Buying Zopiclone online
TheFirstCut
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Myself and my friend get Zopiclone prescribed by our GPs however our other friend no longer gets this prescribed, she does want to take them from time to time.
OK I know we shouldn't be, but we do give this friend a couple of tablets now and then when she really does need to get some sleep, she is thinking about buying some online. I've heard a high percentage can be fakes, but what are the actual laws about buying drugs like Zopiclone online, most seem to be outside the UK and having them imported for personal use.
She's found one site which ships from Australia I think: http://www.unitedpharmacies.co.uk/Imovane_Zopiclone__75mg_30_Tablets_p_448.html are these OK and would any problems arise for her?
OK I know we shouldn't be, but we do give this friend a couple of tablets now and then when she really does need to get some sleep, she is thinking about buying some online. I've heard a high percentage can be fakes, but what are the actual laws about buying drugs like Zopiclone online, most seem to be outside the UK and having them imported for personal use.
She's found one site which ships from Australia I think: http://www.unitedpharmacies.co.uk/Imovane_Zopiclone__75mg_30_Tablets_p_448.html are these OK and would any problems arise for her?
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The only advice I can give to you is try and findout a bit more about the company like typing it's name and then say review by the side of it on a search engine. I would like to place a lot of trust on these suppliers as they provide meds at a cheap price but at the sametime I would hate for your friend to become ill from taking the cheap way out.
Yes you are right about it being wrong about giving your friend another persons pills as they might be of a different dosage to what your friend was on. But if they only come in 1 type of mg then it isn't so bad.
Just being curious but has your friend tried a legal herbal form of med to help aid sleep ?
You should never take someone elses medication, and I would be wary of getting prescribed drugs of the internet.
The pills we let her have are identical to the ones she was prescribed.
Would she get in to any king of legal trouble buying Zopiclone online, wouldn't want her to have the police knocking on the door.
Will have to ask if she's tried any natural meds, I know she's tried Nytol both the blue and green I think they were and they were useless, like they were for me, though the Herbal Nytol made me have nightmares they didn't make me sleep, they didn't give her nightmares just had no affect.
Her GP just didn't want her to have any more saying they were addictive.
Yet both mine and our other friends GPs are happy to repeat prescribe them time after time after time.
I've ordered online 3 times--2 good experiences, and one where the tablets didn't arrive.
I haven't heard of the website you mention (but the price seems very cheap) but there is an information and discussion board for people buying medication online, with a list of websites, and users' review of them, which your friend could check out:
http://www.drugbuyers.com/ (check the section for the international firms)
2 things she should be aware of--one, it often takes a long time for the medication to arrive, and the UK customs can confiscate the package (but usually the firm will send a replacement package if this happens).
I think it's a stupid situation where I can go out and buy enough alcohol to drink myself to death if I wish, but I'm denied a few sleeping pills because Mother knows best.
According to the British National Formulary, Zopiclone is not licenced for long-term use. It should only be prescribed for up to 4 weeks due to risk of tolerance and withdrawal symptoms. As far as I can see, it's your friend's GP who is correctly prescribing according to licence, not your GP.
I think it depends on the individual because I have cared for several people who have an ongoing pescription for Zopiclone. However, OP if your friends GP isn't pescribing them then there must be a valid reason for it. I wouldn't encourage any online purchase. You aren't a Doctor and you aren't likely to know your friends FULL medical background.
Be a good friend and suggest your friend goes back to your GP for an alternative.
Well, then all the other GPs who are still repeat prescribing it are doing so incorrectly, aren't they? It shows you can't always trust GPs....
Indeed - and I doubt that the patients are going to complain
I too suffer from bouts of insomnia and would appreciate some sleeping pills to take when I am unable to sleep, but my GP is adamant that they are only to be used during severe episodes of insomnia and not as an occasional sleep aid. To be fair, whenever I have been going through a bad patch, he has never refused to prescribe a short course of temazepam.
An alternative, since the GP is willing to prescribe anti-depressants - may be Venlafaxine. I've found that very soporific. Two tablets 45 mins before you go to sleep and you're out.
Presciption I hope. How strange, when I was on venlafaxine, I had trouble sleeping.
this increases the effect of the sleeper, works also if becoming tolerant to the sleeper.
this is obviously contra indicated but works a treat.
my gp also wont prescribe sleepers anymore for my own good and i can recomend the company mentioned in the first post cheap and reliable for zopiclone
Also, please be careful mixing sedatives with cough medicines / alcohol etc. Or you'll wake up dead.
How do you know?
Really? I didn't think the dead woke up.
Because I've bought it and tested it?
It's well known in the right circles to be a reputable site
(Mind you, I once had a GP who told me it was ok to take as many Temazepam tablets as I liked in order to get to sleep... so I don't have that much faith in GPs any more!)