Fighting Big Pharma

While I figure out a heading for this post I'll do a quick update on what's been going on around here. First and foremost the battle with Wyeth is not over, at least from my perspective. We may not win it but we can sure make it uncomfortable for them. I personally am boycotting products that the company makes, more on that later. A price increase of almost 1000 percent is insane.

This has been an interesting week though. Last week I sent an email to a television station's medical reporter who had previously done a story on Premarin and the sudden price hike. I was asked by the reporter to do an interview. I have to say that I thought about it for a while since I'm not terribly good in front of a camera. I get kind of tongue tied actually, I'm better one on one. In any case the camera guy was great and the interview was on the Wednesday night newscast and was rerun again Thursday morning. Here's the link for anyone interested. Halfway down the page on the right side just underneath CTV.ca blogs you will see a video link. That would me me. Avis Favro has also linked my blog to the site and traffic has increased. I have another story to do on Wyeth and Premarin but it requires a little more thought than I'm capable of today.

Now as I've said before, taking Premarin is a personal choice, not for everyone but certainly for me very necessary and not because of something as benign as hot flashes. This week alone I tried two times to do without the pill and both times woke up with a debilitating migraine. I'm not talking about a small headache here, I'm talking about pain so severe that the slightest movement feels like a hammer hitting my head and taking even a sip of water causes gut wrenching dry heaves. It's not fun. Because of the migraine I missed my pre op appointment on Wednesday for my foot surgery. Fortunately for me I was able to get another appointment yesterday. And the beat goes on...