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sarliz · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 198 Location: Jalisco

I'll respond to the birth control thing here, since I don't see a new thread yet. When I arrived in Mexico, I was initially in Guadalajara for a month (training course), and now I'm in Oaxaca. I brought a month or two of birth control pills, I think it was the generic of Orthotricyclin, or a graded-dose, pill. I brought the little piece of paper that comes in the box with the active ingredients to show the pharmacist, to get what I wanted to continue taking. No go in Guad, they had other birth control pills but different horomones. So I bought a month off of a friend of mine who also brought them from the states, and held out until Oaxaca. Here I found pills with the same horomone, but at 4 or 5 times the dosage (also in scary 1970's eastern-bloc reminescient packaging), and not graded, and also a low-dose (but different horomoned) pill that I decided to go with, called Microlut. It seems to work, but my skin gets angrier than it's ever been a few days a month. However, it's only 90 pesos and gets the job done.

I also learned through the joys of self-prescribing (well, not entirely self, it was my boyfriend, and he worked in his parents' pharmacy for years growing up) anti-biotics that I have an allergy to something called Trimetoprima y Sulfametoxazol that manifested itself after a week's use in an all-over, itchy, red and horrible body rash. If anyone ever needs it, the Mayo Clinic has a good website with lots of rash photos and descriptions of causes. Whee!

J Sevigny · Joined: 26 Feb 2006 Posts: 161

Not trying to get into a peeing contest here. But I think it's a little overboard for you to declare that DIF is for locals but IMSS is not.

What about the Red Cross? What about the Green Cross? What about the ISSTE grocery stores? Where do you draw the line on what's for locals and what's not? And why are you the one who should draw it? Just rhetorical questions.

To end my side of this chat and return to the point of my original comments, I'll say this. I prefer to give 35 pesos to the DIF and be seen by a real doctor than to put 20 more pesos in Dr. Simi's dubious hands.

cangringo · Joined: 18 Jan 2007 Posts: 327 Location: Vancouver, Canada

Ok I tried to post and lost it....

I was trying to post about the birth control issue...I bought some pills here that were a higher dosage than the ones I had from Canada and I had problems with them. Just wondering if anyone knows of any that are similar to the ones we get in the US and Canada and have differing dosages, these were the same dosage all month.