I wondered what neoCitran was, so looked it up. It appears to be much the same thing as LemSip over here. Which I don't use because I have a deep suspicion of paracetamol and its liver-killing ways, but it would not surprise me if it too was not quite as lemon-flavoured as one might expect.

Of course, over here you can get low strength codeine mixed with ibruprofen etc. without a prescription, and doctors are perfectly willing to prescribe straight codeine if there is a clinical need for it. Which is how I came to have a prescription for straight codeine in pills the same strength as you could get over the counter, so that I could interleave the two ingredients rather than taking them at the same time, and get the benefit of one kicking in as the other was tailing off. That was for migraine, but also useful for other types of "The pain won't be as bad if I can just get some sleep, damn it" pain.