Uh! Why do meds cost so much?!?!?!

NoExcuses

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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>KrazyKat</b></i>

Oh great, yet another cholestorol controlling drug - wonder why when there are alrady several good drugs that do a good job of conrolling cholestorol - of course it's all about money. If it wasn't, there would be more drugs being discovered/developed for CFers, especially those of us with Cepacia - but no, we don't have anywhere the same amount of financial punch. Lipitor and Lipex are the biggest selling drug in the USA.

What brasses me off even more, is that for most people, high cholesterol and heart disease are preventable diseased, the US citizens who pay through the nose for these cholesterol drugs have most of the time dug their own graves by shovelling fatty foods down their throats all day and sittin on their too fat a$$es in between feeds - yet billions of dollars a year is spent trying to save their sad self destructive a$$es.

Yet here we are with an unfair and undeserved disease, and we spend most of our lives trying to stay healthy, watching what we eat, not smoking/drinking, exercising regularly - but for us, there is next to no money spent...we just have to suffer in silence.

Extremely unjust and it makes me mad as hell. I suggest they spend $1 buying a piece of number 8 wire for every American with heart disease resulting from lifestyle choices and wire their fat jaws shut instead, then donate the money to those of us with genetic disease not of our own making instead.

It's right up there with our NZ tax money paying for the health care of people who lead the same 'fat person' lifestyle and end up with heart disease, diabetes, cancer......they spend half their lives in hospital using up my tax money, simply because they CHOOSE to eat crap food, drink too much booze, smoke cigarettes and sit around all day.......you'd have to live on a desert island to not know that these things are all bad for you...but still they do it, so i'll keep working to ensure these mentally bereft and irresponsible people can be kept alive...while I slowly die.</end quote></div>

i can't remember who it was but someone spazzed at me a few weeks ago for claiming that Americans cause their own diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

whoever it was better spazz at this post too.

But KrazyKat i agree with you 100%
 

NoExcuses

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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>KrazyKat</b></i>

Oh great, yet another cholestorol controlling drug - wonder why when there are alrady several good drugs that do a good job of conrolling cholestorol - of course it's all about money. If it wasn't, there would be more drugs being discovered/developed for CFers, especially those of us with Cepacia - but no, we don't have anywhere the same amount of financial punch. Lipitor and Lipex are the biggest selling drug in the USA.

What brasses me off even more, is that for most people, high cholesterol and heart disease are preventable diseased, the US citizens who pay through the nose for these cholesterol drugs have most of the time dug their own graves by shovelling fatty foods down their throats all day and sittin on their too fat a$$es in between feeds - yet billions of dollars a year is spent trying to save their sad self destructive a$$es.

Yet here we are with an unfair and undeserved disease, and we spend most of our lives trying to stay healthy, watching what we eat, not smoking/drinking, exercising regularly - but for us, there is next to no money spent...we just have to suffer in silence.

Extremely unjust and it makes me mad as hell. I suggest they spend $1 buying a piece of number 8 wire for every American with heart disease resulting from lifestyle choices and wire their fat jaws shut instead, then donate the money to those of us with genetic disease not of our own making instead.

It's right up there with our NZ tax money paying for the health care of people who lead the same 'fat person' lifestyle and end up with heart disease, diabetes, cancer......they spend half their lives in hospital using up my tax money, simply because they CHOOSE to eat crap food, drink too much booze, smoke cigarettes and sit around all day.......you'd have to live on a desert island to not know that these things are all bad for you...but still they do it, so i'll keep working to ensure these mentally bereft and irresponsible people can be kept alive...while I slowly die.</end quote></div>

i can't remember who it was but someone spazzed at me a few weeks ago for claiming that Americans cause their own diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

whoever it was better spazz at this post too.

But KrazyKat i agree with you 100%
 

NoExcuses

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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>KrazyKat</b></i>

Oh great, yet another cholestorol controlling drug - wonder why when there are alrady several good drugs that do a good job of conrolling cholestorol - of course it's all about money. If it wasn't, there would be more drugs being discovered/developed for CFers, especially those of us with Cepacia - but no, we don't have anywhere the same amount of financial punch. Lipitor and Lipex are the biggest selling drug in the USA.

What brasses me off even more, is that for most people, high cholesterol and heart disease are preventable diseased, the US citizens who pay through the nose for these cholesterol drugs have most of the time dug their own graves by shovelling fatty foods down their throats all day and sittin on their too fat a$$es in between feeds - yet billions of dollars a year is spent trying to save their sad self destructive a$$es.

Yet here we are with an unfair and undeserved disease, and we spend most of our lives trying to stay healthy, watching what we eat, not smoking/drinking, exercising regularly - but for us, there is next to no money spent...we just have to suffer in silence.

Extremely unjust and it makes me mad as hell. I suggest they spend $1 buying a piece of number 8 wire for every American with heart disease resulting from lifestyle choices and wire their fat jaws shut instead, then donate the money to those of us with genetic disease not of our own making instead.

