So I just moved to Mexico and am having trouble finding Vic's around here. I live about 2 hours from Guadalajara and have been to a dozen pharmacies and several doctors and they always try and give me a prescription for some OTC stuff. I am not worried about transporting it over the border as I live here now. Just looking for some help or ideas! Thanks.

Well I emailed a few places and starting conversing with them but all of a sudden they stop emailing me. Am I doing something wrong? Help would be appreciated!

My only advice is find a DR and stay with them and hopefully the will begin to prescribe based on history.

Well I have had lucking finding Codeine. I simply order it from the pharmacy down the street. It's about $32 bucks for a bottle of 30 pills. They don't ask for a prescription. She said she can really order anything I like but I can't seem to find the mexican name for vicodin here. Anyone know? Thanks!

"Vicodin" is brand name for a compound of Hydrocodone + Tylenol. So, when you are asking about vicodin, I'm assuming you're really looking for hydrocodone vs codeine! I'm sorry to say, but the US produces 100% of raw hydrocodone (Classified as Schedule II without any compound) and the US consumes 99% of it by making vicodin (or generics). My understanding is that Mexico does not import any hydrocodone, so any "vicodin" you are buying is most likely illegally coming from the US somehow.

Read up on this article published by the Justice Department.

www.justice.gov/dea/concern/hydrocodone_factsheet.doc

Here's some quotes from it...

Hydrocodone in an analgesic and antitussive agent structurally similar to codeine. When the CSA was enacted in 1971, hydrocodone substance was placed in schedule II. Products containing hydrocodone in specified amounts and in combination with other active ingredients were placed in schedules III and V. At that time, hydrocodone was primarily utilized as a cough suppressant with limited prescriptions. Today, hydrocodone products are increasingly utilized for pain management and are the most frequently dispensed opioid pharmaceuticals in the United States.

According to the 2005 International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Report, the United States manufactures nearly 100% of the total hydrocodone manufactured worldwide. It also constitutes 99% of the world consumption of hydrocodone.

That was true five years ago. However, there are currently pharmaceutical companies in other countries, including Mexico, that are manufacturing and distributing this drug.
In Mexico, I believe it is hidrocodona w/ paracetamol made by a company in Guadalajara.
There are apparently very restrictive requirements imposed by the Mexican health agencies on which doctors are able to prescribe it and under what conditions.

ah, didn't know that! Good info to have

The condition is one of green. They see green and they can prescribe.

OldandWarn, it sucks that all we think about Mexico it is our personal prescription-drug feeding ground. Most of the doctors who can legitemately prescribe strong opiates you cannot go down and pay them $100 to get a script.

However, how would I know... I just know what I read as I've never actually been there!

I ordered from www.medicareonlinedrugs.com this week and think I got scammed... ugh!!

However, I placed an order yesterday with "Cesar" and package just showed up an hour ago 18 hour turnaround! Had to pay a little extra for Sat. Delivery, oh well. Well worth it!

It would appear we all take our chances south of the border....I had an interesting conversation w/someone about Cesar (WorldPharmacy). I heard a couple of orders came on time as promised but the meds were damaged/crushed. The packaging was "hurriedly" done hence, broken meds. Anyway, it was explained to him without a request for replacement. His response was: not his problem, complain to UPS. He also added he does not or ever will offer samples. Also he could careless if they ever ordered from him again. WTF???? Wow. This came about as I was interested in ordering but scams seem to be the norm instead of a rarity...go figure!!! LOL!!!!!

Well I have some updated information for you all. Hydrocodone is not manufactured in Mexico. It only exists if imported from elsewhere illegally.

However Oxycodone is manufactured in Guadalajara. The name of the medicine is Plexicodim. It contains 5 mg of oxycontin and paracetamol. It is really hard to obtain though and is even harder to find in any pharmacy.

I just got back from Puerto Vallarta a few hours ago and was able to find Valium and Xanax. I purchased some while there without a prescription and all went well. Also had a great vacation at that!

I was down in Mexico a few years ago and went to a pharmacy and bought vicodin. I took empty pill bottles with me so when I flew back I wouldn't have a problem and I didn't. Although I don't know what was in them but they made me really sick so I am kind of scared now. I had also bought xanax but they seemed normal

First let me clarify re my last post here, consensus is C is fine-no worries. Second, I was in Mexico several years ago. I was in San Diego and walked across the border into Tijuana. For those who have never been, they have/had(?) a section of town which was one pharmacy after another. I was curious and walked into one. I asked for a product, they turned around and pulled open a small slender drawer and put 4 pills in a small baggie. I paid my $$ and left. THEY WERE GARBAGE!!!! I laugh as to be honest, the whole set up is plain silly. The vendors actually stand at the door and as you walk by, they offer. LOL!!! I learned my lesson. Lucky it wasn't very many pesos I lost : )

DGray, I'd love to know where in PV you were able to make your purchase as I'm on my way there in a couple of weeks. Can you PM me?

Dede,

I tried to PM you but it won't allow me to? If you would prefer, you can email me at DGray128@hotmail.com and we can communicate that way!

You need to have 25 post to PM, and its probably not a good idea to give out your personal email address on the board, just for privacy reasons. Just an FYI....

Muzzie,

Thanks for the info. I wasn't aware of that.

md,

My experience working off and on in Mex for the past 5 yrs is the same. I worked often in the interior of the country - say Zacatecas-Guadalajura area. I took a "letter" from my US doctor stating my problems and then found a Mex doc that would work with me. BUT hydrocodona needed to be scripted by certain doc's with a "special" permit. Now my doc there hooked me up with other docs that could prescribe up through fentanyl patches but not hydro/oxy!!

BUT when it was time to come back to the US I never tried to bring a PM thru customs, only xanies (relatively easy to find a Mex doc that would script - for me the same doc) that I could put in my US prescription bottle while still in transit (ie for me "the plane, the plane!!!"). Never a problem for me that way. But hydro/oxy - from my experience, difficult to get in Mex "legally".

GEODOG

No one seems to listen. Gett away from the border towns, find a doctor, usually right next to a pharmacy. Show him you empty bottle of whatever your looking for. give a note from "your doctor in the states" say what your problem is and ask for it.

Took me two doc's to find one who would prescribe everything from 60 2 mg xanax to fentenyl patches. Just got to be calm, relatively honest about your situation (I do have lower back problems and anxiety disorders). And the doc was a weight loss doc. Just need the green and don't ask for too much at once from anyone doctor. Urgent care type places work well also but not the bigger hospitals.

Again bringing back into the US is another matter. Never any pain meds came with me and the xanies were just transfered to by US docs bottle. No problem. But buying off the street in places where over 3000 people were killed last year due to cartels - your freaking nutz!!

GEODOG