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[–] 68 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That fingernail chewing 😬

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  • [–] 23 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

    This is why I make sure to take each pill one at a time instead of using a pill organizer, sadly spending the first five minutes of every day popping the bottles open one at a time.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

    There is a very real chance I’d OD if I didn’t use my pill organizer, haha. For whatever reason my brain absolutely can’t retain a timestamp on when I last took my meds.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    I've got a timer on my pills so that I can see the last time I took them for this exact reason.

    Too many times of accidentally taking them twice or skipping them entirely so now I've got a timer.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

    Don't worry, that pill bottle problem will be solved if Canada joins the EU. You'll get wonderful blister packs instead.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    I hate blister packs so damn much

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Why though? Do you enjoy accidentally spilling all of your pills? It's really easy to pop them out and put into a bottle if you'd want it like that. It feels good to not risk the stressed overworked pharmacy tech putting something wrong into my bottle.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Blisters make my hands hurt, you try popping a few dozen every week for your pill planner.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Hmm, what kinds of blisters you have where it requires much force...? Screwing a bottle, especially the child-safe ones the US has, requires a lot more force?

    It's usually foil holding in the tablets, a tip I usually use is slightly slicing it with my fingernail and then the tablet just falls out. The only blisters that I've seen that's somewhat difficult would be Mirtazapine orally dissolving tablets, where there's a paper layer on the foil.

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  • Blisters use paper backing here, and prescription bottles actually use a thumb release and twist now that requires far less strength than the standard child safes where you press down and twist. Then if you don't have to worry about kids you just flip the lid over and screw it into the bottle

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  • [–] 20 points 2 weeks ago

    Extended release sobstopper

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

    I hope some of them are to help regrow fingernails, because that thumb is nasty!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Not enough talk about his thumb here, IMO.

    I used to bite mine when I was a kid. In my early teens I decided it was enough, and so everytime I had the urge to bite, I just went and got some clippers and cut them instead. It fixed me forever. No urge to bite. My bite was related to the annoying feeling of having long nails. But I also told myself I'm not allowed to clip them past the white part into the pink. So that also helped regrow them perfectly.

    Highly recommend to try this method. Very simple and won't cost you anything but some clippers.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    I bite off the white and then try to clip the rest so they look even. They get very short but at least i don't bite into the living part of the nail and don't damage it and I still get to satisfy my tick. Which is what life is all about.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    The thing is also that:

    Biting your nails can lead to significant damage to your teeth, including chipping, cracking, and shifting out of alignment. Additionally, it increases the risk of gum disease due to the transfer of bacteria from your nails to your mouth.

    It's not worth it. Life is not about gum disease and damaged teeth.

    It's also still not good to rip your nails as what happens with biting. It causes damage to your nails even if you don't bite all the way down "to the meat".

    And if you just search the internet for nail biting, there's SOOO many complications that can occur with nail biting, and so many bacteria you can ingest that can get you very sick.

    Basically,

    it's fucking nasty as fuck.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    It can be difficult to just stop a stupid habit like that.

    My solution was to go on a skiing holiday. Wearing gloves for a week and being away from my ordinary routine definitely helped.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Okay let’s see if anyone can identify all these. I think that large pink one is an atripla maybe?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    wtf is an everlasting gobstopper?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Has to be a gellcap in there to glue them together like that, maybe fish oil.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    I wonder if it tastes like snozzberries when he bites his fingernails

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    that amber pill isn't gluten free

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Alternatively, a VERY happy everlasting gobstopper. (I don't know what kind of pills those are.)

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  • Cursed gummy cluster.

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