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I forgot to say is that you should expect to wait 2.5-3 hours. Going there early is a good idea.

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Thanks for the post.  I got setup with Pulse Clinic in Phuket as they had lots of info on their website.  Wish I had seen info on the Red Cross, but last I checked their English website wasn't working.  Pulse also has a clinic in BKK.   Pulse charges 900B/mo for Prep and the testing was like $5000B which included HIV, Kidney function, and HepA/B.  So the Red Cross seems like the way to go.  

Wonder if they would refill my prescription?

370B/mo for PreP is a great value, I'm surprised Pulse is charging almost triple when their goal is to get people using it. At that price, everyone doing anything risky (especially sex workers) should be taking it.

 

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Good information, Thx!

I was at the Pulse clinic in BKK before. They offered a good service but yes, they are rather expensive. I think i payed 3K baht for consultation and testing. They accepted a fresh Hep test from a clinic at home.

Now that the german NHS pays for the test and medication i no longer need to do it in TH.

Are you sure you mean "Tenof EM" from India? The one i got was Teno EM which is produced by GPO Thailand and is tested to be effectiv.

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14 hours ago, Retskni said:

Are you sure you mean "Tenof EM" from India?

Yes, I'm sure. That's what I got in January 2020 (and on previous visits).

  • 1 month later...
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Follow-up:

I was at the Red Cross last week to refill my Prep.  I went with Pulse first but the RC is so much cheaper it made sense to start the process there.

I had current kidney data that they accepted.  Paid 250B for HIV test.   Like SIFIL said, you get a ticket and then just follow your number around. It's quite painless.  I never sat waiting for my number for more than 3-4 minutes.  Pulse took almost the same amount of time except it was a bit easier as you go in, meet the doctor, the nurse comes in and takes your blood and you don't move around.  At Red Cross, you go to cashier to pay, then blood, then meet "doctor" then get results, then pay again then pills.  But it doesn't take much longer.  

They assign you a case agent per visit, and mine was a real stickler.  She said can you only get 2 months your first time, even though I've been on it several months from Pulse, with documentation of kidney tests, etc.  

I said I needed another month as I'm heading North for a few months.  She said I could take my test certificate over to the pharmacy near Patpong named Chula Bhesaj and get local Thai Prep, it just needs my name on it.  She said it would be more, 700B.  So I did that, although should you prefer a fake name, my ID was not checked at the pharmacy. This pharmacy has been recommened on ThaiVisa for other things so for sure its legit.

Anyway, the Thai brand Tenevir was only 450, while at Red Cross the Indian TenOfEM was 350.  Probably could have walked off with a year's supply.  Pulse charges 1000 for TemOfEM, and I think 1300 for Tenevir.

My learning:  Pulse is overcharging by a factor of 3X.  I would expect they would try and keep it as cheap as possible to maximize the benefit they can provide, but maybe that 3X is subsidizing giving it for free to other people.  

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For Canadian residents of two provinces (Alberta and Saskatchewan) pharmaceutical industry has partnered with provincial monopoly health insurance schemes to provide 'free' testing and the drug, also for 'free'.

You are likely to be accepted in the program if you are have a lot of condom-free sex with many high-risk partners (nobody asked at step one if I was paying for sex, just number of partners in a certain period). You do not have to be in the super high-risk group, i.e. recipients of anal sex by other men who might be HIV+, and using meth/poppers.

In Canada, the entire publicity campaign is targeted to gay bottoms. So, to speak. The program won't *refuse* you, but it doesn't exactly educate you in the greater educational marketplace. I just kept seeing all kinds of signs about 'Freddie' in downtown Calgary and was curious whether I could protect myself against AIDS +at the time I was intending to go to East Africa)

I did an online questionnaire. Lo and behold, I am eligible. But I didn't have time to get enrolled and do the liver tests.

An old Asia hand friend is convinced there is some gay agenda conspiracy at work to promote multiple-partner and/or paid sex among homosexuals but ignore/punish it among straight men. I am skeptical.

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PreP

Part I

Conclusion: At Thai AIDS RESEARCH CENTER affiliated with KING CHULALONGKORN HOSPITAL I got 30 pills of an Indian generic that combines two drugs to be used as a pre-exposure prophylactic to HIV. Those drugs are...

200 mg of Emtricitabine plus 300 mg of Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate.

