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Market => Product requests => Topic started by: PriscillaMarie90 on November 23, 2011, 04:08 am
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Depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) -
A branded progestogen-only contraceptive. A long acting, reversible hormonal contraceptive birth control drug that is injected every 3 months. It is an aqueous suspension for depot injection of the pregnane 17α-hydroxyprogesterone-derivative progestin medroxyprogesterone acetate.
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Is there anyone on the whole planet who could get vials of Depo-Provera? I used to be able to get it for free, but now I have to pay a huge wad of cash per injection (not to mention doctor visits are a bitch), and I'm wondering if anyone here has access to it.
I know that it's kind of a strange thing to request, but I've seen stranger!
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Bump + Edit
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Just go to a pharmacy and get a pill crusher. the one I have you put the pill in a small cup container and screw the lid on to it. The pill crushes pretty well. They are like 5 bucks or less..
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Amazon.com sells the pill crusher bags just do a search.
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Okay edited again! :P
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Hi PriscillaMarie90,
Were you ever able to find that Depo-Provera injectable medication?
I am looking for the same thing, and I'm actually interested in buying it in semi-bulk quantities, e.g., 20-40 injectable doses at a time. I need it for a charity clinic project I and my friends have in mind; see my thread in the "off-topic" section about it:
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=95503.0
Back in early 2007 I have successfully bought one dose (prefilled syringe) of the Depo shot medication from a clearnet grey-market pharmacy: www.valuepharmaceuticals.com. That site is still up, and still claims to offer this medication, but it appears that they may have tightened up their prescription checking - so I don't know whether or not a single-dose order w/o a legit script will still go through today like it did for me almost 6 years ago.
But what I really need is to buy in semi-bulk, not one injectable dose at a time. Ordering one dose at a time (every 3 months for one lady patient) would be an enormous source of stress and worry: not knowing if you are going to be able to get it this time, if it's going to be in good condition (see below), etc. And we need it for more than one patient: just in my own core family there are two women who are currently on the shot and would like to be able to get these injections on our own terms, and we are now also running around with this idea of setting up a clinic where we'll make these shots available for free (as in donations solicited, but no one turned away for lack of funds) to our entire local community.
When they reopen after Xmas, I'll call Value Pharmaceuticals and try talking to them about ordering Depo-Provera in bulk. It would be silly trying to claim it's for my personal use (I am male, and even if one of our ladies did the talking and the order, there is still the quantity issue), but they are based somewhere far outside USA, so if I tell them the truth that it's for a clinic that's going to provide free birth control services, perhaps they'll swallow that, rather than start verifying the legitimacy of our clinic (license numbers and whatnot which we don't have).
There is also www.noprescriptiondrugs.com - back in 2007 they also had those Depo-Provera prefilled syringes available for order, and that site is quite explicit about not asking for prescriptions. But they don't list this med right now - I don't know if they lost their supply, or if they can still get it, but stopped stocking it for lack of interest. I'm going to try asking them too.
In any case, I'm going to try talking to people at both of the above places, and I'll post my results here, be they hit or miss.
But I also have one additional concern: what about the storage and shipping requirements with regard to temperature or other environmental exposure? I know that with vaccines for example, the temperature control is very important: vaccines have to be kept refrigerated, as in an unbroken cold chain - if the cold chain is broken for even just one hour, that vaccine is ruined - you can put it in the fridge afterward, but one can no longer depend on its effectiveness.
I have very little understanding as to how the DMPA (depot medroxyprogesterone acetate, aka Depo-Provera) fares in this regard, but obviously having this medication be 100% good and 100% dependable is absolutely critical - women will be depending on it for their birth control, and if the contraception fails and a woman gets pregnant, the consequences will be totally devastating. Hence we don't want to take any chances with this stuff - it *has* to be *exactly* as good as what they stick in you when you go to Planned Parenthood and such, no compromises on the quality.
The little package I got from Value Pharmaceuticals back in 2007 was mailed to me plain, no refrigeration or other fanciness. On the package it says: "Store below 25 deg C". Well, 25 deg C is not a fridge temperature, so I guess it is not like vaccines, and once I get the vials or prefilled syringes in my hands, I can certainly store them at a temperature below 25 deg C - for example, in my computer server room, where the A/C is set to maintain a near-constant 25 deg C 24x7x365. But what about the transport? Value Pharmaceuticals shipped that order to me (USA) from somewhere in Fiji Islands - I don't see how one can guarantee that a package traveling that distance in non-climate-controlled mail won't get exposed to temperatures above 25 deg C.
But I don't know how sensitive this stuff is to temperature exposure: is it a case of expose it to 30 deg C for an hour and it might be ruined with no visible signs, or is it a case of "below 25 deg C" being just the recommended conditions for long-term storage, with short-term exposure to higher temperatures OK? And what about the lower temperate limit - what if it gets shipped through a country with a real cold winter and gets exposed to below-freezing temperatures?
I would be very interested in what SR vendor Novartis might have to say on this subject. Their SR vendor page says: "Our supply of the highest medical grade FDA approved pharmaceuticals is nearly unlimited – purchased legally direct from the manufacturer – and always well ahead of expiration date. These are the same medications and medical equipment used throughout hospitals in the US." I hope that means they could get the DMPA/Depo-Provera for us... And their SR vendor page also says: "We are highly trained clinicians." - perhaps they might know about medication storage/shipping requirements too...
And of course, if anyone else (vendor or not) has any insight into either of the two issues (1: procurement, 2: storing/shipping concerns), I would be all ears as well.
Oh, and one final note: we don't really need prefilled syringes (although we can use them of course), simple vials would be just as fine: we have our own stock of sterile disposable syringes and several different needle sizes (hence can give IM shots to fat or thin patients, arm or butt), our clinic will be staffed by one or more real nurses, and obviously any real nurse will know how to fill a syringe from a vial properly. Hence if vials are a little cheaper, that would be appreciated.
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The little package I got from Value Pharmaceuticals back in 2007 was mailed to me plain, no refrigeration or other fanciness. On the package it says: "Store below 25 deg C". Well, 25 deg C is not a fridge temperature, so I guess it is not like vaccines, and once I get the vials or prefilled syringes in my hands, I can certainly store them at a temperature below 25 deg C - for example, in my computer server room, where the A/C is set to maintain a near-constant 25 deg C 24x7x365.
Oops, I made a typo - my computer room A/C is set to 20 deg C, not 25 - hence me thinking that it would satisfy the stated requirement of storing the medication *below* 25 deg C.
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