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To: Taikun who wrote (60592)	2/25/2005 8:26:40 AM
From: orkrious	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Would a person need a prescription? Tamiflu was easy to get a prescription for, I;m not so sure about these. my guess is that it will be virtually impossible to get a prescription for interferon until it is perceived by the medical community that avian flu is a severe problem. even then, you'll probably have to have a friend who is a doctor. you could call interferon a form of chemotherapy. it is nasty stuff. that's not to say you lose your hair and vomit when you take it. I have one friend who had no side effects when he was taking it, but most people get chills and aches and their hair thins. virtually everyone gets extremely tired. I am making it sound better than it is. there is no way I want to take that shit again. I was on interferon for the better part of five years for hepatitis. if it's clear to me that avian flu is gonna be a problem, I'll try to convince my liver doc to give me some. I saw him for a long time and consider him a friend (not that I see him socially). But I don't know if I'll be successful in getting a script. I'm going to have to convince him what's happening. scripts aren't going to be passed out freely until the government gets involved.