What a pain!

[hope full]

Once upon a time Aspirins came in a glass bottle of 100. They had probably been sitting in your bathroom cabinet for ages.
If you had a headache, you would go to the bathroom, shake out a couple of pills and goodbye headache.
These days we can't be trusted to buy 100 all at once, in case we have the urge to swallow the lot. The shops are only permitted to sell us small packets.

In a large household like mine, whenever I have a headache, like now, there's never any darn tablets left in the silly little packets.
That's almost enough provocation to make me go out right now, walk from
shop to shop, stock piling as I go and then come home and end it all!

Arrrrrrrrrr

Hope

[Diane Grant-Salmon]

Unfortunately, it's the 'Nanny State' again! :(

[get2BJ]

Yes I know how you feel, there's six of us here and I tend to blame everyone else for using the painkillers up. But then I do put a packet in every handbag, in the car, at work...

:o Brenda

[mary elms]

The thing about these stupid little packets is that when you've got a headache they all look alike. I'm only allowed paracetamol but I can't tell which ones they are! After a number of fiascos we've instituted a rule in this house - the only painkillers that are allowed to be long and thin like a capsule are paracetamol. All other painkillers have to be tablet shaped. No more mistakes. When they were in bottles it wasn't a problem! |rant|

Mary.

[susan-w]

Actually, the smaller packs have apparently reduced the number of suicide overdoses. I thought this was quite surprising, but there we are!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3961339.stm

Cheers
Sue

[BeeE586]

I get Paracetemol on repeat prescription and am still allowed 100 at a time Is somebody trying to tell me something i.e. encouraging me to end it all ?

Eileen

[Mark]

You always run out of pain killers if you have pet birds ...

... the parrots eat 'em all.

:-)

[Geoffers]

You always run out of pain killers if you have pet birds ...
... the parrots eat 'em all.

Are you aspirin' :rolleyes: to comedy with that remark??

Geoffers

[Mark]

It was a response with special codeine.

:-)

[coenmfam]

When I was in the "State Emergency Service" here ( like Civil Defence ) all painkillers like Aspirin and Paracetamol were removed from all First Aid kits.

Despite having to do First Aid training we were deemed unfit to dispense to ourselves a painkiller.

We could go up and down cliff faces, tramp through miles of poisonous snake infested bush and rugged terrain, climb on steep roofs to fix storm damage in howling winds and hail, rescue tourists off mountains or worse - do crowd control at the local airshow.

BUT
No aspirin or paracetamol !

Nev

[Ladkyis]

what I find ridiculous is the fact that 8 paracetamol is enough to set in motion the train of events that will kill you but you can buy 16 in a packet. Not that anyone should ever think that paracetamol is a quick easy way to end your life. It can take over a week to kill you but once it gets past a certain point there is NO antidote.

I don't take them anymore cos they destroy your liver
Ann

[June]

I get 100 at a time and a repeat prescription....(Australia)

June

[get2BJ]

Ann

This is very worrying and I was not aware of this before:




I don't take them anymore cos they destroy your liver
AnnWhat do you use as an alternative and are they as effective?

Thanks

Brenda

[Diane Grant-Salmon]

What annoys me, is the fact that a certain pain killer prescribed for my husband to help with osteo-arthritis of the spine, is being withdrawn, because some stupid biddies 'topped' themselves with them!
The alternative which the Doctor prescribed, just didn't work at all ...... so now Gerry has a bit of respite until the original one is completely withdrawn in about twelve months.

[Pam Downes]

Quite a few years ago, probably circa 1998 when I believe the 16-pack were introduced in the UK, a 10 year-old boy came to my checkout with a packet of paracetomol. I queried the sale with the duty manager who told me that there was no lower-age restriction regarding the sale of medicines, and therefore I could not refuse the sale.
Double-checking the 'age-restricted sales' on the internet today, although you cannot sell party poppers to someone under 16, there is no reference to pharmaceutical products being similarly restricted.

Pam Downes