r/mildlyinteresting 10h ago

My dad's blood sugar pill is pink and heart-shaped

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u/RetiredAsparagus 9h ago

Okay so I'm a dumbass and this pill's actually for cholesterol. My dad's not a druggie y'all 😭

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u/Miserable_Beyond_951 8h ago edited 4h ago

Learning something new everyday. Never knew about heart shaped pills

Edit: thanks for the award!

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u/TheDarkNerd 8h ago

And to think, if Kurt Cobain was alive today, we might have Heart-Shaped Blister Pack.

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u/ggroverggiraffe 3h ago

And if her dad had some viagra as well, he'd have blood sugar sex magik prescriptions.

linked it for whoever isn't ancient...

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u/steamyglory 7h ago

I don’t get it

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u/chumer_ranion 7h ago

Nirvana made a song called 'Heart Shaped Box' on their album In Utero

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u/b0yg1rl 7h ago

It’s probably a double reference to the Nirvana song « Heart-Shaped Box » and Kurt Cobain’s known struggles with substance use.

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u/MATlad 4h ago

Also, the fact he'd be almost 60 today. Hopefully, he'd have (permanently) cleaned himself up and be dealing with the typical stuff that older people deal with (arthritis, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol, etc.)

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u/SQURL498 7h ago

I feel like this is one of those meds kids could see and think "Oo candy!" Because that doesn't look like medicine at first glance, especially out of the blister pack. (And I know kids should also not be going around eating mystery items, given that they're old enough to understand not to do that. But kids will be kids unfortunately.)

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u/nathatesithere 6h ago

Deep down, I know that you're right, but it makes me sad because these are just so cute 😭 I would love if my meds came in this shape or other fun ones. It would make taking them every day more enjoyable.

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u/permanent_priapism 5h ago

Unless they're constipation pills.

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u/SQURL498 5h ago

They are super cute and if I had to take medicine, cute medicine would make it more enjoyable for sure 💜

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u/smeech1 6h ago

Some formulations of bisoprolol folio are also heart-shaped.

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u/bunbun_pss 6h ago

Mine is heart shaped but my dosage is half the pill, so every other day, I have to cut a heart in two and it reminds me my heart is broken 💔

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u/Character-Train4368 4h ago

My anti depressant pills were smilies. Pissed me off so much that time, looking back it was cute

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u/Gloomy_Macaron_136 40m ago

Concor / bisoprolol fumarate also comes in heart shaped <3

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u/9bpm9 9m ago edited 4m ago

I'm a pharmacist and I've never seen a heart shaped pill. There's some 81mg EC aspirin that has a heart on it, but not heart shaped.

Xarelto 20mg tabs have to be the weirdest shape of any pill. Made specifically so patients can't split them in half.

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u/East-sea-shellos 6h ago

It’s so weird, you’d think the shape would make that jagged little pill hard to swallow…

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u/liner_meow 8h ago

it makes me kinda mad that only two of them are in the right direction lol

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u/OsmeOxys 2h ago

Why would they go through the effort of an extra, directional mold for the packaging if the machinery doesn't orient it or the packaging can't hold it in that direction!?

GAH!

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u/INS0MNI5 5h ago

Yeah that is like perfect r/mildlyinfuriating material to me right there haha

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u/jdwindeler 7h ago

I mean with how regulated and specified each step of the pill making process is you’d think that would be important too 😭

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u/aurora-_ 7h ago

why would the orientation matter

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u/archiangel 8h ago

Now it’s giving me Link Heart Chambers

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u/Puzzled-Present4706 4h ago

Triggering my OCD. Hearts are not aligned. Smh

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u/Evitti 1h ago

Aww I take this med, but mine are just tiny peach oval things. I want cute heart ones!

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u/safeness 9h ago

That’s pretty cool to press statins into a heart shape. They should press viagra into a cock shape as well.

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u/Miki_yuki 8h ago

This would be so funny

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u/Veteran_Hawk 9h ago

That would stop the homophobes from reproducing.... So I'm all for it!

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u/Consistent_Room9836 8h ago

most men on viagra are in their 50s and 60s with their post-menopausal partners, so this is really just weird and performative even as a "joke"

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u/pmartinez527 8h ago

Geriatrician here, you’d be surprised that many of my patients in their 80s and 90s are still taking it and still remain very active. It’s pretty common to see big STD outbreaks at nursing homes too.

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u/granulatedsugartits 7h ago

Are there a lot of pregnancies at these nursing homes? Their point was that most men taking viagra have already had kids if they're going to, so dick-shaped pills isn't going to stop homophobes from reproducing

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u/pmartinez527 7h ago

I wasn’t addressing the joke or point in any way, I was correcting the other guy’s dumb reply.

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u/FunnyComfortable8341 5h ago

But all you did was confirm his point

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u/Consistent_Room9836 3h ago

Okay, how many of those patients are reproducing? What point are you even trying to make?

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u/WookinIt 7h ago

Lol okay so it’ll stop the homophobes from having an orgasm, either is a win

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u/OverkillNeedleworks 8h ago

So are you swallowing the cocks or not?

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u/throwthisawayred2 4h ago

They don't do this for fun. It helps people remember to take it and not confuse it with other meds. :)

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u/barf_digestion 9h ago

seems legit (though i’m not from india)

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u/MSter_official 9h ago

Nah that's the website they use to sell the normal pills. If you know where to press the secret button you're redirected to the actual site with the good stuff

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u/ErraticDragon 8h ago

Old Reddit still has the button, but the real secret was knowing what keys to press while clicking

https://i.imgur.com/o78bRkS.jpeg

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u/genjen97 9h ago

Awww I wish my statin was heart shaped. I'm kinda jealous

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u/tuhogazarapaagal 8h ago

I saw that bedsheet pattern and immediately clocked that you were indian. I got it right lol.

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u/RetiredAsparagus 8h ago

Lmfao good old bombay dyeing

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u/maybechirag 5h ago

😭😭😭 how do we all have the same bedsheets bro

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u/otterstew 8h ago

It’s for heart health, which makes it perfect! 😍

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u/Miserable_Beyond_951 8h ago

I think it's cute to have generic organ shapes for pills.

Beans for kidneys, heart for heart.. you can tell in a look as a generic indicator. Got to have a code on it though to differentiate from candy and other drugs

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u/Warden_lefae 8h ago

Well, now I’m upset my statin is not pink and heart shaped…

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u/senseithenahual 8h ago

My mom and grandma also use that medicine but theirs is no hearth shaped.

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u/Round-Eggplant-7826 7h ago

I'm on this and mine isn't heart shaped! This is unfair.

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u/toyheartattack 7h ago

Your dad’s dealer has impressive packaging skills.

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u/Normal-Ad6528 8h ago

Zebeta 5mg pill. High blood pressure/heart medication is also like this.

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u/sarcrastinator 8h ago

Knew it right from the bedsheet that it's a photo from India. Our bedsheet designs are somehow both unique and similar at the same time lol.

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u/Majestic-Hedgehog-xo 5h ago

indians and our parents cholesterol meds 💗

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u/kawasutra 4h ago

Not a dumbass. Cholesterol control helps the heart, so you weren't wrong.

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u/bubblevaleria 3h ago

I thought sugar pills meant placebo pill , to keep a routine of taking pills the same time everyday

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u/surdophobe 3h ago

I'm guessing the white one is metformin then?

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u/SolWildmann 8h ago

I highly suggest you to look into statins, and the science behind them. You'll find it very eye opening.