Thailand and co codamol

[jned2]

My wife and I are due to go to Thailand next week. My wife takes co codamol, prescribed by our GP, for chronic shoulder pain. She's read somewhere that a permit is needed to take co codamol into Thailand? Anyone know if this is correct?

[Junglebert]

https://london.thaiembassy.org/en/publicservice/84...

[Some Gump]

Yep, Coedine is on this list
https://permitfortraveler.fda.moph.go.th/nct_permi...

https://permitfortraveler.fda.moph.go.th/nct_permi... looks like a well shonky homemade website and 100% not the official one, but it's thailand, so it might well be the official one!

Hope you have a ball, because thailand is an amazing place =)

[smifffymoto]

If you are worried just visit a doctor in Thailand and show him/her your prescription and they will write you a prescription.

[jned2]

Many thanks for the replies and suggestions, much appreciated.

[FunkyGibbon]

from here

https://permitfortraveler.fda.moph.go.th/nct_permi...

and putting in codeine and paracetamol....



Would suggest you need a permit. That looks like it can be all done online.

[DaveTheRave87]

smifffymoto said:

If you are worried just visit a doctor in Thailand and show him/her your prescription and they will write you a prescription.

I would not want to be caught in between the airport and the doctor's with anything on a restricted list.

[smifffymoto]

DaveTheRave87 said:

smifffymoto said:

If you are worried just visit a doctor in Thailand and show him/her your prescription and they will write you a prescription.

I would not want to be caught in between the airport and the doctor's with anything on a restricted list.

The paper prescription not physical.

[goldar]

I managed to buy diazepam over the counter in Thailand. I doubt anyone's going to give a toss about cocodamol.

[z4RRSchris]

thailand is a free for all when it comes to drugs from the pharmacies.

You can buy, i know because i have done, vallium, dihydrocodine, oromorph, etc

[anonymous-user]

I travel to Thailand 5 or 6 times a year tthese days, its a 4 hour bike ride for me now but for some years I lived 40 mies from the border and walked over most weekends. Pharmacy is a free for all for things like the Bp tablets I need, antibiotics etc, pain killers are a completely diffrent thing.
If it says you need a permit get a permit. I've never had a problem at Thai customs but been stopped loads of time in Indonesia, they allways want an explanation for any medication you have. I'm 70 and they make a judgment on my Bp tablets, but no way would I carry a pain killer.
The other issue is that unless you are confident in the pharmacy you risk getting 'sugger', I wouldn't risk it if my wife needed the tablet.

[Some Gump]

goldar said:

I managed to buy diazepam over the counter in Thailand. I doubt anyone's going to give a toss about cocodamol.

Dangerous assumption.

The thing with places like thailand is that whilst 95% of the time no-one gives a st, and 3% of the time whatever issue can be sorted with an appropriate surrendering of baht, it leaves the 2% where you'll be in a rough arse jail with no hope of western legal proceedings.

It's not a risk worth taking!