Buying medicines from an online pharmacy store helps save money as generally drugs available from them turn out to be economical and reasonably priced. In the US, rising prices of medications in the country have always been a sore point with consumers – the patients. People have, for years spent huge sums of their hard-earned money on buying expensive medicines because either they had no idea of cheap medicines being available at an online pharmacy store or the government rules restricted them for buying from such stores. However, since import of drugs for personal consumption for a period of three months is officially allowed in the US now, half the US population is now dependent on cheaply available medicines from Canadian pharmacy websites.

The crux of the matter, is that the prices of all medicines are not substantially different. Take for example, the case of Florinef – an oral medicine that is used by patients suffering from various diseases associated with the adrenal gland. When you buy Florinef online from an international pharmacy you pay roughly about $63 USD for a supply of 100 tablets at 0.1 mg strength. In the US the same medication would cost about $32 USD for 50 tablets. The price here works out to be almost the same. This is because the medicine has been around for some time now and there are number of brands that are making the medicine, hence the price competition is tight.

On the contrary, things are opposite with the Alphagan eye drops. At an international online pharmacy store the price of the eye drops 0.15% strength is about $43.99 USD for a 5ml tube manufactured by Allergan in New Zealand, and a generic version of the medicine manufactured in Canada costs about $29.46 USD. The price of this eye drop at a US drugstore is approximately $176 USD and that is valid only for cash paying customers. For insured patients, the price is much higher than this. The Alphagan eye drop is a crucial medication for patients suffering from open-angle glaucoma or high fluid pressure inside the eyes.
While buying from online drugstores from across the border, patients or customers need to carry out price comparisons product-wise before placing their order. The case of steep price difference is generally visible in medications that are patented and are still under the patent term. Generic drug manufacturing companies are making safe medicines available at much lower prices which has helped not only the local customers but also international ones to save their well-earned money.