Extreme Heartburn Vanity. Possible Pepcid Complete Recall?

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[BigBlueJon]

Hello. It's early in the morning, or late at night for those of us who usually work nights. After a weekend of unhealthy and unusual eating, I have just consumed the second to the last Pepcid Complete, Walgreen's brand, in our home. The last one will be fought over between my wife and I at a later to be determined time and place. Being a sensitive husband, I may at least share half with my wife.

Yesterday, while we were visiting family out of town, my wife went to the store to get the usual supply of Pepcid Complete, either name brand or generic. She checked two local pharmacies and two local chain stores. Not a bottle in sight. In traveling back to our home from our out of town visit late last night, we tried one last attempt at our local Walgreen's Pharmacy. No more Pepcid Complete. Frustrated, we asked the local pharmacist if he could help us. To his knowledge, there shouldn't be a problem and it should be on the shelf. We walked together to examine and verified that neither the name brand or store brand was shelved nor labeled as missing. It was simply gone. The pharmacist had no explanation.

After checking online, it appears that Johnson & Johnson Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals Company has had a few bad marks against their production, as well as a "small" recall due to faulty packaging. There is no new information to be found at this time. The recall of Pepcid Complete by itself shouldn't be that strange. However, the complete and total disappearance of not only the name brand, but every other generic brand from every other store both large and small is very strange.

With all that is going in the world today, this is small beans. However...if my wife does not find a refill of chewable berry flavored Pepcid Complete, or the like, the end result may be disastrous for all.

Inquiring minds would like to know...

[La Lydia]

Forgot to say: Tums makes a product with the exact same formula as Pepcid Complete:
http://www.tums.com/Products/DualAction.aspx

[loungitude]

Vinegar tastes bad but works great on heartburn. I don’t know how.

[seemoAR]

MSG always causes me to have stomach problems. It is very hard to avoid since in has been put into so many products. Campbell’s Soups were loaded with that crap. They have started leaving it out of some soups now.

[Ellendra]

Milk of magnesia works as an instant antacid. Cools the heartburn down on contact.

(Side effects may include diarrhea)

[Ellendra]

Indigestion/heart burn is not caused by too much acid, it is caused by too little.

Depends on the type of heartburn, there's more than one possible cause. But for the most common kind, yeah.

[Ditter]

MSG bothers me too, it makes my heart beat go crazy, scary. Google flavor enhancers, MSG goes by many names now so you might not know you are ingesting it.

[Ditter]

Hi! :D

[freekitty]

Hi right back at ya.

[wardaddy]

Prilosec generic or name brand works wonders...I take one in morning and one at night

if something gets thru in daytime...like too much bitter coffee

i take generic tagamet ot zantac

used to take pepcid..it was ok

now they have nexium generic which is basically prilosec time released....but Astra Zeneca now has Nexium II which is really just barely different...more magnesium...they are trying to evergreen patent time...can't say I blame them...Nexium is the Cialis of heartburn gold for drug companies...

[wardaddy]

(Side effects may include diarrhea)

may?

as in 4 missed periods and 20 extra pounds on a 17 year old girl "may" indicate pregnancy

I live by Milk of Magnesia...that half dose cherry...tastes less bad than the others...and man does it work...nothing else comes close except those gut crunching pills and stuff...I cannot imagine why folks take senna and ducolax...Milk of Mag is not bad for you at all and not so much abdominal pain...but lord don't overdo it...it will be like a "Jackass" skit

[OCC]

Pepcid Complete and its generic relatives, works every time, all of the time and at that very moment in time.

I agree with you on that. TUMs can bet hit or miss. I noticed the empty shelf while shopping at Krogers last week. The Kroger store brand is almost half the price of regular Pepcid.

[seemoAR]

I can tell if I eat that mess. It is used to enhance the flavor of slop you wouldn’t eat if it was left out. Maybe that is the reason Campbell’s soup is loaded up with it.

http://www.truthinlabeling.org/hiddensources.htmlit.

[trimom]

Been searching for them as well, for my husband. Been looking since Thanksgiving and no luck.

[redhead]

"Rolaids?"

Half a teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda in a half a glass of water. Burp and be happy...