So i'm taking a short trip to Mexico and was thinking bout picking up a few Viagra or Cialis tabs while there.

Hows that work? Just go in and tell em what you want or what?

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A former neighbor of mine used to take a trip or two a year to Mexico. She was a registered nurse at the time. But she moved away in the mid-90's so my info is dated.

She used to go to some town that is nothing but pharmacies and doctors. She also said she never had any problems transporting drugs back over the border, but she also admitted she didn't buy anything but antibiotics for herself and her family. I don't know how she got her stuff across the border or how much scrutiny she fell under each time she returned to the US.

She said that most drugs that were prescription in the US were sold over the counter in Mexico. She also said that one had to be knowledgeable about drugs because the labelling differed in Mexico. If you did not know what to look for, you could end up buying the wrong stuff.

If I remember rightly, most drugs are labelled by their common name. So instead of looking for Viagra, you would look for sildenafil citrate on the label.

As an aside, she also shopped for drugs at the local farm supply store. She told me most drugs for animals were manufactured to USP standards. Again she said all she had to do was read the label and she could buy what she needed to treat herself without paying the high pharmacy costs. All the same, I don't think there is a bovine version of Viagra.

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I have for years purchased medications in Mexico without a problem. However, I would caution you that under Mexican law you are required to have a prescription for the drugs you purchase. That would be a prescription from a Mexican doctor. I have never had a prescription from a Mexican Dr. and have never been asked for one.
That being said, there have been many instances where Americans have been stopped by police after leaving the pharmacy and have actually been jailed for possesion of controlled substances without a valid prescription. Ten cuidado!!!!
To purchase Viagra, Cialis etc. --- just tell the pharmacist what you want.

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Gar, shortly after I responded to your question I saw the following article in today's (Sept. 5, 2004) "Los Angeles Times"


Quest for Cheaper Drugs Can End in a Mexican Jail
Police crack down on Americans who buy medications without local prescriptions.

By Chris Kraul, Times Staff Writer


TIJUANA — Californians shopping for cheaper prescription drugs may have gotten a break when the Legislature voted to ease access to low-cost medicines from Canada, but south of the border, bargain-hunters can pay an unexpected, traumatic cost — time in a Mexican slammer.

Since early last year, at least 67 Americans have been jailed here for buying medicines without a prescription from a Mexican doctor. Most recently, a 53-year-old U.S. woman was arrested here in July and spent a day in jail after buying 90 Valium tablets, a standard prescription amount, without the requisite Mexican doctor's order.

Drug shoppers in Mexico are on the same quest for discounts that has driven many Californians to buy mail-order medications from Canada, where prices also can be dramatically lower.

Late last month, days after a group of elderly Southern Californian protesters chartered a train called the "Rx Express" to buy medicines in Vancouver, the California Legislature gave final approval to a package of bills allowing cheaper drug imports from Canada. The legislation is still being considered by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

To the south, thousands of Americans, mostly senior citizens, cross the border daily to buy prescription drugs at places such as Tijuana and Algodones on the California border, Nogales south of Arizona and Ciudad Juarez opposite El Paso. They are pursuing savings of up to 75% on medicines ranging from antibiotics and antidepressants to heart medication and chemotherapy agents.

Mexican druggists who sell to Americans without a prescription are also breaking the law, but the police more frequently target the customers, knowing they are easy arrests and in many cases will be only too willing to pay bribes of hundreds of dollars to avoid jail.

Facing a sharp decline in tourism in recent months, some Tijuana pharmacists are mounting a campaign to warn visitors of the hazards of buying drugs without prescriptions — and to repair Tijuana's image.

"Americans come here with no idea that they need a prescription, a Mexican prescription, to get their medicines," said Ignacio Romo Calderon, president of the Tijuana Pharmacists Assn.

"We are trying to educate the tourists because [the arrests] have given the city a bad name."

Pharmacies have multiplied here to more than 1,300 — three times the number in San Diego, with roughly the same population — as Mexico becomes known as an alternative to cost-conscious U.S. consumers.

Law-abiding druggists along Pharmacy Row will either refuse to sell the drugs or send consumers to one of the many doctor's offices here where physicians are known to write prescriptions for $40.

