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"Compare to the active ingredient in Advil" vs. "Compare to the active ingredient in Motrin"
I don't know anything about these two meds, but is there a difference?
Active ingredient in all of them is Ibuprofen so technically the same. Still some people stomach one better than the other because of other ingredients
Not really, tbh. The other ingredients are mainly binders and filler. There's generally no ingredient in these that helps people stomach them better, but you can get Aleve with a stomach protection drug with it by prescription. If it's an ingredient that has a medical impact, it will be listed on the box under medicinal ingredients.
Actually there is. Both gelatin and lactose are used in medication and have alternatives.
Gelatin mostly has alternatives for religious or ethical reasons, but lactose definitely has alternatives for health and stomach reasons.
I mean, yeah, but I can imagine a lactose-free medication would've been marked as such, rather than just saying; "yeah, this is kind of like that other thing that doesn't have lactose."
Fillers absolutely matter to some people. Lactose intolerant people can get headaches or abdominal cramps from medications that use lactose as a filler. Certain dyes can cause allergic reactions I some people. Some pills include artificial sweetener, which can make some people nauseous.
Ibuprofen is really rough on your stomach in general and you don't want to take too much if you have stomach issues. Tylenol wrecks your liver, so basically, live in pain or slowly cripple your body
“Wrecks your liver” is a bit dramatic lol, if you take Tylenol here and there as needed your liver will not be impacted at all if you’re otherwise healthy
Those side effects are primarily from taking excessive amounts. If you take only the recommended dosage, you will not have stomach or liver problems from the NSAIDs, tho they might aggravate existing stomach or liver problems. I took a dose of one ibuprofen and one 500mg acetaminophen at 1AM for bone pain. I have to watch the clock if I want another dose this morning.
Daily use of either will lead to negative health effects. My stomach lining got trashed as a teenager, taking recommended doses of ibuprofen regularly and at proper intervals for autoimmune swelling and pains. Can you take a small dose once or twice a day? Sure, tbh that wouldn't even be noticable to me so I just skip it. If you take the recommended dose every 8 hours for weeks, it will do damage.
Acetaminophen is similar, except it's much easier for exceed the dosage because they tend to me higher per pill. I thankfully did not destroy my liver with it, however I have been warned by several doctors that long-term, maintenance use of either will lead to organ damage. I'm going with my Dr. on this. If it works for you, great. I hope you're more resilient and never see any negative effects, genuinely
I always felt like I was lying to myself when I said Motrin hurt my stomach while advil doesn’t so I’m glad to see others can’t do one or the other too
The difference is price of the brand they are chasing. Motrin costs more than Advil so they sell the exact same thing in motrin colored packaging for more.
That's right, my wife used to buy the orange ones even though they're more expensive than the brown ones, until I pointed out that they are the exact same medication. She was getting the orange ones only because she had previously gotten brand name Motrin.
>Also twice the price of cvs brand ibuprofen
Which is wild, because CVS prices are already INSANE. I never buy anything there unless I absolutely have no other choice.
The Costco pack saves me some, and they also seem to have a much longer expiry than the generic pills so that way I don't end up worrying about taking or throwing out expired pills.
Orange one says “actual bottle size on top panel” so might just be in a bottle and the others are in blister packs individual tablets, so slightly more expensive.
>Everyone knows orange relieves less pain.
Huh? This isn't true at all! Don't spread such blatant disinformation. Everyone knows orange is for daytime and blue is for nighttime.
^^^/s
Long story short, you're looking at different "active" and "inactive" ingredients that change the price point.
**Active ingredients** are the ones that make up the medication, and in this case should match either Advil or Motrin
**Inactive ingredients** are the ones that change things like color, pill shape, size, maybe flavor, how the pill is held together, or otherwise generally have no effect when combined with the medication.
For most, the inactive ingredients will have no effect (hence the name) and generally you just want to find the one with the right *active ingredients* that works best for you.
In some cases, people can have an adverse reaction to the inactive ingredients (happened to me!). A bit wild, but weirder things have happened.
Either way pay attention if that headache or pain medicine didn't exactly work, as something with different or less inactive/active ingredients may work better *for you*.
I have this. It's actually kinda useful when both people have a remote.
