As if drug companies don't already make enough money off of us, they go and do this.

I take Claritin-D every day in hopes of avoiding having to go back on allergy shots again. Claritin-D recently went over-the-counter. Great, huh?

Not when you take it every day and pay at least $1.20 a pill. Schering-Plough, the company who makes Claritin-D, then rubs it in. The packaging for the pills has six perforated foil squares on a sheet. Each square with a pill has the official drug name in addition to "Claritin-D 24 Hour" and the expiration date and the company name.

But instead of putting a SIXTH PILL in the sixth square like a normal person would think to do, the evil Schering-Plough thought instead to REMIND me that I'm taking "Claritin-D 24 Hour" on that sixth square, just in case having the drug name on the PILL ITSELF and on each freakin foil square wasn't enough. That sixth square has no pill, only their brand name.

So by putting 5 pills on a card that can hold at least 6, they sell more pills to people like me who need to take them every day.

I hate these marketing motherfuckers. I curse them every time I take that fifth pill and throw that empty last square away. Maybe I should keep emailing them instead. (Got the generic response to my first email about this.)

But hey, at least the bad DJ stopped. --heidi