I took Actifed for something like 30 years. A lot of actifed. I have allergies year-round. Then suddenly I couldn’t find it anymore in my state. When visiting NYC I bought several packages, but they didn’t seem to be working. Then I ordered several more from drugstore.com and they weren’t either! Wth? Same original packaging, nothing anywhere said they’d changed it. I only discovered that after lots of googling. So I bought Sudafed for a while. Then bam, that disappeared too. Along with a whole slew of others I tried that didn’t work anyway.

In my state now all the allergy meds are kept behind the pharmacy counter, they scan your driver’s license and make you sign for them, so obviously they can keep track of the quantity you are buying. So why pray tell can’t they sell ones with those nasty forbidden ingredients? Better to take the recommended dosage of a good one than overdosing myself with the worthless ones like I’ve been doing. Well, 1000’s of sneezes later I googled “original actifed” and discovered I could order it online from a Canadian pharmacy. They still limit quantities, they still require a copy of my driver’s license, but hey, I already do that for the worthless drugs so that’s not a problem! Last night for the first time in years I took an Actifed. What a blessed bloody relief!

With all that’s still on the news about meth labs being discovered I have to wonder how successful this stupid campaign has been. They seem to get their hands on the stuff they need just fine. Maybe I should go hook up with one and ask them what the trick is 😛

America is becoming ridiculous.