Aussie traveller baffled after she given suppositories instead of paracetamol at an Italian pharmacy

A travelling Aussie was left scratching her head after she was given a very unorthodox form of pain relief when she asked for paracetamol at an Italian pharmacy.

Jade, who’s travelling the world with her boyfriend Dayne, was in ‘desperate’ need of some paracetamol due to neck pain and visited a chemist to find some relief during her stay in Milan. 

She said she it was a ‘nightmare’ trying to ask the pharmacist what she was after but was eventually given what she thought was paracetamol but was actually suppositories. 

Jade was perplexed as she opened the packet to find a large ‘wax bullet’ she said looked like a ‘mini tampon’.

After some googling, she and Dayle discovered she had been given suppositories which are meant to be inserted in the rectum or vagina to dissolve. 

‘It’s like a bullet. Do they chew it? It’s like wax. I’m so confused,’ Jade laughed as she opened the packet. She tried to ease her confusion by reading the instructions but they were in Italian

Jade shared the amusing experience in a video posted to TikTok.       

‘It was a f***ing nightmare to try and get this because it’s behind the counter you have to ask for it,’ she said holding the packet before she opened it. 

‘It’s like a bullet. Do they chew 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 however they were all written in Italian. 

‘I don’t know if you’re supposed to down that whole thing or you crack it open,’ she said.

‘Do they just not have Panadol here? Do they not take it? Do I down it?’

Jade eventually discovered what the mystery medication was after looking it up online. 

She had been given suppositories which are meant to be inserted anally or vaginally where it will dissolve and release its medication.

‘You’re supposed to shove this up your a**. (The pharmacist) didn’t even give us an option. I really need it,’ Jade said. 

‘Unacceptable. I’m not happy with that. I’m not shoving a bullet of Panadol up my a**.’

After some Googling Jade discovered she had been given suppositories which are meant to be inserted anally or vaginally where it will dissolve and release its medication

Hesitations aside, Jade did in fact use the suppository as she was ‘desperate’ and had no other option. 

‘I did use it and yes, I didn’t know it was a suppository, I’m so uncultured,’ she joked in a follow-up clip. 

‘In Australia they’re just not common for the average Joe. You just go in and you buy the pills.’

The traveller warned viewers she was about to share ‘too much information’ and explained how her first experience with a suppository went. 

‘It went straight up there, there was no f***ing around. The part that I was scared about, it said you needed to keep it in for 20 minutes but when I put it up I was like that b**** aint coming out,’ she laughed.  

‘But I think you can just keep it in there because it’s staying up there. I’m never going up there ever again, I think that is the first and last time I shall be doing that.’

Jade admitted, while it took a while to enter her system, the suppository did alleviate the pain in her neck. 

‘If I’m desperate I will be using it again but we’re going to Switzerland next and hopefully we can snatch up some normal Panadol there,’ she said. 

‘I did not swallow it. I was never going to swallow it without knowing what it was, I’m not that stupid.’

While Jade confessed she was very ’embarrassed’ by the debacle, thousands were in stitches over the misunderstanding.  

‘Life’s lessons and wisdom comes 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,’ wrote a second.

‘This had me howling,’ a third added and a fourth thought: ‘The assistant that served you clearly has fun with tourists’. 

A nurse put Jade’s concerns to bed and informed her the suppository will dissolve so doesn’t need to be retrieved while an Italian viewer said the medication wasn’t very common.

‘I’m Italian and usually they automatically give you the tablets unless you explicitly ask them for the suppositories. I feel like they set you up.’