• Doctor xNoOP
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      3010 months ago

      They do prescribe it here, though. If you’re sick for work for something minor, you might get a prescription for painkillers, which in turn drives the price down to 1/4th of the OTC price. 😉

      • @NucleusAdumbens@lemmy.world
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        610 months ago

        It ends up prescribed commonly in the US too, which may make some difference in the price depending on insurance, though from what I hear anectdotally unfortunately not often for OTC meds. Truthfully idk because we don’t have time to memorize that additional, inconsistent, constantly-changing layer of bureaucracy on the US healthcare shit-sandwich. Safety-net hospitals usually have people whose whole job is to help with stuff like this though

      • ThenThreeMore
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        210 months ago

        Is paracetamol expensive in the USA? Over here it’s about 30p for 16. You’d need to need about 550 tablets to make it worth getting on prescription. The advantage of the prescription here is that to get that many you’d have to make over 200 trips to the shop due to sales restrictions.

    • ThenThreeMore
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      1010 months ago

      In the UK you can only buy a maximum of 32 at a time over the counter. So doctors often prescribe larger amounts.

      • Doctor xNoOP
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        110 months ago

        Yeah, not sure about everywhere else, but here apparently pharmacies don’t have the 60-tablet Aspirine-caffeine because it requires a prescription to be able to buy it, while they are allowed to sell you 5 or more 30-tablet packs otc… 😂

    • @parpol@programming.dev
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      10 months ago

      Since it says Paracetamol, and not Acetaminophen, I assume this is Europe.

      I was prescribed 500 pills for my migraines at 1/5 of the typical price in sweden, though in Sweden doctors don’t handwrite prescriptions, so who knows where this doctor is from.

      My personal guess is he’s from the mind of whoever made this fake text.

      • Doctor xNoOP
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        110 months ago

        We’ve only recently started the change to e-prescriptions where you just have to show your ID card at the Pharmacy, but not all doctors do it yet.

        We still have a very large amount of old-school pill-doctors (as we call them here) that will write you one of these…

        You will get weirdly looked at at some pharmacies though. 😅

    • @Wogi@lemmy.world
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      610 months ago

      They’ll prescribe it, but in the US at least your pharmacy won’t fill it and you pay full price.

    • @ErwinLottemann@feddit.de
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      510 months ago

      i got a prescription for a higher dosed paracetamol which can not be bought without a prescription. not in the us though.