I will read first before I ingest even one pill. I want to make sure this is not some toxic anti-AIDS cocktail of retrovirals, where the cure is worse than the disease. Context is everything, what is the risk-reward ratio? As an active heterosexual male who engages in condom-free vaginal sex, I figure I am pretty low risk.

It took three good part of my day, about four hours. It was easy and more or less no judgments expressed, but not simple and fast. Price was moderate (not as cheap as India, but a lot cheaper than it would be in USA and infinitely more expensive than in my home province of Canada where it is free).

I am a Cheap Charlie and am often out to prove something, to experiment, to reporting challenges of being a low-income geezer sojourner male slut in Asia, a patroller of Babes in Toyland, a shameless punter. But, I recommend this route of apparently subsidized public health measure only if you have a lot of free time and not enough money (I don't). If you can afford to, dave yourself the hassles and go the private hospital route. My wallet squeaked paying close to three night's hotel accommodation for step one.

And, I recommend going with a Thai-speaking friend and/or  armed with a lot of patience. Write off much of the day.

Don't try to be discreet or all-medical referring to 'PreP'. Thai staff, if you are in the wrong place, will have no clue what you are talking about. It will be like asking about amyloid plaque (dementia) to a veterinary assistant.

Long story...

Moderate walk from MRT Silom to Thai Red Cross. It is on a huge property of multiple buildings more like a university campus. Indeed it includes Faculty of Medicine and King  Chulalongkorn Hospital

[Long detour....

Google Maps is dead wrong. Type in AIDS RESEARCH CENTRE and you will end up at the Eye Hospital! At least I did. I wasted about 45 minutes here. No one told me I was in the wrong place. I had to figure it out myself.

If the problems of a lost foreigner bore you skip to section marked - the real McCoy.

Queue for registration card. No English spoken by first staff person. She seemed a little miffed that I was there. We fumbled along in our mutually unintelligible opposite languages. The conversation below is mostly in my butchered Thai and her butchered English...

'What is the number of your resident foreigner ID card"?
'Don't have one'
"Why are you here?"
'PreP'
"What is PreP?"
'AIDS prevention program' I write it down
She has never heard of it.

Round and found the mulberry bush for ten minutes.

"Fill out this form"
'Which address, Thai or foreign?'
"Thai... What is the name and phone of your local contact?"
'Don't have'
"Don't have a friend?"
'Correct'

Quite a bit of this back and forth, she might as well told me to fuck off and die, not at all welcoming. Yet never refers me to anyone else. Or when she did three times it was always *sideways*, ne er to a supervisor. Much worse than Siraj though not at all as crazy busy as BUMRUNGRAD which tended to be packed with Gulf visitors, or least was ten years ago. She clearly saw me as an intruder, an inconvenience, an annoyance even.

'How much is card?'
"30 baht. Go third floor and pay"
'Is there some paper I need to show what I am paying for?'
"No"

Upstairs I show the card with a very distorted image of my face, and I pay.
Presuming I have to go back downstairs I go back to her with my receipt
"All done, no need to be here"
'But where do I go?'
"No idea. Ask at information booth"
I go. Nobody there. And hasn't been for half an hour.

I reread the forum notes as staff is either very unhelpful, antagonistic or uninformed. In Vietnam they would (for better or worse relative to burdening their healthcare system) pull out an high-level educated person such as a doctor. They either don't want me there or are ill-trained in both customer service and English.

I go back upstairs to show card, ask about PreP. No obvious consult lines there. Go back downstairs. Try booth with queue and no English signs. I write on paper 'consultation MD'
"This eye only" (exact words)

It finally dawns on my shrinking brain what the problem is - Google Maps on my shite phone with my shite service (AIS 4 Mbps instead of 10) is a shite combination. I am in entirely the wrong building. My HPS compass is drunk. See enclosed photo - NOT this place!
'Where Information?'
"Go operator"

What appears could be an info booth (no Engl sign) is still empty forty minutes later.

After 15 min wandering around first floor still no clarity, I talked to four different people manning different booths. Finally, I abandon discretion and ask for AIDS Research Centre.

"Go outside, turn left"]

Detour ends.
The Real McCoy...

