To The Makers Of OTC Cold/Sinus Medication

My weekend plans were totally shot. Head cold, creepy thing in my throat...can't focus or think. At work this morning thinking of how warm and snuggly my bed is, would rather be there. But am here, blinding lights and people bothering me. I don't like to be around people when I am not well, I find them extremely irritating.

Today is Crystal's Birthday! Happy Birthday Crystal, I love you! So glad things are moving along swimmingly for you out there in the Northern Pacific. Will call later tonight.

Until then, I have something I'd like to say to the producers of over the counter cold/sinus medications...when someone is sick, they don't want to fight to open your package. Do you really think I have the energy to break open one of those little tamper resistant seals when my head is pounding like a Clydesdale? Sorry, I don't carry scissors in my purse or car to do so with and it's not like they just pop open as the directions imply. Do you think I can read all that fine print about dosage and drug allergy information when my eyeballs are all puffed up from sinus pressure? Do you think I care that your package has a new look? Not to mention the fact that I now have go to the pharmacy, sign my personal information and show a Drivers License in Colorado to purchase Advil Cold/Sinus and a myriad of other formally OTC meds because of the pseudoephedrine content. It's not my fault that the local area meth labs use pseudoephedrine in mass quantities to concoct their poisons that kill people. I'm not trying to contribute to addiction. I'm very sorry for that, I know what that crap can do to people...it's truly awful. I just no longer wish to feel like I am living in an aquarium. That's all, I'm not a criminal....I just want to take some medication and go to sleep. At least set it up so that if I am forced to purchase it from the pharmacy I don't have to sumo wrestle the packaging to get it open.

And no worries that you might loose me as a consumer. I live in a highly populated area of the country. I have a 14 year old who goes to school with 750+ other germ monsters who pass their crud around to each other by sharing food, drinks and who knows what else. I work with 30+ other people, 20% of whom have children under the age of 10, so they bring the germs their kids bring home from their respective schools and child care programs. And then we all pass it around at work. I wash my hands alot, I eat exceptionally well and I try to get enough rest. But my stress level is probably the kicker b/c we live in a stress induced society, and I suffer from anxiety - just like a million and on other people in Denver. So I do get sick some times, I get about 3 - 4 colds a year. Because I am not allowed to have 'down' time as a single (for all intensive purposes) working mother, I must subscribe to using your products in order to get me through the day and on to whatever is next needed from me.

My bottom line, if there is an option for me to purchase your medication in an easier to open package, please make it so. I am 100% for tamper resistant medication bottles, I love children and animals and I want to see them all grow up and be healthy and they are curious little boogers and get into everything sometimes, so the need is obvious. However, I am a full grown adult and I would just like to open up that packaging, take that happy little pill that's going to make my otherwise miserable cold a whole lot more manageable...without banging my head against the wall and ending up in tears in the process. You don't want to be responsible for my nervous breakdown, now do you?

That is all.