I was on TUINAL for many years but both Lilly and Flynn,mwho made it, have ceased production. Seconal sodium and Sodium Amytal are the two ingredients in equal quantity but are not in the BNF any longer so I can not get them here any more on the NHS - can anyone please tell me where I can get prescribed enough of each in order to have enough stock to make a supply of my OWN Tuinal which may last me three months? I am finding I have to take (for the past two years now) a 30mg SEDABARB phenobarbital every now and then to stop the continuing withdrawal symptoms which are dreadful. Also the alternative sleep aids I have been given are virtually useless, with the exceptions of MIDAZOLAM and CHLORAL HYDRATE. However my chronic insomnia simply can't do without my Tuinal, which I had used since 1976.
Help, please,msomebody!
I heard that the two were easy to find in Bulgaria but can not find out for certain. My pharmacy in Belgium used to sell me 100 Seconal at a time in sealed plastic tubs which cost only €6.99. So it isn't exactly an expensive medication. MIDAZOLAM costs a fortune by comparison. I tried 3mg flunitrazepam (1 each 1 and 2mg tabs) but though they helped sleep, they made me feel mentally numb in the morning and I was good for nothing till after lunchtime.
Gotta get back to that 100mg/100mg mixture of seco- and amo-barbital sodium which was perfect in all ways with no morning after effect and guaranteed 8-9 hour sleep on the 5 days weekly I used it for thirty years!
Secobarbital - Where to be prescribed Seconal and more?
Question posted by PoppyNidaba on 4 Feb 2015
Last updated on 4 May 2020 by william164
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the sleeping pill inquisition, one question i ask , if they were all that bad how did the FDA and others approve them in the in the first place and why did it take them 50 years to find out they were problems ?
No longer available, worldwide.
That's quite a story, all you need is a prescription.
Balbanese, you can't be located in the UK then. The biannual BNF has not listed the barbiturate hypnotics at all for at least two years. The only barbiturate listed is the anti epileptic phenobarbital,ma long half-life drug totally useless as a sleeping aid.
Also removed from prescription in the past few years completely are:
flunitrazepam
triazolam
flurazepam (although a the proprietary brand DALMANE is still able to be prescribed on a Private prescription; however, as with XANAX, the pricing at UK Pharmacies is the highest I have seen in any country, effectively removing it for those of us who have not got pockets as deep as the Marianas Trench. DALMADORM has been withdrawn from pharmacies so there is not even a cheaper alternative,must as there are no generic makes of alprazolam here, only XANAX.)
Anybody got any ideas where I would be able to have these barbiturates prescribed and mailed to the UK? Seconal has been taken off the a Belgian market as well, so my registered pharmacy there is out of the question too.
You're right.
I am also very difficult in finding any barbiturute at all. I am a chronic insomnia, I am prescribed benzos just don't work on me except 1, flunitrazapam which also like getting blood out of a stone, but I certainly except that. I live in the UK and down to such a clampdown on class c drugs has got ridiculous. I plead with anyone that could or have the details of which I can purchase any of the barbiturates or flu nitrazapam. Down to the intolerance and regegregegtion from doctors is disgusting. I work and pay my taxes. Again please let me know if you have any way of reicieving this information I would appreciate it. Thank you
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