1-2 minute walk N is a sign re: AIDS Center. Obligatory hand sanitizer. Register to enter building. Space for phone number. More annoyance seeing me (me personally, foreigner, the work of dealing with morons who don't understand enough Thai to survive, plain doesn't particularly like his job?)
'Hey buddy, take a number' is the interior gate-keeper's tone. Rather brusque
"New or old?"
'New'
"Scan online"
Also hands me a piece of paper in Thai (apparently about COVID and temperature) Nothing obviously concerning HIV and all in Thai except the word 'COVID'. Numerals in Roman rather than Thai though.

I use my phone camera on posted QR code. I feel like I am being processed, nothing hospitable or even normal medical about it. More like applying for a driver's license in a foreign country.

Long form to fill out online, asks 'race' but no option for Caucasian, European or even white. Leave my nationality instead (not same as ethnicity, but I don't have time to deal with definitions of terms. It has taken thirty years for Thai Immigration forms to distinguish between Canada and Canadian. 'Choose your battles'.)

Doesn't ask what kind of sex (vag/anal etc), only whether passive or active. But isn't all make heterosexual active? Even if a female rides me like a Sybian machine isn't she is still the receiver? Does ask which kind of partner (male, fem, trans etc) . Maybe also gf/paid etc.

A lot of personal questions about sex, money, education, when last time had sex etc. Checked  last sex in November. Doesn't ask year (2020 or 2019, I would rather forget about how my sex life has turned south...) I draw the line at telling them my income. This is the only question I do find embarrassing. Not the sexual ones.

What is point of anonymity of initials instead of name when asked for passport etc on online AIDS Clinic registry? Why the theatre about privacy? My conclusion is that AIDS testing is anonymous but COVID realities have added another layer that is not.

Do I want HIV test before or after consult?
Not sure, I go with PA poster's way - *after* consult

Last step is will send code to phone/email. Must use w/i 72 hours. Got it and will have ready for third gatekeeper. This is like applying for a bank loan - quite bureaucratic.

I approach the counter pleading ignorance and non-fluency. She is first person with a smile in her voice
"Take queue already?"
'No'
"Take queue number"

I do and watch for my number. Just to get to my number being called has taken 45+- minutes of confusion and obstacles. If we count my being lost in the Opthalmology building, I mean. When my number shows up on the overhead screen I approach again.

Staff here (where I am supposed to be) are much sweeter, more patient and kind. English fluency (or willingness to speak it?) is also better. It is as if they have seen 'our kind' before, us foreign womanizers.

Asks me body-weight. Gives me a green 'Wellness Plus Center' card (I suppose this is more discreet than some mother finding her son's AIDS RESEARCH CENTER card) Tells me to go upstairs to booth #8. This is like India! Going from place to place, queuing, many steps, etc.

In downstairs reception there are two separate language signs posting prices. I do not look closely to see if they are the same prices or not. Anyway, I am not sure they are up to date.

Turns out I didn't need the hospital card at all. I was at the wrong building. At that eye hospital they had no clue what is going on virtually next door. Understandable actually.

Entrance to this 'Wellness Center (sounds like a spa) is indeed on Ratchadamdri. But the photos of the original poster are not the building you enter. Go to the building north, to the right of the one that looks like the 18th c. Hanoi Tower.

Three different queues: pharmacy,  cashier, queue (medical consult presumably). Closed for lunch sign? (in Thai) at one booth, pharmacy shades down, but cashier still open.


"One moment please' says one lady at a booth when what she means is 'wait 20+ minutes until lunch break is over. Then maybe another half hour more. ' What I would have preferred to hear (but clearly is dreaming in Thailand) is 'you have enough time to go have lunch in the cafeteria nextdoor and come back later. It will be at least X minutes, maybe longer'. No such luck.

Instead she added, 'take a seat'. I am not going to try to figure out the number system but I saw numerous numbers higher than mine go ahead of me. After 1 p.m. numbers lower again. Maybe priority sorting that I don't understand.

Give yourself at least half the day. It is slow, complicated, impersonal (but not anonymous), and moderate price. It's not like an Indian train station. There is no pushing and shoving. No shouting. It is all very civil and silent. But sloooow.  Avoiding going into the wrong building will save you at least an hour! Neither the eye hospital nor the HIV centre have been crowded, much better than in Saigon or Hanoi at a public hospital.

Most clients here are male and under 35. No obvious camaraderie, no gay social club, no sex worker fraternity. It seems that being here is one huge embarrassment of silence. I hear English only once, an Asian-North American judging by his accent.

