Just a little rant

OK, so I finally found something I really miss about America: medicine.

Everytime I feel under the weather I have to go through the horrible experience of going into Boots or the drug aisle of Tescos and stand their bewildered looking for something familiar. Right now, it is cough medicine. Where the heck is cough syrup, just regular cough syrup that tastes horrible and stops you coughing? Do you know they actually have on the medicine bottles "for tickly coughs," as if "tickly" were a medical term? I bought a bottle of something or other, and when I took it discovered that it's basically a bottle of liquid syrup. What the heck is that going to do for my cough? Nothing.

And Ibuprofen. I stock up when I'm in the States, because I always used to buy those huge bottles of 500 tablets. Here, I think I've got the option of buying a box of 16 or maybe a box of 32. OK, that would get me through like a day or two (uh... I'm not a druggy, I swear. Only the most unfortunate females will understand). And Sudafed- they actually do have the brand name Sudafed here. But do they have the little tiny red tablets that work wonders for congestion, without being for sinus headache and everything else? No. Try as I may, I cannot find any (brand name or generic, I don't care) little red tablets. And does any medicine come in a box with more than 8 doses? No.

Maybe Americans are too drugged up. (Or maybe I am.) At least that's what people at work said when I went on a rant this morning. But I don't think that's it, there are plenty of options... just not what I want. And not what I'm used to. And everything else is too confusing. I just want to go into a drugstore and see "Dayquil" "Sudafed" "Advil" "IcyHot" on the shelf.

So that's my sad story. What I miss about America is the drugs.