It's right up there with our NZ tax money paying for the health care of people who lead the same 'fat person' lifestyle and end up with heart disease, diabetes, cancer......they spend half their lives in hospital using up my tax money, simply because they CHOOSE to eat crap food, drink too much booze, smoke cigarettes and sit around all day.......you'd have to live on a desert island to not know that these things are all bad for you...but still they do it, so i'll keep working to ensure these mentally bereft and irresponsible people can be kept alive...while I slowly die.</end quote></div>

i can't remember who it was but someone spazzed at me a few weeks ago for claiming that Americans cause their own diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

whoever it was better spazz at this post too.

But KrazyKat i agree with you 100%
 

Bumblebee

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One thing i have noticed on TV whilst i have been over here is the advertising for prescription medicines....i just don't think you get in in the UK, benadril, lemsip, canesten...yes, but not prescription meds. I find it kind of funny, the "natural conversations" they have in these adds listing all the possible side effects. I know it's what i talk to my friends about all the time "oh have you heard of this drug...blah blah....could give you Diarrehea, heart failure etc etc to infinity"
xxxx
 

Bumblebee

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One thing i have noticed on TV whilst i have been over here is the advertising for prescription medicines....i just don't think you get in in the UK, benadril, lemsip, canesten...yes, but not prescription meds. I find it kind of funny, the "natural conversations" they have in these adds listing all the possible side effects. I know it's what i talk to my friends about all the time "oh have you heard of this drug...blah blah....could give you Diarrehea, heart failure etc etc to infinity"
xxxx
 

Bumblebee

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One thing i have noticed on TV whilst i have been over here is the advertising for prescription medicines....i just don't think you get in in the UK, benadril, lemsip, canesten...yes, but not prescription meds. I find it kind of funny, the "natural conversations" they have in these adds listing all the possible side effects. I know it's what i talk to my friends about all the time "oh have you heard of this drug...blah blah....could give you Diarrehea, heart failure etc etc to infinity"
xxxx
 

Chaggie

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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>Ender</b></i>
You do know our life expectancy is higher then yours right?</end quote></div>

That's because you all play hockey up there.
 

Chaggie

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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>Ender</b></i>
You do know our life expectancy is higher then yours right?</end quote></div>

That's because you all play hockey up there.
 

Chaggie

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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>Ender</b></i>
You do know our life expectancy is higher then yours right?</end quote></div>

That's because you all play hockey up there.
 

welshgirl

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yes in the uk we have drug reps but no we do not have drug advertisements on the telly.<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
 

welshgirl

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yes in the uk we have drug reps but no we do not have drug advertisements on the telly.<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
 

welshgirl

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yes in the uk we have drug reps but no we do not have drug advertisements on the telly.<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
 

welshgirl

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oops!!! but we do have cold remedies and such like advertised. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
 

welshgirl

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oops!!! but we do have cold remedies and such like advertised. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
 

welshgirl

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oops!!! but we do have cold remedies and such like advertised. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
 

summer732

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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>KrazyKat</b></i>


What brasses me off even more, is that for most people, high cholesterol and heart disease are preventable diseased, the US citizens who pay through the nose for these cholesterol drugs have most of the time dug their own graves by shovelling fatty foods down their throats all day and sittin on their too fat a$$es in between feeds - yet billions of dollars a year is spent trying to save their sad self destructive a$$es.


Okay have to make a statement about this comment. My father is under 200 pounds, eats healthy (soups, salad, lean meat) and exercises regularly. His cholesterol is through the roof. Lipitor saved him. High cholesterol runs in the family. I have high cholesterol due to immunosuppressant drugs post transplant. So making a statement that you have above and generalizing is very stereotypical. I understand that other diseases get way more attention then we do and I would love to see that change. The new meds that came out for CF before I had my transplant were minimal and did very little to help my situation with CF. But the reality is that these other drugs are needed as well. Not all people with high cholesterol stuff their faces on end and sit around doing nothing. My dad is on the treadmill at 5:30 AM every morning for his hour and a half work out before work. So as angry as you get, think before you speak. And thanks to the pharmaceutical company for developing Lipitor so that my father can still be here and that I can control my cholestrol from my immunosuppressant drugs (but I suppose that is my fault too huh).

Sorry guys. Couldn't let this one go!
 

summer732

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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>KrazyKat</b></i>


What brasses me off even more, is that for most people, high cholesterol and heart disease are preventable diseased, the US citizens who pay through the nose for these cholesterol drugs have most of the time dug their own graves by shovelling fatty foods down their throats all day and sittin on their too fat a$$es in between feeds - yet billions of dollars a year is spent trying to save their sad self destructive a$$es.


