As you are covered under the state health insurance your GP can issue your prescription.
If you tell him what you did get at home he usually would precribe the same (if he agrees with the diagnosis from your previous doc that is).
A sample box and/or documentation from your doc at home will certainly be helpful.

You take the issued prescription to the pharmacy and you are charged between 0,00 and 10,00 Euro for each item.
You are not charged the full price, the money is only your share of it. Your share is calculated depending on the drug, the quantity and the contracts the pharmacy has with the health insurance.
If you need a special product from a certain company you have to insist on it, because e.g. it has less side effects than similar products. In this case your doc can make sure you get it - otherwise you might get a generic product - that in most cases would be sufficient.

If you fall under the chronic patient rule you even can be excluded from this share payments. Ask your GP about it.

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I just arrived yesterday, and was told to bring over the counter meds, which you can't buy in bulk as we can in the states. I brought so many I will never run out, but Aleve liquigels are not here, you can't get Melatonin without a prescription, special bandaids, large bottles of Tums. And the deodorant I use, which isn't here. Silly things but important for me.

I brought a huge bag of chocolate chips to make cookies, can't get those here. Everything else is the same or better here. The peanut butter is at least as good as Jif, maybe better. Oh, I always bring root beer for my husband, it's almost non-existent here.

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