A traveling Aussie was left scratching her head after being given a very unorthodox form of pain relief when she asked for paracetamol at an Italian pharmacy.
Jade, who travels the world with her boyfriend Dayne, was in ‘desperate’ need of paracetamol due to neck pain and visited a pharmacy to find relief during her stay in Milan.
She said it was a “nightmare” asking the pharmacist what she was looking for, but ended up being given paracetamol which she thought were actually suppositories.
Jade was perplexed when she opened the package and found a large “wax ball” that she said looked like a “mini tampon.”
After some googling, she and Dayle discovered that she had been given suppositories that were meant to be inserted into the rectum or vagina to dissolve.
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Australian traveler Jade (pictured) was left baffled after being given suppositories by a pharmacist in Milan, Italy when she asked for paracetamol
“It’s like a bullet. Do they chew on it? It’s like wax. I’m so confused,” Jade laughed as she opened the package. She tried to ease her confusion by reading the instructions, but they were in Italian
Jade shared the funny experience in one video posted on TikTok.
“It was a horrible nightmare trying this because it’s behind the counter, you have to ask for it,” she said, holding the package before opening it.
“It’s like a bullet. Do they chew on it? It’s like wax. I’m so f***ing confused,’ she laughed after seeing the contents.
Jade tried to ease her confusion by reading the instructions, but they were all written in Italian.
“I don’t know if you should knock the whole thing down or break it open,” she said.
‘Don’t they have Panadol here? Don’t they take it? Shall I take it down?’
Jade eventually found out what the mystery drug was after looking it up online.
She had been given suppositories that are meant to be inserted anally or vaginally where it will dissolve and release its medication.
“You’re supposed to put this up your ass. (The pharmacist) didn’t even give us an option. I really need it,’ Jade said.
‘Unacceptable. I’m not happy about that. I’m not going to shove a bullet of Panadol up my ass.”
After some Googling, Jade discovered she was given suppositories that are meant to be inserted anally or vaginally where it will dissolve and release its medication
Hesitations aside, Jade did indeed use the suppository because she was “desperate” and had no other choice.
“I used it and yes, I didn’t know it was a suppository, I’m so uneducated,” she joked in a follow-up. clamp.
‘In Australia they are just not common for the average Joe. You just go in and buy the pills.’
The traveler warned viewers she was going to share “too much information” and shared how her first experience with a suppository went.
“It went straight there, there was no fuss. The part I was scared of, it said to hold it in for 20 minutes, but when I put it on I thought that motherfucker’s not coming out,” she laughed.
“But I think you can just keep it there because it stays up there. I will never go there again, I think this is the first and last time I will.’
Jade admitted, although it took a while to penetrate her system, the suppository relieved the pain in her neck.
“If I’m desperate I’ll use it again, but we’ll go to Switzerland after that and hopefully we can grab some normal Panadol there,” she said.
‘I didn’t swallow it. I would never swallow it without knowing what it was, I’m not that stupid.’
While Jade confessed that she was very “embarrassed” by the debacle, thousands were left in knots over the misunderstanding.
“Life lessons and wisdom come in many forms and today it came in a suppository,” one viewer joked.
“As a nurse watching this, I’m so glad you googled before swallowing that. Classic,” another wrote.
“This made me cry,” a third added, and a fourth thought, “The assistant who served you clearly has fun with tourists.”
A nurse put Jade’s concerns to bed, telling her the suppository will dissolve and so doesn’t need to be picked up, while an Italian viewer said the medication wasn’t very common.
‘I’m Italian and usually you get the tablets automatically, unless you explicitly ask for the suppositories. I feel like they set you up.’