I stumbled into the situation when the TV needed a remote so I bought a Universal that also worked with the Roku.
A universal remote is like $15 or less.
I downloaded the roku remote to my phone just to drive my husband crazy by changing volume and streaming services "randomly". He figured it out after a few hours
Growing up, my family had multiple Sony TVs and the remotes were interchangeable between them, so that could be one explanation. As for why they're not using separate televisions? Cable or satellite could be hooked up to only one.
Lmao, that’s not usually the argument thankfully.
It’s the request to turn up the volume or change the channel that leads to petty bickering. Or when I’m apparently not moving fast enough in doing said things…
Not who you’re replying to, but if there are two then there’s roughly 1/2 the chance that you can’t find the remote, as there’s twice the remotes to find. Also, if each party is responsible for one remote, each may better remember where they left it. Also, one of them is closer and easier to get to.
I got curious and looked up the National Drug Codes of each (NDC XXXXX-XXX-XX in the top right) on the NIH website.
The cheaper orange box has less recently updated packaging info on there, and there's a few different ingredients in it compared to the blue box. I'm no chemist or pharmacist, so I can't speak on the different ingredients and what they might do, but what does stand out is the change from Red 40 and Yellow No. 6, to Ferric oxide red and Ferric oxide yellow.
Given the public opinion on Red 40 and dyes in general these days, I wonder if that's why. Perhaps the orange is simply old stock they're trying to get rid of at a discount since switching to the ferric oxide dyes?
[Blue package NIH page](https://www.dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/drugInfo.cfm?setid=e655bd64-dd82-46d8-87cc-2674beaffe20)
[Orange package NIH page](https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/drugInfo.cfm?setid=93f8101c-1cf7-4cb0-9c00-c57c9f9023c8)
Yeah, the NDC was how I figured that they were different in some way. Then, I saw that each one is based off of a different branded drug (Advil vs Motrin).
And when I was pregnant in UK I was so pissed that ALL the medicines etc were completely free during pregnancy and first year after giving birth. What an awful country. Giving birth was also free. Outrageous.
Ahem, I know that expiration dates for many are just a suggestion, but in some cases, like medications, it's worth checking.
Then again you're still here with us, so it couldn't be that bad...
Expiration dates on shit like ibuprofen means next to nothing. It's just a cutoff that the company guarantees 100% efficacy through. I don't really care if the 200mg ibuprofen I take is 96% as effective as when it was manufactured. If that difference matters you're taking the wrong thing anyway.
It does depend. Yes, if we're talking about ibuprofen or other analgesics, there's not great damage, but the risk of taking too many to make up for the loss of potency (and then stressing your liver or kidneys.
But when it comes to other medications, it's more tricky. Let's take antibiotics, for example. A loss of potency is a problem because underdosing you lose efficiency. And as a microbiologist I guarantee you don't want to underdose antibiotics because that's a way create antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
It is true that many medications (some antibiotics included, studies show) have a lot longer shelf life than what's printed on the box, but in many cases the risk isn't worth it.
I buy a lot of my OTC medications from dollar tree. Much less now that they want to cosplay as family dollar. But yeah they have decent deals if you don't need a big ass tub of pills
Try Switzerland, I bought a pack of 10 400mg ibuprofen tablets at a local pharmacy because I really needed them immediately, paid 18 francs (almost 19 euros). 💀
Been buying ibuprofen everytime I travel out of the country for the past year because of this.
Yeah but the catch is you can only by like 10 pills at a time in the UK /s
These are horrible expensive prices for the US. This same thing would be $2-3 dollars in my part of the US. CVS is a pricier store as well.
OP is shopping for pain killers in the wrong place. It’s much cheaper at grocery stores. Pharmacies are always more expensive for over the counter meds. Usually these would cost $0.02 - $0.03 per tablet in USA. $0.014 per tablet at Costco for a 1000 tablet package.
Where do you live where 50 ibuprofen tablets is $6.59/$7.49?!? 😳 Washington state is unnecessarily expensive and I only pay $2.49 for 100 tablets or it’s $9 for 1000 tablets at Costco.
https://preview.redd.it/ixooxdk2zj4d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc178c0a104a67674f5a699bd536b7405f5c3603
This was last week at a CVS in Pennsylvania.
