?? why?

[ebee]

I was told by my GP, to just take 1x75mg per day. I insisted the aspirin be prescribed, so it appeared on my record. I hate taking meds, I refuse to take anything not prescribed.

Personally. If a Dr etc advised me to take it or anything else I would tend to follow that advice with or without an actual prescription unless say I had some niggling doubts for some reason and I would prefer a clear record of that advice.
If someone is a bit likely to be forgetful or in say a care home etc then yes an actual prescription might be of benefit to make intentions clear to all parties.

 

[morqthana]

Personally. If a Dr etc advised me to take it or anything else I would tend to follow that advice with or without an actual prescription unless say I had some niggling doubts for some reason and I would prefer a clear record of that advice.
If someone is a bit likely to be forgetful or in say a care home etc then yes an actual prescription might be of benefit to make intentions clear to all parties.

If someone is over 60 then an actual prescription is of financial benefit to them.

 

[ebee]

If someone is over 60 then an actual prescription is of financial benefit to them.

I am all for "saving a shilling" so I agree.

 

[morqthana]

It saves a lot more than a shilling

 

[ebee]

It saves a lot more than a shilling

Back in the day as very young kids our parents and grandparents saving a shilling was a bit more than 5p is today! 5p in 1955 year of my birth is about £167.64 today?
Today I still save a shilling anyway I can, I was brung up on it

I wonder how much a 5p (shilling) will be worth in £ p in another 70 years plus, I will probably not find out, I will leave it to some of you to discover that one!

Perhaps not as impossible as that might sound -A few years ago )perhaps more than 10 years ago, apparently some "scientists" announced that the first person to reach 200 years old had "probably" already been born.

 

[morqthana]

5p in 1955 year of my birth is about £167.64 today?

No, nowhere near, it's between £1.59 to £7.44 depending on how you compare it

 

[ebee]

No, nowhere near, it's between £1.59 to £7.44 depending on how you compare it

I knew somebody would review my calculations and I strongly suspected that someone should be you .

Anyway, the point still remains!

 

[SUNRAY]

No, nowhere near, it's between £1.59 to £7.44 depending on how you compare it

I knew somebody would review my calculations and I strongly suspected that someone should be you .

Anyway, the point still remains!

I haven't attempted to look anything up but my immediate reaction was £160 is too high but I didn't give any thought to what it should be but now it's being discussed.

1972 I started work as an apprentice on £11.66/week, these days that would be something like per hour so 40 times greater, when I started school in 1960 twin milky way at 3d bounty at 4d in the corner shop, I'll make a guess now around 80p or 60 times and a gallon of petrol at 3/6p now around £5.10/- or 30+ times. A new escort/viva around 1967 when we started talking at school £700ish 30-40 time that now.
Bearing in mind my figures are 5 to 12 years after 1955 I think it would be fair ot upgradde then to say 40 to 100 making the shilling now worth £2 to £5. One final figure I recall in early 60's was the rent man collecting £1 17/6d every week for a 3 bed semi council house, obviousely council houses no longer exist but that exact same house cost us £4800 around 1970 as a sitting tanant (valued at £6250 including our improvements) is currently netting £1550pcm or £360/week or 200 times making it £10 or bumped up to £15 for the earlier years. Oh and current value £450K or 70 times

These are all personal recollections and by no meant any form of officialdom involded, I'm sure some other examples exist which are widely above, or even below, my figures.

 

[securespark]

I'm on Cocodamol at the moment and that leaflet states not to mix with Ibroprofen but doesn't list it in the ingredients.

And yes it's bunging me up which is not good for my hernia

8/500, 15/500 or 30/500?

I had Codeine in hospital after my bad ankle break and boy it jammed me up.

I was bed bound and didn't go for days and days and when I did, it was excruciating and came out literally like a cannonball. The nurse who came to take it away said "How the hell did you get that out?"

If you can at all avoid it, do. Try and take something else. After my episode, I don't use it, except if I have diarrhoea. Then I just take one or two 8/500 and I'm over the squits!

 

[SUNRAY]

8/500, 15/500 or 30/500?

