Fao Sqad

[jennyjoan]

Sqad you always recommend ibuprofen. Is it potent enough from cheap stores

[bednobs]

it's the same as more expensive stores (i'm not sqad you may have noticed)

[Khandro]

Isn't Ibuprofen it a bit like what Andy Warhol said about Coca-Cola? "No matter who you are or how much money you have, you can't buy a better one, - a coke is a coke!" :0)

[jennyjoan]

Thanks bed. I'll have to get some in

[jennyjoan]

Bed. Do you use them

[bednobs]

yes i do

[Sqad]

JJ from the supermarkets they are 200mgms.
From the pharmacy one can get 400 mgm tablets.

In my opinion the 400 mgm tablet is the preferred strength to use.

[barry1010]

Taking two cheap 200g tablets is the same as taking one 400g and can still work out a lot cheaper.

[jennyjoan]

Thanks all

[jennyjoan]

Meant to say how many mills a day

[jennyjoan]

Lol. Mgms

[tiggerblue10]

All different types of painkillers, whether branded or shops own, contain the same ingredients. There was a GP on This Morning this week talking about this who said that the only difference was the coating.

I always buy tesco paracetamol rather than a branded one. Much cheaper.

[Barsel]

Unless things have changed, last time I bought tablets in the supermarket, you could only buy so many, I seem to think it was 32.
Then there was a huge shortage of paracetamol and so I told my GP who could give me 100 on prescription, and I always managed to get those even though there were none of the shelves.

[Barsel]

'none on the shelves'

[brian j john]

Tigger is correct

[Vagus]

You can buy 96 x 400mg ibruprofen in Boots, from the pharmacy counter.

[Sqad]

How many mgms a day ? as few as provides relief, certainly no more than 400mgms every four hours for no more than 2 weeks at that dose.

[Buenchico]

With regard to the limit on quantity, referred to by Barsel above, while ordinary shops are only allowed to sell 32 tablets at a time, pharmacies can sell bigger quantities.

For example, when I was booked in for a hospital op, I was advised to stock up on both paracetamol and ibuprofen to take for quite some time afterwards. I thought the limit was 32 tablets of each but, when I tried to purchase that many at the self-service checkout in Morrison's, I found out that the limit was actually a total of 32 tablets. (16 of each).

However when I walked just a few metres from the checkout, the in-store pharmacist was happy to sell me as many tablet as I thought that I might need once I explained my situation to her.

(As it turned out, I never had even the slightest twinge of pain after my op, either in hospital or when I got home!)

[barry1010]

Any pharmacy can sell 100, even the Tesco in store pharmacy. Supermarkets without a pharmacist are restricted