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I just got carded at the store for buying nyquil.
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Try buying some Claritin D. I had to have my driver's license scanned....I bought a box of 10 (a 5 day supply). Two weeks later, I went to buy some more due to this nagging cold, and they wouldn't sell me any....they said you're allowed one box per month, whether it's 10 tabs or 30!. What a crock. During allergy season I used to get a script and take them twice a day for 3 months. That's what happens when you put the gubment in charge of something.
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Just a quick fyi...if you take or buy cold medicine for the antihistamine effect (need it to dry you out, because you're clogged up), and you know you'll be taking it at night - get some Unisom tablets (not the gelcaps) online. Marketed as a nighttime sleep aid, they have they same antihistamine drug as all the major cold medicines, but 4x the amount.
As long as you get 5-6 hours sleep, you will be fine in the morning. I use them a good amount, mostly for nose-which-leads-into-no-sleep issue.
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Anything containing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine (which can be used in the manufacture of crystal meth .... at least I think that's the drug the pharmacist said .... ) can only be purchased in certain quantities, and now results in being carded. 
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Try buying some Claritin D. I had to have my driver's license scanned....I bought a box of 10 (a 5 day supply). Two weeks later, I went to buy some more due to this nagging cold, and they wouldn't sell me any....they said you're allowed one box per month, whether it's 10 tabs or 30!. What a crock. During allergy season I used to get a script and take them twice a day for 3 months. That's what happens when you put the gubment in charge of something.
That shouldn't have happened. You can buy more than one box, there is a regulation on the amount of Pseudoephedrine you can buy in a day, and in a month. One box of 10 shouldn't have even come close to the maximum amount you can get in a month.
Plus, you could always just go to another pharmacy and there's really no way to get caught right now. While they do log the sales at the pharmacy, there's no system in place (yet) to track purchases in realtime.
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Carded for NyQuil because kids buy it up and drink the bottle for a buzz. You have to be 18 to buy it now.
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That shouldn't have happened. You can buy more than one box, there is a regulation on the amount of Pseudoephedrine you can buy in a day, and in a month. One box of 10 shouldn't have even come close to the maximum amount you can get in a month.
Plus, you could always just go to another pharmacy and there's really no way to get caught right now. While they do log the sales at the pharmacy, there's no system in place (yet) to track purchases in realtime.
The first part of your post is spot on. The second part is no longer true. A tracking system has been in place for several months now. I found out the hard way around Christmas when I ran out of the "good" Sudafed 12-hour tablets and tried to buy another box a week before the law would allow it. What a pain... 
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Oh ok. I guess that must have started with the scanning of IDs. Well, you could always get a family member to go buy some, or just find an independent pharmacy that doesn't have the technology to swipe IDs.
By the way, just for general info, the limits:
3.6 grams per day
7.5 to 9 grams per 30 days, depending on the state.
Claritin-D 12 hour has 120mg of pseudoephedrine in each tab. So, box of 10 would be 1.2 grams, box of 30 being the most you could get. Aleve-D and Zyrtec-D have the same pseudoepehedrine content.
Claritin-D 24 hour has 240mg, so 15 tabs would be the max you can get in a day.
Either way with 12 or 24 hour, you can still buy 2 boxes within a month
Advil Cold and Sinus has 30 mg in each tab. So you could actually get a bunch of this in a day, but the biggest package is 20, I think.
Also noteworthy, Oregon requires a prescription for any pseudoephedrine products. Glad I don't live out there.
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They scanned my license and whatever showed on the screen told them not to sell. I bought a box of 10 12hr tabs two weeks prior. The pharmacist is the one who said I couldn't buy more than 1 box per month, no matter the amount in the box. It was at Rite Aid.
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Buy it online, as I do. Again though, I highly suggest the Unisoms - better than allergy med IMHO. Claritin D .
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Hm. I dunno then, that shouldn't have happened. Ten 12-hour tabs only has 1.2 grams in it, and you shouldn't have been anywhere near the 30 day limit. Maybe it got flagged for some other reason and the pharmacist thought that was why. I'm sure the message didn't give a reason, it probably just said "sale denied" or whatever. I don't work at Rite-Aid so I'm not sure, but I've never been told not to sell an item after swiping an ID at CVS.
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Buy it online, as I do. Again though, I highly suggest the Unisoms - better than allergy med IMHO.
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Unisom is Benadryl, but twice as strong. Benadryl causes drowsiness, and they decided to market it as a sleep aid in addition to allergy relief.
Though you were right, often times the multi-symptom cold medicines are only 1/4 the strength of Unisom.
I don't know how much you can get Unisom for on-line, but if you go get generic version of Benadryl and take 2, it's the same. Usually Unisom is marked up in price -- otherwise there wouldn't be a reason to market it differently.
EDIT: Just researched, and benadryl's only in the gel caps. A different antihistamine is in the tablets. The tablets are 25 mg doxylamine where the gel caps are 50 mg diphenhydramine.
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I think the "new formulas" everyone has out are just re-packaged smarties. nothing knocked out a cold for me like the old Sudafed. Those days are gone thanks to the meth freaks.  I must now use the less effective Alka Setser tabs... tastes like warm, flat sprite. Stupid fda. This is off subject, but I got carded for buying spray paint. 
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I usually go for the easy route online and get the Unisom tablets for $11 (+ $4.50 shipping) - So about $15.50, I don't have to go and get them for 48 nights of great sleep.
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I think the "new formulas" everyone has out are just re-packaged smarties. nothing knocked out a cold for me like the old Sudafed. Those days are gone thanks to the meth freaks.
I must now use the less effective Alka Setser tabs... tastes like warm, flat sprite.
