Luxor4u

Pity he's dead then. Look forward to reading her sordid story in OK, join the other Luxor author with her story of love and lust.

All medication is governed in Cyprus, you can only get things that are on prescription and signed by the Doctor, we cannot even get Lem-Sips for colds. Prescriptions here incidentally are 1/2 a Euro so if you have 5 items on 1 prescription its still 1/2 a Euro, a big difference from around 40 Pound in UK. To see a Doctor is 3 Euros, to see a Consultant 5 Euros you can see a Doctor in the morning and then see a consultant 2-3 hours later, no messing and very little waiting. When I was diagnosed with my illness, I saw the Dr at 6.40am and the Consultant at 8.10am. I was waiting 3 years in Luxor and they still did not know the prognosis. Things (Drugs) not on prescription are cold treatments, and simple headache tablets. But most things are prescriptive drugs. When you get your residential papers all is explained. All changes are in the newspapers and on posters in the surgeries and hospitals. So at least you are well informed, that is of course if you can read! Being able to read is a big advantage, if only people knew the difference it can make.

Is Marijuana available and can you take that in and out of Egypt? There is lorry loads of it around, probably 60% of Egypt is on it, including Professionals. Just as addictive as Tramadol, causing mental illness, and paranoia. It's coming in from somewhere isn't it! Maybe smuggled in to the Country in Tramadol boxes....

So at least you are well informed, that is of course if you can read! Being able to read is a big advantage, if only people knew the difference it can make

Irony is alive and well on the island of Cyprus!

newcastle wrote:

So at least you are well informed, that is of course if you can read! Being able to read is a big advantage, if only people knew the difference it can make

Irony is alive and well on the island of Cyprus!

Very restrained, newcastle.

Sorry to hear that you have been diagnosed with an illness, not a serious one I hope. What kind is it? We have a couple of Doctors on here.

Dusak wrote:Sorry to hear that you have been diagnosed with an illness, not a serious one I hope. What kind is it? We have a couple of Doctors on here.

WHO do you mean?

Witch doctor?

Psychosis? Dusak?

I doubt anyone in the UK is regularly paying £40 for a prescroption. If they are, it most likely means that they cannot read or are uninformed/misinformed.

If anyone in the UK has a medical condition that requires such costs for medication then they can simply purchase a quarterly or a yearly pre-payment certificate (PPC) which would cost £29.10, while the price of an annual PPC would be £104.00. Prescriptions are free above a certain age and many other people qualify for free under certain other medical conditions, visit any UK chemist and see just how many people actually hand over money for their prescriptions when they collect them.

Horus wrote:If anyone in the UK has a medical condition that requires such costs for medication then they can simply purchase a quarterly or a yearly pre-payment certificate (PPC) which would cost £29.10, while the price of an annual PPC would be £104.00. Prescriptions are free above a certain age and many other people qualify for free under certain other medical conditions, visit any UK chemist and see just how many people actually hand over money for their prescriptions when they collect them.

Precisely! Using phone and sufferring a fat finger day so didn't write all that, but it's what I was thinking.

"Can't even get Lem Sip for colds" Then later you can buy cold medication without a prescription. Make your mind up MT and explain or are you a tad muddled?

Lem Sips are what I used to take for colds and flu, people used to bring me them from UK when I lived in Luxor. Here they are not sold but a tablet cold/flu relief is sold over the counter called "SIPS" very good especially at night to help you sleep. Because we lived in a small village, with a S. Police member living in the middle of it. many drugs were I suspect kept away, quite a few got their supply from Gezera. I was at a local restaurant once and at the next table was a glass ashtray fill of weed and 6 member of the Luxor International Hospital filling their face with the stuff. The others were burning something in a glass and sniffing the fumes..

Why anyone in Luxor would even need Lemsips with an ample supply of fresh lemons and/or oranges, and cheap paracetamol defies logic. Freshly squeezed juice, with or without dilution of boiled water, and a teaspoon of honey work far better for the overall relief and prevention of colds, and paracetamol help reduce body temperature. Cheap, simple and much more natural.

I agree Hepzibah why anyone would want to buy Lim Sip let alone have it brought over from the UK beggars belief much nicer making it yourself and it hasn't that nasty aftertaste.

Quote:"many drugs were I suspect kept away, quite a few got their supply from Gezera.
Really I never knew that, just goes to show that 'Plod had eyes & ears everywhere.
But Gezera that's a new one on me and "ashtrays full of the stuff. What were they putting it in a pipe ?
Sounds like a bit of 'porkie pies going on here....

Horus wrote:Psychosis? Dusak?

I was thinking more of Luxorvitis. Can be treated, but it needs the infected area to be completely removed, but there is never a guarantee that it will not return in one form or another, one of the symptoms being the loss of external realty.

On a radio programme today it stated you can diagnose Dementia in old people if they forget Birthday Cards or presents at Xmas.
This Dr disagrees and diagnoses just perhaps, they really can't give a flying duck they also say,....
to see if they have forgotten to turn the oven on for the Xmas duck! partridge, pheasant even turkey, if one really must, ..
'La whaala! and, they think old people are stupid....
"Now was I about to watch a film or cook a beef-burger?

"Happy Whatever"
Ps: 'My Mancunian adopted families' Mum Masie, not only forgot to turn the oven or to even defrost the damn bird!
"She wasn't know as 'Mad Masie for nothing......'ding-dong-ding!

Well this old bird neither forgot to defrost the turkey, or turn the oven on. It was cooked to perfection. Tomorrow the strays outside get their Xmas dinners, my four, Alfie only eats tuna, feast on their share, and I create six curry's for the freezer with the remainder. I dropped on lucky getting in my shopping the other day as Arkwright's had six of the imported curry mixes in.

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I'd heard this many times in the past on the radio, but never seen this video. It's even funnier watching it!

I have the same reactions from Egyptians while attempting to get them to understand the terms of morals and fairation.