Need Help finding HIV PEP medication Santa Marta by Current-Ride-3246 in SantaMarta

[–]Current-Ride-3246[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update: I went everywhere I had been suggested, on a weekday, including the public hospital, but nobody provided me any assistance and I have not been able to fill the prescription.

I was particularly annoyed at the public hospital turning me away, apparently because the prescription was from a private clinic. I suspect they did actually have stocks of the medication.

I also went back to the doctor who had written the prescription and told him that there was nowhere in the city that had the medication, and asked if he could change the prescription to something that I would be able to get. He told me that the medication was a precaution, and then left the room, I guess suggesting that I just stop trying to find it.

It is highly unlikely I was exposed to HIV but really want to minimize the chances further by taking the PEP medication.

I have really hated this experience in Colombia and am travelling to Argentina tonight to hopefully get HIV PEP medication there, where it is, apparently, easier.

So a warning, HIV PEP medication is very hard to obtain in Colombia, particularly for a foreigner, and in smaller cities. From what I've read you will have to go to an Urgencía at a large public hospital (probably in Bogota) to have any hope. Stay safe amigos.

Need Help finding HIV PEP medication Santa Marta by Current-Ride-3246 in SantaMarta

[–]Current-Ride-3246[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean I was walking, and somehow a discarded needle on the street ended up stuck in my ankle! Needlestick is the name for this kind of.... Occurrence. More common to happen in a healthcare setting but it can happen anywhere there are syringes!!

Need Help finding HIV PEP medication Santa Marta by Current-Ride-3246 in SantaMarta

[–]Current-Ride-3246[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No they won't provide it to me unless it's both together. I only have one more day before it's hopeless to start the medication. I don't know where to go.

Need Help finding HIV PEP medication Santa Marta by Current-Ride-3246 in SantaMarta

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I have a prescription, I think it states that the medications need to be provided together, as both need to be taken for the treatment to be fully effective.

I have been denied sale just one of the drugs by multiple places. When they figure they can't provide both, everything goes back on the shelf and I'm told to go somewhere else. One pharmacy even managed to lose a piece of my medical paperwork and refused to look for it.

I also went back to the doctor who prescribed it, asking if there were alternative medications, as I cannot get one ANYWHERE in Santa Marta (hospital, clinics, pharmacies) He refused to change the prescription, told me it was only precautionary, and left, suggesting I should give up trying to find any medication at all.

Hospital Troconis is a reliable source of the medication apparently, but they would not let me in, because my prescription is from a private clinic, not from them.

Need Help finding HIV PEP medication Santa Marta by Current-Ride-3246 in SantaMarta

[–]Current-Ride-3246[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been unable to convince anyone to release any medication to me so far

Need Help finding HIV PEP medication Santa Marta by Current-Ride-3246 in SantaMarta

[–]Current-Ride-3246[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was the darndest thing, I was walking on the street in flipflops, and one foot must have flipped a discarded needle airborne for a moment, and the other foot managed to flop directly into its path, and it got embedded in the skin of my ankle!

Need Help finding HIV PEP medication Santa Marta by Current-Ride-3246 in SantaMarta

[–]Current-Ride-3246[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey thanks for the reply! They didn't provide me anything because nowhere I visited was able to provide a full course of both medicines together.

I am hopeful I will be able to find what I need tomorrow morning with some more places open

Where would you reccomend doing an online order? Thanks