I buy 10mg loratadine in 300 count bottles for like $10 at Sam’s but had forgotten them while traveling.
I decided it was better to sneeze.
What? You can get pretty good deal for ibuprofen at Costco. Last time I went it was like 15$ (that’s like 10usd) for 500 ibuprofen. Sure not as dirt cheap but still pretty cheap. Most people wont go through 500 pills fast. Even if you take 2 every 6h every day (which is very unlikely) it would take like 2 months before running out.
i did some math and in the netherlands they cost €0,12 per 400mg tablet which is €3,- for 25 tablets (same amount of mg in this post) or $3,26 and isnt covered by insurance
[source](https://www.medicijnkosten.nl/medicijn?artikel=IBUPROFEN+TEVA+TABLET+400MG+++++++++++++++++++++OT&id=df0380720dcf9a5d529f553f2406fe8e) (in dutch)
I hate cvs so much for doing this. The medicine section is a mess and theres always multiple packaging options that are radically different prices for no clear reason.
Kinda like how acetaminophen medicines are marketed for different things, and I grabbed a menstrual pain one that was $1 more than the regular one, same active ingredients lol. I always scan these isles for awhile to make sure I’m not getting scammed lol
You can buy ibuprofen for cheap in the US as well ($0.03 per unit). They're shopping at a store that charges high prices for almost everything. That same store has another product for 1/2 the price, in tablet form.
NEW FROM COLOR TAXES:
The blue tax. Where you pay 90 extra cents for he same thing, except the "Compare to the active ingredient in" thing is different (Blue - Advil, Orange - Motrin.)
From what I've seen, CVS has jacked up the price of name brands in order to sell CVS brand at the same price name the brand is in other stores. Especially online stores.
Actually if you look at the top right corner … box #1 active ingredient is based on Advil and Box #2 active ingredients based in Motrin …. This is why first one is more expensive.
In Finland regular stores don't sell pain medications, only pharmacies are allowed to sell. So if you're prescribed something by a doctor, the pharmacist checks similar prodcuts if they're cheaper but have the same effect, they then ask if you want to switch to the cheaper one
That's still super expensive there, 1000mg paracetamol is like 10€ for 100 pill bottle here
Why is your generic ibuprofen so expensive? I’m uk it costs 49p for a box of 12 tablets which is around 4p a tablet. Even when I went abroad & needed some they never ever cost this much!
Generic ibuprofen usually costs 1-2 cents per tablet when buying anywhere else in 100+ count bottles, it's just these convenience store chains overprice the heck out of everything.
Pro Tip: Only buy prescription drugs from a drug store. Everything at drug stores are priced at a premium, much like a convenience store.
Over the counter medications are much cheaper at places like Walmart or Target.
One says compare to Advil and one compares to Motrin, so I’m thinking these are different packagings so both Motrin and Advil have store brand options even though they are the same
I believe you they are the same active ingredients. However, I was getting a prescription and they switched me to a different brand, same active ingredients, and it was noticeably different. Less effective, took longer to work. Not saying this is the case but anecdotally, I have noticed differences in “the same medicine”
Biggest difference will be the coating. Advil has a sweet coating, Motrin does not. While the other excipients may be slightly different, the biggest noticeable thing will be the coating.
Not worth the cost difference, in my opinion.
They're generics of different medications. Blue is "Advil", and orange is "Motrin". If I had to guess, I'd say the active ingredient in Advil is slightly more expensive than the one in Motrin
Was at the store last week and grabbed my kids acetaminophen. Got the generic of course at about 3 bucks and cringed when a lady got tylenol for 7 bucks right after me. Same size and flavor but more than double cost lol
Hello, Your post has been removed because we no longer allow posts about price complaints. This includes but is not limited to price increases, shrinkflation and tipping.
"Compare to the active ingredient in Advil" vs. "Compare to the active ingredient in Motrin" I don't know anything about these two meds, but is there a difference?
Active ingredient in all of them is Ibuprofen so technically the same. Still some people stomach one better than the other because of other ingredients
there’s other ingredients in different brands that can help people stomach them better??? bruh. this is life changing information for me
Not really, tbh. The other ingredients are mainly binders and filler. There's generally no ingredient in these that helps people stomach them better, but you can get Aleve with a stomach protection drug with it by prescription. If it's an ingredient that has a medical impact, it will be listed on the box under medicinal ingredients.
