Posted by Vincent_QC on September 18, 2010, at 12:48:23
In reply to Re: oh canada! » Maxime, posted by linkadge on September 18, 2010, at 11:26:56
> And some meds we havn't got at all. I don't think emsam is available.
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> LinkadgeYeah, Health Canada always take more times to approve new meds and that's suck...
I guess we will have the Valdoxan only in 3-4 years...
We only had the Cymbalta approve 2 years ago and it was available in the USA 2 years before. Same for the Lexapro who is call Cipralex in the Canada.
The Luvox CR is not avlaible in the Canada and will never be launch here.
My PDoc wanted to start me on the Liquid Paxil because I overreact to SSRI'S meds now and we don't know why... he had to fill out some papers and send them to Health Canada for the SAP programme (The Special Access Programme, who provides access to nonmarketed drugs for practitioners treating patients with serious or life-threatening conditions when conventional therapies have failed, are unsuitable, or unavailable and authorizes a manufacturer to sell a drug that cannot otherwise be sold or distributed in Canada). After 6 months and a lot of phone call and e-mails send to the SAP programme, we receive a negative answer from them... for a mysterious reason they say all the SSRI's in liquid form was withdraw from the Canadian market years ago because they was toxic?!? The only one liquid SSRI who stay available in the Canada is the BAD Generic Prozac (APO-Fluoxetine...
Emsam is not avalaible in the Canada and will never be available. My PDoc try to import it into the Canada and the drug company who produce it in the States asking for a lot a $$$$ for it, it was something like 12-16 $ for each patch and at the smaller dose...more expensive for higher dose patch.
Same for the Marplan, who is another MAOI who will never be available in the Canada, my PDoc ask Health Canada and the SAP programme to have the right to import it and they say yes but I had to pay for it and it was around 200$ for 90 pills of 10mg, and the effective dose is 30 mg who mean 600$ for one month and Health Canada wanted that my PDoc send a medical report of side-effects and improves to them each month for all the time I will be on it, so I say no to the Marplan.
Some of the older TCA's are not available in the Canada also... can't remember witch ones... as well as older tetracyclic (not the Remeron)...
One drug who will be interresting to try is not available in the USA and the Canada, only in Europe, even if it's old, it's the Coaxil (Stablon), always wanted to know if it's good to treat anxiety disorders???
Health Canada is also very strict for the natural products. You have to be lucky to succeed to buy natural products from the web and receive them by mail!!! I was lucky to receive the Inositol, who is not allowed here, only in Vitamine B complex at low dose of 100mg maximum... wanted to try it because some studies show it was effective for panic disorder and other anxiety disorders as well but I was afraid to try it to the recommended dose of 18 gramm day... but I receive it! lol
Anyway... I think both country, USA or Canada, face a lot of problems with the medical cares system... and meds...
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