Do You Buy Nurofen or Generic-Brand Ibuprofen?

Can't understand why some conditions warrant free scrips yet other equally serious ones don't. Diabetes and Asthma are
both potentially life threatening, but only the former qualifies.

I buy the yearly season ticket so not too costly, but daresay some find the cost a burden
 
Same way I keep my cameras ticking over with generic batteries.
Camera makers dont make batteries.
 
tijuana taxi said:
Can't understand why some conditions warrant free scrips yet other equally serious ones don't. Diabetes and Asthma are
both potentially life threatening, but only the former qualifies.

I buy the yearly season ticket so not too costly, but daresay some find the cost a burden
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Baffles me as well tbh. My wife has a thyroid problem so gets free prescriptions, I have an incurable chronic disease and don't. I get a prepayment card at c£10 a month, got help me if I had to pay full wack as I need 7 items!
 
I always buy the geriatric ones ..... much stronger!!!
 
I always use generic meds but then again I've always got generic ailments... :sorry:
 
My local chemist wouldn't give me Nurofen when I had back pain and advised against it cos she knew I take bisoprolol daily. Told me it would affect some sort of adverse effect for me so I won't miss it.
 
I buy what ever is available at the time of purchase, some times that means I buy generic sometimes only the branded is available if say I am buying from a petrol station because I'm in pain when out in the car...
 
viv1969 said:
That's two boxes citing the same dosage but one with a brand name, both freely available when buying a loaf of bread.
Not the same all IMO.
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Which was exactly what I was referring to in Post 5, before someone brought up placebo effects...
 
Just saw on the news that the Ibuprofen variants are going to be investigated by the advertising watchdog here.
 
I buy whatever is available in the dosage I want, any difference in price is easily overcome by any travel to such other facility.
 
Ricardodaforce said:
Yes, but normally the travel involved is a pace.
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Not for me ;) not everyone we've got one chemist in the village next to us by the doctors surgery. A super market is several miles away. No shops in our village.
 
Always generic, apart from migraleve, because they are the only thing that clear my migraines after trying many different things.

Ive also just discovered that the Naproxen I have been prescribed for my dodgy back has the exact same dosage as a well known female period pain tablet called Feminax, which can be bought over the counter. Win for me, although Ill look a bot odd asking for it in the chemist.
 
TCR4x4 said:
Always generic, apart from migraleve, because they are the only thing that clear my migraines after trying many different things.

Ive also just discovered that the Naproxen I have been prescribed for my dodgy back has the exact same dosage as a well known female period pain tablet called Feminax, which can be bought over the counter. Win for me, although Ill look a bot odd asking for it in the chemist.
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I've had naproxen amongst other selections with prolapse discs, I'll have to look into that.
 
Tramadol - haven't looked for anything to replace as they do as they're supposed to!!! Odd cheapo 16p tesco painkillers kept in car for backup
 
Snooky said:
Tramadol - haven't looked for anything to replace as they do as they're supposed to!!! Odd cheapo 16p tesco painkillers kept in car for backup
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You can't really get tramadol in other form other than when the chemist gives you Im currently also munching through some 50mg Tramadol from Bristol Laboratories who are based in Birkhampsted for some reason along with my naproxen.
 
viv1969 said:
Ibuprofen should always be coated due to the need for slower release.
The drug can play havoc with the gastric system.
I've never seen an uncoated standard tab.
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its coated so it gets disolved after the stomach to prevent problems.
 
It's not something I give much thought to because I probably only take painkillers two, maybe three times a year.
But when I do buy, it's always the generic stuff.
Really don't see the point in paying extra for fancy packaging.

Free prescriptions for everything here in Wales, but I'm sure as hell not booking a doctor's appointment for a headache or a Winter cold :LOL:
Besides which, it takes around 2 weeks to get an appointment - by which time you're either over it or past the stage where a GP is going to be able to help you!
 
Nawty said:
I have a degree in chemistry (not that I've ever used it) and I buy generic drugs, they're exactly the same.



Placebo is a powerful thing so it could well be that people who believe in branded drugs do experience improved performance.
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I once saw a study that indicted that, those who took the branded stuff had better pain relief, even though it was exactly the same drug, your right placebo is a powerful thing.
 
Definitely the generic stuff, especially for cold/flu remedies. The effective ingredient is the same in cheap own-brand congestion relief tablets as it is in expensive max-strength flu relief stuff, sometimes for best effect I'll take a paracetamol-plus as well and I've got the lot then, and saved a ton of money. Just read the active ingredient lists and compare. If you really want maximum feel-good effect, take the tablets and top off with a mug of hot Jif lemon or cheap clone thereof, with some honey and strong liquor of choice!
 
Tramadol.....good stuff for a prolapsed disc and sciatica !
 
Generic, even though bizarrely a batch of Tylenol I had a while ago seemed particularly effective against all the other Co coda tabs I've ever taken and there was no particular reason for me to imagine a better effect :)
 
I buy generic everything. It's not many brand names in my shopping basket.
 
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If you look at ANY medication box it will have a 'PL' number. This is the identifier for any particular medication's active ingredient. If any medication packaging has the same PL number i.e. paracetemols, ibuprofens etc. then they will literally have identical active ingredients. So any extra cost is packaging and advertising, the actual drug is exactly the same. Look in the shop next time between branded and no brands and compare PL numbers if you're not convinced...
 
tijuana taxi said:
Can't understand why some conditions warrant free scrips yet other equally serious ones don't. Diabetes and Asthma are
both potentially life threatening, but only the former qualifies.

I buy the yearly season ticket so not too costly, but daresay some find the cost a burden
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fabs said:
Baffles me as well tbh. My wife has a thyroid problem so gets free prescriptions, I have an incurable chronic disease and don't. I get a prepayment card at c£10 a month, got help me if I had to pay full wack as I need 7 items!
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Because when prescription charges were introduced (all scrips were originally free on the NHS) diabetes, hypothyroid and maybe one or 2 others were the only long term conditions around where it was deemed necessary to have the medication otherwise it would threaten the life of the sufferer. Thus they wanted to guarantee that people could always afford their meds.

No new conditions have been added since the introduction of charges although I think an MP tried (maybe succeeded) in adding cystic fibrosis as their child had it.
 
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