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minus-squaresurfrock66@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·2 years agoYou know what’s weird? I get severe sinus headaches and regular pseudoenepherine sudafed doesn’t help at all, but these phelylephrine ones do. I’ll even tell my wife “the little reds, not the whites”. Weird.
minus-squarehedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 years agoThe real pseudoephedrines are also little red pills, at least where I am on the US East Coast.
minus-squaresurfrock66@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoWeird, here in my area of California the OTC ones are the reds, you have to go to the pharmacist for the white ones.
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 years agoIn my area both are red unless you get the 12-hour controlled-release caplets, those are white. It’s probably just different factories.
minus-squareDoubletwist@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoIt depends on the dosage. The 4hr pseudoephedrine are red. The 12hr are white.
minus-squareChris@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoIn my area the red ones are the pseudophedrine ones. Never seen the white ones, I just go to the counter because I am not making meth.
minus-squaresurfrock66@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoWeird, there are what I get in northern California
You know what’s weird? I get severe sinus headaches and regular pseudoenepherine sudafed doesn’t help at all, but these phelylephrine ones do. I’ll even tell my wife “the little reds, not the whites”. Weird.
The real pseudoephedrines are also little red pills, at least where I am on the US East Coast.
Weird, here in my area of California the OTC ones are the reds, you have to go to the pharmacist for the white ones.
In my area both are red unless you get the 12-hour controlled-release caplets, those are white. It’s probably just different factories.
It depends on the dosage. The 4hr pseudoephedrine are red. The 12hr are white.
In my area the red ones are the pseudophedrine ones. Never seen the white ones, I just go to the counter because I am not making meth.
Weird, there are what I get in northern California