Okay have to make a statement about this comment. My father is under 200 pounds, eats healthy (soups, salad, lean meat) and exercises regularly. His cholesterol is through the roof. Lipitor saved him. High cholesterol runs in the family. I have high cholesterol due to immunosuppressant drugs post transplant. So making a statement that you have above and generalizing is very stereotypical. I understand that other diseases get way more attention then we do and I would love to see that change. The new meds that came out for CF before I had my transplant were minimal and did very little to help my situation with CF. But the reality is that these other drugs are needed as well. Not all people with high cholesterol stuff their faces on end and sit around doing nothing. My dad is on the treadmill at 5:30 AM every morning for his hour and a half work out before work. So as angry as you get, think before you speak. And thanks to the pharmaceutical company for developing Lipitor so that my father can still be here and that I can control my cholestrol from my immunosuppressant drugs (but I suppose that is my fault too huh).

Sorry guys. Couldn't let this one go!
 

summer732

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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>KrazyKat</b></i>


What brasses me off even more, is that for most people, high cholesterol and heart disease are preventable diseased, the US citizens who pay through the nose for these cholesterol drugs have most of the time dug their own graves by shovelling fatty foods down their throats all day and sittin on their too fat a$$es in between feeds - yet billions of dollars a year is spent trying to save their sad self destructive a$$es.


Okay have to make a statement about this comment. My father is under 200 pounds, eats healthy (soups, salad, lean meat) and exercises regularly. His cholesterol is through the roof. Lipitor saved him. High cholesterol runs in the family. I have high cholesterol due to immunosuppressant drugs post transplant. So making a statement that you have above and generalizing is very stereotypical. I understand that other diseases get way more attention then we do and I would love to see that change. The new meds that came out for CF before I had my transplant were minimal and did very little to help my situation with CF. But the reality is that these other drugs are needed as well. Not all people with high cholesterol stuff their faces on end and sit around doing nothing. My dad is on the treadmill at 5:30 AM every morning for his hour and a half work out before work. So as angry as you get, think before you speak. And thanks to the pharmaceutical company for developing Lipitor so that my father can still be here and that I can control my cholestrol from my immunosuppressant drugs (but I suppose that is my fault too huh).

Sorry guys. Couldn't let this one go!
 

JazzysMom

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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>summer732</b></i>

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>KrazyKat</b></i>





What brasses me off even more, is that for most people, high cholesterol and heart disease are preventable diseased, the US citizens who pay through the nose for these cholesterol drugs have most of the time dug their own graves by shovelling fatty foods down their throats all day and sittin on their too fat a$$es in between feeds - yet billions of dollars a year is spent trying to save their sad self destructive a$$es.





Okay have to make a statement about this comment. My father is under 200 pounds, eats healthy (soups, salad, lean meat) and exercises regularly. His cholesterol is through the roof. Lipitor saved him. High cholesterol runs in the family. I have high cholesterol due to immunosuppressant drugs post transplant. So making a statement that you have above and generalizing is very stereotypical. I understand that other diseases get way more attention then we do and I would love to see that change. The new meds that came out for CF before I had my transplant were minimal and did very little to help my situation with CF. But the reality is that these other drugs are needed as well. Not all people with high cholesterol stuff their faces on end and sit around doing nothing. My dad is on the treadmill at 5:30 AM every morning for his hour and a half work out before work. So as angry as you get, think before you speak. And thanks to the pharmaceutical company for developing Lipitor so that my father can still be here and that I can control my cholestrol from my immunosuppressant drugs (but I suppose that is my fault too huh).



Sorry guys. Couldn't let this one go!</end quote></div>


THUS she said for MOST people....she didnt say all!
 

JazzysMom

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<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>summer732</b></i>

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>KrazyKat</b></i>





What brasses me off even more, is that for most people, high cholesterol and heart disease are preventable diseased, the US citizens who pay through the nose for these cholesterol drugs have most of the time dug their own graves by shovelling fatty foods down their throats all day and sittin on their too fat a$$es in between feeds - yet billions of dollars a year is spent trying to save their sad self destructive a$$es.





Okay have to make a statement about this comment. My father is under 200 pounds, eats healthy (soups, salad, lean meat) and exercises regularly. His cholesterol is through the roof. Lipitor saved him. High cholesterol runs in the family. I have high cholesterol due to immunosuppressant drugs post transplant. So making a statement that you have above and generalizing is very stereotypical. I understand that other diseases get way more attention then we do and I would love to see that change. The new meds that came out for CF before I had my transplant were minimal and did very little to help my situation with CF. But the reality is that these other drugs are needed as well. Not all people with high cholesterol stuff their faces on end and sit around doing nothing. My dad is on the treadmill at 5:30 AM every morning for his hour and a half work out before work. So as angry as you get, think before you speak. And thanks to the pharmaceutical company for developing Lipitor so that my father can still be here and that I can control my cholestrol from my immunosuppressant drugs (but I suppose that is my fault too huh).



Sorry guys. Couldn't let this one go!</end quote></div>


THUS she said for MOST people....she didnt say all!
 
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