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About to arrive in France soon, and realised I have a really bad headache and no meds with me.

All pharmacies will be closed by the time I arrive. The ones that are open close around midday.

Do petrol/service stations normally sell paracetamol or ibuprofen?
 
muon said:
About to arrive in France soon, and realised I have a really bad headache and no meds with me.

All pharmacies will be closed by the time I arrive. The ones that are open close around midday.

Do petrol/service stations normally sell paracetamol or ibuprofen?
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ask your hotel reception? ask the nearest french person you see at the airport station? ask a flight attendant?
ask at passport control :P

if you search on Carrefour's online shopping there is no paracétamol.

(i like how its got efour in its name.)
 
muon said:
About to arrive in France soon, and realised I have a really bad headache and no meds with me.

All pharmacies will be closed by the time I arrive. The ones that are open close around midday.

Do petrol/service stations normally sell paracetamol or ibuprofen?
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Not sure about petrol stations but markets and supermarkets will as long as they have a pharmacy section. Unfortunately France is quite strict.
 
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Problem is everything is closing, or never opened at all, its Sunday. If it was a weekday I wouldnt have been concerned.

I can see a Carrefour closes at 1pm. Hopefully can make it to that one.

I'm on a ferry, nothing onboard. I also read online, only pharmacists are allowed to dispense any kind of medicine in France, because the French abuse drugs much more than us.
 
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muon said:
Problem is everything is closing, or never opened at all, its Sunday. If it was a weekday I wouldnt have been concerned.

I can see a Carrefour closes at 1pm. Hopefully can make it to that one.
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Yeah that's going to be tough. Check it has a pharmacy section in it.

Try and find a "pharmacie de garde" these are special pharmacies that have different out of office opening times.
 
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muon said:
Problem is everything is closing, or never opened at all, its Sunday. If it was a weekday I wouldnt have been concerned.

I can see a Carrefour closes at 1pm. Hopefully can make it to that one.

I'm on a ferry, nothing onboard. I also read online, only pharmacists are allowed to dispense any kind of medicine in France, because the French abuse drugs much more than us.
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Yeah, my French gf is always surprised at what we can buy off the shelf (so to speak) in Boots/Superdrug. Everyone I'm sick (uk), she asks me when I'll make a doctor's appointment to get meds. She's never quite grasped how I can just drive to the nearest pharmacy and buy them.
 
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