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    Image of lionel-mandrake lionel-mandrake
    10/21/09

    In reply to Your Meth Habit Is Impacting Others
    I realized a couple years ago that Sudafed, because it dries your sinuses out, kept giving me these long, drawn-out sinus infections. Invariably I'd need to get antibiotics after a while because I'd just keep medicating over and over again and never letting my sinuses drain naturally. Now I get through it "naked" and my head colds clear up in a day or two. #meth
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    10/21/09

    In reply to Your Meth Habit Is Impacting Others
    Talk to ladies of the 80's who did a double whammy of Dexatrim and Tab cola. Meth? The hell is meth, when I can never eat and run straight through a wall? #meth
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    Image of TheUptightMidwesterner TheUptightMidwesterner
    10/21/09

    In reply to Your Meth Habit Is Impacting Others
    For years I always wondered why I lost so much weight in the spring. It took me a long time to figure out that it was from popping Sudafed like Tic Tacs for my allergies every April. #meth
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    10/21/09

    In reply to Your Meth Habit Is Impacting Others
    Meh, for years I've taken Claratin ftw (generic, natch), though of course ymmv. #meth
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    10/21/09

    In reply to Your Meth Habit Is Impacting Others
    Not a big fan of Rx-ing things, but phenylephrine + pseudoephedrine, the active ingredients in most of these over-the-counter nasal decongestants, are viciously addictive. Like, opiate-level addictive.

    The manufacturers fine-print a "don't use for more than three days at a time" disclaimer on the packaging, but something more drastic seems in order. I'd vote for a wide-sweep educational campaign.
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    Image of lionel-mandrake lionel-mandrake
    10/21/09

    @snugbug: Every time I bought Sudafed, I'd burn through the entire box, even if I'd gotten over my allergies/cold/whatever. I'd just take every last pill in the box until it was all gone. #meth
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    10/21/09

    In reply to Your Meth Habit Is Impacting Others
    I thought they just released some study saying that the meth-makers just make their majic without Sudafed.
    This would suck. However I'm sure Sudafed is behind it 100%. #meth
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    10/21/09

    In reply to Your Meth Habit Is Impacting Others
    Allergy season without Sudafed is unthinkable.

    Clear sinuses and a pleasantly productive, janglely little nervous high... Sigh. #meth
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    10/21/09

    In reply to Your Meth Habit Is Impacting Others
    In much of the country it's already necessary to sign in and/or show identification. Sale quantities are limited, and frequent purchasers are presumably tracked. All this is a real pain for the allergy-prone.

    If pseudoephedrine does go prescription, pity the poor law enforcement people who will have to deal with changes in the illegal trade. #meth
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    Image of crotchety crotchety
    10/21/09

    @Smitros: In my state frequent purchasers are not tracked. I asked one day as the woman at the pharmacy was painstakingly writing my information in the Book Of Life if she had to type that all into a computer at the end of the day. She said she didn't. She said the information just stays there in that homely little notebook. No one ever comes and looks at it, no one ever does anything with the information in it. I asked what the point of the law was and she said, "To intimidate."

    Maybe it works? #meth
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    10/21/09

    @crotchety:
    In DC they scan driver's licenses. What is your state? #meth
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    10/21/09

    @Smitros: It's Minnesota. I really shouldn't have spoken so quickly, I stopped buying the stuff I had to sign for and switched over to the OTC stuff because dealing with the pharmacy only aggravated my headaches. So it's been a few years since I've had to deal with this. Minnesota may have modernized in the interim. #meth
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    Image of tunamelt tunamelt
    10/21/09

    In reply to Your Meth Habit Is Impacting Others
    You already have to sign your name on some sort of list. #meth
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    Image of Mike Byhoff Mike Byhoff
    10/21/09

    In reply to Your Meth Habit Is Impacting Others
    I'm ok with it unless this leads to Breaking Bad being canceled.
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    Image of TableNein TableNein
    10/21/09

    In reply to Your Meth Habit Is Impacting Others
    Getting rid of that cold is starting to be a real chore, boy. #meth
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    Image of Chore Boy Chore Boy
    10/21/09

    @TableNein: You called? #meth
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    Image of HenryLovesFonzie HenryLovesFonzie
    10/21/09

    In reply to Your Meth Habit Is Impacting Others
    This is all Glee's fault. #meth
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    10/21/09

    @HenryLovesFonzie: Yeah- I was shocked that Glee would be so unrealistic there! #meth
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