I had Codeine in hospital after my bad ankle break and boy it jammed me up.

I was bed bound and didn't go for days and days and when I did, it was excruciating and came out literally like a cannonball. The nurse who came to take it away said "How the hell did you get that out?"

If you can at all avoid it, do. Try and take something else. After my episode, I don't use it, except if I have diarrhoea. Then I just take one or two 8/500 and I'm over the squits!

30/500

I had bee having neck pain for a while and diagnosed over the phone as arthritis and told to take paracetamol up to daily 2, 4 times a day. I'm not one to take drugs and only used when required but started clock watching due t the pain. On a Sunday morning I woke in great pain and aiming for drugs I'd used 48 in under 5 days, I realised every 4 hours meant 5 times a day - oops. I went to A&E and given the first box of 100 Cocodamol and took care over use.

I have good and bad days and on good days I avoid drugs which is the wrong thing to do as it gets out of the system. I'm trying to control with just paracetamol at the moment to avoid the codeine if I can as I've had 2 such sessions you describe.

 

[securespark]

Yes, you're dead right. You need to keep it in your system. A nurse described it to me as when the pain relief wears off, you need to take more pills to start getting the pain relief in your system again, but if you take them regularly, you keep an even dose in your system, which is better.

 

[ebee]

Not forgetting a 4 hour dose of 4 times daily max if you only need them whilst awake but if you on constant pain and sleep loss then those doses mean you have too long between reliefs unless you over indulge and the iron can lie a problem and can make nighttime a nightmare. Do you risk small overdose or not? Hobson choice

 

[morqthana]

What I find a pain (sorry) are antibiotics where you need to take 4 a day, 2 hours before eating.

 

[morqthana]

1972 I started work as an apprentice on £11.66/week, these days that would be something like per hour so 40 times greater, when I started school in 1960 twin milky way at 3d bounty at 4d in the corner shop, I'll make a guess now around 80p or 60 times and a gallon of petrol at 3/6p now around £5.10/- or 30+ times. A new escort/viva around 1967 when we started talking at school £700ish 30-40 time that now.
Bearing in mind my figures are 5 to 12 years after 1955 I think it would be fair ot upgradde then to say 40 to 100 making the shilling now worth £2 to £5. One final figure I recall in early 60's was the rent man collecting £1 17/6d every week for a 3 bed semi council house, obviousely council houses no longer exist but that exact same house cost us £4800 around 1970 as a sitting tanant (valued at £6250 including our improvements) is currently netting £1550pcm or £360/week or 200 times making it £10 or bumped up to £15 for the earlier years. Oh and current value £450K or 70 times

Those sorts of variations are why there's no one-size-fits-all way to equivalence prices from the past to today's. People have got richer, generally. Some things have got cheaper - e.g. in the late '60s a colour TV was about £300. By 1972 that had fallen to £200-250, but even then you'd have to have worked for 17-20 weeks (NOT allowing for tax & NI) to earn that much. So a totally unresearched guess says that a colour TV to you as an apprentice was around half a year's wages. It isn't now, not even a humongous 8K OLED jobbie.

You mention the price of petrol - in 1920 that reached 4/3½d per gallon, in terms of average working wage that's £7.20 per litre today.

Some things have got more expensive - houses, for example.

 

[ebee]

What I find a pain (sorry) are antibiotics where you need to take 4 a day, 2 hours before eating.

Yup antibiotics can sometimes be inconsiderate, Some with food, some without food, some either way, usually space out evenly as possible throughout the day so a bit difficult whilst you should be sleeping.

I one saw a TV prog and someone who had a bit of medical knowledge saying something like "it is more beneficial to take the whole course in one dose!" I thought blimey that do not sound right. I was told by a nurse once that often inpatients were given an initial double first dose just to get things going well simply because it was relatively safer than doing so at home because you were being closely monitored" sounded like there might be some logic in that.

But when next in A & E I asked a Dr about what that TV bloke suggested.

His answer after a small pause was "Well yes that could sometimes have some value perhaps, however, if you had a bad reaction to then how the hell would we get it out of your system?"
Good answer I think.