Visine Lr Discontinued? (Page 15) (Top voted first)

Having problems finding this product. Has it been discontinued and if so, do you know why?

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Mark, After rereading your post, I realized that your concern was related to my spelling. Sorry, I meant Oxymetazoline, not Oxymetalazone.

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Thanks to all who responded. These eye drops work best for me to.

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Thanks Bob.

Are you using the Afrin Original in the red box.....there are many types of Afrin No drip online.......Hope it works for me.

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Thanks bob !!!

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Actually, any decongestant nasal spray with oxmetazoline as the active ingredient should work.

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I went on the Internet to look into making my own eye wash or drops at home. As a result, I'm very concerned about sterilization. I would rather have a company create a safe eye drop than taking the risk of damaging my eyes.

I've written Walmart again--by mail. I hope someone responds this to me this time.

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Yes I'm using that with visine tired eye.it does the job, not quite as good but helps. Use 1 drop in each eye, then the other rt after, keep your eyes shut to lubricate, apply again if needed, I usually have to do it twice to feel fresh.

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Rhonda,

What a great job! I am glad that you got a response from Walmart. It seems that they took the matter seriously. Moreover, they have told Johnson and Johnson to bring Visine LR back and they themselves are aware that there aren't any eyedrops currently on the market with oxymetazoline.

We can only hope that Walmart and/or Prestige Brands (whom I have contacted) or any other manufacturers people here want to contact, will listen to our pleas. There is a definite market and need for these eyedrops.

I hope the eyedrops they have recommended work for you and others.

Everything I have tried, including Opcon, just didn't work for me. I really think for some reason I need oxymetazoline as the main ingredient.

Good Luck!

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Thank you, Christina!

Yea, I thought I was going to get a simple, short, "manufactured" response from Walmart. But I was so pleasantly surprised. The gentleman took the time to write a nice, substantial letter and he signed it.

I need to try more of the recent eye drops before I write more letters to people. I would like to be able to tell them something like, "I tried this one and that one, but they still didn't work for me as well as the Visine LR with oxymetazoline."

I'm sorry to hear that Opcon-A did not work for you. That's a bummer.

I just haven't had the money right now to keep trying different eye drops. I'm also not as brave as one of the posters here, who returns the eye drops to the stores when they don't work.

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Hi momsasynt. Have you tried it yet?

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Tried the Bausch and Lomb yeah I've tried that it works pretty well better than the other 10 I've tried still wears off faster than the LR and it burns the 2nd time I put it in

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Another goody:

Yesterday, I received a letter from Jennifer S. of the "Consumer Care Center" (Johnson and Johnson), acknowledging the letter I wrote to Walmart.

The letter says Visine LR was discontinued due to "manufacturing complexities." It also states, "We are currently evaluating opportunities to leverage the oxymetazoline ingredient in new and exciting products in the future."

The letter goes on to recommend using: "Visine Maximum Redness Relief Formula" and "Visine Totality Multi-Sympton Relief."

Of course, I haven't tried either of these products, have you?

The letter went on to thank me for providing feedback and for being such a valued customer.

I still wish Walmart would make the oxymetazoline eye drops for us.

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I've been using B&L OpCon 50 it works pretty good a little stinging sometimes but the best so far.

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Please let me know if it works for you and keep me updated on any comebacks with Visine LR. :)

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visine LR. the only that woks w/ me , use few years, they is a vase contrictor, looks so because stops redness, so is no natural. my eye dr. told me may cause addiction. but nothing works like it. So i do not know what to do. I just got clear eyes, maximum redness relief. w. / naphazoline hydrocloride 0.03%. no work. Visine please do something.

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The Walmarts in Colorado never carried the LR, only Walgreens did. I wonder if you did with Walgreens what you did with Walmart, because there are a lot of both here. I will sign the petition every one else has, because really it's the only product JJ makes for red eye that actually works, it's ridicoulous they would discontinue it, or maybe just to sell more of the regular eye drops. Maybe people think if they use more they will work...they don't. Good luck, thanks for taking up the cause!

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Earlier in this thread, Afrin was being discussed as an alternative to Visine L.R. It does seem logical since every listed ingredient in Afrin seems to match several of the ingredients in VLR (and other brands of eye drops as well). But I've talked to 3 pharmacists about this and each strongly recommended against using Afrin in the eye (even if diluted to .025%). Reason: the Afrin mixture is not "isotonic" to the eye, even if the ingredients are similar. Having said that, if anyone has decided to use diluted Afrin as an eye drop anyway, I'd be interested in hearing the results.

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I found a pharmacy called All Day Pill that appears to stock Zoamet (from India). Site looks legit but who knows. Maybe some intrepid soul will give this a try and report back to us, lol.

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This is so frustrating I have tried everything even stuff from the health food stores. Nothing is working! I'm miserable: (

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I have one bottle of LR that I am using sparingly supplementing with the B & L maximum redness. I have also e-mailed Adcock Ingram directly to see if they would communicate with CVS or find another avenue if they have an interest in selling their product in the US They too have replied and assigned a case number to my request. Will check back when or if I hear from either one of them again.

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