So about this. Oregon banned OTC sale of real Sudafed (pseudoephedrine) in 2005. I, a person who then had to periodically jump through hoops to get prescription pseudoephedrine to keep my lungs from crashing, did not know this had been repealed in 2022 until…this week?
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I wasn't on social media in 2022, really, so maybe that's why I didn't know, but I feel like this is a great example of how weird our comms channels are for things that aren't ad campaigns or big news. My primary care doc never mentioned it. Maybe he didn't know either?
So you have to ask for it now, it's behind the counter. Pharmacy tech said they don't carry pseudoephedrine, just Sudafed, then sold us a box of generic pseudoephedrine.
The shelves, meanwhile, are still full of Sudafed-brand phenylephrine, which does literally nothing.
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FDA Proposes Ending Use of Ora...
My 20+ years of figuring out to operate my weird body has put me in contact with so much incomplete, missing, and just busted official information about commonly used medications. I think this is part of why I believe that pretty much everything is way more of a shambles than we care to admit.