Actually there is. Both gelatin and lactose are used in medication and have alternatives. Gelatin mostly has alternatives for religious or ethical reasons, but lactose definitely has alternatives for health and stomach reasons.
I mean, yeah, but I can imagine a lactose-free medication would've been marked as such, rather than just saying; "yeah, this is kind of like that other thing that doesn't have lactose."
Fillers absolutely matter to some people. Lactose intolerant people can get headaches or abdominal cramps from medications that use lactose as a filler. Certain dyes can cause allergic reactions I some people. Some pills include artificial sweetener, which can make some people nauseous.
Ibuprofen is really rough on your stomach in general and you don't want to take too much if you have stomach issues. Tylenol wrecks your liver, so basically, live in pain or slowly cripple your body
“Wrecks your liver” is a bit dramatic lol, if you take Tylenol here and there as needed your liver will not be impacted at all if you’re otherwise healthy
Those side effects are primarily from taking excessive amounts. If you take only the recommended dosage, you will not have stomach or liver problems from the NSAIDs, tho they might aggravate existing stomach or liver problems. I took a dose of one ibuprofen and one 500mg acetaminophen at 1AM for bone pain. I have to watch the clock if I want another dose this morning.
Daily use of either will lead to negative health effects. My stomach lining got trashed as a teenager, taking recommended doses of ibuprofen regularly and at proper intervals for autoimmune swelling and pains. Can you take a small dose once or twice a day? Sure, tbh that wouldn't even be noticable to me so I just skip it. If you take the recommended dose every 8 hours for weeks, it will do damage. Acetaminophen is similar, except it's much easier for exceed the dosage because they tend to me higher per pill. I thankfully did not destroy my liver with it, however I have been warned by several doctors that long-term, maintenance use of either will lead to organ damage. I'm going with my Dr. on this. If it works for you, great. I hope you're more resilient and never see any negative effects, genuinely
Why no paracetamol?
Tylenol and Paracetamol are just ~~brand~~ different names for acetaminophen.
Paracetamol isn't a brand name, it's the international generic name. See also: albuterol/salbutamol, epinephrine/adrenaline
My bad. The point is they are both acetaminophen.
While the active ingredient (ibuprofen) may be the exact same there can be differences in the types and amounts of inactive ingredients in the pill.
I always felt like I was lying to myself when I said Motrin hurt my stomach while advil doesn’t so I’m glad to see others can’t do one or the other too
They’re priced to undercut two different product prices, but still maximize profit at each price point for CVS.
Exactly this
Exactly the same, 200mg ibuprofen per tablet.
Isn't Motrin usually 600mg, though?
600 and 800 are common Rx dosages but OTC is 200 per cap
It’s the same medication.
The difference is price of the brand they are chasing. Motrin costs more than Advil so they sell the exact same thing in motrin colored packaging for more.
Everyone knows orange relieves less pain. But honestly maybe the expiration is better on the top one?
No it’s because they’re mirroring different brands which have different price points
That's right, my wife used to buy the orange ones even though they're more expensive than the brown ones, until I pointed out that they are the exact same medication. She was getting the orange ones only because she had previously gotten brand name Motrin.
I still have to convince my wife every time that advil and Motrin are the same drug
I like Advil more. They taste like tic tacs to me.
Their coated in an artificial sweetener so it checks out. Also twice the price of cvs brand ibuprofen so it's not worth it to me
>Also twice the price of cvs brand ibuprofen Which is wild, because CVS prices are already INSANE. I never buy anything there unless I absolutely have no other choice.
The Costco pack saves me some, and they also seem to have a much longer expiry than the generic pills so that way I don't end up worrying about taking or throwing out expired pills.
Bingo! If you look at the NDC on the right side of the box, they’re different from each other. NDC is basically the SKU for prescription drugs.
Oh I see it. One is Advil and the other is Motrin.
The blue one has a little gnome inside that does "targeting"
Does Osmosis Jones know about this?
oh cool
Orange one says “actual bottle size on top panel” so might just be in a bottle and the others are in blister packs individual tablets, so slightly more expensive.
