How to avoid being perscribed bad antibiotics (and get the ones you want)

[Evolutionarily]

Strategy has worked for me twice now; will need to be a new doctor you have no history with, or at least no history of antibiotics usage.

The key is act totally ignorant. Don't act all informed like you don't want a bad one they are giving, or have a specific one in mind you want, NOBODY else does this so it immediately triggers an alert in the Doctor's mind that something unusual is happening. They've prescribed antibiotics a million times and everyone just nods their head and says OK.

Whenever they are prescribing antibiotics they always ask if you're allergic to anything, and this is where you say yes. You had some bad reactions as a child, but can't remember which one it was. Look up common AB side effects, Nausea, vomiting, skin rashes, pain, etc, say this is what you experienced. Then you say 'Oh hold on, I have a message from my mother she sent in the past from my family doctor which antibiotics are OK'.

Then scroll around on your phone for a minute, them show him this note:
amoxicillin, erythromycin, clarithromycin, neomycin, azithromycin, tetracycline, doxycycline, minocycline

If there is a particular antibiotics you want, put it at the front of the list.

The key is: Ignorance + History of issue with some unknown Antibiotic (which demonstrates you're even more ignorant as you don't know which one) + Acceptable Anitbiotics from your mother & family doctor.

[A Former User]

@Evolutionarily a good way to get any drug is to basically say you were staying out of the country and were prescribed this drug at this dose and you are seeing if you can get a refill because your date for going back to the country you got it in is a little later and you are worried to run out. then once you have it prescribed one on your file you can go to another doctor and more easily get it. this works well in countries with tele-medicine consults and doctor shortages.

minocycline is easy to get over the phone by saying you took it for acne many years ago and would like to go back on it