Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Information and Services in Turkey Section => Health & Healthcare => Topic started by: Karennina on October 14, 2012, 18:54:58 PM
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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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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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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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You do not any prescription for statins, all chemists sell them.
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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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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
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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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If my husband runs out of statins whilst here, I get 28 tablets for 5 tl.
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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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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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thanks so much again for the replies,Marggie that is far cheaper then a script in the Uk so will defo try and get stocked up. Nichola I have started on my two apples a day since I saw your link on fb, I just wash and cut two up into slices and take them into work with me, I shall look at your other link and see if I gain anything from it and Dutchie I shall also try the apple vinegar is that a product you can buy at the supermarkets in Turkey? My level is currently at 7.78 despite trying since May to get it down from 7.2 without statins it just seems to go up and up :(
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Kuhne elma sirkesi can be bougt at the bigger supermarkets (Migros, Kipa, Tansas).
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just to let know any expats that are on Statins the cheap type no longer seem to be available to buy in Turkey the new type are 22tl a box not much cheaper then an NHS prescription in the Uk.....
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So much in the press lately about Statins and mixed information. This is an interesting article
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9893580/Mediterranean-diet-as-good-as-statins.html
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That is really interesting Jacqui I believe that about the diet and think I could probably be statin free if we were in Turkey for longer periods!! I have been really lucky in not getting the muscle cramps and my first blood test since being prescribed stations statins even!! showed my chloesterol had come down from 7 something to either 4 or 5 just a little gutted that I can not buy the cheaper ones in Turkey anymore I am only allowed two months worth at a time in the UK...
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Karinnina, Think you will have to move to Scotland and get your presciptions free.. ;D ;)
In the meantime, that's good news about your chloesterol and if you have no side effects all the better. 8)
I always think you cannot put a price on health so worth buying them if they are doing you good. ;)
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Ha that would be great Jacqui :)yes I was really pleased to find my level had dropped.. On our recent trip to Turkey I bought the apple vinegar that the lady whose husband is a doctor and it is really nice I have had it on salads but reckon i could probably drink it, so we will be stocking up on that each trip to Turkey now :)
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Hi Karen, thought you might like to know that the cheap Simvastatin is available again in Fethiye. Rich's medication was about to run out and I went into the chemist opposite Migros, got ZoCor 10 mg Simvastation for 5.22 tl.
Also a friend who visited lost all her medication in Manchester Airport and we were able to get everything she needed from there including a higher strength Simvastatin.
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Thanks for the info Marggie... Have any members who take statins seen the news today about these meds, I dont think I am going to continue on my mine... On the article I read it said eating one apple a day can have the same benefits as taking statins without obviously any side effects... I do remember Nichola and also a member whose husband is a gp also saying this... From tomorrow I think I am going to go shopping for apples ;)
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Hi Karennia, I have been on statins for a few years now. High cholesterol runs in the family. My brother died from a heart attack at 50 years of age. I have not suffered any side effects, and would not stop taking them without consulting with my GP. Might try apples and see if it brings my levels down further that statins alone.
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Hi Fran sorry about your brother that was very young...my father died of a heart attack and high cholesterol also runs in my family...I think I will consult my gp as the news article yester said memory loss is one of the side effects and mine is just appalling along with joint pains which I also suffer from..
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I had joint pains with statins went to the doctor and he changed the statins I was on and no more problems
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So you can smoke the joints now?
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I have given up smoking Mr Scunner