• explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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    19 hours ago

    PROTIP: If you know it’s coming up ahead of time, then order your own painkillers off the dark web.

    Your doctor isn’t trying to offer the best service. They’re avoiding liability in a situation where they’re already getting paid, and senseless misery isn’t considered “harm”.

    I’d ask up front if they’d be willing to prescribe medication if I didn’t expect them to write “drug seeking” in their secret libel notes.

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      18 hours ago

      Uhh taking medication you’re not supposed to during a medical appointment is a fast track to being 6 feet under

      You don’t know what you’re actually getting, you don’t know if it has any complications with your surgery, and you don’t know if they’ll provide some medication that does not go with what you took.

      You can easily get a different drug or even get one that’s contaminated, you could accidentally take a drug with a side effect of dilating your blood vessel or anti blood clot and bleed out, or you could take a drug that doesn’t work with anesthesia and you wake up by accident during the procedure

      Please be safe and if you don’t think your doctors are providing care, find a second opinion.

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        18 hours ago

        Sorry if I was unclear, I meant for after the procedure!

        How would you ask the first opinion without getting the drug seeking note?

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          11 hours ago

          Ah that makes sense

          I can’t stop you from doing it, but please make sure you do your due diligence on where you get it from and exactly how it will affect you

          As for doctors, it’s a very much your mileage may vary type of scenario. They’ll have their own biases as evident by the comic. You can ask them about the procedure though, and you can frame it as how it’ll affect you. Ask them about how post procedure will look like. You can subtly nudge them by saying you didn’t have a good reaction with x prescription previously, and how it affected your daily life. They should be able to get an alternative placed for you.

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      16 hours ago

      This is only really a protip if you’re already well familiar with navigating the dark web and have a network of sources you personally know to be trustworthy. Even then there are inherent risks but unfortunately it is either taking those risks or suffering from the pain because of social barriers to accessing safe medications.

    • Wren@lemmy.today
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      16 hours ago

      Alright, so I’ve actually ordered drugs off whitehouse on the darkweb when it was still active and I’m 90% sure it was meth. Learn from my mistakes, there is almost no accountability and meth is very cheap to make.