=> -----Original Message----- => From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] => [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Madigan => Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 19:41 => To: ProFox Email List => Subject: [OT] A special thank-you to the Drug industry => => My girlfriend was diagnosed as having shingles yesterday. => Shingles is a recurrence of the chickenpox virus due to => stress or low immune system. My girlfriend had just got => over a bout with bronchitis. => => http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/shingles/shingles.htm => => Well the doctor put her on Valtrex, an anti-viral => medication. The stuff costs $10.00 a pill, and requires 3 a => day for a 10 day cycle. The total cost is $300.00, all out-of-pocket => => http://www.valtrex.com/shingles/whatis_shingles.html => => Well after 1 day on the medication, the pain has been cut in => half, and she probably averted a major case of it. => => Thank God for GlaxoSmithKline => => My grandmother had a bout many years ago which affected one => eye. She was in agony until it ran its course. There was => no Valtrex back then. => => => Capitalism is a good thing.
Valtrex is cool. It really works on herpes zoster ... I mean shingles. I sure hope you didn't touch the lesions -- that will cost ya another 3 Bennys. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
