Drixoral: Why the Allergy Medicine Isn't Available, and What to Use Instead

Here's how I see it

Articles such as this present some facts; but they put a spin on the matter to try to make the problem seem like the consumer, and do not get to what seem to be the real underlying issues. For example:

"Still, it's entirely possible that nothing will make those loyal to Drixoral as happy as that medication once did. "Everything that you can't have is always better than what you can have," Haydon says..."

This tries to give the impression that loyalty to the Drixoral product is nothing more than a sentimental attachment, whereas the overwhelming majority of those loyal to the product are not loyal because of patriotism to the product, but just because IT WORKS. (period).

The other behind the scenes agenda I perceive here is that when and if Drixoral is ever made available again, it will likely only be by prescription. Why? I think to lend greater support and loyalty to insurance companies and the medical profession... because when Drixoral was available, I knew how to treat my periodic (couple times per year at most) symptoms when I was coming down with a common cold. I could take care of the problem entirely on my own by buying a couple boxes of an OTC medication (Drixoral) that would give me relief from post-nasal drip, make me drowsy so I could sleep soundly at night to get rested and well quicker, and would insure that I would not develop an ear infection from congestion.

Now I am open more to the risk of an ear infection and other side-effects of a lingering common cold, which opens up a greater possibility that I will not be able simply to self-medicate and treat, and be forced to the doctor's office to fight any ear infection that can flare up.

Lastly, I am also afraid that if an OTC version of "Drixoral" becomes available, it will NOT be the same old, effective Drixoral we all used to know. I have tried other kinds of decongestants, and they are of little more help than a sugar pill placebo. So, it is true as other posters have pointed out: we all have to suffer because of a bunch of drug abusing meth-heads, and it certainly is not fair.

Sinus+Allergy+Cold +Cough

Please can you suggest a medicine for my sinus,allergy,cough and decongestion.I'm n Italy for little awhile and the farmacies here have the antistamines with different name.What can i buy here to make me feel better.Thanks,Taddeo

Drixoral

I was devastated to learn Drixoral wss no longer available. I have a severe peanut allergy and Drixoral has literally saved my life several times over the years. I never dreamed I would not be able to buy it. Don't know what I'll do now; hope I never have to use my Epi Pen!!!

Make it a Rx drug!

I agree that Schering-Plough is being unresponsive to its loyal customer base. I've been waiting well over a year for them to bring the product back, and they just keep postponing the release date.

I am praying that the company WILL make this a prescription drug.

Drixoral

I don't know who but someone should be holding Schering accountable, or FDA as to why a alternative was not looked at if they were going to pull a drug of the market.

For all the users that it just seems to work better for, you may be able to take something else just as easy. I hope you are ok if they do not manufacture Drixoral again.

However, when I started searching for a source to purchase Drixoral I found MANY other suffers that nothing else works for and without Drixoral everyday is full of nausea, headache, dizziness, flu like symptoms, along with itchy, watery eyes, stuffy nose, And the major problem; Fluid in the ears. NOTHING DRIES UP THE FLUID IN THE EARS BUT DRIXORAL.

I too have been taking Drixoral since 1970, and let me say everyday, unless I was working with my Doctors to see if anything else would work. I have had my eardrums burst several time due to the build-up of fluid. My Doctors stopped asking me to try the newest product every time something new came out, because we proved nothing else works for the ears. I even thought about having tubes put in my ears so I could take something else, and not be sick.

Hear is another concern, Do I think I am addicted? Possible, the longest I have been without Drixoral was about three months and I was sick after the second day, until I took the Drixoral again, it took one day and the symptoms lifted.

Drixoral

I would rather go back to a prescription than having it off the market. What is wrong with having medication that helps you, but for the few, made to be hard to get in any size like it once was. I just don't understand the US anymore. Whatever happen to responsibility. God help us all.

urgh

Some of the ideas suggested in this article are ridiculous. Don't you think we have tried everything new/old that has coming out in the past 20 years.

I really had high hopes for zyrec-d. but it just gave me a sore throat. I also have children who need allergy medicine too so even having to sign out for OTC items it is hard for my family. Very embarrassing to be told I was over my limit at the local Kroger pharmacy and that was the week when the whole family had colds. There are 3 sometimes 4 people needing it in my family. Pretty sad I have to send grandma to the pharmacy to sign for our OTC drugs. We each have prescriptions for other allergy meds; we have tried everything. Our Drs. our aware of our problem and try to help- a couple years ago one prescribed allerga-d but the insurance wouldn't pay for the d-part (pseudoephedrine) since it is available OTC so someone had to sign for it and it counted against me when it is for my 12 yr. old to use. So I had to come back another day to get my allergy meds....real convenient huh. I understand the meth users need their fix but I also need my allergy medicine and I feel like the criminal buying it.

Just yesterday my DR was looking in his sample closet trying to find me something. He doesn't have anything comparable but wants me to try allerga-d again. I have bought drixoral from Canada probably 10 times since April 2008 but who really wants to pay that much and have to wait that long. I have about 20 left from my last order and I am going to try the allerga-d before ordering from Canada again. I did get stuck with the white drixoral a couple orders ago and I will not be ordering from that company again... no surprise they didn't work- but I gave them to my daughter and she thought they worked better than the lodrane-d she was taking.

DEA regulation of Drixoral.

The government should keep its "nose" out of my sinus medication Drixoral! I can understand

the concern to keep this product out of the hands of minors; but if the drug stores would

put a sign on the shelf to see the pharmacist for Drixoral, it would keep sales up for the

manufacturer and still give us the product availability we allergy sufferers so desperately

need.

Drixoral from Canada

I have used Drixoral from the 1970's when it was a prescription drug. I wish it would come back that way. I found it on line at CanadaPharmacy.com and I placed a large order. Recently, when I re-ordered, I got the Turkish version. I called them and they suggested that I try it since it was supposed to be the same. It was sooooo not the same!!! It may have the same ingredients but it acts differently like mainly an antihistimine. Very drying and I had no decongestant results.

So, I called them back the next day. Now, they say that since I opened the box, I will only get 50% refund. Nice, huh? Stay away from them, is my advice.

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