Lansoprazole - 30mg

[sr007au]

Hi,

I take the prescription drug lansoprazole 30mg for reflux

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoton ( lists the various names used around the world for the same drug )

Does anyone know if it is available in Thailand ?

I will be in both Bangkok and Pattaya.

If anyone has bought lansoprazole, any idea on the cost ?

Thanks for any help you can give me.

[Sheryl]

it is available here but only in expensive imported brand Prevacid

Omeprazole on the other hand is available in several inexpensive locally made forumulations: Omezole, Desec, Dosate,Duogas, Eucid, Gaster to name just a few. Any pharmacy and very cheap.

They are the same class of drug (Proton Pump Inhibitor), same action.

[zzdocxx]

Agree with above.

007 you could check with your health care provider to see if it would be OK to substitute the above for your current medication as Cheryl suggests, and dose for you.

And I think you are home free.

[sr007au]

Great

Thanks for the information everyone

[guru]

Don't buy it at Bumrungrad. It was imported from Japan and cost me 3000 baht. I was there less than an hour and after all the fees (including that ever increasing facility fee) I left 7K poorer and he wanted to see me again the following week. I now refuse to buy any medicine there and get the Doc to write it down and I go to the pharmacy next to nana or the one near suk soi 15. When I started doing that with another doctor she lowered her fee.

[steve187]

does anyone have a recent update if a generic version is available in thailand

[Sheryl]

Still not.

[meatboy]

does anyone have a recent update if a generic version is available in thailand

i have been on lansoprazole for 12years,when i moved here i had enough for 2years,then i went on to prevacid 30mg.cost 1360bht for 28tabs.i asked my pharmacy if he could get me the generic version,this month he got me omeprazole which is the same thing,the brand was LOZOL manufactured by new life pharma co.ltd.bangkok,but they dont come in 30mg.so i got 20mg.cost 100bht for 28tabs these were slow release capsules.next week i will see how they perform and post it on this topic.its not worth giving you the name of my pharmacy i live in korat.

[Sheryl]

Omeprazole and lansoprazole are in the same drug family and have the same mode of action, but the are not the same thing.

Omeprazole is one of the earliest drugs of this type (proton pump inhibitor) and as such went off patent some while back and is readily available in many generic equivalent brands.

Lansprazole is a newer formulation. Studies I have seen indicate it may work more rapidly i.e. the acidity decreases more quickly when it is newly started vs. with oemprazole but that over time they are essentially the equivalnt.

In people with some specific genetic abnormalities, lansprazole may also be better tolerated, but this applies to only a few.

Frankly the supposed advantages of the newer PPIs over the original drugs to me are not at all persuasive i.e. it looks like the development of the newer, allegedly "better" products had more to do with the desire to have a patented product than to any real value added by the revised formulation. A very common occurrence.

Whenever newer version of a drug group come out, the drug companies market them quite aggressively and it works -- many doctors switch over. Often because they genuinely think the newer preparation is better, based on a quick look at the literature provided by the helpful drug rep. it takes a lot longer to research things for yourself than it does to listen to a drug rep's spiel or glance at the package insert....

Maybe it's my age showing, but I personally consider it better to stick with the older, no longer patented, formulations unless there is really compelling evidence to indicate a significant difference in efficacy or side effects (objective evidence, not the promotional hype). Occasionally there is -- some new variabnts truly are mean to address drawbacks in early generations of a drug type -- but equally often there is not. In fact sometimes over time the newer versions prove to have greater drawbacks.

Not only will the early versions be far less expensive, there will have been many more years experience with them vs. a newer product.

[meatboy]

the op asked is there a generic version for lansopazole,i was recomened omeprazole in this forum[26/5/2011] to treat the same gerd as its called,as i have suffered with this for over 40years and has taken quite a lote of diff.medications i think i am able to give some advice,but there seems to be quite a lot of nit picking followed by contradictery advice by one member,so in future anyone who asks for advice relateing to what i have had done in the way of surgery[posted]and what medication i am taking[posted] please pm me.now i feel a bit better.