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Ugh, that's even worse. (Looks like that's Oregon and Mississippi, for anyone else curious.) There's really no reason this shouldn't be OTC.
by tjohns 3y ago
Ugh, that's even worse. (Looks like that's Oregon and Mississippi, for anyone else curious.)
There's really no reason this shouldn't be OTC.
- JohnFen 3y agoWhat's even worse than that is that the only allergy medicine that was really effective for me is no longer manufactured at all, because one of the ingredients was pseudoephedrine. Once these stupid regulations came into effect, sales of it plummeted to the point where it was no longer worth making it. For years, I had friends in other countries buy it and mail it to me, but that's no longer an option at all.
- tjohns 3y agoI wonder if your doctor could get a compounding pharmacy to make it for you? That is an option sometimes.
- JohnFen 3y agoProbably, but that would require a prescription and I've not yet been able to find a primary care doctor (there is an acute shortage of them around here).
- dreamcompiler 3y agoWhat are the other ingredients? I suspect one is Benadryl (diphenhydramine) and that's still OTC in the US.
- toast0 3y agoAs a connoisseur of alergy meds, I'm also stumped. I know many allergy meds were sold as 'D' formulations that included pseudoephedrine, but I wasn't aware of any sold exclusively that way.
- JohnFen 3y agoBenedryl is what I switched to. It took a long time to get acclimatized to it enough that I wasn't perpetually on the edge of going to sleep! It was Drixoral, which is a combination of pseudoephedrine and dexbrompheniramine. You can get dexbrompheniramine OTC and combine it with pseudoephedrine and it's OK -- but not quite the same because Drixoral was a time release thing.