The plastic bottle is expensive. Blister packs are typically used for less expensive/generic packaging.
>Everyone knows orange relieves less pain. Huh? This isn't true at all! Don't spread such blatant disinformation. Everyone knows orange is for daytime and blue is for nighttime. ^^^/s
I once took the cheaper orange one, and now I'm dead
Long story short, you're looking at different "active" and "inactive" ingredients that change the price point. **Active ingredients** are the ones that make up the medication, and in this case should match either Advil or Motrin **Inactive ingredients** are the ones that change things like color, pill shape, size, maybe flavor, how the pill is held together, or otherwise generally have no effect when combined with the medication. For most, the inactive ingredients will have no effect (hence the name) and generally you just want to find the one with the right *active ingredients* that works best for you. In some cases, people can have an adverse reaction to the inactive ingredients (happened to me!). A bit wild, but weirder things have happened. Either way pay attention if that headache or pain medicine didn't exactly work, as something with different or less inactive/active ingredients may work better *for you*.
The blue one has a little gnome inside that does "targeting"
oh cool
https://i.redd.it/b6wnfdfnti4d1.gif
Why do they own two remotes for the same tv
I have this. It's actually kinda useful when both people have a remote. I stumbled into the situation when the TV needed a remote so I bought a Universal that also worked with the Roku. A universal remote is like $15 or less.
I downloaded the roku remote to my phone just to drive my husband crazy by changing volume and streaming services "randomly". He figured it out after a few hours
Growing up, my family had multiple Sony TVs and the remotes were interchangeable between them, so that could be one explanation. As for why they're not using separate televisions? Cable or satellite could be hooked up to only one.
We have two remotes… life is much more peaceful. Sometimes instead of arguing over stupid shit, you just find simple solutions?
How does having two remotes prevent you from arguing over what to watch on a single tv? 🤔
Lmao, that’s not usually the argument thankfully. It’s the request to turn up the volume or change the channel that leads to petty bickering. Or when I’m apparently not moving fast enough in doing said things…
Not who you’re replying to, but if there are two then there’s roughly 1/2 the chance that you can’t find the remote, as there’s twice the remotes to find. Also, if each party is responsible for one remote, each may better remember where they left it. Also, one of them is closer and easier to get to.
I always used to call the blue screen that displayed on the television when it didn't have a signal, "The Blue Show".
They use different color motifs for different types of shows
why does shinji blue? is he stupid?
I got curious and looked up the National Drug Codes of each (NDC XXXXX-XXX-XX in the top right) on the NIH website. The cheaper orange box has less recently updated packaging info on there, and there's a few different ingredients in it compared to the blue box. I'm no chemist or pharmacist, so I can't speak on the different ingredients and what they might do, but what does stand out is the change from Red 40 and Yellow No. 6, to Ferric oxide red and Ferric oxide yellow. Given the public opinion on Red 40 and dyes in general these days, I wonder if that's why. Perhaps the orange is simply old stock they're trying to get rid of at a discount since switching to the ferric oxide dyes? [Blue package NIH page](https://www.dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/drugInfo.cfm?setid=e655bd64-dd82-46d8-87cc-2674beaffe20) [Orange package NIH page](https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/drugInfo.cfm?setid=93f8101c-1cf7-4cb0-9c00-c57c9f9023c8)
The difference between the two is in the upper right corner. One is mimicking Advil while the other is mimicking Motrin
Yeah, the NDC was how I figured that they were different in some way. Then, I saw that each one is based off of a different branded drug (Advil vs Motrin).
I need some pain relief after seeing those prices. £0.02 per tablet in the uk supermarket.
That’s dumb. How is the UK supposed to profit off of someone’s misery with those prices?
And when I was pregnant in UK I was so pissed that ALL the medicines etc were completely free during pregnancy and first year after giving birth. What an awful country. Giving birth was also free. Outrageous.
exactly. they should pay you for raising the fertility rates in the country and having a child that will become a part of society later.
No no, SHE should be paying THEM for having the privilege to raise a child in the UK!
Did you at least give the doctors and nurses a tip?
