List of Prescription-only Medicines?

[AyG]

Is there such a thing as a list of all Thailand prescription-only medicines available (preferably in English)? I've looked the FDA website and found nothing.

Thanks.

[thaiexpat21]

All medication available in Thailand can be referenced here

http://www.mims.com/index.aspx

[AyG]

All medication available in Thailand can be referenced here

http://www.mims.com/index.aspx

Unfortunately, MIMS doesn't (as far as I know) state if something is prescription only in a given country.

[lopburi3]

All medication available in Thailand can be referenced here

http://www.mims.com/index.aspx

Not unless you are a member it seems. And although they now allow membership to patients they seem to have a spam agreement somewhere in the application that I missed. The emails do appear to have opt out links however so probably worth it.

[thaiexpat21]

All medication available in Thailand can be referenced here

http://www.mims.com/index.aspx

Unfortunately, MIMS doesn't (as far as I know) state if something is prescription only in a given country.

Absolutely it does ! Each medication is given an FDA category which indicates if the medicine is available OTC or not

[thaiexpat21]

All medication available in Thailand can be referenced here

http://www.mims.com/index.aspx

Not unless you are a member it seems. And although they now allow membership to patients they seem to have a spam agreement somewhere in the application that I missed. The emails do appear to have opt out links however so probably worth it.

Registration is a requirement prior to access being granted.

I have never received spam from the MIMS site

[AyG]

All medication available in Thailand can be referenced here

http://www.mims.com/index.aspx

Unfortunately, MIMS doesn't (as far as I know) state if something is prescription only in a given country.

Absolutely it does ! Each medication is given an FDA category which indicates if the medicine is available OTC or not

Thanks for that. Having a second look, it appears that some drugs do have a Thai FDA category there. The drug I was specifically searching for (trajenta) doesn't.

[Sheryl]

I'm sure that would not require a prescription, none of the hypoglycemic agents do.

[AyG]

I'm sure that would not require a prescription, none of the hypoglycemic agents do.

That's what I would have thought. Januvia (a very similar drug) hasn't been a problem. However, Trajenta has not only been much more difficult to find, I've also been told by a couple of pharmacies that it's prescription only. (Of course, that could be because they just wanted to get rid of me.)

[Sheryl]

Most likely. None of the hypoglycemis agents are script only. More likely they just didn't know what it is.

With hard to find meds the simplest way is to contact the distributor and ask them for the name of a pharmacy in your area that they have supplied it to. The distributor for this is Zuellig:

Contact Number: Tel: 0 2656 9800 Fax: 0 2656 9801 Email: [email protected]