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Jimbo43
03-12-2008, 3:14 PM
Ok, so I checked the price of Malaria pills on Boots.com and then decided to go to the store to get them. Once they had got the prescription ready they tried to charge me £48, their website says £35! They wouldnt budget, so I told them to shove!

Ordered on Boots.com, free delivery and arrived in two days. I reckon thats a 30% mark up fo the same goods. Nice business if you can get it!?

Moral to the story, order on-line.


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Pink_fluff
03-12-2008, 3:41 PM
I got malaria pills for about £4 something earlier this year!!! Wasn't a private prescription, but £48 is a bit of a rip off!
LillyJ
03-12-2008, 5:16 PM
I got malaria pills for about £4 something earlier this year!!! Wasn't a private prescription, but £48 is a bit of a rip off!

There isn't only one "malaria pill". There are a few different ones, larium, malarone etc.
They cost different amounts, and are good for different places/people, depending on local resistance and what the person wants out of the tablet/existing medical conditions etc.
I take larium when I go away because I am fine with it and it's only once a week, and it's dirt cheap. A lot of people however become acutely pscyhotic when taking larium!

So you can't really say that £48 was a rip off as you don't know which medication is being referred to.

I imagine your £4 pills were a private prescription. It can't have been an NHS one, as they aren't prescribed on the NHS, and the NHS prescription fee isn't £4.
Pink_fluff
03-12-2008, 6:10 PM
No they were tablets that were recommended by the doctor's surgery for where I was going, it wasn't a prescription. I didn't realise they could cost so much!!
LillyJ
03-12-2008, 9:48 PM
No they were tablets that were recommended by the doctor's surgery for where I was going, it wasn't a prescription. I didn't realise they could cost so much!!

Where they over the counter ones?
Lots are prescription only, especially the ones needed for subsaharan Africa. But there are ones (won't mention names in case taken as medical advice) that are safe for South America/Asia etc and these can be bought over the counter.
And yes, they can cost an absolute fortune!
Don't forget it depends how long you are going for. I went to Africa for 3 months so needed a bigish supply.