Looked into it. This isn’t what I thought it was. They aren’t looking to ban sudafed where the active ingredient is pseudoephedrine, which is the stuff that actually works that you have to scan your drivers license at the pharmacy counter to buy, it’s the over the counter kind where the active ingredient is phenylephrine which, the FDA unfortunately is right, literally doesn’t work for shit. My wife and I learned this a long time ago. If you can buy it without a drivers license honestly I couldn’t care less if they ban it because I honestly don’t know what it even does. But the good stuff that you need a drivers license to buy apparently isn’t going anywhere so we can probably put our pitchforks down on this particular issue at least.
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Also, Benedryl
A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee voted 16-0 on Tuesday that current scientific data does not support the use of the active ingredient, phenylephrine, in OTC products such as Benadryl Allergy Plus Congestion. This does not, however, pertain to antihistamines such as Benadryl, which contain the active ingredient diphenhydramine.
Benadryl is essentially a sleeping pill. Not sure the point of it for allergies honestly. Yay my allergies are gone but I’m asleep now so who cares?
I can’t take it. It makes me sleep within 30 mins.
Same. First time I ever took it I nearly crashed my car driving home. It’s chemically almost identical to Unisom, a sleeping pill.
The tiredness lasts into the next day for me, too.