People Rushing for Panadol

[YYCole]

Seems like people are either stocking up panadol or buying and sending back to China! I think its a overdone situation, did you all stock up too?

https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/sold- ... pharmacies

[Lisafuller]

What's the reason for all this???

[PNGMK]

A shortage of flu medicines in China due to a large outbreak of Covid19.

[Lisafuller]

Got it. The paranoia spreads so quickly!

[abbby]

No, didn't stock up, won't they buy up all the Panadol in Singapore? I remembered last time they bought up all the milk powder in HK.

[Lisafuller]

Not sure if this was the same incident, but I was in JB about a month ago and got a very bad headache so went to the pharmacy but they were all out of panadol! Never had that happen before.

[Lisafuller]

No, didn't stock up, won't they buy up all the Panadol in Singapore? I remembered last time they bought up all the milk powder in HK.

Think the pharmacies in SG will be quick to implement buying limits.

[YYCole]

I think Singapore already start limiting the purchase in supermarket or pharmacy. However don't think it will work as people can walk out of the store and walk in again to buy more.

I think buying panadol is the easier problem for the chinese, the tough part is getting it delivered to their home in china as the logistics are jammed as the delivery drivers are down with covid too.

[Lisafuller]

That's true, or they could go to multiple outlets and nobody would know.

[YYCole]

there are actually alt brands like Tylenol which works just as well as panadol,,

[malcontent]

there are actually alt brands like Tylenol which works just as well as panadol,,

Paracetamol is the active ingredient in both Panadol (British) and Tylenol (American) brands. There is no real difference.

Ibuprofen is the active ingredient in Nurofen/Advil/Motrin, which works even better than paracetamol for me. It’s only recently started to become popular in Singapore, probably due to the predominance of Panadol. I took Nurofen when I had Covid and it kept most symptoms at bay.

Aspirin is also good. It’s by far the oldest, most tried and true medicine of the three, but good luck finding it in Singapore. I always have to bring it back from the US.

Aleve is the new kid on the block. Naproxen is the active ingredient. I’ve tried it and it doesn’t seem to work well, for me anyway.

[sundaymorningstaple]

Due to my high pain threshold, none of them work for me at all. However, the docs here are aware of that after successive bouts with burns (large area 2nd degree burns), Kidney stones, fractured wrist (3x the same wrist - 3rd time Monday a week ago. Doc yesterday pulled my charts for the 2nd time and after the xrays, said you have the same 3 options as the last time. Learn to live with it, fusion of the wrist or wrist replacement surgery (expensive as hell and not guaranteed to last - can get both knees replaced and still money left over for a holiday). Soooooo I am one of very few people who actually get a pain killer that works but is dangerous in the hands of the wrong person due to its active ingredient (it's an opioid). Tramadol. Fortunately I hate pain killers so I took one about an hour before bed to give it time to get going. Slept through the night and haven't taken one since (but wearing my high end wrist brace from 4 years ago.

https://www.healthline.com/health/tramadol-oral-tablet

[malcontent]

Panadeine is available here without a prescription. It is similar to Tylenol III (paracetamol plus codeine), except with Panadeine you get less codeine.

You can’t buy such things in the US without a prescription because codeine is habit forming. I lived near the Canadian border and Tylenol III was a popular item people would bring back. You don’t need a prescription in Canada. Here, you just show your IC at the pharmacy and they hand it over.

But what is not available without a prescription here is any kind of sleep aid. I’m told it is because in the movies here, sleeping pills are only used for one thing — suicide. The only time I really need a sleeping pill is when I have an early morning flight out from Singapore and need to sleep early.

[taxico]

Aspirin is also good. It’s by far the oldest, most tried and true medicine of the three, but good luck finding it in Singapore. I always have to bring it back from the US.

they sell generic aspirin but it is pricey. i usually just get a box of alkaseltzer instead. they work faster for me.

naproxen sodium works great when i get bad headaches!

[smoulder]

Panadeine is available here without a prescription. It is similar to Tylenol III (paracetamol plus codeine), except with Panadeine you get less codeine.

You can’t buy such things in the US without a prescription because codeine is habit forming. I lived near the Canadian border and Tylenol III was a popular item people would bring back. You don’t need a prescription in Canada. Here, you just show your IC at the pharmacy and they hand it over.

But what is not available without a prescription here is any kind of sleep aid. I’m told it is because in the movies here, sleeping pills are only used for one thing — suicide. The only time I really need a sleeping pill is when I have an early morning flight out from Singapore and need to sleep early.

Have you tried melatonin pills as a sleeping aid? I do - 10mg about 30 mins before sleeping works quite well for me.