Drixoral disappearing from the shelves.

I'd like to know why Drixoral Cold & Allergy, which I have been taking on and off for over thirty years is being pulled from the shelves. This medication gives me relief from chronic sinus and allergy problems. It is more effective than any other I've tried. I'm aware that methamphetimine users steal the drug to use in the process of making their illegal drugs. Am I to assume that I will no longer have access to this legal and effective drug because of the actions of a few scumbags? I don't wish to start experimenting with other, newer drugs when I know for sure there is a drug that has been successful in treating my symptoms. Lock up the shoplifters that steal and use Drixoral illicitly but there is no valid reason for me to be denied access to a drug that is effective in relieving my symptoms.

Ask your pharmacist. Many products containing psudophedrine are now kept behind the pharmacist's counter for the reasons you have noted.

I am so angry with schering plough. Their customer service line LIED to me when I called last summer and they told me drixoral would be out in early 2009. Now their website says no drixoral for all of 2009 but they are sure to plug their claritan brand instead. Very fishy and very consumer unfriendly. I say I am ready to BOYCOTT all of their products.

I started researching them and found that they have had to pay over 500M in fines for manufacturing defects and problems. Maybe they are not fit to produce any drugs.

BOYCOTT SCHERING PLOUGH PRODUCTS.

I am upset that drixol was taken off the market. It the only cold medicine that I can take that helps. the pharmacists aren;t any help either. Please bring it back.

Inexcusable and suspicious are 2 words that come to mind over the Drixoral disappearance.
I've was a Drixoral customer for over 20 years and depended on it to function.
I have been sick off and on since the shortage hit here in early 2008.
The common replacement meds, Lodrane 24D and it's generic substitute BPM Pseudo, are either back ordered or very expensive and not covered by my insurance.
Illegal drugs that can kill you are easier to find than therapeutic prescription medications.
This is insane!
Schering Plough, I hold you responsible and find you guilty of callous disregard of your suffering customers.
I hope this company suffers great loss in the current economic crunch and disappears from the face of the earth.

this is total fraud for customers who really are able to do their daily work during allergy season depending on drixoral medication to live and work .please help these suffering patients who depends on this.

PLEASE! please bring Drixoral back. Make it a available only by prescription if you have too. Its the only medication that works for my sinus problems.
Its unfair.

http://www.schering-plough.com/products/drixo...

Drixoral is still available in Canada, maybe you can get someone to ship you some?

The US government pressured the manufacturer to remove Drixoral for sale in the United States.
The reason being that it can be used to make illicit drugs. Same old crap, they can't control the illicit drug manufacturers so control the product they use to make their illicit drugs while millions of Drixoral users are left with no source for Drixoral and there is no other drug out that has the EXACT same ingredients. You can try Canadian drugstores but you MAY NOT get the exact same ingredients. Nothing else helps my allergies like Drixoral.

I have tried all of the latest allegry meds on the market and none of them work like Drixoral for me. I don't know why it isn't sold here but Schering Plouch makes a generic in Instanbul. Same drug but pills are white. You can get the them trhough Canadian pharmacy. same drug, same potentcy and they work the same for me. I did have to chuckle all of the enclosed instruction in Turkish but after taking Drixoral for 30 years I hardly need to read the instructions: 1 every 12 hours.

John Stein wrote:

I'd like to know why Drixoral Cold & Allergy, which I have been taking on and off for over thirty years is being pulled from the shelves. This medication gives me relief from chronic sinus and allergy problems. It is more effective than any other I've tried. I'm aware that methamphetimine users steal the drug to use in the process of making their illegal drugs. Am I to assume that I will no longer have access to this legal and effective drug because of the actions of a few scumbags? I don't wish to start experimenting with other, newer drugs when I know for sure there is a drug that has been successful in treating my symptoms. Lock up the shoplifters that steal and use Drixoral illicitly but there is no valid reason for me to be denied access to a drug that is effective in relieving my symptoms.

My husband has been getting his Drixoral from Canada for nearly a year-very expensive but worth it considering how he feels when he doesn't have it. However recently he has been substituting the children's Dimetapp liquid that contains the same ingredients that are in the Drixoral. He did it out of desperation when his supply from the Canadian pharmacy didn't arrive and he was completely out. So far, this is working for him. You have to be sure and get the Dimetap formula that has those same ingredients, not all of them do.

maybe they should just make it without the psudophedrine its the alergy med dexbrompheniramine that I need if I need a decongestant on top I'll take sudafed.

Its the only med that works for my seasonal allergies and prevents me from having sinus infections.