> you probably know that the "good" Sudafed is kept behind the counter, and you have to sign for it.
In my state, that's not how it works. You have to have a doctor's prescription to get it, which means you have to have a doctor -- and getting a doctor is incredibly difficult.
What'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.
As 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.
Benedryl 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.
Probably, 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).
In my state, that's not how it works. You have to have a doctor's prescription to get it, which means you have to have a doctor -- and getting a doctor is incredibly difficult.