xylophonermore

I, like many others I suspect, bought phenylephrine when Sudafed first disappeared from store shelves. It was 100% ineffective for me from the first dose.

In the meantime, Sudafed has become one of the most difficult to acquire substances for my daily life (I need it every day as directed by my doc). So many times when I go to a pharmacy to get it, they're out of 96-count or 48-count or any count, meaning my one allowed purchase/month nets me less than a month's worth. Or the state's tracking system is down (this happens frequently) and they won't sell me anything. IOW, buying Sudafed is difficult and often infuriating.

Meanwhile, meth problems haven't gone away—-in fact meth use is WAY up since these restrictions were put in place in the aughts. Sure, hiding and tracking it got some of the meth production moved south, but it didn't negatively affect meth availability. Supply is plentiful, prices are down, purity is up. Even Oregon, who restricted Sudafed to prescription only, has seen a 3x increase in meth deaths. [1]

Sadly, the restrictions on Sudafed are unlikely to ever change as lawmakers rarely care that their laws hurt a ton of law-abiding people as long as they can claim something about being tough on crime.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/us/meth-crystal-drug.html

causes me aggravation every day

Nope, chatting didn't help for me, it only added to the time wasting. I had the same AirPod Pro problem and started with chat Not only did they not solve it via chat (despite detailed troubleshooting notes I provided), they wasted a lot of time asking me to try things that clearly had nothing to do w/ the problem. After a long time of this, they said I'd have to call. Even with a case number, I basically started from scratch on the phone, took about 1hr. After all that, they did finally send me one replacement (right side only). It fixed the problem, though I will say that now they perpetually unbalanced in terms of ear pressure.