Over the counter

The fun season is approaching us with colds, allergies, flu, and etc. It used to be if you were sick you went to see your physician and they would proscribe you medicine to make you feel better. Now that isn't the case. You can go to your local pharmacy, Rite Aid, or Walmarts and find the medicine you need to feel better. Does it always work? Not all the time. Everything that is on their shelves tells you what it treats, for instance, if you have a sore throught, congestion, tempature. You just have to take that pill or drink the liquid as directed and possibly feel better. Alot of times in the end you have to break down and make that doctors appointment because what you bought over the counter doesn't get you better. So there for you have spent money on a quick cure that didn't work and now have to spend more money for the doctor visit.

I know a lot of people who try to go on line and self diagnose themselfs. That doesn't work at all. What they don't understand is that is so you can read and get information on what you have. So that you can be well informed. But when people use it to self diagnose it can cause them worry and confusion. It is the doctor's place to do that. Not the computer.

Our world today has become the quick fix society. It doesn't work that way, there is nothing out there that is going to make you better in 24 hours. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that all over the counter medicine is bad, or that all medical web sites are bad. We just expect too much sometimes.

We also now can get our flu shot at Walmarts or Rite Aide instead of having to make that doctor's appointment. It is easier because you don't have to site at the doctor's and wait that 30 minutes or longer just to get a poke in the arm and plus it is not as expensive. It just shows on how far our world has come in making it easier and less hassle to get certain things done.

All I am saying I guess, is when you go to get that over the counter medicine, or to self diagnose yourself. Be well informed and know that it may not always be true or that it might not always work. Alot of people take that route I think because they don't have insurance and can't afford that doctor's appointment. Just be well informed before you take that pill, drink that liquid, or believe what you read. Thats just what I think.