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Hey everyone!

So I had a question about pain medications in/from Mexico.

For those of you that had your surgery in Mx did your doc give you a prescription to pick up pain medication there? What about acid reducers?

I am a student so I don't really have a PCP, I just have emergency care and spontaneous appointments at student health care. So I don't have any one here to get medication from. Or even remotely cheap. My copay is125 for all prescriptions :

Thanks!

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I'm not sure about Mexico, but I had to pay for my own pain meds (crappy insurance) and it was like...4 bucks for the bottle of liquid vicodin. It's pretty cheap stuff. That was at CVS.

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When I was there with Dr Kelly, he supplied Antibiotics, pain meds, and acid reducer for us to take home, although I didn't need the pain meds. I'm sorry I don't recall what the pain med was called, but it isn't the strong kind and they give you a few days worth on it. I'm not sure if they still do this with all the changes, but I am guessing they would. You can shoot an email off to him to ask him.

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in Mexico, the doc gave us 1 month of acid reducer and gave us a script for pain and additional acid reducers. the pharmacy was directly across street, we ladies took a field trip over...I had no pain so I for went the pain drugs. Dr. Aceves was my doc....Awesome

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I was with Dr. Kelly also and given my meds.

Julie

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Dr. Almanza supplies you with pain medicine for 30 days as well as an acid reducer.

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The pain medicine was the generuc form of Vicodine.

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Dr Fernando Garcia supplied all the post op mess as well.

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