Hi Folks,

Long time reader, first time poster.

I received a shipment today from an IOP which had been opened and inspected. I've been ordering for over a year with no issues until now.

The sticker is from the HHS/FDA Action and basically says they're forwarding the medication to me rather than sending to customs. Here's the part that has me worried:

"We have permitted delivery of these unapproved medications to you. Despite your receipt of this shipment, further importations of unapproved prescription pharmaceuticals may be refused admission into the USA. For further information regarding FDA's policy on the importation of foreign source pharmaceuticals contact your local FDA office."

While I received the shipment(which, btw, is an Advair inhaler, 30 xanax, and some Ampicillan) I'm concerned.

-Am I and/or my address on some sort of 'watch list' with customs and/or the FDA?

-How concerned should I be?

Thanks in advance for your advice and support.

You are not on a watch list.
Do not be concerned at all.
Be happy that they sent it anyway.
This is nothing to worry about

Thanks, cleo911! What a relief.
Does that mean I can come out from under the bed? :-)

Yep. Actually, it's better that you got the letter from the FDA instead of a customs LL. And customs must have intercepted it first and sent it over to the FDA because whoever in customs found it didn't know what to do with it. So the FDA just didn't really want to send it BACK to costoms and sent it on to you instead. You're fine

Thanks again, Cleo911. I really appreciate it. Cheers to no LL!! Sigh...

Advantage of ordering small amounts for personal use.

Need help...someone called me from 305-434-7227 does any one know who these people are? They kind of scared me. Any input on this number,,,,,Please I need your help...pls

Hi dawn,

What did they say, you can pm me if you like.

The only thing I can tell you is that 305 is a Florida area code. I tried doing a reverse look up for the phone number but there were no results for that number. I wish there were more I could do to help.

Khilee

dawn, I'm trying to call that # but I keep getting a busy signal. i'll try again later

I did a check on the computer ...it appears to be a number that is a troublesome for alot of people .....some kind of a scam? If anyone got that call pls let me know...thank you for helping me...

dawn, looks like your phone number may have been sold. I've checked some of your previous posts, and it my guess would be frontier. Have a good one...

To the original poster - I'm with Cleo on this one.

Yep they also make up phone #'s Ive had quite a few places that even use your own area code so that youll think you know them. Seriously its true! And the ever endless phone calls non-stop...every hour...had to get my # changed cuz even tho they say they dont sell info, well they are lying. And then you try to call the # back and its out of service...these us IOPs are the worst.

GoogleRose, I've had that happen as well. However, it was a US pharm that was making the calls...and the emails... sigh!!

Yes Neelie, all of mine were from US as well!! They have call centers in the US too..I cleared up the phone problem but cant with my email. Im not willing to do that cuz Ive had it forever and a day.

What I do with the email (this pissed them off too) I forward each and every one right back to the sender LOL I tell them that every time you send me this [censored] its going right back to you. And believe it or not it works...although it wont with the auto-generated one's I just use my filter spam but they still manage to get through....

Neelie, Are you a COPD patient?

The reason I ask is that, if your package was opened by anyone with knowledge of medicines and the combination of them, I could see them letting the Xanax go through with your Advair. People who have trouble breathing often have panic attacks if they do something that makes it hard for them to breath. My mother is a COPD patient who takes Advair and another inhaler, and her doctor also prescribes Xanax in the .25mg for her to take when she panics over not being able to breath. He said it's extemely common for asthma or COPD patients to also take small doses of xanax to combat anxiety. It was just my first thought when I saw you posted that you ordered both Advair and Xanax. My mother gets something like 160 Xanax tablets a month in case she needs them.

As far as the warning? They will always try to scare you into not ordering from other countries, although even all of our Senators know that many people order from other countries because it's cheaper. They don't want us to because the pharma companies are paying them big bucks to try to keep US citizens from getting medicine anywhere except in the US.

It seems to me that what you got was even less than an LL, and I'm sure you're not on any watch group. They saw the antibiotics, the Advair and the xanax and probably put it together that it was for a specific condition and that's why they let it through.

Don't worry. You're okay