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FDA saying out loud what we all knew already.
BTW if you are young enough to never have used “real” Sudafed, it actually works and you can easily tell that it is working. You can still get it if you ask the pharmacist.
Sudafed or death. It was unregulated when I was a kid, which was when I was constantly sick. I think my body must be like 30% sudafed at this point. I understand the regulations, but I do feel bad for sick kids these days. A box is not always enough to deal with a bad infection!
I get very Give me pseudoephedrine or give me death when I can’t breathe through my nose.
Preach. I hate the shit, it makes me feel shaky, but god damn does it work.
Phenylephrine.
The irony that phenylephrine intravenous is actually effective at maintaining blood pressure in people who are trying real hard to die on ya. (Our ICU uses it sometimes.)
https://www.lhsc.on.ca/critical-care-trauma-centre/phenylephrine-neosynephrine
No shit. Took them long enough to admit it.
It amazing to me that I feel like the entire general public knew this was the case. Like… we’re not doctors or anything but it’s clear when something isn’t working. Great way to continue to sap confidence in the US medical system/regulations for it
Very interesting. I wonder what their metric was for determining it doesn’t work. Anecdotally, I use phenylephrine HCl alone and find it keeps me clear most of the time, but not always. I also have to be well hydrated or it actually makes me even more stuffed. Maybe the inconsistency is why they reached this verdict? Maybe I’ve just been experiencing a placebo effect?
The metric was that it is no more effective than placebo. It is a very old drug and was grandfathered in from a time before modern standards.
The FDA was told this by researchers in 2007, but they wanted mOrE dAtA.
Edit to add: It does have more effectiveness when used nasally as opposed to orally.
The nasal spray version works great. I think this was about oral not the nasal version. I will be very upset if they discontinue the nasal version. Used it for years at critical times when nothing else works.
Guess I was the only one who didn’t know this.
There was an article a while back about pseudoephedrine manufacturing and the pharmaceutical industry. Almost all of the pseudoephedrine was made by a german company and the US pharmaceutical companies lobbied and got it made illegal and switched to producing phenephelprine in China.
