Buy Zyrtec Over the Counter

I take Zyrtec for my allergies. I take both the anithistamine, and the decongestant. I've probably been on them for around three years. I was buying the prescription versions of these pills.

These pills are not cheap. I was lucky to be able to be supplied with samples of the antihistamine for a long time. I did get samples of the decongestant, but there were more samples of the antihistamine to be had. This helped me out tremendously, and I was grateful for the samples that the nurse would give to me. I was also supplied with a nasal spray as samples too.

You can't beat receiving free prescription medication. The cost of being on these three was astronomical. It was to me.

I was on these medications following a diagnosis of an allergy, and I opted to start with allergy shots, and take medications.

Time went on, and again I was grateful for the samples I could pick up when I went to the doctors office to get my shots.

It didn't last very long...getting samples from the nurses. The office had passed out a letter informing patients that they would no longer be able to get samples from a nurse, or any other employee at the building, except from your health care provider.

The rules changed, and so did the easy access of a free sample. The policy now is, you can only get samples from your doctor at the time that you have an appointment with the doctor.

I don't have to see my doctor for follow up exams that often, so getting the samples were few and far between.

I never learned the reason for the policy change on the distribution of samples. I never did inquire about it. I have often wondered if there wasn't internal abuse of the medicines, that were left at the office by the drug company representatives. I cannot be positive of this, but maybe there was a theft problem. It seems like a reasonable deduction. I am not accusing anyone. I have seen for myself the doors have always been open on the closets that the samples were housed in, when I was at the office, so it could have been anybody that helped themselves to samples inside the building. Again, I don't know if this was the reason. It wasn't too long after this, that I saw that the doors to the drug closets were closed. Whether or not they are actually locked, I don't know.

Time again went on, and it eventually got to the point where I had to buy my three medications at the pharmacy. They were very expensive, and the price went up almost everytime I would have my prescriptions filled. There were a couple of times that I asked a nurse about getting another prescription written out for me, as I needed a refill. I knew that the doctor had to fill it out for me, but I went on ahead and asked the nurse about it, while I was there for my shot. The nurse was kind enough to hunt the doctor down for me, and I did get some new prescriptions that way. They were very accommodating to me, since I was just in there for my allergy shot, and not a doctor's visit.

I dropped off my bottle of Zyrtec decongestant recently at the pharmacy to be filled. I told them that I wanted to pick it up the next day. I went back to pick it up, and it hadn't been filled. I was told that the date was expired on the bottle, and they would have to call my doctor. The date wasn't expired on the bottle, but I didn't notice this until I came home. I had kept my bottle, as the pharmacy had just taken my information off of it, when I had gone to the drive thru to drop it off. An employee had asked me if I wanted to keep my bottle. I said yes. I didn't say anthing about the date not being expired when I went in to pick up the refill, as I didn't have the bottle with me. I was distracted by what I saw next.

I was standing at the counter, waiting to be helped, and I was looking around at everything, and I don't know why, but I happened to glance down at a floor stand of some medicine, and it was for the Zyrtec decongestant, to be purchased over the counter. I knew that I could just recently buy the Zyrtec antihistamine over the counter, but this was the first time that I had been aware of the decongestant being sold this way. I noticed that the stand was empty of products, and I thought that people must have been buying this like crazy. I looked down at another part of the display, and there were some pieces of paper there, that the printing on them said to give this paper to the pharmacy to buy some. I picked one up, and I asked about purchasing this, instead of waiting more on them to call my doctor back.

The medicine was behind the counter, on the pharmacy shelves, but it was now an over the counter drug. It was incredibly cheap, compared to what I had been paying for it with a prescription. I wondered why it was being stocked inside the pharmacy. I asked how much it was, and I was amazed. The prescription I had, was $90.00 for sixty pills. I bought the over the counter box for $22.99 for twenty four pills. This made my day! It is a different company that is manufacturing the over the counter pills, but being the same name as Zyrtec, they are the same medicine. I had asked the nurse about this, and she said that it would be the same pill, as the name is the same.

The girl behind the pharmacy counter did ask to see my driver's license. I don't know if she entered anything into the computer off of my license, as I was looking down to get my money out. I thought later, that they are keeping track of who buys this product, and how frequently the same person purchases it, because of the pseudoephedrine in it. After my excitement of being able to buy this cheaper, I thought that was the reason why the pills were behind the counter in the pharmacy. Yes, it's an "over the counter drug," but there is still some control on the sale. It doesn't necessarily mean it will be out on the shelf next to the aspirin, it's just at the point now where you don't need a prescription.

In closing, I really was surprised to see Zyrtec-D being sold over the counter, as it does contain pseudoephedrine. The price was an even better surprise. I wish these drugs would have been over the counter drugs that were readily available to me, when I first started taking them.

Every little bit of savings helps.

Cheers to myself, and fellow Zyrtec takers.