Cough! cough!

[Dave 123]

I'm sure you know, but hydrocortisone is very strong, so dilute with E45 or aquious cream when the skin starts to calm down :-)

Kies,
Thank you for your concern. I live life on the edge , as directed by my doctor. 'Twas her that told me!

 

[Dave 123]

In the bathroom would be just as accurate.

I don't want to mess too much with those Boots girls. Their steely gaze gets to me....

 

[ColinJ]

On Saturday I tried to do a "very bad thing".

I wanted to buy a bottle of Benyllin Nighttime chesty cough formula, to ease my chesty cough at night, and a bottle of Benyllin non-drowsy chest cough formula to take to ease my chesty cough during the day. On GP's advice pending an appointment for a chest x-ray as the cough has gone on since mid-November.

I don't want to worry you, but my near-death experience with DVT/Pulmonary Embolism started off as a dry chesty cough which went on and on ...

Alternatively ... gbb's long-running chest problem was due to pneumonia and pleuritis.

I hope whatever you have isn't as serious as our problems were, but don't mess about if the x-ray doesn't show what is wrong - insist that they do more tests to track down what is going on.

Good luck!

 

[Doseone]

There's a Boots in Haverfordwest?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

There's a Boots in Haverfordwest?

Shocking I know. And a Debenhams.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

[QUOTE 2938806, member: 45"]They're trained to be suspicious of shady looking characters.[/quote]
Nobber.

 

[byegad]

Try going to buy any medicine for kids these days. They'll give you the third degree over how old the child is, I tend to just lie and add a few years on to be safe.
It's like the limit on paracetamol purchases to stop OD'ing. What does that solve? If I really want to overdoes on paracetamol I'll just go to a few shops in town and buy as many as I need.

Exactly!
I get prescription strength 30/500 Cocodamol in boxes of 100 and Tramadol in similar 100 boxes. They are on repeat prescription and I suppose the doctor has a record of how many I have over the month or year. I have joint issues and tend to take at least one dose of one or the other every day and more than one dose if riding far. But my wife has to buy ordinary Paracetamol in stupid little boxes of 12!
As you say if you are determined to O/D on Paracetamol (Not a 'good choice' for self destruction.*) then all you need to do is go to the nearest two large towns and buy one box in each shop. Does it really stop deliberate O/Ds? I doubt it, but it will certainly cost you more than it used to when you could buy them by the 100.

*A medically inclined friend tells me a goodly O/D of Paracetamol will kill you so slowly that you'll have every opportunity to reconsider the wisdom of the attempt before it kills you, as in you'll wake up and be around for days with no realistic chance of avoiding organ failure, eventually!

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

It's like the limit on paracetamol purchases to stop OD'ing. What does that solve? If I really want to overdoes on paracetamol I'll just go to a few shops in town and buy as many as I need.

Statistics show that you're so wrong it's untrue.
From the BMJ study which showed a 21% reduction in deaths from Paracetamol deaths in the first year of limited packs sizes alone.

Conclusion: Legislation restricting pack sizes of paracetamol and salicylates in the United Kingdom has had substantial beneficial effects on mortality and morbidity associated with self poisoning using these drugs.

 

[ColinJ]

Statistics show that you're so wrong it's untrue.
From the BMJ study which showed a 21% reduction in deaths from Paracetamol deaths in the first year of limited packs sizes alone.

Conclusion: Legislation restricting pack sizes of paracetamol and salicylates in the United Kingdom has had substantial beneficial effects on mortality and morbidity associated with self poisoning using these drugs.

That really shows how impulsive many suicide attempts are. Clearly, if people were planning ahead they could work around the restrictions.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

I once tried to buy ibuprofen/paracetamol and paracetamol together by accident at a local Asda - I'd picked up the wrong ibuprofen box. The cashier wouldn't let me buy the two items together and asked if I was ok.

From this I assumed retail staff are trained to not to sell and look for signs of distress....maybe it's just wishful thinking tho.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Statistics show that you're so wrong it's untrue.
From the BMJ study which showed a 21% reduction in deaths from Paracetamol deaths in the first year of limited packs sizes alone.

Conclusion: Legislation restricting pack sizes of paracetamol and salicylates in the United Kingdom has had substantial beneficial effects on mortality and morbidity associated with self poisoning using these drugs.

Or more simply put, from a more recent study, 750+ people have been prevented from committing suicide by liver poisoning by the change. Now given it seems paracetamol poisoning is largely a "spur of the moment" decision, often associated with misuse of alcohol in combination with relationship issues it seems reasonable to conclude that the bulk of these folk were not determined on suicide and most probably have gone on to continue to live their lives.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

That really shows how impulsive many suicide attempts are. Clearly, if people were planning ahead they could work around the restrictions.

I think it shows how impulsive suicide attempts by paracetamol poisoning are, certainly. Some startling numbers here

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Hmm I don't why you put that up Greg tbh. I used the study from 2001 to show the immediate positive effect the limiting pack sizes stats seemed to indicate it had.

With regards to the rest of your post, if the 'folk' were not serious then the limiting the pack size would have had a smaller statistical affect (allowing for unintentional suicide).

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I'm a little puzzled about this Paracetamol business. I bought 3 packs of 16x500mg from Poundland earlier this week. For a quid. And in one go. I bought them as a ''be prepared'' measure and they were cheap. Isn't this legal?

 

[theclaud]

The other positive effect of the publicity surrounding limiting pack sizes for paracetamol might just be that people wised up to the fact that it isn't a good drug to take if you just want to make a grand gesture that won't be fatal. An ex of mine didn't know this, but he had plenty of time to consider it after he went to A&E and told them what he'd done, then sank into a coma and died.

Christ. This is the point, I think. Paracetamol is such an everyday drug that its disastrous potential is widely underestimated. People simply don't believe that it will kill them, and don't understand that, once the damage is done, there's no going back.