How do you obtain prescription medication?

I don't currently use any prescription medicines.

I pick them up at the drug store. It's only about eight blocks from where I live.

In the past, my mum has usually picked my prescriptions up at the chemist's in my village.

When my doctor gives me a prescription, I usually throw it out. I don't go to the doctor very often. He likes writing prescriptions. I think he feels like I'm not getting my money's worth unless I walk out of his office with a prescription. On those very rare occasions when I do get them filled, I take them across the street to the drugstore, give them to the pharmacist, and she gives me the medicine. Then I take it up to the till and pay for it.

I will be picking it up at a drug store. I have to get prescription eyedrops for glaucoma but have yet to obtain my first drugstore prescription. The doctor has been giving me free samples.

Things are a bit different in Hong Kong. If a doctor prescribes a drug for you, you buy it at his/her office. (Or at the hospital if you are there...) Thus, if I'm really sick, I get my prescriptions at my doctor's. For my asthma inhalers, I just go to a local "medicine" shop (which usually sells both Chinese & Western medicine as well as cleaning supplies...) and tell them what I want. If they don't have it, they tell me either to wait while they go get it or when to come back.

call them in and pick them up when needed.

Holding up drugstores at gunpoint.

My husband gets my prescription and, strangely, I get his...

Notice how you use "chemist" and Zang uses "pharmacist"?
Interesting...

It's stranger because most chemist's are now referred to as pharmacies - Boots the Chemist now has an "instore pharmacy". I grew up with a shop in my village that was always called the Chemist's - probably I'll think that way until I die!

I pick them up at the pharmacy.

Probably...
"Chemist" is from another time, I guess "pharmacist" is more modern.

BTW, I've seen your pict at the gallery and you are a lovely looking young lady!
(good looks and brains, ah... You've got the world by the tail!)

The pictures look better than I do! I don't know how they turned out like that, but I think they're a bit misleading. When Grmbrand comes back, I'm going to ask him to take them down and replace them with some better (ie that look more like me) ones. I'm really not very attractive at all.

I usually just pick them up at the store but there is one thing I order online and it gets mailed to me.

At http://uk.photos.yahoo.com/biggles286 there's a recent picture of me in my matriculation garb.

Well I think you're cute!! And you have a personality to go with it!!

I haven't got any. I don't have any problems that can't be solved with ibuprofen. My mom got me some banana medicine at the pharmacy once, that the doctor had prescribed. It made me sick.

pick up..we have a nifty 24-hour pharmacy with drive-thru

is your banana better now?

Pharmacy.
I don't need medicines now.

Usually, someone else picks them up for me at the pharmacy. I take eight different prescriptions every day, just to stay alive.

"Pharmacy" is primarily a North American expression. It does seem to be used more in other English speaking countries lately.

At first, I thought you might be drawing attention to the fact that I probably tend to use English expressions more frequently than the average Canadian. I acknowledge this, and suspect that it is due to the fact that my grandparents were born there, some of my closest friends were born there, and I've spent some time there myself.

You are a very attractive young woman! Quit being so modest! >

I pick them up at the Chemist Pharmacy.

*cries* Zang glared at me

Crybaby!

Meanie!

Ha! Oops. Yes, it is all better, thank you.

You are gorgeous. Accept it, it isn't a bad thing. I would kill to have eyes like yours.

Okay, well not kill.....I'm not really the killing type. But if I could, I would.

I was looking at the pictures of you with your baby sister again today and I cannot get over how old and mature you look! So sophisticated

Aw, thank you! Although perhaps I only look mature in comparison to the 6 month old I am holding.

No, you'd pass as someone in her early 20s, no problem. You look older than most of the third years here do (22ish).

Well, thank you very much. I'll remember that next time I'm trying to get into a bar!

Surely you don't have any trouble with that? Or is it over 21 in Canada too?

No, in Canada (or at least in Nova Scotia) the legal drinking age is 19. Honestly, I rarely try. When I want alcohol, I have someone buy it for me. I went to a tavern once with a friend and tried to order cosmopolitans. They didn't make them. We could have got something else, because they thought we were 19, but not being fans of beer, we didn't know what to order and left.

It's 18 here, which is good because we have a college bar and it would be so much hassle if they had to check our id before we could go in!

Yeah, that's a problem here. Most University bars don't check id anymore, because freshmans aren't technically allowed to drink. The other problem would be that most people are 18 for the last bit of highschool, and you'd be able to drink at the dances and such, and it would be legal.

I pick them up at the drug store.

I've rarely used prescription medication but when I have I think I've usually picked it up at the pharmacy myself.

No, I didn't notice your English expressions. You sound Canadian to me!
I once visited there and went to a pub where there was this "preppy" looking guy who had a "few too many". His speech was slurred and his accent was incomprehensible to me, I just stood and smiled (he must have thought that I was dumb if he could remember me the next day!)
I also met a woman that evening who told me that she had visited Vancouver; "It was lovely." She said, "But there's no culture." (snob pub!)
I think that she was confusing culture with history - my argument is that where ever you find people, you find culture. Everyone has been brought up with the knowledge and traditions of their elders and environment; all things that are part of YOUR culture.
I don't think that Vancouver is uncultured...

I don't use pm's

The bastards won't prescribe me anything.
They say counselling would be far more beneficial than drugs.

Hmmmph.

Yeah, Lord knows where she was looking. Culture isn't very hard to find anywhere there's people. Perhaps she had a particular culture in mind...

A little self-involved, wouldn't you say?

Perhaps.

From the chemist.

I pick them up at the chemist.

I usually go to the pharmacy at WalMart. I don't know if that would count as the drug store or not.

Haven't had a prescription in a long time. I think I got it from a drug store or something.