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Offline Karennina

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« on: October 14, 2012, 18:54:58 PM »
Does anyone know whether you can buy statins in the chemist in Turkey,I have recently been put on them but looks like I am only getting a few months worth each prescription this is going to work out expensive   :)thanks for any replies.



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« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2012, 19:01:21 PM »
Hi you should be able to get them in any chemist in Fethiye.  When Sleazey jet lost our luggage a couple of years ago we got hubbys prescription drugs from the chemist on the main road in town.  It is opposite the migros shop. 

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« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2012, 19:25:49 PM »
Thanks i always use that chemist it is brilliant I wondered whether I would need the green prescprition you need for some drugs in Turkey if not I shall get stocked up with them  :)

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Re: statins
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2012, 22:15:23 PM »
You do not any prescription for statins, all chemists sell them.

Offline Karennina

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« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2012, 19:35:58 PM »
many thanks hopefully they will stock the same one as I am on and I will be able to get quite a few boxes depending on whether they work out cheaper then a script in the UK  :)

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« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2012, 19:50:33 PM »
I would have thought a few months worth for £7.75 was a very good deal I would be surprised if you could buy them cheaper

Offline Karennina

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« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2012, 07:28:20 AM »
Not really Graham as I am now on them for life. I know for a fact that one medication I am on is just 1tl for a box of either 25 or 50 tablets in the chemist in Fetiyhe, but it needed a green prescription to be able to obtain it which outweighed the benefit gained of the cost of the drug itself by having to pay to see a doctor  ;)

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« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2012, 08:52:05 AM »
If my husband runs out of statins whilst here, I get 28 tablets for 5 tl.

Offline nichola

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Re: statins
« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2012, 09:39:51 AM »
There is another topic on statins on the forum you may be interested in Karennina.

It includes this link from the DM 28th Aug12

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2194892/All-50s-statins-regardless-health-history-says-Oxford-professor.html

and there is also this link which you have already seen posted on my FB profile

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2179272/How-just-apples-day-cut-risk-heart-disease.html

The news about apples is not new news but the more recent research seems to confirm more conclusively what was already known.

http://www.calis-beach.co.uk/forum/all_things_that_have_nothing_do_turkey/statins_are_good_you_48314.msg289110.html#msg289110

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Re: statins
« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2012, 10:22:41 AM »
My husband, who's a doctor, highly recommends apple vinegar (elma sirkesi) to reduce cholesterol.
You can add a table spoon to a glass of water or use the vinegar in a salad.

The best brand (according to him that is) is Kuhne.




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