You won't get a headache over the price. (Tesco Ibuprofen)

Member Name: Vialdana

Product:	Tesco Ibuprofen
Date:	15/06/09 (18 review reads)
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Advantages: cheap, and exactly the same as every other brand of ibuprofen

Disadvantages: tesco won't let you buy more than 2 packets at one time

I am a regular user of painkillers. I have fibromyalgia, and I'm allergic to codeine meaning that unless I want to start moving up the ranks to something stronger, I have little option but to use ibuprofen and paracetamol on a regular basis. Actually, (with doc's approval of course!), I often use them in combination to combat break through headaches which I get despite being on betablockers to control them - the headaches not the doctors...oh for a tablet that controls doctors...

I shop regularly in Tesco, so for me, buying ibuprofen here along with my weekly shopping just makes sense. Tesco seem to do three different versions of their own ibuprofen, a tablet - round and sugar coated, and a caplet - oblong without corners, and not sugar coated. The caplets are fractionally cheaper than the tablets making them my preferred choice as I don't find I need a sugar coating in order to take them with ease, but if you did find tablet taking a problem I'd suggest going for those instead. The third version they do is a capsule (the powder form of the ibuprofen inside a capsule shell - these are quite a bit more expensive and personally I find they stick in the throat more easily too).

These cost about 32p for a pack of 16 and each contains 200mg of ibuprofen. Ibuprofen is a fairly mild painkiller, and is more of an anti-inflamatory agent than anything else (my headaches are caused by muscles in my neck stiffening, inflaming and pressing on tendons that run up into the head, so anti-inflamatory is good). As the active ingredient in these is basically the same as the active ingredient in all ibuprofen, and you can only get over the counter versions in the 200mg strength, there's basically no difference between these and expensive branded versions except the packaging and possibly the coating and shape of the item, so I vote for these any day of the week. Pain killing is good, but I'd rather do it cheaply than give myself a headache trying to pay for it!

Summary: A cheap brand of ibuprofen caplet which does the job jas well as any other, and is cheaper to boot.