Scary isn't it. I'm glad your pouch finally decided to get rid of them and think it is good that you spit some out. Were they time release capsules containing tiny bits of medication?

I hope you are feeling better soon.

Why not take liquid cold medications? You will never run into this problem.

I ususally do but I ran out and I buy my supplies back home in the States...(so much cheaper)...I had 2 packets of the night-time hot lemon drink one that worked wonders but for the day time I only had these hard pills...obviously it was a very bad idea...now my head is pounding, the sinuses are congested and I am out of meds...will have to give in and buy the French stuff.
The problem is that here there is no liquid stuff and gelcaps are not availible either...can I crush them?
Sharon

They don't have Vicks Dayquil/Nyquil in France? Or the house brand with the same ingredients at your local pharmacy?

Do you have a nettie pot? I can't believe how great the work. I still have the packets of salt that comes with them but any salt dissolved in warm water should work. That or saline spray might help too. Sorry you are so clogged up, that really hurts.

Hope you feel better soon Sharon.

It also helps if you add a tiny bit of baking soda to the salt solution for the neti pot, it takes the burn from the salt away.

CT,
We don't have drugstores like we do back home...here the drugstores are Pharmacies and they are just, mostly the place you go to get your prescriptions filled...they are small boutique sized and although some have some high-end cosmetics, baby products, paper products (kleenex..) and a couple of stands of non-prescription stuff like body lotions almost everything is behind the counter here...so there is very little in the TOC section (asprin, tyelnol, cough meds..) but even all of that is behind the counter...and it is very, very expensive (multiply by 5 the Walmart prices or more)...because France has social medicine and almost everything presciption was covered they did not develop an OTC section because it would not be reimbursed...
When I tell my pharmacist that I buy tylenol by the 500 bottle he looks at me bug-eyed...here it is sold in tiny little boxes of 10...and costs the same as the 500 bottle! (but if I get it prescribed it is covered 100%)...
I am scrounging in my travel kits for any liquidcaps or powder packets I can find for now but the good news is that my nose is starting to unstuff (bad news is my stomach is starting to feel queezy!)...
Hang on flu, here I come...
Sharon

Oh no, don't even say the F word

French pharmacies have more cures for nasal congestion than we do in the states. My French is very bad but just pointing to my nose and making a very stuffy sound was enough to have people running around and putting together day time powders packets you mix with hot water and a sleepy-time night version of the same thing. I wish I remembered the name!

It is called Humex...like I said it is 5xs the U.S. price...As for nose stuff (or stuffy noses???!!!) they have a ton of sinus sprays (they love shoving things up their noses!) especially sea-water nasal sprays...But they don't help much if it is clogged up...they do on the other hand have a fabulous choice of cough syurps...all codine based and non prescription! Behind the counter none the less but still availible...go figure.
ps...I have been cut off from my health insurance so for now I cannot even see a doctor...have to wait for it all to get unknotted...
Sharon

This keeps getting worse doesn't it. I think I remember if you go to the country provided doctors it's first come, like a waiting in line set up. Is that right? Do you need antibiotics now?