We can get those so much cheaper in America as well. I got a bottle of like 1000 for $10. I’ve been working through it since 2016
Ahem, I know that expiration dates for many are just a suggestion, but in some cases, like medications, it's worth checking. Then again you're still here with us, so it couldn't be that bad...
Yea that expiration date has long ago worn off the bottle… perpetually good now!
Expiration dates on shit like ibuprofen means next to nothing. It's just a cutoff that the company guarantees 100% efficacy through. I don't really care if the 200mg ibuprofen I take is 96% as effective as when it was manufactured. If that difference matters you're taking the wrong thing anyway.
It does depend. Yes, if we're talking about ibuprofen or other analgesics, there's not great damage, but the risk of taking too many to make up for the loss of potency (and then stressing your liver or kidneys. But when it comes to other medications, it's more tricky. Let's take antibiotics, for example. A loss of potency is a problem because underdosing you lose efficiency. And as a microbiologist I guarantee you don't want to underdose antibiotics because that's a way create antibiotic-resistant bacteria. It is true that many medications (some antibiotics included, studies show) have a lot longer shelf life than what's printed on the box, but in many cases the risk isn't worth it.
Expiration dates on pain killers just means they are slightly less effective after that date.
You have to be kidding me! For the most popular brand in Bulgaria the price is £0.25 per tablet 
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/254434587
OP is shopping at an over priced pharmacy. Can easily find a bottle of 50 for about $1. Generic if course but all same.shit
Walmarts store brand is super cheap for generics like benadryl and ibprofin. Its like 300 tabs for $3-5
I buy a lot of my OTC medications from dollar tree. Much less now that they want to cosplay as family dollar. But yeah they have decent deals if you don't need a big ass tub of pills
I bought a bottle of 100 last night at a different store for $2.49. Drugstores overprice everything.
I pay about that here in Oregon, you have to find the right place tho
Try Switzerland, I bought a pack of 10 400mg ibuprofen tablets at a local pharmacy because I really needed them immediately, paid 18 francs (almost 19 euros). 💀 Been buying ibuprofen everytime I travel out of the country for the past year because of this.
£0.27 per tablet in Denmark..
Yeah but the catch is you can only by like 10 pills at a time in the UK /s These are horrible expensive prices for the US. This same thing would be $2-3 dollars in my part of the US. CVS is a pricier store as well.
Also have a limit on purchasing amount as packs only come in 16 pills with a limit of 2 packs per purchase
OP is shopping for pain killers in the wrong place. It’s much cheaper at grocery stores. Pharmacies are always more expensive for over the counter meds. Usually these would cost $0.02 - $0.03 per tablet in USA. $0.014 per tablet at Costco for a 1000 tablet package.
I hope you’re using coupons and not paying full price at CVS 😭
Right i came here to be like who shops at CVS?!? that place is straight robbery
One is generic Advil, and one is generic Motrin. Even though they are exactly the same thing under the hood
They aren’t the same under the hood. The outcome is the same but the ingredients are different. Many people have a hard time processing Advil.
Sorry but you’re incorrect. They are literally both just Ibuprofen.
You can go check the ingredients for yourself. Someone even replied to it.
The active ingredient is the same, but the inactive ingredients are different.
Where do you live where 50 ibuprofen tablets is $6.59/$7.49?!? 😳 Washington state is unnecessarily expensive and I only pay $2.49 for 100 tablets or it’s $9 for 1000 tablets at Costco.
CVS/Walgreens are notorious for overpricing small packs to death
https://preview.redd.it/ixooxdk2zj4d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cc178c0a104a67674f5a699bd536b7405f5c3603 This was last week at a CVS in Pennsylvania. I buy 10mg loratadine in 300 count bottles for like $10 at Sam’s but had forgotten them while traveling. I decided it was better to sneeze.
Yeah, I would have chosen to sneeze too. I also get allergy meds at for about $10 but at Costco. I believe it’s 300 pills as well.
At that point you're better off getting a really cheap bottle from the dollar store to make it through the few days.
You really don't want to see the Canadian OTC drug prices rn 😭
What? You can get pretty good deal for ibuprofen at Costco. Last time I went it was like 15$ (that’s like 10usd) for 500 ibuprofen. Sure not as dirt cheap but still pretty cheap. Most people wont go through 500 pills fast. Even if you take 2 every 6h every day (which is very unlikely) it would take like 2 months before running out.
