Goddam F$#*#&*_$! Pills In F*%@#$*@! Blisterpacks...

[Kain]

While I genuinely appreciate your advice and the spirit of assistance with which it was offered, I shouldn't need to deploy knives, cutters or anything else to access a pill. I used to just take the cap off.

When I can contemplate the matter without become frustrated to the point of being livid, I'll probably adopt one or more of the suggestions that have been offered. Right now the most "reasonable solution" in my mind is to thrust a katana in my belt and raid Wal Mart pharmacy as if it were Kira's mansion until they learn the error of their ways.

But hopefully with the coke and slice I'll have for lunch, such thoughts will pass as they have before.

Cleaning up the local Walmart won't help matters much. You need to take it up with the manufacturer. I would suggest breaking out the MP5 Ninja since the pharmaceutical companies have more formative security.

[SteyrAUG]

Cleaning up the local Walmart won't help matters much. You need to take it up with the manufacturer. I would suggest breaking out the MP5 Ninja since the pharmaceutical companies have more formative security.

I figure Wal Mart serves as a warning and a message and we can escalate from there as needed.

[one]

Jesus man, take a pill.

(Sorry, really, really sorry. I couldn't stop myself.)

[Safetyhit]

The pill is to help me with stress / anxiety...

The possible responses are many here...

1. I'd suggest either changing dosages or going with another form of similar help altogether.

2. The pills are a placebo and the real treatment is learning patience and diligence through understanding of the opening process.

3. These repeated, predictable displays of confused rage clarify that you've crossed into a dangerous socio-territory and are likely now a threat to your neighbors.

4. Etc.

[Ed L.]

Brownells or Bravo company needs to make a tool that addresses this issue.

A Ned Christiansen bolt carrier staking tool would not work and would only crush the pill.

[Moose-Knuckle]

Same effin crap almost every night.



I attempt to remove ONE pill. I succeed in either exposing three or more pills or opening just one pill which launches with the force of a AR-15 detent spring the one time you try and work on a bench outside. The pill lands somewhere on my white tile floor where it is now invisible, except of course to my dogs who think everything on the floor is a tasty treat meant for them.

With 10X reading glasses and my trusty SureFire 6PX Tactical flashlight I eventually find the pill (which is white and slightly smaller than a tic tac) before my dogs do and it has typically come to a stop at the baseboards under my counter and is settled in a fine bed of dog hair. I remind myself I need to vacuum the damn floorboards but my wife has already gone to bed.

Observing the 3 minute rule (similar to 3 second rule but applied to expensive prescriptions) I wipe the pill back and forth across the front of my shirt until I mentally accept it as sanitary enough to put in my mouth. Then as my dosage is to take "half a pill nightly" I attempt to cleanly snap the pill into two even parts which usually involves me relaunching the pill against the kitchen cabinets (where I get to repeat the above exercise a few more times) or successfully breaking the pill into two "almost equal" parts with one of them skidding across the counter into a variety of "crap I need to do" piles which typically conceal the pill for up to 5 minutes.

I drop the unneeded half of the pill into an old prescription bottle from years back for the same Rx before they started coming in blister packs. I wonder to myself, as I have done every night for the last couple years, why they simply can't come in a typical prescription bottle like the rest of my damn pills which would spare me from having to engage in this scenario every other night.

The pill is to help me with stress / anxiety so I don't have trouble getting sleep.

Along those lines Band Aids should be on a scotch tape type dispenser. You typically need to be able to get a Band Aid with one damn hand and that peel apart to open crap really isn't helping anyone.

And only the sickest of bastards would put Migraine medication in packaging where you have to peel off the paper layer to then pop the pill out of a blister pack.

I don't think the people who package this stuff know who they are messing with.

As I read through this I couldn't help but have this scene play in my head . . .

[ptmccain]

Complaining about certain blister packs....

Talk about your First World Problem.

[jaxman7]

Knife tip and just cut a small circle along the perimeter.

Caduceus,

Now you know as well as I this is M4C. Its not that simple. Before making entry into the container you must first check for wires. Next bring the 'Breacher Up!' and he will demo the foil cover right before the first guy in the stack makes entry. After container is made secure then SSE of said package can commence.

-Jax

[Caduceus]

Caduceus,

Now you know as well as I this is M4C. Its not that simple. Before making entry into the container you must first check for wires. Next bring the 'Breacher Up!' and he will demo the foil cover right before the first guy in the stack makes entry. After container is made secure then SSE of said package can commence.

-Jax

My bad! Is the TAC on standby, just in case?

[SteyrAUG]

Complaining about certain blister packs....

Talk about your First World Problem.

You are cordially invited to investigate the Ignore feature.