it off the shelves for the hospitals?
7 Comments
November 10th, 2009 at 3:56 am
Yes, in the US (as well as in EU), you do need a prescription for both.
These drugs were never OTC.
As far as availability goes: both drugs are very specific; quite expensive. Since even during the seasonal flu period the demand for these drugs was never really high, the retail pharmacy normally would stock only a few packages (if any at all).
Now is a different story.
November 10th, 2009 at 6:13 am
No because it’s a prescription and of course they’re going to hoard it for the people who get the illness. Yeah I know it sucks. I got so worried that I actually thought about not leaving my apartment until the epidemic was over with, but then I remembered that I had to go grocery shopping
November 10th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Please don’t buy it- if you get sick it will be given to you, but otherwise you will just be taking it out of the hands of those who truly need it.
November 10th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Its only available through prescription its highly demanded you will never find it. Just go to the doctor. I wish I had some as well.
November 10th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
yer if you think you have swine flu then call your doc. and they can treat you cant buy it in a pharmacy
November 11th, 2009 at 3:14 am
You need to see your GP, they will prescribe you some
November 11th, 2009 at 7:03 am
no not yet