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One fun<\/strong><\/span> thing to do in Latin America is buy prescription drugs off the shelf at the local drugstore. Last month I forgot my prescription pills and was in Guatemala. I emailed the Cleveland Clinic. They said it was OK for me to skip my Lipitor, but the Clinic thought I should stick with my blood-pressure medicine. But that drug (trade name Bystolic) is expensive and hard to find, even in the U.S.<\/p>\n I went to a farmacia<\/em>, and bingo, they had it. Not called Bystolic. The Latin version is from Argentina, but the same drug. And they had a Lipitor-clone from India. Then I looked for some aloe vera because I had a sun burn. No go. I found aloe vera somewhere else. Finally, I bought some pepto-abysmal.<\/p>\n Just yank the Rx drugs off the shelves. My first time was in El Salvador in 1973, when my asthma inhaler ran dry, and I walked into a pharmacy and got a canister. I used that canister for the next twenty years. I have faith in expired meds.<\/p>\n I also<\/strong><\/span> bought some baby aspirin in Guatemala. The standard down there is 100mg instead of 81mg.<\/p>\n I wouldn\u2019t mind running a farmacia<\/em> in Latin America. Maybe next time around.<\/p>\n My present inventory:
\n1) 5 mg nebivolol, trade name Nabila. Same as American Bystolic. Made in Argentina.
\n2) 40 mg atorvastatin, trade name Atorgras. Same as Lipitor. Indian-made.<\/p>\n