Sudafed in Cozumel with prescription?

[Marie13]

Pretty sure you don't know me. I use a range of other solutions in part because they work very well and in part because my medical training makes me concerned about the risks of using pseudoephedrine.

It's irrelevant anyway. Pseudoephedrine is banned in Mexico, whether you "need" it or not.

I will note that most certifying organizations strongly advise against diving while using either systemic or topical decongestants.

The agencies all seem to ignore the issue of those of us who take pseudoephedrine daily. I have for years, at doc’s orders.

 

[BRT]

The steroid nasal spray seems to be working, so leaving the Sudafed home.

I use that daily.

 

[brsnow]

I use that daily.

Yep, info as well with the nasal rinse. Has been protocol since the balloon surgery. Historically I still took Sudafed when diving but after about 20 dives this summer/fall the spray had been effective

 

[BRT]

Yep, info as well with the nasal rinse. Has been protocol since the balloon surgery. Historically I still took Sudafed when diving but after about 20 dives this summer/fall the spray had been effective

Yep, nasal rinse too. Antihistimines at night. Nose strips to breath at night. Nasal spray at night when the rest doesn't work. People that don't really have a problem have lots of simple solutions.

 

[El Graduado]

I always had a problem understanding the attitude of many folks who seem to think they are exempt from some law or other because they say they are special or because they think the law is unjust or silly. “My doctor says I need it” is not going to fly when used as a reason to keep you out of jail when you are arrested after you broke the law in Mexico. I would think that so many similar events these days, like Americans being jailed in Mexico for “unknowingly” bringing in ammunition, or Americans like Brittney Griner being arrested and sentenced to nine years in prison for bringing a couple of vape cartridges containing cannabis oil into Russia, or the woman jailed in Puerto Vallarta for having “seven or eight” Sudafed pills in her luggage, people would take the risk seriously. In the Griner case, she actually had a doctor’s note saying she needed it, but she (like Marc Fogel, who is now serving time in Russia for bringing in one-half ounce of medical marijuana with his doctor’s prescription) failed to take seriously the fact that other countries have a right to enforce whatever laws their government passes.

American Arrested At Cancun Airport For Bullets In Luggage

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/07/28/marc-fogel-teacher-russia-prison/

Kaysville woman jailed in Mexico over Sudafed pills.

 

[mstevens]

Not that it makes it OK to flaunt the laws of a sovereign nation

Yet people are arguing that it's fine for them to flout this law because they need it, because it's legal back home, and because the ban is silly. They go so far as to advise people to ignore the ban and they give practical suggestions about how to get away with it.

you can’t seriously be trying to equate some one illegally bringing in small amount of pseudoephedrine (which is harmless) someone bribing in with oxycontine or heroin??

I'm not equating relative medical risks, but I am equating legality. Mexico, as a sovereign nation, has decided that it's in the best interest of their nation to ban it. It's just as illegal to bring pseudoephedrine into Mexico as to bring heroin into the US or cannabis into Saudi Arabia. Mexico has tossed tourists in jail for pseudoephedrine in the past and they'll do it in future.

Oxycontin, methamphetamine, and cocaine are perfectly legal (if highly-controlled) in the US, so I needed an example of something that is totally banned in the US but legal somewhere else. Heroin fits, but I'd love other examples.

Pseudoephedrine is fairly low-risk, but people die from it every day so I'd hardly call it "harmless".

In reality, the whole pseudo ban is quite silly as you’d need truckloads of the stuff to make any meaningful quantity of meth!

True, but it's not really pertinent. The world is packed full of silly laws; some would say the majority of laws are silly. Many of them seem obviously reasonable to people there and carry harsh punishments yet bewilder people from elsewhere. It turns out they'll still mete out the harsh punishments no matter how carefully one explains to the judge how dumb their stupid law is.

However, the law is the law so you need to be prepared to deal with the consequences of your actions if you choose to ignore it.

Many seem to believe that their personal circumstances or preferences somehow nullify laws they find inconvenient and that they're entitled to flout laws they don't like. Others just acknowledge that a law is dumb, shrug, and get on with life without violating that law.

In years of working with incarcerated patients my ears came to bleed less from their protestations of innocence and more from their explanations of why the law under which they were convicted was dumb or why they should have been entitled to a special exception.

I hear people advising others on this board how to smuggle substances that carry imprisonment penalties and think of all those patients over the years.

 

[mstevens]

nasal rinse

nasal rinse

My wife bullied me into trying that. I hate it. It does work very well, though, so I do it. Works even better using twice the salt to increase the osmolarity of the solution, which can reduce congestion by drawing more water out of tissues. I suppose a neti pot would work too, but based on my attempts to use one I think I might somehow end up killing myself with it. The squirty bottle works super.

 

[El Graduado]

Interrogator: "We have ways to make you talk! Mark, bring me the neti pot."
Prisoner: "NO! NO! Not the neti pot! I'll tell you whatever you want to know, just don't 'neti-pot me!'"

 

[Marie13]

My wife bullied me into trying that. I hate it. It does work very well, though, so I do it. Works even better using twice the salt to increase the osmolarity of the solution, which can reduce congestion by drawing more water out of tissues. I suppose a neti pot would work too, but based on my attempts to use one I think I might somehow end up killing myself with it. The squirty bottle works super.

You have to be super coordinated to use the neti pot, IMO. Walgreens sells a sinus rinse bottle that you use with the saline powder and lukewarm water. Just lean over and squeeze. No need to have to turn your head to the side, too.

 

[mstevens]

Interrogator: "We have ways to make you talk! Mark, bring me the neti pot."
Prisoner: "NO! NO! Not the neti pot! I'll tell you whatever you want to know, just don't 'neti-pot me!'"

Didn't realize you'd been at any of my interrogations, but I suppose that's a consequence of sitting bound to the chair in that circle of blinding light in the otherwise-darkened room.

You have to be super coordinated to use the neti pot, IMO.

That's my problem.

Walgreens sells a sinus rinse bottle that you use with the saline powder and lukewarm water. Just lean over and squeeze. No need to have to turn your head to the side, too.

That's the one. We each keep one in Cozumel as well as one each in the US. Very easy to use. I just dislike squirting saline in my nose. My wife and son see it as inconsequential and think (for which there's other evidence) that I'm just being a big baby about it.

I'm not kidding about the double-strength saline.