Start the consultation. I haven't paid for anything yet and no one has asked. Very different from a Cambodian Hospital, where for example in Phnom Penh, except at Japanese-operated Sunrise Hospital, paying is step number one.

The ununiformed ambiguous position female doesn't introduce herself or wear a name tag or tell me what her role and qualifications are. I presume she is a medical practitioner of some sort. I will later learn that I am wrong. She is not a nurse practitioner, she is an advisor. Why not just say so? "Hi, I'm Pui and my job is to screen you to see if you are eligible for PreP. This is not a medical consultation." No such luck. Seems like a huge power imbalance. She is learning the intimate details of my sex life and I have to ask how to address her.

To begin she asks me a couple of personal questions like why I want PreP, last time I had sex (white lie, it's been two years not one). When I ask her, she says that she cannot see answers to my online registration (where I unambiguously said straight, she seems to dance around sexuality issues preferring only to ask activity issues). She doesn't ask if I fuck men or women, just whether I am 'top' or 'bottom'. She doesn't ask if I am homosexual. She doesn't even ask if I have sex with men or barnyard animals - all of this strikes me more of Thai embarrassment and political correctness  than medical common sense. And she doesn't ask any graphic questions. If I was a doctor or nurse I would ask detailed questions if useful, like, 'if you are a bottom usually, what percentage if the time do you let your partner ejaculate into your rectum?' That, I would think would be a relevant question about risk. And like in the Canadian questionaire did anyone ask ' do you have rough sex?' No. I would think that anal tears would be relevant.

So, keep in mind that TIT and acceptance of paid sex and gay sex, and old men coming to fuck women who are probably a third to half their own age (and in my case never more than three sessions before moving on to the next one), even at a medical institution, seems to be taboo. You could change from Anglo-Saxon English to Latinate English if that seems less vulgar, but the question  'do you take it/give it up the ass?' would not bother me one bit. Maybe this doesn't go over well in this rather conservative culture.  I am thinking,  'Just sell me the drugs, thank you very much.'

No opportunity for me to introduce myself, to elaborate on my sexual habits, just yes or no plus some numeric value questions. I suppose they don't have the time for individual histories and emotional contexts.

Condoms come up a few times and twice she tried to encourage me to use them. She got the message that they ruin the pleasure and that for me I have two choices: no sex or sex au naturel. For me, sex with a condom is not sex. If gays are accepted for what is natural, why not straights? But I don't go down this road..

Tells me the deal is if blood tests allow (Hep B, Hep C, HIV, syphilllis, gonorreah, liver function, etc, I can get a one month supply. Then after another month maybe 3 months supply.

I ask if I may go for lunch.
"Yes, but come back before 3 pm, wait outside my room".

Cashier calls my number very quickly (funny how queue is shorter when paying than receiving treatment) and I see bill is much higher than I expected. Considerably higher than original poster wrote. It is THB1360 (CAD54) and I presume this is w/o any drugs. Yes, this is indeed the case.

I tell the cashier what the counsellor told me, it's ok to go eat and come back but cashier is adamant that I must first get blood test. I give up and follow orders. I am getting tired and this is simpler.

Drawer of blood cheery and fast. I compliment her on her thick healthy-looking hair and we chit-chat about types of veins, 'I am chunky but have small veins, it can be a challenge,' she says in different words.

This clinic worker says ok to go eat and come back and laughs at the contradictory instructions. I think she has heard similar before by patients.

Maybe I just don't understand their English and my hopeless Thai makes me sound retarded. Language is a much bigger problem in Thailand than in Cambodia and often even compared to Vietnam. And of course it's a million times more problematic than Malaysia and especially Singapore. Among ASEAN countries English-fluency in Thailand is the lowest. I think even Laos is easier. You have been warned!

Time to go for lunch and proceed further.

.................

Part II

Once you get to sidewalk of Ratchadamdri from the Eye Hospital the entrance to the AIDS RESEARCH CENTER is 133 paces north.

Returning for blood test results and second session with counsellor I show chit to the external gatekeeper and am waved through, ooddly I thought since it has been at least an hour, why no COVID sign on or any other protocols other than santizer?

Told by medical consultant to wait outside office when return, so I do. Doesn't take long for her to invite me in her little office.

Finally when I address her as 'doctor' she comes clean, "I am *not* a doctor. I am a counsellor." This sends me into a tailspin...

