Ibuprofen/Paracetamo l

plenty of online sell paracetomel and one day we added up in our small town there were 9 places you could buy them and supermarkets you could buy every time you go in so you quite easily go in and out a few times especially self serve tills

I accept the points from SueDonim and NotSpaghetti about the need to avoid palliative care patients and care workers having to go shopping around to buy enough packs of paracetamol. Presumably they’re prescribed a months supply and in most cases won’t pay for prescriptions.
My point as made by HobbyCat is the high cost of prescriptions and low cost of this painkiller

Paracetamol is regularly prescribed for palliative care, where the patient is taking up to eight a day. Do we really expect very poorly people or their carers to go trawling round shops to get their medication?

Who is getting paracetamol on prescription?! You can buy it for about 30p! Prescribing it costs the NHS a fortune!

Iam64 I think if they aren't on prescription a care worker can't give them to someone who needs regular pain relief.
My mother-in-law had to have them prescribed in order to take them after a stroke when she needed them.

Many people in America have guns ... quicker and more certain way to die than an overdose of paracetamol or ibuprofen ...

Iam64

Paracetamol is so cheap none of us should get it on prescription.

In your opinion!!!!

twaddle

MT62

I can’t get paracetamol off the Gp as I am already getting co-codamol.
I am trying to reduce the dosage of co codamol by taking one of each.

You shouldn't need paracetamol if you're already taking co-codamol. Co-codamol is paracetamol and codeine, so you're already taking paracetamol. It would be dangerous to take paracetamol on top of co-codamol.

You did not read her message properly she very much needs paracetamol if she want to reduce her intake of co codamol which are much stronger, she is doing the right thing, which I was advised to do by my own GP as well.

This rule has reduced overdoses and deaths. Self harm is often impulsive, having to source more pills slows down the action and lowers the impulse. The restrictions are there for a reason and they work. Both paracetamol and ibuprofen can be damaging in quite “minor” overdoses. It is daft to sell them in tubs of 200!

Paracetamol is so cheap none of us should get it on prescription.

I take paracetamol every day and I live in a village where I can't buy any, so 2 packs doesn't last me very long. Going into town by car, we have no buses, with the current cost of fuel is a no go so I will always get a larger supply by going to different shops.

Sorry. I thought you were linking them to paracetamol.

I think Tramadol is an opioid.

Question I was given tramadol on prescription..I on beta blockers blood thinners BP tablets water tablets. Staten been told tramadol safe for pain..any one else take them ??

I haven't read all the thread, but just came on here to say that if you are going to top yourself, please, please, please don't do it with paracetamol.
It's a few days before you get any symptoms, and by the time you do, you might have changed your mind, but its too late then, and then it's pain, and suffering for quite a few more days.

Paracetamol is metabolised in the liver and it is the damage/failure of this organ that causes death - not the kidneys.

In Denmark too, you need a prescription to buy more than 20 or 24,can't remember the exact amount, as I use aspirin.

Other countries in Europe have different rules.

The idea is to prevent suicide, or especially failed suicide in young people, who can do serious damage to their liver etc. if they do not suceed in committing suicide, or did not want to, only wanted to make their families aware they had problems.

monami

its true, but our law makers are a bit dense, they probably never thought of that, like most of their unpoliceable laws

Are you on the correct thread?

NotSpaghetti

MT62
I thought you were "playing along" so you and me both!

I hope your knee is fixed soon.
🤞

Thanks notspaghetti. Me too 👍🏻

its true, but our law makers are a bit dense, they probably never thought of that, like most of their unpoliceable laws

MT62
I thought you were "playing along" so you and me both!

I hope your knee is fixed soon.
🤞

MT62

NotSpaghetti

MT62. I'm not sure buying parrots will have much effect re pain relief -
If you had to keep on buying them though it would definitely be a distraction!

They seem to be helping me.
I didn’t find the co-codamol any good apart from sometimes chilling me out.
That’s when I realised I need to try to wean off the co-codamol.
The only drug that wipes the pain is the volterol suppository’s but it’s not good for stomach, heart & kidneys.
So come off those as well.

That's not surprising. You've been taking a high dose of codeine, which is what's been spacing you out. That's why I wondered if the GP could prescribe a different formulation with less codeine.

NotSpaghetti

So why are you opposed to buying parrots?
Is it the repetitive nature of it?
🦜🦜🦜🦜

Oh I am thick 🤣

Ahh what a shame ASIT 😔
There was a lass in the paper around Christmas time, who accidentally took too many due to her painful period 😔
Does need to be more awareness made public around paracetamol.

Ha just got you not spaghetti 🤣
My abbreviation for paracetamol 🤣