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The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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"How do we ensure our patient drops and loses ~80% of his pills and that he slices the absolute fuck out of his fingers in the process?"

They're locking my mental health goals behind a fidgety Saw trap built from scissors and miserliness.

I've had boxes where there were several single pills snipped from their blister packs rattling around in them. These pills in particular are tiny, like you can't even feel them in your mouth when you take them, but they expect me to be able to finesse one out of a single blister with at least 3 extremely sharp and piercing corners on it ๐Ÿ˜’

If you're a pharmacist and you do this, please go ahead and take the pills yourself, you clearly need 'em more than I do, ya sick fuck.

A picture of my hand holding small sections of medication blister pack, cut with scissors to make up the last handful of pills I'm prescribed, with each cut leaving razor-sharp corners and edges
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[โ€“] 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Blister packs should be illegal. Creates waste. All pills should come in recyclable plastic bottles.

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Many medicines need a hermetically sealed environment for storage. They break down from moisture in the air, being exposed to oxygen for a prolonged time can cause the active ingredients to break down. Even some of the binders and stabilizers can grow bacteria and mold.

    Like bro this person can't figure out that we have tools for cutting things open? Scissors? Nail clippers? Small blade? Hobby knife?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 10 months ago

    There a few many reasons why plastic bottles aren't the best option for some medications and it comes down to the technical specifications of the drug as well as drug safety regulations.

    Iirc, bottles aren't optimal for formulations that result in friable (brittle) tablets, or those that need to be packaged in a reduced oxygen environment so that you can take out a tablet individually without exposing all the others to regular air, and so that they're easy to handle and transport individually without exposure to contaminants in the environment up to the moment that they need to be ingested.

    I encourage people to look deeper into pharmaceutical technology. It's a fascinating field full of surprises.

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