Copperjacket
pfm Member
As above really - any particularly good or indeed bad please?
Online Vet Medication Suppliers Recommendations Please
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Copperjacket
pfm Member
Thank you
If you mean POM, you are cutting off your nose to spite your face.
The wages for the staff are made through profit on drug sales in traditional veterinary surgeries. All other charges cover the overheads - a retired vet' is a very good friend.
Avoid buying drugs at your vet's surgery and ultimately you will be faced with one of two things - horrendous consultation fees locally, or no local vet' at all.
Not POM, so you are usually looking at branded vet' drugs - anywhere online, wherever is cheapest, it makes no odds.
The wages for the staff are made through profit on drug sales in traditional veterinary surgeries. All other charges cover the overheads - a retired vet' is a very good friend.
Avoid buying drugs at your vet's surgery and ultimately you will be faced with one of two things - horrendous consultation fees locally, or no local vet' at all.
Not POM, so you are usually looking at branded vet' drugs - anywhere online, wherever is cheapest, it makes no odds.
Tony L
Administrator
Depending on the drug you may be able to get it via the local pharmacy. My cat is on a low dose of Dexamethazone. The price the vet wanted for it (£75 for two months) was absolutely ridiculous, especially in an area as poor as this. I had a chat with them and found out they were locked into a remarkably uncompetitive supply deal, so I’ve ended up just paying them for the prescription (£20 for a four month repeat) and I get it made up at Asda for about £9-11 for two months supply. The vet may be a little down on that, but the real grift seemed to be with the middleman.
Copperjacket
pfm Member
Not sure what POM means but if it means privately owned I agree.
My Vet is now owned by a corporate as are others in the Area and as indeed recommended by the Vet, we pay for the prescription then buy online.
Copperjacket
pfm Member
Tony just to be clear, the Asda pharmacists accept a veterinary prescription for animals?
UK vet's are headed towards being owned by a very few chains (US-based?????????????????????)
The average income for a UK GP is around £65K per year, and they only have to learn the biology of one species and even that one can talk/communicate (usually).
Consulation fees with traditional vet's are usually peanuts, sometimes nothing.
Tha gets nowt for nowt in this world, that is an absolute certainty.
The average income for a UK GP is around £65K per year, and they only have to learn the biology of one species and even that one can talk/communicate (usually).
Consulation fees with traditional vet's are usually peanuts, sometimes nothing.
Tha gets nowt for nowt in this world, that is an absolute certainty.
gintonic
50 shades of grey pussy cats
when Marley needed allergy medication - the vet actually told us to go to boots, and same with the Hibiscrub to wash his wound. He did say if we were bone idle he could sell us the same for about 4 times the price.
Our vet is still family run and an indy - their consultation fee is about £45 IIRC. They did rip us off with the protective collar though
Tony L
Administrator
The local Asda do for this drug, which is also taken by humans. I’ve not tried with anything else, so I can’t answer definitively.
PhilofCas
pfm Member
Because the Blighty vets are more wellerer off than the French well off ones
Copperjacket
pfm Member
Interesting thank you.
I know Vets are allowed to prescribe for humans (but Doctors are not allowed to for animals) so this may be why?
Bob McC
Living the life of Riley
My vet charges £51 per consultation.
She saved me a fortune though when she wanted to give my dog lansoprazole for her pancreatitis.
I take lansoprazole and she confirmed it’s the same, just a quarter of the dose.
So the dog gets gets a share of mine, that cost me nowt.
She saved me a fortune though when she wanted to give my dog lansoprazole for her pancreatitis.
I take lansoprazole and she confirmed it’s the same, just a quarter of the dose.
So the dog gets gets a share of mine, that cost me nowt.
What drugs are you looking for OP?
Depends on the drug wether you can use human medication.
Paracetamol costs buttons in the pharmacy/supermarket same tablets cost £10 at the vet plus a consultation fee the first time.
My dog was prescribed omeprazole 20mg (sadly he’s no longer alive) but I’ve just had bouts of severe indigestion so I’ve been using his tablets also I’ve just been prescribed 58 tabs from my doctor @ no charge, the dog’s prescription cost us £36, my wife tells me it’s one of the most common medications in her work.
I was buying moloxicom from the vet on repeat prescription at £45 per 100ml ended up paying for a prescription (£18) and buying it online for about £30 for two 100ml delivered. However you only get three repeats on a vet prescription so you don’t really save much.
You can’t buy prescription only medication for animals online or anywhere else in the uk without a vet prescription.
My wife works in a pharmacy and very occasionally she had the vet prescription dispensed by her boss and paid the cost price of the medicine.
Copperjacket
pfm Member
Metacam / Meloxicam we are charged £30 for a prescription for 2 x 180ml Bottles at around £23 each online. This equates to around 6 month’s supply
Pravda
Well-Known Member
Because the Blighty vets are more wellerer off than the French well off ones
My dog was on it too but we moderated it by giving him half a paracetamol twice a day and not giving him the meloxicam every day,the vet recommended that and he was also on gabapentin but he only got all three when he was really struggling.
I‘m sure you know but you need to watch their liver function with Meloxicam the vet recommended bloods taken every six months or so.
However there’s librela injections available now for arthritis but they’re expensive at about £90 a month, fine if the animal is insured though, unfortunately we had cancelled the insurance then found out about the injections.