Low dose aspirin

[LeftTheWashingOut]

Hi all. I'm currently 29 weeks pregnant. I have been taking low dose aspirin since 12 weeks due to pre eclampsia with first pregnancy. The first month was on prescription, but the next month the prescription hadn't made it to the pharmacy so they just sold me 3 months worth over the counter for £1.90 - bargain!

So I need some more, and I figured I'd just go back to the pharmacy and buy it - except the pharmacist told me they would only give it to me on prescription because I'm pregnant.... which, seeing as that requires my midwife, a doctor and then the pharmacist packing it up monthly from now on seems a massive waste of everyone's time.

Does anyone know other conditions you would need to buy 75mg aspirin for, that I can send my husband in to buy it for me and won't require a prescription?

I got my prescriptions directly from my GP and my GP put them on repeat. It then meant it was up me not to get more than I needed.

Anyway peripheral arterial disease or previous heart attack.

Oh and the problem with any conditions that he needs aspirin for is the pharmacy would normally be filling his prescriptions for other drugs.

I had to have low dose when pregnant and just bought it every time. No prescription, no questions. They knew I was pregnant. Try a different pharmacy?

I get them at supermarket. They are stacked alongside full dose ones. Yellow packet. On the aisle that sells painkillers.Don't have to ask anyone. 28 in each pack. Tesco.

Just get it from the supermarket? I just took it throughout pregnancy and halved the 150mg tablets each day.

Aren't low dose aspirin a "special" kind, as in enteric coated to protect from stomach bleeding? I am also on 75mg aspirin daily but it's for cardiac issue and I have to take lanzaprazole also to protect my stomach. But I did have a gastric bleed before starting the aspirin.
I just mention it in case the shop bought variety is not the same as the prescription stuff.

Thanks everyone. They were adamant that I wouldn't be able to get it anywhere without prescription (even though I pointed out i previously bought it from them so clearly you
could ). Just seems mad when I could just buy regular aspirin and then cut them up to make the right dose! I hadn't realized I could buy it at the supermarket - I'll just add to my next online shop.

I also had this problem. Got mine in sainsburys in the pharmacy bit - they had the special coating on that pp have mentioned. Came in a yellow box I think? The pharmacist was happy to sell them to me when i explained the background.

@YorkshireTeaCup did you swallow those whole? The ones I was first prescribed were soluble and so were the ones I bought myself, so perhaps not the same? Although I wouldn't mind ones I could just take as a tablet as they take ages to dissolve for such a tiny tablet!

@LeftTheWashingOut yes, the ones the hospital gave me to start with were soluble but the sainsburys ones were just normal tablets. In case noone has told you this, it apparently works better if you take them at bedtime.

No one had told me that, thanks @YorkshireTeaCup. Although I'm in the habit of taking them after dinner so I have a full stomach, which having a toddler and being pregnant is usually just before my bedtime anyway 🤣

My obstetric consultant told me to buy them over the counter and break them up so I'm guessing they are fine to take like that. It's only for pregnancy so not as long term as to treat some other things?

Home bargains, savers and body care sell it as well