Hello everyone,
Because my doctor only prescribed ONE B12 injection every TWO months, I started self-injecting. At first, I was worried about where and how to buy unprescribed B12. I was lucky to already have a dozen "insulin syringes" with already attached needles.
Then, an older Latina lady at work told me B12 is over-the-counter stuff in Mexico and that I should be able to find it in Mexican, Salvadorian, Honduran, and other Latin stores. Not the big chain stores like Fiesta or La Michoacana (Texan grocery chain stores catering to Hispanic population.) But the small businesses. Even at the flea markets! Anyone else here familiar with "pulgas?"
"¿Tienes vitamina B12 para inyecciones? ¿En frasco chiquito o en jeringas?"
Well I asked around these places. And you can definitely find B12 vials or syringes there.
You can find cyanocobalamin vials of 10 mL (ten doses) for as cheap as $20 USD!!! Just 1mL costs me $17 dollars + $9 for 12 insulin syringes. In the "pulgas" they had medicine sellers who import syringes already loaded with cyanocobalamin. It is more expensive. A box of five syringes with 2 mL each costs $75 total at one stand and $40 at another.
I recommend anyone in the United States who lives near Hispanic communities to ask around small stores or pulgas for B12. I do not know how they get it here but I do not care because they are doing me a great service. I could not order it online from Mexico, so this is the next best thing.