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[sisabet]

Today - today is slightly sucky. I'm trying to think of ways to make it suck less and things to concentrate on, and it is a stretch, even for me.

As far as oral decongestants go - I'm stuck with pseudoephedrine, right? I mean - that is pretty much all we got, right?

Why haven't they invented more decongestants? Antihistamines we have by the truckload, you'd think there would be some new designer decongestant out there that my insurance wouldn't cover and would cost way too much for me to buy it, but at least I would know it existed.

And can I get any more lame? I bet I can.

Things are looking fairly serious for my friend who had the melanoma removed yesterday - she's in significant pain today from the surgery (huge massive incision) and there is concern about her lymph nodes now (apparently the lesion was much more aggressive and deep than they originally thought) so - dudes - just remember to keep doing skin checks and wearing sunscreen and not tan and I promise I will feel better about all of y'all.

I swear I have Deep Thoughts about Smallville (and look - Cappy made me a Saved!Smallville icon) and Clark and... stuff. Hang on and I'll dislodge it.

Meh - I tried but now I don't feel like really discussing anything so nevermind. I'll be entertaining later.

Comments

[lydiabell.livejournal.com]

I thought I'd heard that with all the restrictions now in place on pseudoephedrine, the drug companies were looking to get replacements on the market relatively soon.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Wait - there are restrictions on Sudafed? Should I stockpile?

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

Locally, they are already carding people to buy cough syrup.

[lydiabell.livejournal.com]

Oh, man.

In Illinois, and Texas and I'm not sure where else, you can't buy more than two packages of Sudafed at a time, and stores have to lock up the higher-dose packages (like the 12-hour stuff).

This is because it's used to make crystal meth.

[kadymae.livejournal.com]

How to make methamphetamine.

1) Buy a case of pseudoephedrine based cold tablets or diet pills.
2) Disolve in a solvent (gasoline, kerosene, or "charcoal lighter fluid" preferred)
3) Run through several coffee filters to get rid of sediment.
4) Depending on your recipie, use friendly and safe chemicals such as Hydro-Cloric Acid, Lye, Red Phosphorus, Lithium, or Anhydrous Ammonia to "snip" an OH group off of the pseudoephedrine molecule, turning it into a methamphetamine molecule. (In chemistry the act is known as a "reduction" and chemists can tell you that performing a reduction is typically neither easy nor safe.)
5) If lab does not blow up in face -- profit.

The end result is that in several states, you will not be sold more than one box/bottle of pseudoephedrine product at time, and you have to go to the pharmacist window to ask for it.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

That is wonderful news.