Comment on Preference

daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Well but you do get health care with that, so instead of treating symptoms with ever larger doses of increaingly potent panikillers you have hopes of a more structural solution.

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• 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Would you rather buy 15 pills for $15 or 500 pills for the same price? That’s why we buy the mega bottles.

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well I can buy a pack of 16 in Tesco for £0.39

    So we’re actually paying pretty close to the same amount per pill, just in smaller packs.

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    • TonyOstrich@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      More packaging waste though

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      • TheDannysaur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Technically… But there’s also a lot of waste from the 500 pack that people throw out half of. It likely evens out.

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      • FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I believe individually packaged tablets actually do help reduce overdoses because you can’t just chug the whole bottle in one go. Yes it’s more wasteful but it does save lives.

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  • TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They go bad, though? At least my nice white aspirin pills start crumbling and visibly yellowing after a few months. There’s no way me or even an entire family could swallow 500 until then.

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• LouNeko@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The shocking part is, the whole bottle is like $2.

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• PolyLlamaRous@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Advil is the main brand name for this. I always buy a bottle and other pills when I’m in the US. It is way more than I need but what I like is all the US pills look different. I always have a little mixed bottle of Advil, Pepto Bismol (fixes everything stomach related), anti-histamine pills… with me for when I need them. You can mix them all together and still tell the difference between them. That’s what I don’t like about the European blister packs of unidentifable white pills. That and I hate blister packs. It is also cheaper to buy a bottle. But to be clear, I get like a bottle of 50 or 100. Advil is also enteric coated so it is better for your stomach and tastes better (it’s slightly sweet).

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  • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That sounds horrible, haha

    If it works for you, great, but I’d be super sceptical of the Skittles jar of mixed pills. At least with blister packs you get the drug and dosage printed on the back

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    • PolyLlamaRous@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The typical dosage is 2 for all of them (excluding the rand german pill - the one that you have no idea what it is). It’s also ibuprofen, but you would never know it. Does that help at all with you being skeptical?

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• Frozengyro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  When you buy a bottle of 1000 for around 15 bucks, and it lasts you a decade… Amazing!

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  • rhombus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ibuprofen probably isn’t stable for a decade. Then again, apparently no one knows for sure! Studies pick an arbitrary amount of time to test and then call that the shelf life if it remains usable. So far it doesn’t seem anyone has had the patience to test the absolute shelf life of ibuprofen

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    • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My laymen understanding is they slowly break down and become less effective but not dangerous or negative.

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• sparky@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Came here to say the same thing, like WTF, why would you need a jar of 500

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  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Because some of us have had a headache since 1986.

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• guy_threepwood@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  But the blister packs we get can’t be tampered with 🤷‍♂️

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  • lady_maria@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The bottles in the US also have safety seals for the same reason

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  • boywar3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There’s a tamper-proof seal on the bottle

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• danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They probably sell them in centimeters or some shit.

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• EnderMB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Here in the UK you can’t buy more than two packs at a given time…

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  • Belgdore@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You also have to have a license for tv…

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    • Technofrood@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      For live TV, perhaps they should change its name to subscription because that’s basically what it is at the end of the day.

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