Visine Lr Discontinued? (Page 54) (Top voted first)

Having problems finding this product. Has it been discontinued and if so, do you know why?

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Looks like an Indonesian company by the name of 'purchaseindonesian' carries this product and ships internationally. I haven't tried them out but someone may want to. $30.00 ea. Appears legit.

Cendo Asthenoff (5mL) containing: Oxymethazoline HCl 0.25% + Vitamin A

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I often see people refer to a time when "LR" was changed to "Long Lasting" or something of the sort but as far as I understand it has always been "VISINE L.R. Long-Lasting Relief" (hence the L.R.). When it came out in the 80's it had a white and blue box with yellow banners. The box said "VISINE L.R." in white. It said "With Long Lasting Relief" in a yellow banner under the title then said "up to 6 hours of relief" under that. It also said "Gets the Red Out" in a yellow banner across the top of the box.

Then they changed the box to a more yellow and white colored box but it still had a little bit of blue in the upper left corner. (This is the box I started on). This box did have a yellow banner across the top identifying it as "Long Lasting" but I imagine it was referring to itself as the long lasting relief formula in yellow as the box originally did and later would. This box also had a red banner across the middle that said "Gets the Red Out". They sort of just switched up the wording placement on this box between the two phrases.

Then there was the blue tear drop box that changed twice but I think they did that because the consumer didn't recognize the new box as the long-lasting relief formula because they used L.R. as the title and it only said Long-Lasting Redness Relief in the upper left corner in yellow rather than across the front as the subtitle. This was the first time they added the word "redness" before relief in the title.

They later changed the box to clarify "VISINE L.R. Long Lasting Redness Relief by putting "Long Lasting Redness Relief" in red right in the middle of the box under the title where they once had Gets the Red Out. They also left the Long lasting redness relief yellow banner which was in the upper left hand corner. This time they identified it as the long lasting redness relief formula twice as to not confuse the consumer.

Maybe this is what people are referring to when they say it went from LR to Long Lasting because during the first box it did only say LR real big which they later replaced with "Long Lasting Redness Relief". It would later go to the red teardrop box with the other "gets the red out" lines of products but still had "long lasting redness relief" in yellow as it always has. I don't now for sure and maybe someone can school me but I'm almost positive that the "L.R." stands for "Long-Lasting Relief".

So as far as I know it was always "VISINE L.R. Long Lasting Relief" and was from the "Gets the Red Out" line which offered 6 hours of relief. They just changed the wording to read "redness relief" and changed the boxes at least 5 times that I know of. There is a youtube video of one of the very first VISINE LR commercials on youtube if you want to watch check it out. But then I could be wrong about everything I just said! lol

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I'll give you the two main reasons it was discontinued. Firstly, Visine LR was the best selling, fasting selling, and most importantly the best redness reliever available with or without a script.

Now, you might ask why they would take away the "mountain dew" of soda, well there in lies the risks and benefit factors. The FDA and DEA are separate animals, but they work along side one another. It only takes one of these federal administration's act to ban chemical. However, the benefits of oxametazoline out weigh the side effects most definitely; thus the DEA has no problem. The FDA however believes in cross chemical use, as long as people were made aware that many nasal sprays contain the same ingredient. A study showed over 85% of frequent eye drop users also admitted they used nasal spray on a regular basis as well.

This meant, either the FDA allow it for a certain use, single purpose by label. If not, the DEA had wrap that the drug actually had interactions with class 1 drugs, stating a side effect "Use with Bromocriptine because the actions and side effects of these medicines may be increased". The potential for abuse became red flagged for LR, and the product was forced to be liquidated as an optometrilogical medicine. Nasal form has ingredients that may irritate the eye and are never recommended for use other than directed. Remember, addiction to eye drops and Nasal spray chemicals can cause blindness or worse. Overdose of Visine LR is a painful way to go out.

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