Hey Honker

Welcome to the forum, sometimes Dr Freeman gets booked out, as you can imagine it is a pretty popular clinic atm. Don’t worry a consult and script is the least of your worries down here and there are a couple of hundred GP’s writing scripts/consults etc. However, I’m sure you will get to see James soon. Talk to admin at GP2U and advise of your situation, they will sort something out. It is not illegal for US citizens to come to Australia, pick up your meds, touch the harbour bridge and go home. Perfect legal and many have done/and are doing just this. It generally takes about 3 weeks from money transfer to pharma to testing and pick up in tassie. So not too much too coordinate really. Em

Hi GAJ, ta for the tag and add on, all useful info. Yes you can have a consult with GP2U from there, forward pertinent documents into your GP2U file for docs perusal, get a script, order/funds transfer, wait a couple and then fly in and cure. Em

Sorry for the late reply. I’ll make up for it in volume, hehehe.

This site was still fairly new when I made the decision to go and I was in Thailand at the time. The Doctor in Thailand had followed US treatment protocol and prescribed Sof/Led. For reasons as political as anything I really wanted the Sof/Dac instead.

There were other issues going on … plus I was having occasional bouts of mild brain fog.

1) I had scheduled my non-refundable flight to/from Thailand for six weeks and later discovered that visa-on-arrival was only available for 30 days. It was too late to get a standard visa.

2) To cover that problem I had purchased a side trip to Singapore leaving seven days after my arrival in Thailand and had only scheduled seven nights of initial hotel stay.

3) Then I started getting concerned about how I would source the meds. India only had the Sof. I could get sof/dac or sof/led from China but I’ve been to China once before and knew I would need a translator there and a good explanation to get the visa, and I didn’t have a script for the Dac which I preferred.

4) I was concerned about shipping meds into Thailand to a hotel address and reluctant try.

5) I couldn’t get a response from either Greg’s contact in Thailand that had Twinvir or from anyone in Bangladesh that might have been able to help go there to pick it up … and still, I preferred the Dac.

6) The clock was ticking and I had to decide whether to get on the plane for Singapore or do something different.

7) I liked the hotel I was staying in and decided to try for a full month extension which would have given me more time to figure things out … but then the hotel owner tried to dramatically overcharge me for the long term stay (I already knew the correct price because the desk clerk had already told me.)

The only place I knew for certain I could get the Dac script and the meds was the Buyers Club but I wasn’t getting responses to emails there either. For some reason I kept thinking GP2U was only available for Australians and never did try that option.

So … pissed off at the Hotel owner I got online and rechecked prices to Australia, bought a flight, jumped over to the visa site and worked my way through that, had the desk clerk print out everything for me, burned my non-refundable flight to Singapore, booked a different hotel in Bangkok for one night and then off to Melbourne. Stayed there one night and off to Hobart and the next day I walked into the Dr. Freeman’s office totally unannounced … SURPRISE, I’M HERE!

Because of the way I went about it, it took another 19 days to get the meds … to rush things I went to Sydney to pick up the Sof from Kingswood … but I started treatment in Sydney, had no problem carrying them into Thailand or 10 days later into the US.

I’ve been to Hong Kong three times and never been bothered by customs that I recall. I did have a baggage scanner at departure steal a pair of tweezers though … geeze, even the US TSA didn’t care about those tweezers.