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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Value

Walgreens

Pick one.

Guarantee the price per milligram is at least 5x higher for the bottle on the left.

I priced out several OTC drugs from a handful of local vendors, and Walgreens was obscenely expensive compared to the others.

(Costco was the winner - their pharmacy alone makes a membership worth it)

So, uh.. definitely hamburger style.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Afaik their pharmacy doesn't require a membership

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You don't need a membership to get prescriptions filled at Costco

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You don't need a prescription to get memberships filled at Costco

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You don’t need Costco to get your prescription membership renewed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

cosco bosco

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

Hamburger please

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I still find it crazy you can get them in such a large bottle.

In UK we get like a small box of 16 or 24. Even when prescribed it just ends up being multiples of boxes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

When I had them prescribed here in NL i just got 4 smaller boxes still inside the larger box they use to ship them.

A whole pharmacy could run of the barrels they showed here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think it’s an American single weeks worth perhaps 😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I only wanna have to remember to buy them once a year damn it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Then try buying three boxes of them at once.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

“Oh I’m sorry our till doesn’t let you have more than two” but I’m stocking up not having a bender!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I prefer the gourmet variety, prescription strength, the dosage of four in one, uncoated, in an orange plastic bottle.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Chris treger! 👉👉

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I grind mine up and sprinkle it into my morning coffee.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Monster Energy, handful of ibuprofen, and a gabapentin. Breakfast of champi- ow my liver!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Just get the 1000mg soluble powder bags. Worked wonders for a inflamed tendon I had, downside being I didn't feel it if I stubbed my toe.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Costco has safety dance orange hotdog flavored ibuprofen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Medicate if you want to

You can leave your pain behind

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

We gotta use blue goo pills because my fiancee is allergic to corn and its byproducts, and the gelcaps are cornstarch-free. Personally idgaf what shape the pills are.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Gotta be the turkey twizzler variety.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Hot dog is for acetaminophen. Then you can put them in the same bottle when traveling

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Sugar coated, though I'll do naproxen overnight, it lasts longer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Pill shape matters not.

Size, on the other hand... Fuck large pills, I'd rather take 5 small ones than 1 large one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I can't do either unless absolutely necessary, causes too much stomach pain from prior GI bleeds

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Either one seems to work with rectal administration, though the hotdog variety is a little easier to push in.