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Remember the last time you had headache coming on and there was no medicine available at home? In all possibility, you had to get to your car, take a drive to the nearest pharmacy or drugstore, try a while before you found the suitable parking, get to the store, wait in line for the pharmacist to fill your prescription, pay for it, get back to the car and then drive back home before you could pop the pill that would rid you of your by now unbearable headache. I have done so several times and each time, it has frustrated me no end. I always wondered why there wasn?t a simpler way to deal with it. I mean, if on each trip to the pharmacy, I stocked up on medicine for every imaginable ailment chances are I would have to throw them away before getting to use them.

But regularly, whenever I need medicine, I don?t have a stock of them at home. It was enough to drive me up the wall. Till I discovered the convenience of the online drugstore that is to think of it, when nearly every other product that is available offline is actually available online, why not have an online drugstore? The reasons are clouded in the mists of bureaucracy and safety concerns, but finally, pharmaceutical companies and healthcare professionals have successfully established the concept of online drugstores. Using an online drugstore is a simple matter. You log on to the website and create your personal profile. These profiles includes information of your personal details, your health, conditions you may be suffering from, your doctor?s diagnosis, known allergies and reactions to certain medicines and your home address etc.

If the online drugstore has this information, it is possible for them to not only send you the correct drugs based on your prescription, but also to compare the suggested drugs with your personalized information to ensure that you get the safest drugs. Of course online drugstores took so long to come in because there were issues concerning privacy and misuse. For instance, unless the drugs could be matched to real prescriptions, fraudsters could use online drugstores as a way to secure loads of schedule H drugs or restricted drugs. This was the most important concern policy makers had to contend with when they decided to create online drugstores. Another issue was privacy. Not all consumers were happy to divulge their personal information to pharmaceutical companies which operated online drugstores. After all, who wants to be spammed by marketing mails? But as far as I am concerned, online drugstores are a god send. Now, whenever a headache attacks, I can log on to my online drugstore, specify the medication and rest assured in he thought that my panacea will come to my doorstep!