As I mentioned, I’ve had a cold for about a week now. I’m at work, still, as I don’t have much of a choice in the manner, but everybody in our house has gotten the virus at one point over the last few weeks. My wife has it right now, and is horribly plugged up. The only stuff that has ever really helped her (she’s always had sinus and allergy problems) was pseudoephedrine (aka Sudafed). She’s tried all the various over-the-counter stuff over the years, and Sudafed was the only thing that ever really cleared her up.
But thanks to the crackhead meth-addicts (which I know better than to joke about in public), who were using the little red pills to create their drug of choice, a prescription is now required to get the decongestant. What used to cost just a few bucks for a bucketload of pills at Costco now costs quite a bit more. Since I don’t have some fancy zero co-pay health insurance plan (does anybody?) I’d have to pay $25 for my wife to see our doctor to get something written up that’ll cost us about $3 at the pharmacy counter. She doesn’t have a sinus infection (she would know), nor any lung problems, she just has a cold, and needs some snot to come out her head. I called the doc on her behalf because she can’t even talk right now because she’s so plugged up her throat hurts from the snot in the back of her throat that she can’t get rid of. I tried just having the doctor call it in, but our doctor wouldn’t budge (I’m consider switching family doctors, which sucks, as I like the guy).
I just love it when the druggies screw it up for everybody who legitimately need the stuff. Has the meth problem gotten any better in Oregon since this? I don’t have a clue. I doubt it, as most of the ingredients were coming in from Mexico anyway. Why don’t we shut off those channels?
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I didn’t know you needed a prescription, we get generic Sudafed here at CVS, Walgreens, Target, etc. you just have to ask for it at the pharmacy counter. They keep it locked up so the meth heads can’t buy 20 boxes at once. I think we’re limited to 2 boxes in Texas.
That sucks, but I am pretty sure her in MN you just have to go to the pharmacy counter to get it, no prescription needed. What dies suck is they only let you get a small amount at a time, and can only get it during pharmacy hours. So those late night runs won’t happen. The one thing that bothers me is when stores try to police the products them selves by requiring an ID for things like NyQuil when there is no law saying they have to.
That’s the way it used to be here, Matt. You’d show some ID, sign a “I won’t cook meth with this” form (I’m sure that isn’t exactly what it said), and you were fine. Unfortunately now, doctors have to get involved.
You could always join the fight to end Drug Prohibition.
Let the rabble kill themselves off.
Has she tried a drug called Phenylephrine Hydrochloride? Here in Oz the cold and flu meds (eg Codral) all changed their pseudoephedrine formulas to phenylephrine and it does the same job (for me at least).
I am the same way, sudafed is the only thing that works for me. I tried to call the doctor to see if he could call in a prescription but he wouldn’t do it unless I made an appointment.And like you my insurance not only sucks, it blows as well. But his assistant told me to just go accross the river to Vancouver, WA and you can still get it over the counter with just I.D. in limited amounts. So anytime I find myself in Washington, I buy some weather I need it or not. Of course it’s hard to find Sudafed Cold and Allergy so I have to settle for Wallfed.