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Whatkatyforgottodo · 26/01/2022 10:29

I vaguely remember being prescribed a capsule medication as a teenager that was a tan colour on one end and clear at the other filled with tiny multicoloured balls. I’ve halfheartedly made efforts to find out what it was then I saw this picture in the guardian today and it reminded me! Can anyone identify it? Thank you all!

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Whatkatyforgottodo · 26/01/2022 10:29

Didn’t mean to enable voting, sorry!

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Justreadingtheforum3 · 26/01/2022 10:34

Yeah. I think it was the 80s/90s look of contac 400 xx

Twoweeksandcounting · 26/01/2022 10:34

This might be an obvious question, but any ideas whatsoever what it might have been prescribed for?

PeskyRooks · 26/01/2022 10:38

Probably an antibiotic of some sort

GeraltsLastWish · 26/01/2022 10:38

Lemsip in pill form.

ZeroFuchsGiven · 26/01/2022 10:39

I reckon those were antibiotics.

Inthesameboatatmo · 26/01/2022 10:39

I think that's contact 400 op.
It was the best thing for my sinuses

OneTC · 26/01/2022 10:42

Is it on there?

If you use main search features you can change from tan to beige or whatever

CorrBlimeyGG · 26/01/2022 10:44

Do you have ADHD? Dextroamphetamine looks like that.

If you've misremembered the colours, then it might also be an antibiotic such as doxycycline.

RainbowZebraWarrior · 26/01/2022 10:49

Definitely contac 400 by the description. I
don't emember anything else that looked exactly the same

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NotsoNeurotypical · 26/01/2022 10:50
Whatkatyforgottodo · 26/01/2022 10:51

Thanks all. I had post viral syndrome, thought to have been triggered by undiagnosed glandular fever infection. I thought the capsules were prescribed for that but maybe I had sinusitis at the same time and they were contac 400? They look very similar but not exactly how I remember but it was a long time ago!

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NotsoNeurotypical · 26/01/2022 10:52

Cross post @RainbowZebraWarrior sorry!

zighead · 26/01/2022 10:54

I'm impressed with those remembering Contac 400. I worked as a Saturday girl in pharmacy in the early nineties and remember they were so popular. I wouldn't have remembered the name though.

RainbowZebraWarrior · 26/01/2022 10:54

Great minds @NotsoNeurotypical 😊

NotsoNeurotypical · 26/01/2022 10:58

I'm actually taking its blue and white descendent, still made by contac, this morning for sinus issues. A life time of them! I am well habituated with the drugs now.

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