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I purchase my Drixoral at Costco and have ebeen told they are no longer able to get it, because it is be reformulated, is this correct

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This is B.S. The drug business is very competitive. If you manufacture a product that flys off the shelf like Drixoral does, you would figure out a way to manufacture and deliver that product. Would you not? Hopefully this product has not been recalled internally due to some screw up. Reformulated? Great idea! Lets reformulate the product so that it doesn't work! OK. Meeting dismissed gentlemen. And by the way, your million dollar bonuses for that idea is waiting for you on the secrteary's desk.

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I usually get mine at Walmart. They cannot get it, either. No explanation. I hope they did not find something dangerous with it.

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Maybe you can try to find a small Mom n' Pop pharmacy that still compounds formulas. The active ingredients in this med are Dexbrompheniramine and Pseudoephedrine. If you go to one of those pharmacies and tell them the ingredients they might be able to formulate it for you.

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The manufacturer did the same thing about 2 years ago and there was talk they were going to reformulate it then but they did not. There isn't another drug with the same ingredients. Not sure why, but every time I can't get it, I get very sick and nothing else helps.

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What are we going to do? Like Peggy I get very sick when i don't take Drixoral. I try to explain this to my doctors-how I get nauseated and downright sick but I guess they don't understand my symptoms. They continue to recommend prescription meds or once prescription only meds but none of these work like Drixoral. What are we going to do? If anyone knows something that works for the sinus-related naseau please pass it on

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I have been looking for drixoral for over a week now. Finally, today, my pharmacy told me that they had been unable to get it for about a month. She checked to see if, according to her information, the manufacturer was reformulating the product. According to the info she had available, they are not. I asked about a comparable substitution. She said there isn't one. Evidently this med is unique. I too tend to get sick without this medicine during alergy season. I've been without it for three or four days now, and I can tell if I can't get it soon I'll be in my doctor's office for some antibiotics. I wish there was an alternative.

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I called Schering-Plough the drug manufacturer of Drixoral. They are moving the manufacturing plant, and Drixoral will be off the market for 1 year, until they are moved in. I saw my doctor, and he put me on Lodrane. It is the same antihistimine in Drixoral. If you mix that with a decongestant, Sudafed, you get the same thing as Drixoral. See your doctor for the prescription. Hope this helps!

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Go figure they wait until prime allergy / sinus season to take it off the market for a year!! That's a horrible business move, with most products this would kill them & they wouldn't be able to make a comeback- I guess they're just lucky that no one else has a comparable product (yet). I also get sick when I don't take it. It's the only thing that works. I'm so frustrated!!!!!!!!!

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Amy, thank you for posting this useful information!

We also called the manufacturer just to verify, and we were told the same thing: That there is a temporary hold on the manufacturing while they change facilities, and that it should hopefully be available after 2008. The lady helping us even said that there have been a lot of people calling in about it.

You may be interested in the manufacturer's contact information:

Schering-Plough Corporation World Headquarters
2000 Galloping Hill Road
Kenilworth, N.J. 07033-0530
Telephone: (908) 298-4000

Best of luck to everyone!

Related Thread: view_drug_forum.asp?Title=drixoral&Page=74841

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I called Schering-Plough Healthcare Products myself and they told me that they were changing plants and drixoral would not be available for about a year. Bad News! I tend to get sick and ache all over without it also.

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Has anybody had any luck getting a private pharmacist to compound a similar formula based on the active ingredients Dexbrompheniramine and Pseudoephedrine ??

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I cant help but laugh at all of the comments. My husband and I have been taking one Drixoral a day for at least 21 years. Everyone's comments have been said by us the last few weeks. Another company needs to jump on these ingredients and make a product compatible and just change the name. I am so afraid they will bring it back with an outrageous price; along with gas and grocery prices.

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I called Schering also and was told the manufcture of Drixoral was being moved to a new plant. It would be off the amrket for a year and would not be reformulated. It makes no sense.

I like the product and I suppose it must be beacuse of the specific antihistamine, Dexbrompheniramine.
I believe other products containing Brompheniramine exist and I will look for them and try them.

I don't think that having Drixoral Behind The Counter has any bearing on its availability. There are plenty of cold medicines with pseudoephedrine available, all of them Behind The Counter, of course.

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I agree with almost everyone. I am in a panic because I am supposed to fly to the other coast in two weeks - if I am not in the hospital by that time - and flying with my symptoms is no fun! I have been searching the internet for other products with the same things in it and can find NONE - prescription or over the counter. If someone finds one - please post.

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This blows my mind. I just went to make my monthly jaunt to Costco to hear the same thing. Reading this thread blows me away.

I'm a life-long allergy sufferer and and having tried pretty much everything on the market, Drixoral is the only thing that has worked for me.

I don't get it. What were the geniuses at Schering-Plough thinking? Especially if, as it sounds, it seems ot be sold out everywhere.

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Good News/Bad News - my doctor went to work on the problem and found a prescription medication Bromfenex. I have taken it and it works! Don't know if it will work for everyone.

Bad News - you can only get it if your pharmacy has some on hand. (Thank goodness mine did) because they are going to stop making this too! What is going on!

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Fascinating to read that so many others have had the same experience with Drixoral. I also talked with Schering-Plough, and may continue to call in regularly, just to remind them that their customers need this medicine. I'm going in to see the doctor tomorrow and I'm desperately hoping she can fnd a prescription drug to substitute for Drixoral.

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This is bad news! I also take Drixoral for my allergy/sinus and nothing else works the same for me...Im going to go see my doctor soon and Im calling the manufacturer as well...what are they doing to us?!
If I find something similar I will let you know.

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I thought I was the only one who didn't feel well because I didn't have the Drixoral to take anylonger. I don't feel well, my head feels big and I feel like I have been drinking and get nauseated. No other allergy medications I've tried does the same thing. I sure hope they hurry and get it soon. I have tried 4 different Walmarts, Target and small drugstores and no one has any. I hope the drug company realizes what a good product they have and how much money they are loosing by not having it on the market!

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Interesting. The drug folks did this about 15 or 20 years ago with migraine drugs. Everything was taken off the market, and a year later sumatriptan was introduced - a whole new world of migraine medication. But why let us suffer for a year? I've been using Drixoral since the early 1970's. Why can't they just leave well enough alone. I think it's a conspiracy.

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