IMHO, based upon observed physician practice patterns in ER and acute care hospital patients:

Find a friendly physician or veterinarian and get a big brown bottle of penicillin or amoxacillin: 500mg caps or tabs in a brown container. store it somewhere cold and dry. Get dosing information from your friendly doc. If allergic to penicillin, or more adventurous and wealthier, get levaquin. Pen and amox are available in generic form: http://www.petcarechoice.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.search&product_namefilter=amoxacillin

To anticipate some of the objections:

1) Antibiotics are dangerous in untrained hands: (so are guns, knives,hatchets, ferrocerium rods, fish hooks and scalpels: it is generally asserted that these things have their place in survival planning)

2) People who need antibiotics are going to die anyway: (everybody is going to die anyway. Survival planning and most medical therapy is about delaying the inevitable. Even the DR designed aviation survival kit does not promise eternal life)

3) People treated with these meds in optimal settings suffer side effects, toxicity, and bad clinical outcomes, which would be worse in sub-optimal crisis conditions. (see (2) above)

Thanks NurseMike. I'd have to go the whatever route folks allergic to Penicillin/derivatives go. I think Erythromycin was fine for me. Either way, it still takes a visit to the doc. A careful explanation of why you are asking for the scrip and hopefully cooperation on his/her part.

I like your objections treatment.

RE Pain Killers:
Frankly, I'm on fairly high does pain killers and have been for a year - the classic "we will write you a 15 script" kinda meds, with NO refils

Thing is, I find that a LOT of days, I don't need them every 6 hours, but more like ever 8-9hours. When do I refill? At 15 days. At this point I probably have a spare 2 week supply

I REALLY, Really hope I never have to long term (or for that matter, short term) bug out. Last year I developed a serious chronic health problem, and I lug around more drugs than you might imagine (along with dressing and the like to deal with the problem. Falls in the "this is no fun" zone

I heard on the radio that authorities are concerned about internet pharmacies selling just about anything without requiring prescriptions.