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by joewallin 4348 days ago
This is insane. We need to end the drug war.
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This isn't even the drug war. It's middle aged men buying Viagra from pharmacies in India. I'm probably a minority, but I would prefer to sign a waiver and then buy my own drugs. Rather than have to pay a doctor to prescribe me something I already know I need. I'm insulin dependent, and monitor my blood sugar regularly, and will continue to do so for the rest of my life. I know far more about how my body reacts to insulin than the doctors do. I should be able to buy it without a prescription. True story: 8 years ago I was hospitalized for several months due to a bad motorcycle accident. The doctors kept prescribing me insulin that I told them was too much, and badly timed for me, but the did anyway. After a week it compounded, until my blood sugar was in the high 20s (coma territory.) of course because I was bedridden and doped up on Demerol I couldn't feel the signs of hypoglycemia. After that they relented and told the nurses to (within a wide range) administer the amount I asked for.
They didn't check your blood sugar while busy giving you this? Jesus, which country was this?