Strawberry Extract revisited

I blogged about a month ago about Strawberry Extract

On my trip I found some in the drugstore on the main street in Baddeck. It was in Stone's PharmaSave on Chebucto street.  I found 2 bottles of Rougier's Strawberry extract.  This tells me that anywhere I go in cape Breton I can find my favourite anti-diarrheal and stomach ache medicine.

Back in Montreal I went to Walmart twice in one day. I went to the Walmart in Kirkland, where of course I spotted a Mercedes parked in the fire lane. It's almost always those with expensive cars that seem to think they have the God given right to park anywhere, because they are so special.

Walmart in Kirkland, on the Island of Montreal, with a Mercedes in the fire lane

Anyways since I was at Walmart I decided to check if they had the Strawberry Extract, and they did. I also checked the Walmart in Ste-Dorothe were I was also dragged the same day and found some there too.
Now I wonder if I can find it at all the Walmarts in Canada?

Strawberry extract

Until the mid to late 1990's I could count on Dr Fowlers Wild Strawberry Extract to take care of my tummy aches as well as random bouts of diarrhea.

Sadly in the mid to late 1990's Dr Fowlers stopped making their wild strawberry extract, and I remember asking my Pharmacy to look into it. They now make this pink chemical product that I would not touch with a 10 foot pole.

Meanwhile Jean Coutu and Pharmaprix had either a generic Strawberry Extract or a home brand. Recently I found that neither store is carrying it anymore. I know I'm not the only one looking for it as when I asked the Pharmacist at Jean-Coutu, she told me she had 4 other people looking for some as well. It appears Jean-Coutu discontinued the product. I dunno about Pharmaprix.

Doing some Googling apparently I'm not hte only one who is devastated by the fact it's become increasingly hard to find Strawberry extract. Some of the threads in various forums that I found about it, are all about how sad people are to see this product go. For some people with IBS it was a god send. I know that it tends to resolve 90% of my tummy issues, and has zero side effects with me.

Through more Googling, I found recently that Rougier has a strawberry extract that is available for sale on Well.ca   I will be ordered numerous bottles to cover my trips this summer.

I went to both Healthtree and Tau health food stores and neither carry Strawberry extract despite having lots of herbal medicinal products. The woman at Healthtree asked me if I had heard about it on dr Oz.because I was the 5th person to ask for it in so many days.