Why are there so many gay and lesbian counsellors and NGOs and clinics assisting persons adjusting to society with their sexual lifestyles? I mean versus 'Johns' and sex tourists? I don't see any concern anywhere in the world for travelling straight men's anguish and frustrations. In fact, I know of another Canadian getting STI counselling in San Diego and he was advised to go for treatment as a sex addict. So, why is straight promiscuity a mental illness but gay promiscuity an 'alternative lifestyle'? I have never understood this double standard. But I say none of this.

All my test results are negative. I am a healthy specimen of humanity.

Q1. Prescription so can buy anywhere in Thailand?
A1. Not now. This permission allows me to get a trial amount only from this clinic.

Q2. How many days until know if any side effects/allergies to med?
A2. Three days

Q3. Brand-name vs. generic
A3. Generic from India

Q4. Cost comparison, brand-name vs. generic [ skip, I don't ask her. Don't want to monopolize her time]

Q5. Cost comparison, Truvada vs. alternative? [Ditto]

Q6. Frequency of use? For example, if I expect to have sex not daily, but every 7-14 days, what to do?
A6. On demand. And before I even ask she recommends this in my case.

Q8. How many days to use for effectiveness, e.g. malaria pills must start 10-14 days before arriving in high-risk location?
A8. Two choices...

i. daily if never know when will have sex (for example if my lifestyle includes must be available for sex - I find this rather double talk, I think she means if I am a prostitute or go with prostitutes as a frequent but unpredictable habit. Or if am a gay cruiser buyer/seller. Why not be direct?
ii. Can take on demand. Schedule in advance, 24 hours before sex take X2 pills. After 24 hrs from first two pills (not 24 hours from sex) take 1 pill, plus after another 24 hrs, take X1 pills. So, a total of four pills over a three day period, with sex on the second day. Now I know why Catholic women got fed up with the rhythm method!

Asks me if and how often engage in 'group sex'. How long ago (15 yrs). She does not give me the opportunity to indulge in nostalgia about the foursome in Phnom Penh in 1995.

Ever take post-exposure med for HIV?
No

Allergies?
Not to medicine, some environmental elements, yes.

Any symptoms such as (she names them) that lasted for more than five days within in last month?
No

She starts to sound happy that I am very healthy, take no medications and basically have no seriously bad habits other than being a whoremonger.

I ask her, ' Does this drug protect me or 'sex worker'?
Me only. I am a little unclear on this, the mechanics I mean. What is the point of a drug that protects only the male, and anyway if keeping *me* from becoming infected in a sense it does protect the females because not being HIV I cannot infect them. But it sounds like both male and females have to be taking for maximum (any?) effectiveness. If this is the case, there should be a big campaign to get 'sex workers' to be using. Why isn't there? Why are Truvada and similar drugs targeted almost exclusively to very sexually active homosexual men only?

Can change to daily if appropriate?
Yes

Observe side effect.
Naseau, vomitting,  headache -  these are normal, typically transitory and not important, she tells me in different words. What is crucial, is that if I react with rash, swollen mouth/face, eye yellow, many gum sores I must immediately STOP the medication.

What percentage of clients get side effects - 5%, 80%?
Very few. This is as exact as she will get

Expiry/shelf life?
Unknown, I let it go for now

Cannot issue prescription here. If leave Thailand before our appointment in three weeks go to Gen Hospital and ask for prescription.

What is next step?
Try this drug. Next appointment she can arrange for me to get three to four months supply. But only if I test HIV-. This frankly, I don't understand as it is counter-intuitive to me. I thought that the whole point was to allow men to engage in condom-free sex even if they *are* HIV+ making them (or indeed myself, as a customer of prostitutes) safer. Nope. What do HIV+ men do, use sex dolls?

Second bill:
MD fee (even though she is counsellor only, so clearly there is some physician behind the scenes, maybe sherant 'hospital administration fee') THB50
Drug X 30 THB390
TOTAL THB440

Note that every price since original posters reports have gone up significantly. I haven't done the math, but I think 30-35%. And I didn't even answer the monthly salary question because I thought it intrusive. Maybe this is treated the same as presumed high income, which mine in fact is not.

Somewhere along the way during post-blood test interview I got tired of being asked all the questions and just told her plainly and succinctly why I wanted to try the pills... I never use condoms. I have sex every opportunity I get and only with prostitutes (I didn't tell her how fussy I am, and therefore my frequency is actually not that high). I impressed on her that as much as I enjoy sex I am not willing to die for it. Or hurt anyone else. She reminded me somewhere along the way that this med is not a prophylactic against STIs.

