Does Anyone Wish They Could Get Medicine Without Childproof Lids?

Danish, sorry to hear you had troubles.. I personally would rather have the childproof bottles even though i DO keep them out of reach of my children, There is the off chance that i've thrown them into my bag and forgot about them, and the kids go rummaging and think mm candy.. or something like that.. accidents do happen, so i'm thankful the companies are safeguarding kids. You are in luck!! there are bottles you can buy that have WIDE lids and have no childproof lids, they i believe are made for people like you who have trouble with their hands. i know Tylenol does this for sure because i had a bottle. I found the type of bottle i had, but this says tylenol arthritis, but the kind i had was just extra strength.. http://discounthealthproducts.co.uk/images/tylenol_arthritis_pain_100.jpg

It's really a strange thing that I ran across by accident a year or 2 ago. I was complaining at the pharmacy I go to about getting those lids off and they showed me that the ones they put on my prescriptions can be turned over to make them "non-child proof". I was so relieved NOT to have to deal with them anymore. Initially they are the child proof ones, but once opened, they are just turned over, and are the regular screw on lids and I like them much better. I DID have an incident when my oldest daughter was an infant where she got into my ex-father-in-law's medicine, so I do understand the need for them. But it is nice to know that there are the reversible ones to help those of us out who are irritated with trying to deal with those child proof ones.

I'm not a fan of childproof lids but I do understand their place. However, I kind of feel like it should almost be an optional thing. Sometimes I have a hard time opening those things, grip or no grip, those things are pretty darn hard to open. They're a pain.

Here in the US, you can get your prescriptions without those lids and get the ones that are much easier to open with, you have to ask the pharmacist for them instead of the child proof ones. Check with your pharmacist to see if they have them there in Canada. I bet they do!! Good luck!!

Child proof bottles drive me nuts! half the time its the kids that can get them open faster than adults anyways! Theyre more like adult proof.

The lid should say "Adult Proof" because that's what they really are. I think that the manufacturers of the bottles should take into consideration a lid that people with arthritis can open or have the lid screw on instead of snaping on, the pharmacies should pass this information onto the bottle manufacturers.

The pharmacy where I get my prescription medication has made their tops even harder to open. In fact, they are hard to put back on too! And as a mother of young teens, for the past few years I have had to rely on THEM to open my medication when I get stuck. These childproof bottles aren't childproof... they're adult proof. The fact that I have trouble getting the lids back on, and end out spilling my medication goes to show that it is a ridiculous idea. I find myself crawling all over my kitchen floor looking for my tiny pills. Thankfully I haven't lost too many that the pharmacy has said my refill isn't time yet. LOL! Occasionally I take Extra Strength Tylenol (over the counter medication). These bottles are in a box, sealed with plastic, then safety capped, then foil sealed over the top. My most recently bottle I opened I could not get the first layer of plastic off the bottle so I can't see where the arrows line up (there is still a ring of the plastic around the neck of the bottle). I figured out that the other arrow is just beneath the "T" in Tylenol so I know where to set it up to open. I think these safety procedures are more to prevent tampering by psychos who might stick something in the bottle while it's on the shelf. But like you said, it's ridiculous that we have to use power tools to open the dang things!

YES!!!! I find them to be absolutely aggravating! I wish we had a choice!

The not-so-funny thing is, the child proof lids really aren't all that childproof. I live with three boys (my grandsons), ages 10, almost 8 and 4 years old and they can each, even the youngest, get open a stupid so-called child proof lid. The person who has the most trouble with child proof lids is me! And that's just wrong! Now I have seen an over-the-counter medicine at the store that is in a bottle that is NOT child proof and it does say that on it. It was for a pain reliever and it had a tab on top to make it easier to open for arthritis sufferers. I liked that but, they cost more so can't get them.

I understand even the best parent can't watch over his/her child all the time but to assume that every household has children and put Every medicine in these bottles is stupid. What I do is I take a knife and get the bottle open. Once it is open, I Never put the top back on. I put a tissue or napkin in the top so the pills don't spill out or get dusty.

Boy do I hear and know your frustration!!! I too have a hard time with all this childproof stuff. What ever happened when I was a child there was no such thing. My daughter was born 37 years ago and she never got into anything. Those were the days when kids knew how to behave I guess.

I had my arm in a sling the first time I was given a script with a non-childproof lid, and I was thrilled - after all, I don't have children, my cats won't take the meds... you can find the non-proofed meds, but you REALLY have to look for them and you can't find them in all kinds of meds - the roomie likes the ones you have to squeeze the sides to get turn the lid - she breaks them off

i hate those things too. one of our pharmacies you can request non-childproof,if it's a child free home,but they don't always have them.they seem to be pretty popular lol