My wife takes Naproxen Sodium as needed, and she has a prescription for it.

She recently switched docs, and they gave her the business about when she took it, how often, etc. (which is ridiculous because she gets it refilled like once a year and it is not a narcotic).

Anyway, she complains to me about it, so i told her to just go buy some OTC. She didn't want to for reasons she couldn't really convey. She said the script Naproxen is a higher dose. Okay then, just take enough of the OTC to equal the script amount. Problem solved.

Then I got to thinking... why do they even have prescriptions for things like Naproxen and Ibuprofen? You can just buy them over the counter. Is there some reason I'm unaware of?

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Excellent question.

The prescription strength doses also come with a special coating that helps not ruin your digestive system. The smaller 100 mg ibuprofren does not have that coating, and taking 5 of them at one time would fuck your shit up over time.

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I've wondered that too especially filling a prescription for my kids. I'm assuming dosage.

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Good information. It's usually like 2 or 3 times the over the counter price.

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If you take ibuprofren in the hosiptal, I'm positive a script is needed. Then they can bill the insurance a shitload. Also if people don't realize there is an OTC alternative, that's more $$$.

Wrong. Why would manufacturers produce an inferior product that opens them up to liability? The higher cost of Script NSAIDs is tied to the cost of shipping, administration and storage for the healthcare instututons. OTCs don't face the same overhead costs bc the chain is reduced to just the shelf and the consumer.

As long as your wife is not ingesting more than 1500 mgs per day she will be ok. Save yourself the money.

Source: BS in Hospital Administration and 8 years military combat medic experience. Don't @ me IMU.

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Because your insurance doesn't want to foot the bill for you to get medication that's available OTC. So if they do cover it, it is at the pharmacy's acquisition cost which is much higher than just buying it OTC.

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While I don't go to the doc much, I can recall a foot injury and a few dental procedures where they prescribed either Naproxen Sodium or Ibuprofen. In each case I asked if I could take the equivalent amount of Aleve or Advil and they always said fine and told me the equivalent amount to take.

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Ok, so we know that Tylenol 3, for example, has codeine in it, which is why it's only available by Rx.

However, what does RX Aleve have in it (besides being 500mg) that the OTC 220mg Aleve doesn't?

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Bingo. Just ask yourself who is being reimbursed?

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Nothing.

It's just a different strength.

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Better source: My company works directly with one of the largest pharmaceutical manufacturers in the entire world, and I have fairly intimate knowledge of the solid-dose manufacturing process.

A 100 mg or 200 mg dose of ibuprofen over the counter is not an inferior product. It is manufactured to work perfectly, if you take the dose as instructed by the bottle. There are a lot of medicines that are sold OTC that could fuck your shit up if you take it in ways not described.

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Now I am feeling better about telling them to suck my dick when they tell me a Tylenol prescription is $30 when I can get it for $8 in the store.

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Truth. I saw a podiatrist after breaking my foot. He said "I've got something called ibuprofen that will help with the pain" I said "Doc I got 800mg of Motrin at home" "he said ok take two every twelve hours"

Pill linings? GTFO

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Yeah but that's why it costs $30

Well that's rude. It isn't the pharmacy's fault.

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Well I don't literally say it. I definitely think. I tell them I'll pay for the antibiotics and pick up the Tylenol in the store.

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Maybe if you literally say it, they'll stop with the idiotic questions...

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Your busted ass teeth works with a pharmaceutical manufacturer, whose interests are at stake?

Bullshit. Big pharma is allowed to advertise on TV in this country. That is an anomaly. Most countries ban pharma advertising like we ban cigarette ads. Stop being a shill for big pharma. This sort of "trust me" mentality is how we got the opioid crisis. People like IMU don't have your best interests at heart and would rather make a quick buck.

Health care costs are out of control bc we buy shit like "prescription has a special lining". BS, it doesnt. Not at the generic level. If it did it would require a new drug patent with the FDA that would block generics from using the same formula. That hasn't happened.

The naproxen leashe's wife uses is the same as prescription. Stop trying to defraud patients.

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Now I make sure to ask the pediatrician what she's writing the prescription for.

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I think the only prescriptions my kids have ever gotten were antibiotics for ear infections.

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Well, this has all been very informative.

On a separate note, you know what really grinds my gears? When people don't look at the actual ingredients in medication. We have Motrin at home, but my wife will go buy Advil Migraine when she has a headache. One of my sick friends once bought Nyquil and then also bought Tylenol for the pain when there is already acetaminophen in Nyquil.

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