to say "no we dont have any aspirin but we do have paracetamol"?

[Bogeyface]

Because apparantly they are the same thing and I should know what he meant.

I say that as the two are completely different drugs, and as aspirin in particular must be avoided if you have certain illnesses (chicken pox if memory serves, is one) then IWNBU to be specific about what we have in?

I'm with you, Bogey. I answer the question I'm asked, not assume they meant something different. I'd have said the same.

I find it really irritating when people expect you to do that. I'm quite happy to think about the answer to the question I'm asked, but I'm not going to waste time thinking about what they said vs what they might have actually meant instead.

And if I was told we had aspirin, I'd expect aspirin. Not something different. It's not someone else's place to assume what I meant either.

YANBU. Painkillers are not generic. People who say "asprin" to mean another kind of painkiller are idiots.

If memory serves aspirin works by thinning the blood allowing it to flow easier and clot less (hence why it is prescribed to patients at risk of/following strokes) and isn't a pain reliever like paracetamol/ibuprofen.
As you say, totally different type of drug that works completely differently and can interact with a whole host of other drugs and dangerous for people with certain medical conditions.
I've never taken an aspirin in my life, and i've always just asked "Do we have and painkillers?" although i don't like paracetamol at all and always buy ibuprofen for myself, while my dad is opposite.

Someone once gave me paracodol from their handbag for a hangover headache one time saying "Yes, I have some paracetemol". Big difference. Made the hangover much worse as I couldn't poo, which usually makes me feel better.

Asprin would also make me feel worse as it often upsets my stomach. On the other hand it is the best thing for tooth pain.

Ibuprofen for muscular pain and period pain. Paracetemol for sore throats.

whats the deal with Aspirin?
is it not safe?
I never use it but I think it was the medicine of choice when I was a child, or even Disprin?

I genuinely had no idea you could take paracetamol and ibuprofen together? unless the previous post suggesting you can as wrong. I've always thought of them as the same, you can take 2 every 4 hours, but don't overlap and only take one, not both.

we dont have aspirin in the house but we do have ibuprofen and or paracetamol, I use them interchangeably

oh i was told to take them every 2 hours, ibuprofen, 2 hours later paracetamol,

ah, well, but you go into a pub, ask for a Coke, they give you Pepsi...
Children's nursery: "Time for juice!" as someone gets out the squash.

It happens a lot.

if you get given pepsi, surely they should tell you?

YANBU at all. If he wants a generic item, then he needs to learn the generic word - OR he can accept that he's being a dick because you've answered the question he ACTUALLY asked, not the one he thought he had.

Answer each question with, "Do you mean what you have just said or are you talking generalisations?"

I genuinely had no idea you could take paracetamol and ibuprofen together? unless the previous post suggesting you can as wrong. I've always thought of them as the same, you can take 2 every 4 hours, but don't overlap and only take one, not both.

Paracetamol is a pain killer and can lower your temperature. Ibuprofen is an anti inflammatory so it kills pain by reducing swelling/inflamation. If you have both then combining them is a good idea.

Not only can you take them together but paracetamol attenuates other pain killers, this is why it is often combined with coedine.

I have actually taken paracetamol with tramadol (with Dr's advice).

ah, well, but you go into a pub, ask for a Coke, they give you Pepsi...

Actually, in most places they will check first that "we don't have coke, is pepsi ok?"

Because, if it were me, it wouldn't be.

And I eat butter, but not margarine. If someone asks if I want butter and then loads up a baked potato with margarine, it renders it inedible and is wasted. Margarine is vile.

And people who don't understand the difference between juice, squash and pop are idiots.

Sashh - not attenuates, the opposite. Accentuates?

you can take 2 every 4 hours, but don't overlap and only take one, not both.
You can take both at the same time, but it would be redundant. And then you'd have nothing to take in between when theit effect lessens.

By the way, it's not 2 every 4 hours, it depends on the dose.
I take 2x600 ibuprofen every 12 hours for my period. I'd have to take every 4 hours if 2x200.

ALWAYS READ THE SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS ON MEDICINES.
(for emphasis)

Not only can you take them together but paracetamol attenuates other pain killers, this is why it is often combined with coedine.

Sorry, but did you mean the opposite of attenuate?
That would be synergistic, in that it increases the effect.
Or it wouldn't make sense to give them together.

Also, aspirin and ibuprofen must be taken with food, because they can damage the stomach. Ibuprofen is not healthy for the liver, either.
No such worries with paracetamol.

It would be like a doctor prescribing any random antibiotic to think that all pain killers are the same.

I thought your answer was helpful!

YANBU.

I can see both sides here.

Your husband didn't need to be all about it and it depends on the context. Walking to the shop, there's a reason to be specific.

However DH does stuff like this.

DH: what do we have for dinner
Me: we have mince so I was going to make a shepherds pie.
DH: you mean cottage pie

OH FUCK OFF!

Ugh DH always does this! YANBU!

I'd have said the same, aspirin and paracetamol are two totally different drugs. Only a few days ago DH asked me if we had any ibuprofen in and I said "no but we have paracetamol", . It's not sarcastic, they're different drugs with different benefits and side effects!

agree about the cottage pie. fuck off indeed

You are right.

I'd stop bothering to be helpful, and just say that you don't know.

Well if he asks for toilet paper just give him a copy of the Daily Mail through the door...

It's the same thing.

Yesterday I asked the colleagues around me if anyone had any paracetamol. None did but one offered me ibuprofen. I think that was lovely if her. She didn't pretend it was paracetamol, just ascertained that if I had a headache I may or may not want an alternative painkiller. Accurate and helpful, much like your answer to dh!