to hate childproof pill packets

[Sleepyhead11]

Yes, I know why they exist, but I have an autoimmune condition which has frozen one wrist and literally cannot get into my medicine. DP said his gran couldn't get into hers. I think it's great there are things to protect kids, but we don't have children, and I cannot open my medicine, meaning I need to wait until DP gets home to take it.

Ask the pharmacy to put your meds in a pill tray! They’ll be more than happy to accommodate.

Do the pills have to stay in the packet until they’re taken? I had some like that once. If not, decant them into something else?

Could you decant the pills into a standard container (e.g. one that vitamin supplements come in) - obviously labelled clearly for your own reference. We have no DC or child visitors either, and if I'm on meds I often decant some into a 'normal' container to save faffing.

Yes!!! I take modified release pain meds, the ones that addicts break up to get the opioid hit faster

The bloody childproof packaging often means that in trying to get the sodding pill out I end up splitting the tablet in half!!

I have asked the pharmacy if it's possible to get certain brands over others (there's only one generic that comes in this packaging, the other generics are fine) but it just depends what the supplier sends. Drives me potty!

Try something like this. Or help or by decanting into a pill container.
https://www.aids4mobility.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&productid=4274&language=en&currency=GBP&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqvSNp6rf2gIVybTtCh0zhACoEAQYAiABEgJ6TvDD_BwE

Put them in something else then

Yes yes yes. It's even painful getting into blister packs with bad hands, but the bottles can be so horrible I've missed doses before! My dad tends to pick up my meds as I can't get out so I ask him to open them if I remember. Last time for some reason they put the final few methotrexate in a tiny childproof bottle- like so small it probably posed more of a choking risk than the pills! Even my dad, with no hand issues, struggled to open it. I do wish there was an option to pick non-childproof packaging, although the costs and extra time it's take means it'll never happen. At least 9/10 times my sulphasalazine comes in an easier to open bottle.

And although yes I often put my pills into something else, it's getting in in the first damn place that can be tough! If I get pills delivered I have to wait until my dad or sister is free to visit me to open the bottle. I've just decanted 4 days of pills into a tray thing because I can't do more at a go, it makes my hands hurt so much to open all the boxes and pop the blister packs. I struggle to even write my name so holding and putting pills into place can be a right struggle.

And thanks for that link moose23 I've been trying to find a bottle opener that would work for pill bottles I didn't realise there was an actual product I've been looking at jar and bottle openers

thank you all. I was thinking tupperware, but didn't know if they needed to be not exposed to air or whatever? They are sulfasalizine.

the pill bottle opener looks great, moose. We got a mobility aid tin opener last year, didn't know you had the same for pills

Goldilocks, yes, when things are bad it's even difficult to get out diclofenac. if I remember mtx was easier but they have taken it away from me.

bananafish, why do they do that, I don't understand? If I had a child I would want something they couldn't get into, but until then I really want accessible pills.