AP: Laws restricting cold medicine purchases have failed, create unintended consequences

[dannno]

My wife has been taking Claritin-D for years for allergy attacks. Last year MS enacted legislation that has made it a prescription only drug. Now she just suffers through the attacks because we can't afford to pay a $30 copay for monthly doctor visits, just for a prescription, on top of the ridiculous price for the medication. She gets to suffer through allergy attacks while the meth problem gets bigger and more profitable...

I used to take claritin, sudafed, I've tried pretty much everything that was invented for allergies up until a few years ago...

Now I take an herbal combination of stingy nettle and quercetin.. It takes about a week or two to build up in your system, so I'd take at least 4 a day for a couple weeks, then take as needed but try and take at least one every other day to keep it in your system so when she has an attack she can take a couple and be good to go. It works way better, and there are ZERO side effects.. I always thought allergy medicine made me feel kinda drugged up.

 

[dealerjim]

I used to take claritin, sudafed, I've tried pretty much everything that was invented for allergies up until a few years ago...

Now I take an herbal combination of stingy nettle and quercetin.. It takes about a week or two to build up in your system, so I'd take at least 4 a day for a couple weeks, then take as needed but try and take at least one every other day to keep it in your system so when she has an attack she can take a couple and be good to go. It works way better, and there are ZERO side effects.. I always thought allergy medicine made me feel kinda drugged up.

Thanks. We'll give it a shot and see if it works.

 

[dealerjim]

1) Get a different doctor or try a walk in clinic. Rx's tend to be one refil, 2 refills ... or unlimited for up to a year. You want the latter.

2) Find an overseas pharmacy - maybe Canadian. Some require a phone consult with their doc, others do not.

Sounds like your problem is your HMO / Insurance company.

-t

We actually tried the walk in clinic at the local Walgreens only to find out they refuse to prescribe anything with psuedophedrine. That was a waste of a co-pay. lol

 

[oyarde]

What the sudafed retrictions have actually done is create an inflated black market for it .

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

We actually tried the walk in clinic at the local Walgreens only to find out they refuse to prescribe anything with psuedophedrine. That was a waste of a co-pay. lol

Call first and ask if they have such a policy.

You ideally want an independent clinic - one owned by the doc. They exist. Large chains are likely to pull that BS.

-t

 

[YumYum]

I was told by a meth cook that he got ephedrine from deer licks during hunting season. He also could get ephedrine from canned green beans. It goes to show that these guys can get ephedrine from anything. According to my uncle, who is now dead, most of the ephedrine was coming up from Mexico in 55 gallon drums and going to the high desert in Southern California (Hesperia, Victorville, Apple Valley). From there it was going out all over the country. The woman who ran the Boys and Girls club on the Arapaho rez was getting 55 gallon shipments and using the club as a cover. The cooks also cook meth in the trailers of big semi-trucks as they go down the Interstate. What has happened though, is that the police have made it so difficult to cook meth, meth is now being cooked in Mexico and delivered, ready to slam. The drug war has failed miserably.

 

[oyarde]

I was told by a meth cook that he got ephedrine from deer licks during hunting season. He also could get ephedrine from canned green beans. It goes to show that these guys can get ephedrine from anything. According to my uncle, who is now dead, most of the ephedrine was coming up from Mexico in 55 gallon drums and going to the high desert in Southern California (Hesperia, Victorville, Apple Valley). From there it was going out all over the country. The woman who ran the Boys and Girls club on the Arapaho rez was getting 55 gallon shipments and using the club as a cover. The cooks also cook meth in the trailers of big semi-trucks as they go down the Interstate. What has happened though, is that the police have made it so difficult to cook meth, meth is now being cooked in Mexico and delivered, ready to slam. The drug war has failed miserably.

If that is true about green beans , please delete . I do not want the price to get inflated .

 

[YumYum]

If that is true about green beans , please delete . I do not want the price to get inflated .

Don't worry. The cooks will find other ways to get ephedrine. Is it true that there is a small amount of ephedrine in toe-nail clippings?

 

[oyarde]

Don't worry. The cooks will find other ways to get ephedrine. Is it true that there is a small amount of ephedrine in toe-nail clippings?

Chupacabra nails , yes : )

 

[Corydoras]

You're shitting me, right? Prescription for fucking SNIFFLE medicine?

Yeah, there are prescription drugs for zits, too. For example, there is one acne medication that can cause suicidal behavior. It is valuable in the most severe cases of acne. But you're going to call it a zit pill. No, it's a pill that can kill.

It isn't the magnitude of the symptoms that determines whether a drug is OTC, it's the magnitude of the potential problems.

 

[Corydoras]

My wife has been taking Claritin-D for years for allergy attacks. Last year MS enacted legislation that has made it a prescription only drug. Now she just suffers through the attacks because we can't afford to pay a $30 copay for monthly doctor visits, just for a prescription, on top of the ridiculous price for the medication. She gets to suffer through allergy attacks while the meth problem gets bigger and more profitable...

Why isn't she on Singulair?