I am seriously considering a move to Paraguay, but am concerned about the availability of some of my long-term prescription meds. How I can find out what is and is not available? The meds I am especially concerned about are
and to a lesser extent
How did you all deal with verifying availability of any long-term medications?
You can search at several websites on-line for what's available, according to this Paraguay government page from the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare (Ministerio de Salud Pública y Bienestar Social):
https://www.mspbs.gov.py/portal/22975/- … nline.html
Here is one of the sites the above mentions, where you may search for medications by name. You might need to enter the Spanish name although I successfully entered the English name for several medications. It will search on just part of a name and return results so if you enter, say, "stat" you will get all available "statin" medicines. I was able to get results entering just a first few letters of the medicines you mention:
@OsageArcher Thanks for the references. It looks like one of my thyroid meds is not available. I'll have to talk to my doctor about that.
One other thing. I currently do testosterone replacement therapy here in the US, working with a doctor who orders blood tests for me 3 times a year. Searching on the website you mentioned it appears that you can get testosterone in Paraguay. But is Paraguay like the US in that you need to show a prescription for everything? If so, is testosterone replacement therapy something that's considered legit by the doctors here?
Perhaps it would be best if I could just have a telemedicine consultation with a Paraguayan doctor. Any tips on how to find a Paraguayan doctor who does that would be much appreciated.
Perhaps it would be best if I could just have a telemedicine consultation with a Paraguayan doctor. Any tips on how to find a Paraguayan doctor who does that would be much appreciated.
-@kevin4420
Such a thing is possible. Here are some links for pages that advertise Paraguayan doctors on-line. I don't know if it's possible to use the services from outside the country but you can try - and you can probably find some email addresses to enquire about it (sorry, I did not exhaustively investigate each site).
https://www.cmb.org.py/doctor-en-linea
https://www.virtualdoctor.me/py/ - for $15 USD, they claim to offer an on-line consultation
You may be able to find a doctor who can speak good English - but certainly it would be very helpful if your Spanish is at least at a conversational level.
You can do further searches for something like
paraguay doctor médico consulta en linea
And just so you know - Paraguay's time is now the same as the US Eastern time zone EDT, called PYT (UTC-4).
@OsageArcher Thanks so much!
