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I remember DayQuil being a lifesaver when I was in college in the early 00's and I needed to power through a day of classes with a bad cold. Then I remember at

I remember DayQuil being a lifesaver when I was in college in the early 00's and I needed to power through a day of classes with a bad cold. Then I remember at some point in the later 00's it just didn't work anymore (turns out they switched normal decongestant meds to phenylephrine in 2006). Once I found that out I started buying the behind-the-counter stuff with pseudoephedrine and it suddenly worked again. Not sure you need to be a pharmacist to figure this stuff out.

HackeNewsFan234 3y ago
Something with Dayquil - it has other medicines that do work for pain and cough suppression. Depending on your symptoms, those two can work and make you feel better even though you're not getting any real decongestion benefits. That makes it harder to detect that the decongestion part isn't working. That is, of course, until you're introduced to the stuff that really does work and then wonder how you went so long without it.