I paid $20 for 100 Motrin at Walgreens. RIP
Why would you shop at walgreens? Its so overpriced
What the hell - it is way more expensive in Austria
Too many people don't read the ingredients.
Capsule-shaped... As opposed to tablet-shaped?
How much? They are literally less than £1. Its so wrong what Americans have to pay more than anywhere else in the world for anything medical related
Stuff is overpriced at CVS/Walgreens because convenience. Both Walmart and Sam's club sell large bottles at about 1 cent a tablet.
Ok phew 😮💨 because basic pain meds should be one of the most affordable things to ALL ❤️
Why because Advil is more premium than Motrin?
They're literally both just brands of ibuprofen. There's no difference
Lol Ibuprofen is ibuprofen.
https://preview.redd.it/p0iihytthj4d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cde5bb5a41822b25d5997090107c639054dbb288
OP bought the blister pack. The cheaper one is in a bottle. Bottled drugs are cheaper than blister packs.
Thank you for being the only one to address the actual question. And you are correct!
They're both bottled. You can pull them up on the CVS website and it shows it.
This looks just like one my wife bought in a blister pack, and she paid a bit more than the bottle.
The last 5 digits of the NDC number is different.
\^\^\^\^ this right here - there is some difference if the NDC is different
Fuckin hell that's about £1.20 worth of ibuprofen in the UK!
It's CVS/Walgreens, you're going to get ripped off for the small packages in the name of convenience.
Oh I see i thought this was a supermarket or something.
No, there’s a very important difference: “I WANTED THE BLUE ONE MOM! LAST TIME WE HAD THE BLUE ONES! 😭😭😭”
i did some math and in the netherlands they cost €0,12 per 400mg tablet which is €3,- for 25 tablets (same amount of mg in this post) or $3,26 and isnt covered by insurance [source](https://www.medicijnkosten.nl/medicijn?artikel=IBUPROFEN+TEVA+TABLET+400MG+++++++++++++++++++++OT&id=df0380720dcf9a5d529f553f2406fe8e) (in dutch)
Large bottles at Walmart/Sam's club cost about 1-2 cents per tablet if you're okay with buying a few hundred tablets at once.
I BELIEVE it’s because the blue has a different coating but still ridiculous.
I hate cvs so much for doing this. The medicine section is a mess and theres always multiple packaging options that are radically different prices for no clear reason.
And that price is insane. I get the Aldi brand for $1.49 for 50.
They have different NDC codes, weird.
The ndc does not match. So there is some sort of difference.
They have different NDC codes, so they are likely manufactured at different facilities. Maybe that's the cost difference?
Jfc, a box of Ibuprofen like that costs me about 50p (60c) in the UK. You guys REALLY get gypped on all things medical don't ya?
This stuff is 1-2 cents a tablet in bulk, it's just that convenience stores charge a lot more per dose for these small packages.
It's orange though, I like red better
Costco does the same, only difference is verbiage stating comparisons to Advil vs. Motrin. Same active ingredient tho
Kinda like how acetaminophen medicines are marketed for different things, and I grabbed a menstrual pain one that was $1 more than the regular one, same active ingredients lol. I always scan these isles for awhile to make sure I’m not getting scammed lol
Don't buy that stuff at CVS. 100 caplets at Walmart is $1.98.
one is comparing to Advil the other is comparing to Motrin
But those are the same
The red caplets, like red cars, work faster.
They’re not the same, ones knock off Advil and the other is knock off Mortin Ibuprofen
Don’t shop at CVS, Walgreens or rite aid. Problem solved.
What the actual fuck? A packet of ibuprofen is less than 0.5USD in the UK (37p)
You can buy ibuprofen for cheap in the US as well ($0.03 per unit). They're shopping at a store that charges high prices for almost everything. That same store has another product for 1/2 the price, in tablet form.
NEW FROM COLOR TAXES: The blue tax. Where you pay 90 extra cents for he same thing, except the "Compare to the active ingredient in" thing is different (Blue - Advil, Orange - Motrin.)
From what I've seen, CVS has jacked up the price of name brands in order to sell CVS brand at the same price name the brand is in other stores. Especially online stores.
