Guaifenex and sudafed

This is merely time released Sudafed. You people on here who have all these crazy problems are ridiculous. If Pseudoephedrine is such a problem to these people, I dread what other simple drugs like aspirin or Maalox must do to you.
Anyone with half a brain knows that you need to drink lots of water with this drug. If you don't, you will encounter extreme dryness and head / bodyache. Just as well, it doesn't take a genius to read the common side effects of Pseudoephedrine before taking the drug. The things people are reporting here are typical common side effects. What is this, 'the uninformed alarmists' forum or what?!

I took this with a sinus infection and fluid on my ears - second time to take the Guaifenex for the same illness. It said very clearly on the bottle to take with a full glass of water and believe me, if you do not take with a full glass of water, the meds don't work properly at loosening up the mucos and you will get a headache. Lots of headaches are caused by dehydration anyway. But I think many of you who have complained of a headache would find if you drank more water when taking the pills, it would go away. It is also a little harder to fall asleep but no harder than it is when taking OTC Sudafed. So I would recommend the Guaifenex - it works great at breaking up the junk that causes the infections.

Then do you not find it strange that all these people have had the same symptoms? My husband had been experiencing horrible side effects for days before he finally asked me to find out something about this medication and I came across this site. I had taken this medication last fall and had the same horrible side effects. I didn't lay eyes on this website until the day I posted his side effects, June 13.

In some cases, yes, people may read about these problems and begin to imagine they're having the same ones. I can vouch that we had these symptoms before seeing this site, and we were shocked that so many other people were experiencing the same things. Sudafed may have the same active ingredient, but Guaifenix may have it in a stronger concentration, or it may contain other ingredients that cause people to react differently to the pseudoephedrine. Who knows?

Whether you take Guaifenex or Sudafed 12 Hour, you're taking the exact same chemical: Pseudoephedrine. This is the chemical which makes these medications work. Go look at a Sudafed 12 Hour package and see for yourself.

And I'm sorry, but nobody's been hallucinating or vomiting blood from taking Sudafed tablets.

Pseudoephedrine is okay for most people, just not for you people. When was the last time we all had our lives destroyed by Sudafed? Get real: thousands of people take Sudafed and never have problems. Pseudoephedrine is not a problem for me.