[Dork.]

The warm weather here in the NE has been making my allergies just terrible. I feel absolutely awful, and that's after taking Allegra every day.

When I have these severe allergy symptoms, the only treatment that makes me feel human is Sudafed and Afrin but both are kind of hard on your system (in different ways), so my allergist suggested taking Sudafed for a few days straight, then Afrin for a few days straight, until my symptoms go away.

But, since it's possible to make a form of Meth with sufficient Sudafed, the Great State of New York has seen to it that you need to show your ID to buy the stuff. Seriously, they take down your Drivers License number when you buy it! And it's not available in quantities more than 24 right now. 24 tablets will last only four days when my allergies are bad! (Although that's more like a week when you throw the Afrin days in.)

So, since I want enough supply for a week or two, I visited a few pharmacies in one day to build up a 96 tablet supply! I had to produce my ID in multiple places to buy this stuff! I wonder if they ever look through that information, and if I've been added to some drug-dealer watch list now?



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[Goldfinger]

Don't you have a docter's prescription for stuff like that ? I don't really know/understand how it works in the US tough.
Here you have your prescription, you go the pharmacy and pay 2 or 3 euros. The rest gets paid be social security. You can buy as much as you need/as the prescription states.

[King Bob On The Cob]

In Illinois, they'll just go to the records if they suspect you are producing meth, so they can get a court order to search your house. Otherwise, the databases never see each other.

Not sure how it works in New York though.

[RAILhead]

My allergy salvation: ZYRTEC® (cetirizine HCl). Allergy Medicine - Treatment for Allergies

[macfantn]

I believe all states make you show your license to buy, they do in TN. I was limited to 5 boxes a month when my allergies acted up, they were boxes of 24 but you take 2 every 4 hours, so I barely made it through a month.

[zerostar]

Knock Knock, better get the door.

[Millennium]

Originally Posted by Goldfinger 

Don't you have a docter's prescription for stuff like that ? I don't really know/understand how it works in the US tough.

Pseudoephedrine, marketed in the US under the brand name Sudafed, is usually marketed over-the-counter. Well, technically it's behind-the-counter now, but either way it's not considered a prescription drug.

However, it is possible to get stronger stuff with a prescription. If your allergies are really strong enough that you're running out that quickly, you may want to talk to your doctor about doing that. If nothing else, it ought to get around this idiotic anti-meth law.

[Dork.]

Originally Posted by Millennium 

However, it is possible to get stronger stuff with a prescription. If your allergies are really strong enough that you're running out that quickly, you may want to talk to your doctor about doing that. If nothing else, it ought to get around this idiotic anti-meth law.

I currently take 180mg Allegra once a day. I know there's a lower-dose version of Allegra with time-release psudoephedrine that you take twice a day, But the higher Allegra dose works better for me on a daily basis, and I take the Sudafed when things really get bad. Although I currently have no heart-related problems, there are people in my family with problems, so I want to take it easy on the Sudafed and not make it a daily maintenance drug.

If my current reaction lasts longer than a week, though, I might just ask for something stronger.

But my rant stems from the fact that if pseudoephedrine is now so dangerous, why not make it a prescription medicine again? I can't get a prescription for the over-the-counter dosage, even if "over the counter" is really now "behind the counter"....