SDRonni - 1-27-2015 at 11:35 PM
Can a person with a prescription from an American doctor fill the prescription in Mexico and bring it back across the border? What if the medication
is called something else in Mexico, but is the same medication? Does the actual patient have to be the one to fill the prescription and bring it
back across the border or can a friend do it for them?
DENNIS - 1-28-2015 at 06:50 AM
Loosely, the rule goes like this: If a medication requires a scrip in the states, that same med bought in Mexico will be held to that requirement when
bringing it across the line.
Just have your old bottle or package with your prescription info on it....or something similar. Even better if you can transfer the meds to those
containers.
That said.......... I've never heard of anyone being caught up in this rule. Just keep the amounts within the realm of personal use and you won't
have any problems.
It's sad how this border and Homeland Security have terrorized law abiding citizens.
MICK - 1-28-2015 at 08:19 AM
For any narcotics or antibioditics you now need a Mexican prescription according to Mexican law. That said many of the pharmacies have a doctor right
next store and for sixty pesos they will write you one if you have an American prescription. With both you can easily cross the border. By the way my
wife always keeps them in her purse and even in secondary they check our car but have never checked either of us.
At least these are the rules in Mexicali
Mick
sancho - 1-28-2015 at 09:49 AM
As posted some yrs.back, Mex started requiring a Mex
prescription for some meds, don't know if that is enforced.
Walking back at San Ysidro noticed a box containing several
boxes of meds, after you clear the US Customs check, these
we're obviously confiscated from people who declared/showed
the Customs officer the meds bought in Mex, but we're taken
due to lack of a US perscription