Things you shouldn't be told.

I had a tooth out yesterday. I'm not good with dentists but I'm prepared to
grip the arms of the chair in slient terror while they get on with it.

However the dentist decided to put my fears at rest by giving me a running
commentary which included such resassuring phrases as:

"I am now going to give you three injections in the roof of your mouth".

"Don't worry, that cracking noise was just your tooth shattering"

and my personal favourite

"I am now going to nibble away some of the bone"

Best bit was he wrote me a perscription for some "painkillers". Thinking
these might be a good idea, I duly got them from the chemist next door.
£6.50, job done.

Imagine then my excitement upon arriving home to discover my bag of medicine
contained a packet of 20 parcetamol.

 

IIWY I'd go back to said chemist give them the facts of life and demand a
refund PDQ. They should tell you if it's available over the counter and
cheaper off prescription.

 

flash:

"Is it safe?"

 

Boots will sell you more over the counter. If you don't look like the
sort of person to try to commit suicide with paracetamol.

 

Beav emerged from their own little world to say

Untrue.

You can buy a pack of 32 at a pharmacy with the pharmacist's approval.

All of the supermarkets I use quite happily allow you to buy 2x 16 packs.
Same applies to ibuprofen.

 

<looks at 96 ibuprofen just purchased at Sainsburys>

 

Halla emerged from their own little world to say

A pharmacy will happily sell you a pack of 100 generic ibuprofen 200mg. At
a price. Boots want £6 for a 100 when you can get 16 for 35p in most
supermarkets.

 

Yeah, but they don't like you and want you to leave them alone...

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We tried to buy 2x16 of paracetamol and 2x16 of ibuprofen in the local tesco
last week. Could only have two packets, so we had one of each.

"What about the Lemsip, that's chock full of paracetamol?"
"Doesn't count."
"Of course, as I'm over 16, if I wanted to commit suicide, I could just buy
a big knife."
"Err..."

 

Yes you can. Well, I bought two packs in Sainsburys the other day.

My understanding is since the introduction of restrictions on
paracetemols the "cry for help" overdoses (which cause fatal liver
collapse) have dropped dramatically.

I'd be interested if self inflicted deaths have dropped overall or have
wailing teenagers moved onto other methodologies.

I'm sensing deja vu here.

 

They checked that I was over 16 when I bought a 44cm blade recently,
for a lawn mower.

 

WGAF, as long as they're someone else's kids.

Heh

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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Dan L

Quite.

And the marvellous thing is, they're *all* someone else's kids.

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The girl on the checkout was perfectly happy to put the extras through as a
separate transaction. I wonder if tesco has some sort of lockout on their
till computers.

 

Well, that's something good to come out of it, but I still object to
being told that I can't buy more than 12 or 24. Luckily my pharmacist
knows me and lets me have 1 or 200 at a time, which last a couple of
months so I'm not in any peril.

 

Beav emerged from their own little world to say

I must live in a different reality to you then.

Ibuprofen in packs of 16 are for general sale. Any limit on the number of
packs per transaction is at the discretion of the retailer.

Larger packs can only be sold by a pharmacy *when the pharmacist is
present*. If the pharmacist is on a lunch break then the sales assistant is
only permitted to sell packs of 16.

 

Automatic No Paracetamol Restrictor?

 

Beav emerged from their own little world to say

Just look at your quoted text.

I replied to Halla's comment about ibuprofen. You disputed my comment.

Hence my rebuttal.

It's you that needs the corrected vision.

 

It was more than one person. It was extremely common for "cry for help"
cases to wolf huge amounts of paracetemol. Unfortunately they're a piss
poor way of killing yourself quickly and effectively as they destroy the
liver.

My guess is 25 is the amount at which damage occurs, BICBW.

Stopping the sale of monster amounts of paracetemols has massively
reduced - to the point of more or less stopping - these impulse self harm
attempts and reduced the pressure on the hospitals, both at the time and
aftercare.

I'd be interested in comparisons across other industrialised countries -
the US, EU or Australia etc.

I don't see it as this. There is the question WTF anyone would normally
want 400 paracetemols in the house anyway?