Ah-Chooooo!!!

I slept.
Now I know you are all thinking that I have lost it, writing about sleeping, but I have to tell you what happened on Wednesday night.
If you haven’t been following the news in New Hampshire, you won’t know that the officials have been trying to figure out what to do about “Sudafed”. What’s Sudafed? It’s what I use and have used for years to treat my allergies (which are many). It is also what the druggies have been using to make crystal meth in the many home labs nationwide. I’ve always been able to buy a cheap Allergy/Sinus medication that contained both Sudafed and Tylenol. This makes me a happy girl and one with a dry nose and who is not sneezing all over you, day and night. (Had Hubby seen me at my allergy worst, I am sure he never would have married me!)
New Hampshire, which is currently being run by a “I feel your pain” governor, put pressure on all the stores that carried my beloved Allergy medication until one day, you couldn’t just pick it up at the store.
I talked to the Wal-Mart Pharmacist and he told me that the new ingredient in my allergy medication was “just the same” and would be fine. (At this point he wouldn’t sell me my Sudafed, even though it is still a legal, over the counter drug. Can I help it if the druggies buy the stuff and make meth out of it?)
So, I took the new stuff home and I tried it on Wednesday night.
Oh my God!!! I felt like I had been drinking super espresso all day and all night when I tried to go to bed! I tossed, I turned, I rocked in the sheets. I did not sleep! The bed looked like a violent crime had occurred there the next morning. And worst of all, it didn’t work!
I went back to Wal-Mart to get my Sudafed. If they refused to sell me this medication, I would call my doctor, Dr. D. and get a prescription. I explained what had occurred. The Pharmacist said, “Oh I am sorry, it happens occasionally to sensitive people”.
I wanted to throttle him!
He agreed to sell me the Sudafed, but I had to fill out a form, show my license, a credit card and then sign another document. All the while the pharmacist looked at me like I was some criminal.
I’ll see what they’re charging at my local drug store. They know me there, they know I’m not a “Meth Maker” and I’m sure I won’t get that treatment there.
Meanwhile, last night, I took my beloved Sudafed. I wasn’t stuffy and I slept like a baby! And yes, I slept in my nice comfy cotton pajamas!

7 thoughts on “Ah-Chooooo!!!”

  1. I haven’t tried the new stuff they put out instead of sudafed. I like the non drying stuff best because its a little more gentle.

    Meth is a bad bad problem though, to make the drug it’s very dangerous and leaves a toxic mess behind and not to mention the problem of addiction. 🙁

  2. It has been law here in MN to have to go through all of that for over a year. Now we have to do it for all products containing pseudoephedrinem, including infant products. As a pharmacy tech, let me tell you it isn’t fun for us either. But, as a sister of a recovering meth addict, I am happy that they are doing something about it.

  3. Meth is an epidemic nationwide! It is sad to see the results of the addicted. (The families suffer to) I see them all the time in my meetings and when I take a meeting to the jail. I thank God I am only an alcoholic!

  4. You may be the last place to do this. We’ve been doing it for about a year now and its a big pain in the butt. I did fine one that helps some but having to stand in line while the pharmacist ignores you is very annoying.

  5. I’ve used Sudafed when I have had sinus problems in the past. Its good stuff. Sounds like Meth is a major problem in the USA. I gather its not to big yet in Europe.

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