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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I used to get lots of sinus migraines.
I tried both versions of Sudafed.
One did jack, the other shit.
Turned out it wasn't the mucus causing it.
It was the inflammation trapping the mucus.
Use turmeric curcumin.
Well sudafed works specifically because it constructs blood vessels so maybe you actually just had a lot of mucus when you used it. Sudafed treats swelling, not mucus, and it has always worked great for me. But i usually take 4-6 little red tablets.
Well, it didn't work for me. Turmeric curcumin, while not effective every time, did prevent about 90% of them once I started taking it every day, and considering the pain I was in, I gladly accepted that.
Just make sure you get the kind that also has some black pepper in it. NatureWise, the brand I use, does.