U.S. drugstores make me swoon

Re: U.S. drugstores make me swoon

• Butterbrot

  April 2012

  anna7602:

  Butterbrot:

  anna7602:

  aMrsin09:

  I found Sudafed to be much less expensive in France and I like Paracetamol better than the stuff in the US (they say it's the same as Tylenol, but I don't believe it.  Tylenol never really worked for me).  I really wish I could remember the name of the stuff a pharmacist gave me for a stuffy head/headache combo. 

  They have real, live Sudafed in France? With pseudophedrine not whatever the new replacement ingredient is that has replaced pseudophedrine in most cold meds? And I can get it without a prescription?

  I feel like the French are ridiculous about prescriptions for everything, even things that are OTC in the U.S. like hydrocortisone and Monistat-type remedies.

  It's the same here in Germany. I'll never forget the day I had to figure out how to say yeast infection in German ... then repeat those words to a pharmacist. Awesome. 
  

  I realize a yeast infection is a kind of fungus, but for some reason, hearing a pharmacist confirm I had "champignons," the literal word for mushrooms, in my nether regions, created quite the unpleasant visual for me. I really just wanted to stick to the Latin "candida vaginitis," but the pharmacist wanted to keep saying "champignons."

  Sorry, this has me laughing. In German, it translates into "mushroom infection." I'm not even sure if there's a less "cullinary" way to say it. 
  

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