What is the worst tasting medicine you have had?

[Hulababy]

For me: pulmo bailey cough medicine

This is what DH brought home for me today. My cough is now so bad I cough with pretty much every breath, which is taking it's toll on my already flu ridden body.

You take it in water and drink it. It smells vile and tastes even worse. Despite not eating much at the moment I actually ended up raiding DD's Christmas chocolate in rder to eat something to remove the taste from my mouth.

I am told it is supposed to the best cough medicine there is and that is does work, and will suppress the cough for a while. Well, maybe a little but not entirely that's for ssue.

oooh yes, red wee, i had forgotten about that.

Can't remember what it was for but I remember being given a VILE pink gloopy medicine that tasted of aniseed. I hated it so much that my mum would have a handful of Smarties at the ready afterwards.

Still hate aniseed, one whiff and I'm ready to chuck. One of my friends went through a Pernod drinking phase when we went out and her breath used to make me gag!!

Pripsen. Oh god had forgotten about that. Hideous, hideous, hideous and vile.
Isn't it banned now for actually being harmful (or am I just making that up?). Don't know but either way it should be banned it's absolutely gross. I can actually taste it now, just thinking about it.

I feel redeemed that someone else has had their life marred by Pripsen.

I can't drink milkshake, even now, because of Pripsen.

The very thought is punching my gag reflex.

Just googled for Pripsen -seems I was making that up about it being banned (wishful thinking obviously).
The website selling it describes it hilariously inaccurately as (and I quote) 'a great tasting powder'. Ugh.

Dh just mentioned 'that chalky stuff'. I think he means Milk of Magnesia. Another gag here. Revolting stuff.

Day Nurse liquid

Conversely, I LOVE Night Nurse

Me too snigger - milkshakes are completely out for that reason.

metronizadole is disgusting.

I used to have cod liver oil every winter for about three years. That is also horrible.

Another vote for Pripsen here, I'm sure that is where my aversion to anything blackcurrant comes from.

I would also recommend not opening up antibiotic capsule (poss amoxycillin?) and pouring the powder directly into your mouth. I tried this when i was about 13 and had tonsilitis and couldn't swallow the plastic capsule.

I'm going for a large glass of water to wash the memory of these tastes out of my mouth - bleugh!

A chinese medicine taken for a very odd ailment that no traditional Dr could work out how to treat.
So you take a bag of herbs add water then you have to boil the resulting foul smelling mush for an hour so your whole house smells of it then drink the strained off liquid the end of the drink being like coffee grounds) Continue doing so for 21 days and pay nearly £200 for the joy of it.

[whisper it did work though]

metronizadole is foul - leaves a taste inyour mouth the whole time you are taking it. Cefalexin and ethyomycin are vom too. The joys of being allergic to penicillin

pripsen is responsible for my hatred of anything tasting of raspberry or strawberry!!!

Except the actual fruits themselves of course.

Those tablets that you take for threadworm, can't remember what they are called.
So bitter
Said I would chew them (to keep the kid company!) and they were truly vile, but I had to keep smiling so they wold eat theirs!

Pripsen, when I was a child. Then I managed to get worms when I was grown up and discovered you could just take a SINGLE TABLET - did that not exist in the 70s then?

MollyRoger, was the malt extract you are talking about called "Biomalt"? I used to sneak an extra couple of spoons of it as I just found it delicious!

Do you think Pripsen really had to taste that bad, or do you think they were trying to put us off milk?

I think they were punishing us for getting worms in the first place.

Pripsen really was disgusting wasn't it.

As an adult, Lactulose. Disgusting syrupy stuff that just wouldn't go down.

Castor oil was vile too - I was fed it until one day it "bounced" straight back all over my Dad. Never again.

My worst was Fenning's Fever Mixture though - contained dilute nitric and possibly sulphuric acid - ack, it was unutterably awful. We were fed it if we felt sick - real "kill or cure" stuff.

And liquid paraffin too - mostly that was textural though rather than flavour.

Milk of magnesia was a breeze in comparison

I'm not actually as old as I appear from that horrible list - Dad was just very old-fashioned!

The worst of it is - I didn't actually have worms, it was my sister, I was given a preventative dose.

The injustice!

pulmo is rank but stops coughs straight away (though supressing them isn't recommeneded) i was desperate when i used it though

Pripsen was horrible. I used to love the taste of liqufruta which is a garlic cough medicine.

snigger, I was a nail biter and an animal lover and a tomboy. Therefore I inevitably often had worms

I think my horor of pripsen means I probably had worms continually from about the age of 8 -16 because I was too terrified of that vile medicine to admit it. I was lovely and thin though...
sadly I also suffered terrible nightmares after someone told me an urban myth about a puppy whose head caved in after its owner noticed a threadworm wriggling around in its eye or something. You all must have been told that one!