Again, the deplorable state of healthcare. I get fever blisters, have since before I can remember. I.m that dirty scabby kid from elementary school. Anyways, every other country I have visited or lived in graciously allows me to know my own life condition and simply ask the pharmacist for the appropriate medicine ( usually about 5-10$). Unfortunately, here in my home country; I must first pay a doctor to poke and prod me (65-75$; walgreens clinic) and then the price of the medication (double what I paid in both Korea and Costa Rica; where I have experience deaing with the problem while abroad). This is ridiculous.
200$ and 2 hours later, I emerge with 2 doses of an anti-viral medication, which has no street value whatsoever and will not get me high. The doctor told me that the reason I must obtain a prescription is because some people abuse it, and the virus is mutating and becoming (much like bacterial infections) more resistant. Meanwhile, the dose prescribed to me is triple the amount I have taken (with effective results) in the past. Is resistance not caused by overmedicating; then not continuing to take the same high dose? I'm no doctor nor nurse.
And by the way, why do bad weeks seem like months?
200$ and 2 hours later, I emerge with 2 doses of an anti-viral medication, which has no street value whatsoever and will not get me high. The doctor told me that the reason I must obtain a prescription is because some people abuse it, and the virus is mutating and becoming (much like bacterial infections) more resistant. Meanwhile, the dose prescribed to me is triple the amount I have taken (with effective results) in the past. Is resistance not caused by overmedicating; then not continuing to take the same high dose? I'm no doctor nor nurse.
And by the way, why do bad weeks seem like months?