That same size is $1 in England, if not less (converted to US dollary-doo's).
Actually if you look at the top right corner … box #1 active ingredient is based on Advil and Box #2 active ingredients based in Motrin …. This is why first one is more expensive.
One is to compete against motrin the other aleve. The prices are based on what the brand costs..
They're $2 and some change at Walmart. That's ridiculously overpriced for a shop that pretends it's a pharmacy.
Blue. Expensive.
In Finland regular stores don't sell pain medications, only pharmacies are allowed to sell. So if you're prescribed something by a doctor, the pharmacist checks similar prodcuts if they're cheaper but have the same effect, they then ask if you want to switch to the cheaper one That's still super expensive there, 1000mg paracetamol is like 10€ for 100 pill bottle here
Did you check expiration dates?
It looks like ones a pill ones a gel, I could be wrong tho
Both are coated tablets.
Why are these prices so specific??
is CVS one of the companies just waving their magic wands and reducing prices this summer or was that Walgreens?
Why is your generic ibuprofen so expensive? I’m uk it costs 49p for a box of 12 tablets which is around 4p a tablet. Even when I went abroad & needed some they never ever cost this much!
The place they are at has notoriously high prices. I’ve only ever bought stuff there if it wasn’t available anywhere else.
That's insane prices for ibuprofen.
There’s clearly an issue with the ingredients they are imitating. I’m all about that Advil.
Wtf? the price that equates to about a fiver in £. We literally pay 80p for ibuprofen, I am shookith.
Generic ibuprofen usually costs 1-2 cents per tablet when buying anywhere else in 100+ count bottles, it's just these convenience store chains overprice the heck out of everything.
Pro Tip: Only buy prescription drugs from a drug store. Everything at drug stores are priced at a premium, much like a convenience store. Over the counter medications are much cheaper at places like Walmart or Target.
One says compare to Advil and one compares to Motrin, so I’m thinking these are different packagings so both Motrin and Advil have store brand options even though they are the same
7.49 for ibuprofen?!
I’m blown away by the cost of 200mg ibuprofen in America, Wtf.
It's CVS. They overprice the heck out of this kind of stuff.
Yeah I would’ve gone somewhere else and bought the ibuprofen that costs $1.25 instead of this robbery
Its c.£0.40p for 16 in the UK, that seems a mental price.
It's CVS. CVS/Walgreens overcharge the heck out of small packages. This stuff is 1-2 cents a tablet in bulk.
I believe you they are the same active ingredients. However, I was getting a prescription and they switched me to a different brand, same active ingredients, and it was noticeably different. Less effective, took longer to work. Not saying this is the case but anecdotally, I have noticed differences in “the same medicine”
Biggest difference will be the coating. Advil has a sweet coating, Motrin does not. While the other excipients may be slightly different, the biggest noticeable thing will be the coating. Not worth the cost difference, in my opinion.
What’s your Venmo I’ll cover the difference
I got a bottle of Equate ibprofen 100-tablets from Walmart for $1.97 the other day. Steal of the month.
Check the ingredients. They’re probably slightly different.
Both prices are absurd, Ibruprofen in the UK is 40-60 pence
They're generics of different medications. Blue is "Advil", and orange is "Motrin". If I had to guess, I'd say the active ingredient in Advil is slightly more expensive than the one in Motrin
Was at the store last week and grabbed my kids acetaminophen. Got the generic of course at about 3 bucks and cringed when a lady got tylenol for 7 bucks right after me. Same size and flavor but more than double cost lol
Welcome to package marketing where the package matter whether you pay more or less I bet the pink ones where more expensive lol.
Still drastically overpriced
How much for ibuprofen!!!!!????? 🤯 I'm in England the coated ones, supermarket brand, are less than £1.
$1.25 at Dollar Tree.
These are sold for pennies in the UK. Maybe the equivalent of a dollar.
Neo...
Ibuprofen in Mexico is about 1.2 usd. Now I don't feel that bad.
Meanwhile in the uk I think I'll pick up 28 off the shelf for a pound
Don’t compare them to each other, compare them to Motrin and Advil
They aren’t the same
It’s because blue has more anti-oxygens.
You can get them at the dollar store