I'm visiting the Philippines and woke up with very sore throat. Took on doze each of something that tasted like a combination between green nyquil and grape dimetap, a green liquigel that looks like nyquil liguigel, and a headache pill. Within two hours headache and sore throat was gone. Still have the sniffles.
I don't remember ever having similar results with similar symptoms with over the counter medication in the US. Could it be that even our over the counter medicine is worse in the US?