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The Other John wrote
Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote

What ****es me off is they wrap each one separately. Why?

To make them child proof 'cos idiot kids think they're sweets!
Trouble
is they are not only child proof they're adult proof as well!
With
arthritic hands I have a hell of a job getting them unwrapped.

Cant you keep a small pair of surgical scissors in the box of
tabs ?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Medical-O...Z0Ga-IolczU_eQ

Why should he have to? The tabs should be non-wrapped.

Doesn't work, the stuff is hygroscopic.

You can buy the powder in a bottle without any wrapping and just
pour it in, what's so special about tabs that they need little
wrappers?

They are hygroscopic.

Surely they're just powder in a lump?

Nope, different constituents.

Why?

So it doesn't clump with the powder form.

I'd buy powder or liquid if I could

I wouldn't.

Easier to just pour a bit of liquid in. That's what I do with the washing
machine.

but all the supermarkets just sell tablets. I don't want ****ing
individual wrappers!

Some tablets have wrappers that dissolve in the
dishwasher so you don't have to remove the wrapper.

Never seen those.

It's as bad as paracetamol. That should be sold loose in bottles, not
in silly little push the tablet out and smash it to pieces sachets!

All of my meds are like that now and I don't ever smash any pills.

Some tablets, particularly paracetamol, always break in half.

The blood pressure meds

I used to take those, they don't work on me at all. Who's to say what
blood pressure is "correct" anyway? Docs seem to think 50% of us have it
too high?!?

are also available in little plastic
bottles, because some have only half a pill twice a day but
I prefer the cards with individual push out pills and I now
take one pill twice a day.

Bottles of 100 paracetamol would be so much easier than those ****ing push
out of sealed cards crap. Less wasteful packaging too.