I can't open my arthritis medicine because I have arthritis

[u/astercalendula]

Currently waiting for my husband to get home because I can't open my arthritis medicine due to me having arthritic hands.

*UPDATE: *

Thank you to everyone who suggested solutions.

I especially loved learning about how Meloxicam helps your dog/cat/chinchilla!

To reply to some common comments:

• I will request a different cap next time. This is a new-ish condition, and I just don't take it regularly enough to bother going to the pharmacy. Also, I've fiddled with it enough now that the nubs wore down and it's no longer me-proof.

• Thank you for the warnings of ulcers and kidney damage. I guess it's pretty common with NSAIDS, so I'll keep the dosage as needed only.

• Why I didn't use tools: it was 10 PM. I didn't want to.

[u/GuaranteeComfortable]

Every time you got on the plarmacy, check your bag and the bottle before you leave the drive through. Or ask the person if the prescription has a non safety cap so you can open it.

[u/ledow → u/GuaranteeComfortable]

Drive through pharmacy....

Just when you think countries couldn't get any weirder.

[u/oopsdiditwrong → u/ledow]

Why is that weird? Pretty sweet to have a pediatrician call in the prescription and not have to drag a sick kid into the store

[u/ledow → u/oopsdiditwrong]

That also works without requiring a drive-through either. You're still dragging them out into the car with you, right? Even prescription delivery isn't uncommon.

But a drive-through? There are these things called feet.

You don't have to have a road going through literally every single kind of store in every town.

[u/mrspoopy_butthole → u/ledow]

How does it inconvenience you?

[u/heili → u/mrspoopy_butthole]

People line up for the drive through pharmacy window to the point that they are blocking the road and the intersection.

[u/Meowakin → u/ledow]

The problem is that our towns and cities are designed around cars. It’s truly awful, drive-throughs aren’t the problem, they are a symptom of

[u/ledow → u/Meowakin]

I know.

And then you have health problems because of it.

Nobody walks anywhere, not even for a few yards, even if they're in their 20's... because they can just use the drive-through.

I'm by no means a fitness fanatic, and never have been, but fuck... just park up and walk in, if you're at all capable.

And if you're not through ill health... I'd question your ability to safely drive a car too.

(Disabled people with modified cars... slightly different).

[u/ledow → u/[deleted]]

Strange how entire countries manage without that shite, eh?

P.S. my ex was registered disabled, wheelchair-bound, through EDS/JHS. that runs through her family.

I know perfectly well the problems involved.

None of them require a drive-through.

[u/Kayrim_Borlan → u/ledow]

The world managed for millennia without modern medicine or any other life-improving invention. I take it you think we might as well go back to pre-historic times as well? After all, life doesn't "require" those, either.

[u/kjpmi → u/ledow]

It sounds like you are hating on pharmacy drive up windows NOT because it’s actually outrageous, but because it’s something from the United States. Your entitled smugness smells of shit.
Just FYI, it’s not just a thing in the US.
They are now popping up in the UK. And Canada has them as well. I’m sure other countries have them too.

As others have mentioned, it’s a convenient thing for disabled people, for parents coming from the doctor with a sick child in the car, and for immunocompromised people who risk getting sick every time they go to a public place.

Your callousness is disgusting and you seem like a truly awful human being.

[u/Bandin03 → u/ledow]

But a drive-through? There are these things called feet.

Plenty of people either don't have those things or can't use them. They need medication too. And sick people going through the drive through are a lot less likely to get other people sick.

[u/oopsdiditwrong → u/ledow]

Prescription delivery is pretty sweet too, but that's for chronic issues not like acute strep throat in my experience. I'm saying the kid is already in the car on the way home from the doc and I barely have to stop on the way home.

I am mid 30s and jacked up my back last year, had to have spine surgery earlier this year (back to 100%). I could barely walk in the interim, and when I did it was excruciating. So while I have feet, it was much better sitting in my driver's seat with lumbar support. Older people need this all the time.

I don't get the anti drive through argument here.

I'll add that if we were discussing drive through liquor store, I'd probably be with you on it

[u/ledow → u/oopsdiditwrong]

How about "if you can't walk without excruciating pain, you shouldn't be driving either"?

[u/oopsdiditwrong → u/ledow]

People in wheel chairs can't drive?

Bud, I'm out of this one. This is nonsense

[u/ledow → u/oopsdiditwrong]

Adapted cars? Sure.

As I noted above.

[u/Shadowpriest → u/ledow]

Some places allow you to drop off and pick up scripts by drive-thru which can be very convenient for people with mobility issues or prefer to be as socially distant as possible.

Now being able to buy snacks, lotto tickets, cigarettes, and beer at a drive-thru (Ohio for example) would definitely throw folks for a loop!

[u/lotsofsyrup → u/ledow]

that is a pretty common thing

[u/Gloomy_Fig2138 → u/[deleted]]

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