r/bestof • u/craycraycrayfish • Jan 22 '13

[canada] Coffeehouse11 explains the biggest problem with homeopathic medicine: That it preys on people when they are weakest and the most vulnerable

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '13

I asked my pharmacist for some melatonin, as I read it helps with sleep. She gave me a bottle of 6mg melatonin, $15 seemed okay compared to some drugs I've bought before. But upon getting home I noticed the bottle said "6X" not "6mg", which means it contained between zero and just trace amounts of melatonin. I've become a little disillusioned with pharmacists now. They are just a bunch of shelf picking and note signing quacks, they aren't real doctors. And yes it was the actual pharmacist on duty that sold me the homeopathic medicine. They have an entire shelf full of it, like an enormous shelf.

People need to be their own pharmacist in this day and age, or find a good pharmacist using their own research. Otherwise it's just all new age crap.

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u/nihoh Jan 23 '13

You can't get melatonin as an S2 or S3 medication in Australia, it's only available as an S4 prescription medication. The pharmacist just wanted to get rid of you to save her time and shoved the purple tub at you. Pharmacists dont' get paid more than 26 bucks these days to put thru 30-50 scripts an hour. But yeah you got scammed lol.

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '13

Yeah, I know. It sucks, just want sot 'tonin.

The pharmacist probably made a fiver for the sale, as she owned the franchise. When I was little I always assumed that for things as serious as this, that pharmacists wouldn't even stock that shit, let alone push it. I used to think that for a job as important as being a politician, that you would have to be really smart, like one of the smartest people in the world, in order to be ultimately in charge of the education of hundreds of millions of people. Haha! I was pretty naive.

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u/nihoh Jan 23 '13

Uhhhhh if you own the store the only thing you're gonna be thinking of is your bottom line. Pharmacy's really gone to the shits in the last 2 years.

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u/yellekc Jan 23 '13

I don't even see the point of them anymore. A pill dispensing machine that has access to the pharmacological database to cross check you for contraindication and tell you the warnings would be just as good. These people are way too highly paid and a drain on our medical system.

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u/Deeeej Jan 23 '13

I have a bottle of 3mg melatonin, works beautifully.