She seemed to have no problem answering all my questions. But I didn't ask all of them on my list because I would have taken too much of her time.

Took me, with my ignorant detours, waiting time and two actual sessions (X2 consultations, X1 blood test of seven types!) about 3.5 hours.

Photo is building where NOT to enter. Google Maps is plain wrong

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can i bring prep in from the uk with me that i ordered online? no prescription Tenemine (Emtricitabine 200, Tenofovir 300mg) 3 x Bottles (90 pills total)

Living in Thailand for 8+ years, moved to Vietnam also making videos now on YouTube about life in Thailand, Vietnam
 

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On 23/09/2020 at 21:53, DaveStarl said:

I said I needed another month as I'm heading North for a few months.  She said I could take my test certificate over to the pharmacy near Patpong named Chula Bhesaj and get local Thai Prep, it just needs my name on it.  She said it would be more, 700B.  So I did that, although should you prefer a fake name, my ID was not checked at the pharmacy. This pharmacy has been recommened on ThaiVisa for other things so for sure its legit.

Anyway, the Thai brand Tenevir was only 450, while at Red Cross the Indian TenOfEM was 350.  Probably could have walked off with a year's supply.  Pulse charges 1000 for TemOfEM, and I think 1300 for Tenevir.

My learning:  Pulse is overcharging by a factor of 3X.  I would expect they would try and keep it as cheap as possible to maximize the benefit they can provide, but maybe that 3X is subsidizing giving it for free to other people.  

No need for a prescription at the Chula Pharmacy. In November the price for TenoEM was 600THB.

Pulse in Bkk is my go-to because both locations is easy to reach (Silom & Sukhumvit). RC takes so long time. They do overcharge a lot so I usually only do the walk in HIV quick test (500) and syphilis (500).Never waited more than 20 min on those.

Last time I was unlucky and caught something (BB with a girl) and had to use the doctor service again at PULSE. Doc fee is only 500, which was a lot less than I paid before. Doctor waived the fee on the 2nd visit. Nice touch.

I've also used Bumrungrad hospital one time in the past but that is so expensive! Paid 10K. Insane pricing!

Oh, and for the doc at PULSE I waited a long time for the doc since walk-in (did not book at webpage) and a catholic priest in full uniform was sitting around for 1 hour. I was kinda wondering what he was doing in a sex clinic as he looked very unconformable :D 

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Double post, sorry

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On 09/03/2022 at 00:23, nickswift1 said:

can i bring prep in from the uk with me that i ordered online? no prescription Tenemine (Emtricitabine 200, Tenofovir 300mg) 3 x Bottles (90 pills total)

Same question from me

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Its not a restricted drug so yes you can bring it…

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Been to Red Cross couple of days ago in order to get PREP.

Really impressed how good organized they are. The staff is very friendly. 

Arrived around 10 am and finished everything in less than 1.5 hours. 

I paid 780b for the blood check (hiv hepatitis...) and 900b for a 2 months dose of prep.So in total around 1700b.Amazing value.

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On 08/01/2024 at 12:31, AndyCBKK said:

Its not a restricted drug so yes you can bring it…

Interestingly your personal allowances according to the thai embassy in London is only 30 days supply? Do they actually ever check for prescription drugs. 

 

https://london.thaiembassy.org/en/publicservice/84709-bringing-medications-to-thailand?page=5d6636ce15e39c3bd000734d&menu=5d6636cd15e39c3bd00072e2

 

Anyone clarify on this. Found rather conflicting bits of advice and already was certain it was sixty days. 

 

Now I am bringing 70 odd days worth of meds, I am concerned tbh. 

 

How often are checks done? 

Posted
12 hours ago, Leo McGarry said:

Now I am bringing 70 odd days worth of meds, I am concerned tbh.

How often are checks done? 

I have been checked a few times by Thai custom. Superficial where they just pick a random baggage and run it through the x-ray machine. Never seen them open one when I've passed others. And they didn't open mine. And I have brought prescripted meds.

So I would not be concerned. It will stregthen your case to get a letter from your doctor though. If there should be any issues.

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Btw, Pulse have an offer now for the DnA 14 STD test same day result for 5500 THB. Might be worth it for people on vacation for quicker treatment.

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