Tendon injury • Ligament injury • Soft tissue repair • Inflammation
Consultation R900. Treatment from R2,700 a month, quoted exactly after your assessment.
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Prescription Required. Subject to independent medical assessment.
Oryx facilitates access to licensed doctors and compounding pharmacies.
Your treatment is given as a small injection just under the skin, using a pre-filled pen. Your doctor shows you how at your consultation, and everything you need comes with it. Most people find it far easier than they expected.
Your dose, how often you take it and how long you stay on it are set by your doctor and reviewed as you go. They are not the same for everyone, which is why they are decided after your assessment rather than before it.
A treatment plan starts at four weeks. Your doctor then reviews how you are getting on and can prescribe more if it is working and still right for you. Nothing repeats automatically.
Every prescription medicine carries risk. What makes it safe or not is whether the right person gets the right thing at the right dose, and whether anyone is watching afterwards. That is what the assessment, the prescription and the review are for.
At your consultation your doctor will go through the specific risks of whatever they are considering for you, including side effects, anything it might interact with, and where the evidence is thinner than the internet suggests. Come prepared with a list of everything you take, including anything you bought over the counter and anything you take only occasionally.
If anything changes while you are on treatment, tell your doctor. Not the internet, and not a forum.
This treatment is prescription-only. It is not suitable for everyone, and it will not be prescribed to you unless a doctor has assessed you and judged it appropriate.
You will notice this page does not tell you the name of the medicine or what is in it. That is deliberate, and there are two reasons.
The first is the law. South African medicines law is strict about how prescription treatments may be described to the public, and stricter still for medicines a pharmacy prepares for one named patient. Where the law is not clear cut, we take the careful route rather than the clever one.
The second reason matters more. What a treatment might do for you depends on your history, your examination and your results, and read cold off a web page that is easy to misread and easy to talk yourself into. Nothing is being kept from you. Your doctor will go through all of it, including exactly what you are being prescribed and why, before you decide anything.
