The makers of Tylenol, Excedrin and other medications are trying to dissuade regulators from placing new restrictions on their popular painkillers, including possibly removing some of them from store shelves.

Despite years of educational campaigns and other federal actions, acetaminophen is the leading cause of liver failure in the U.S., sending 56,000 people to the emergency room annually, according to the FDA.

The agency today asked its experts to consider a range of options: adding a “black box” warning label to the products, lowering the drug dosage in some products, or pulling certain types of medications off the market.

The drugs that could be pulled off shelves are combination medications, such as Procter & Gamble’s NyQuil or Novartis’ Theraflu, which combine acetaminophen with other ingredients that treat cough and runny nose.

Oh yes, how typical. Due to some people not being capable of following the directions on OTC drugs and injuring or killing themselves, let’s just take things that work really well off the market. First they took away the only OTC allergy medications that ever worked for me, because people were using them to make other drugs, and now I am expected to live without NyQuil and Theraflu? I guess they’ll be after my current favorite sinus OTC sinus medication too, because it’s a combination medication as well, containing acetaminophen.

Screw you FDA! Sure, stupid people shouldn’t be stupid, but why do the rest of us have to suffer without properly working medications because of them?! It’s so hard for me to find drugs that work as intended without awful side effects I can’t abide, if I lose NyQuil and Theraflu, I am not going to be happy. If they take away my OTC sinus medications, well … I don’t even want to think about it. My quality of life will suffer greatly.