Some of the buyers arrested here obviously intended to traffick the suspiciously large quantities of drugs they bought, officials at the U.S. Consulate here said.

A Seattle man was arrested in September 2003 after allegedly buying more than 6,000 pills of medications, including controlled substances. Two clerks at Tijuana's Trip Pharmacy, where the purchases were made, were also jailed.

But most trans-border consumers are elderly Americans who simply are buying medicines for their own ailments or those of family members. Most walk into the Mexican pharmacies with a U.S. prescription or with none at all.

Alfonso Gonzalez, a San Diego retiree, drives to Tijuana every month to buy eyedrops for his glaucoma. He pays $20 for the same monthly supply of drops that in San Diego costs $90. That's a considerable savings for 70-year-old Gonzalez and his wife, who subsist on the $1,100 a month they receive in Social Security benefits.

"We retirees are the ones who suffer the most because the drug business is so controlled in the United States. It's why you never see a price reduction," said Gonzalez, who said that Medicare did not cover the cost of his drops, which he said were vital in keeping his eyesight.

He said the Tijuana pharmacy he patronized sold him his drops without a prescription.

Although police are likely to look the other way a case such as Gonzalez's eyedrops, they can come down hard on those who buy controlled substances, such as those known by their U.S. brand names Valium, Ritalin, Percodan and Darvon.

The average length of jail time is 48 hours.

Although most of those arrested are released after producing documentation proving a medical need, those who can't or who are suspected of buying drugs with trafficking in mind can be sentenced to lengthy terms.

In the most highly publicized case here, Dawn Marie Wilson, 48, received a five-year term for buying a variety of prescription drugs in Baja California last year, including anti- epilepsy medication and Valium.

Through her lawyer, she said she did not buy all the drugs listed by Mexican authorities in her court papers. Wilson is now in an Ensenada jail but is scheduled to be transferred to U.S. custody this month.

Raymond Lindell, 66, of Phoenix was held in a Nogales jail for eight weeks this year after being caught with 270 Valium pills he had bought for his wife. Lindell argued that he went to Mexico to buy the drugs after his insurer stopped reimbursing him and his wife for the cost of the tranquilizer.

In a notorious case, an Iowa woman was raped while in custody late last year after Mexican police arrested her and her husband for possession of Ritalin they had bought in Tijuana for their 9-year-old son.

The arrests of U.S. shoppers have contributed to Tijuana's dubious status as the place where more Americans are arrested — an average of more than seven a day — than in any other foreign city with a consular presence. Most arrests are for drunkenness and disorderly conduct.

Baja California accounts for 20% of all arrests of U.S. nationals on foreign soil each year.

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Anybody know the limits on the amount of a drug the mexican dr's will write scripts for?

As I live in KS, making a trip to Mexico is a little bit inconvenient. But I could manage at least twice a year. I'd be willing to pay the doc and take documentation that I am being prescribed the drug here in the US. I am not looking to pick up Viagra, etc., just rein in some of my family's expenses.

If I could pick 6 month supplies, I could probably easily recoup my trip expenses in the savings.

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I wonder if Viagra or Cialis would get you into trouble? I have no problem seeing a mexican doc for a script though.

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While I am certainly not an expert I would imagine that if you explained the situation to the Dr., she/he would write the prescription to the legal maximum, and my guess is that would be an amount much higher than in the U.S.

If Mexican law requires that Viagra and Cialis be prescribed by a physician then that would mean that an American would also need a prescription from a Mexican Dr. I would point out that the crackdown seems to be happening primarily in Tijuana. If you are planning a trip to one of the resort areas, Puerto Vallarta, Cancun, Acapulco, etc it just might be that you would encounter no problem purchasing them without a prescription. You would have to decide for yourself if it would be worth the risk.

Personally, I have been purchasing my prescriptions in Tijuana for years (without a prescription from a Mexican Dr.), but because of the recent crackdown I'm going to take my U.S. prescriptions and have a Mexican Dr. rewrite them for me. It would still be a substantial savings. Just the thought of a weekend in a Tijuana jail being the bitch of some 20 yr. old, hot, Mexican criminal---------. On second thought, fuck it. I don't need no stinkin' prescription.

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I wonder if you can find the old poppers there. The one with amyl nitrate( i think thats right?)?

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