Stupid fda.
This is off subject, but I got carded for buying spray paint.
The new formulas available not behind the pharmacy counter don't seem to work as well. It's a similar drug with similar effects, but just not to the extent pseudoephedrine works. I wouldn't waste my money on any decongestant not behind the counter.
As far as alka-seltzer goes, they all have an antacid effect (like for heartburn), and most have aspirin in them. There are various formulations though, some including caffeine, some with antihistamines (marketed for sleep aids). Alka-Seltzer Plus has aspirin with the less effective decongestant, or a cough suppressant, or an antihistamine (marketed for allergy), or some combination.
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I usually go for the easy route online and get the Unisom tablets for $11 (+ $4.50 shipping) - So about $15.50, I don't have to go and get them for 48 nights of great sleep.
You oughta price shop on drug store brand Benadryl. I bought my bottle a while ago, but I'm thinking 100 tabs for around 8 bucks or so. That'd be 50 nights for half the price.
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I just got carded at the store for buying nyquil.
Yet you can go out and purchase all the ammonium nitrate that ya want..... 
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What a crazy my Country ? .. I can go into any drug store and by what ever I need. Rare that I need a prescription ( unless for a REAL narcotic ).. Lot more freedom of living down here.. Scan you Drivers license ??????? Sounds like a border crossing " Your papers please " ! 
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Yes, it's stupid. The problem is some people (not mentioning any names) think it's good and that the government should protect us from ourselves. 
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Yes, it's stupid. The problem is some people (not mentioning any names) think it's good and that the government should protect us from ourselves.
I don't think there's anything wrong with doing something to limit the availability of products that people use in meth labs. Its not the big bad government telling us how to live our lives. It was done in response to the proliferation of labs across the nation.
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I don't think it's "bad" or "stupid" either. It's not like you need to go buy 17 packs of Sudafed at a time, and scanning and tracking allows pharmacies to decline sales or contact the authorities if people are buying in excess to more than likely create an illegal product that destroys lives and creates more crime as a byproduct.
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I understand the rules and limits because they JUST found out about meth labs 20+ years later... I just hate the fact that normal, honest people have to suffer.
If they actually find a way to extinct meth, the people will discover a new and more dangerous drug.
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It's more like govt is trying to protect the rest of us from few dumbarses...it's a bit over kill i guess...so be it
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Well Shep., Your train of thought is why I don't live in the Country I served for over 20 years. Don't get me wrong " I am an American through and through " Just not what it has become.. Kinda like the Republican Party ...
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It's okay that a person can't get enough OTC drugs for their cold or flu? Mmmmkay. Maybe if I ask for 10 boxes, I could see a problem. But buying enough to last two or thee weeks should NOT be cause for alarm. It's just like them taking children's medications off the shelf and making the pharmacy hand them out because a few dumbasses over medicated their kids. GMAFB.
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It's just like them taking children's medications off the shelf and making the pharmacy hand them out because a few dumbasses over medicated their kids. GMAFB.
It was either do that or take them off the shelves altogether because they'd get sued out the wazoo.
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Yeah, they get sued because people can't follow directions? Pretty soon everything will be behind the counter...wait for it.
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Well, not saying it makes sense. But yeah, the companies definitely would and maybe still are being sued because someone's kid died. Its a whole legal issue with medication to be over the counter. Basically, there has to be proof that it can be safely used without medical supervision (which basically means, by doctor's orders). So when an OTC product starts killing people due to misuse, there is a re-evaluation to whether or not it can be used without a physician's direction.
I know, it doesn't make much sense because people can still misuse the medication if its by prescription only. But its purely a legal situation.
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People sue for everything. People are stupid and do stupid things, then blame it on someone else, sue, and get money. So then you have a bunch of stupid rich people running around buying up pounds of coke and doing even more stupid things.
I was talking with a doc at work a couple months ago. He had a cold and was trying to buy cold medicine one night at a drug store. He had forgot his license, and they refused to give him any. He's a freaking doctor, and can't buy OTC cold medicine.
My daughter was sick with the respiratory crap that's been going around. I told my wife while I was at work to buy some Mucinex for kids. Of course, under 2 years of age, they won't supply a dose and it says to "ask your physician." The pharmacist wouldn't even give my wife a dose. Luckily I work at a hospital and called my pharmacist and got a dose per her weight.
Problem is, people don't take the meds correctly. They dose incorrect or then you have idiots who just will abuse anything. Because of that, we're forced to have these restrictions.
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I was talking with a doc at work a couple months ago. He had a cold and was trying to buy cold medicine one night at a drug store. He had forgot his license, and they refused to give him any. He's a freaking doctor, and can't buy OTC cold medicine.
Well, in the drug store's defense, they probably couldn't even ring it up in the register without a license. But I do get your point.
What's he doing driving to the drug store without his license anyway? Just cuz he's a doctor doesn't mean he won't get arrested if the cops pulled him over.
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Anyone else reminded of Chris Berman's "Deux Deux Deux's" schpiel with this thread?
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A quote I saw somewhere, I don't know who said it or whatever, but it kinda fits for me in this situation.
"I'm not saying stupidity should be punishable by death, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? "
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Oh I'm not defending him for leaving his license at home. Everybody has the same responsibilities. I was just trying to make a point about OTC drugs and cold medicine.
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jc... So, in order to keep the crystal meth freaks from producing, they put the law abiding citizens through the wringer. Sounds like a perfect reason to kick the crap out of any hardcore drug users, then on the police report, just say "I was trying to get some allergy medicine" 
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Well Shep., Your train of thought is why I don't live in the Country I served for over 20 years.
My train of thought on how some crime and heartache is avoided by this simple procedure?
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