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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 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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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!

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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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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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The pharmacist advised me to try Chlorpheniramine Maleate (Walmart's generic name is Chlortabs) AND Pseudoephedrine Hydrochloride (sudafed). this combo is helping...but definately not as good as drixoral. I hope they don't mess it up when they reformulate it!!!!

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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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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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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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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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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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