Guest guest Posted April 9, 2005 Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 Enbrel is expensive because it is grown, not produced. It is grown from the recombinant DNA technology from the ovaries of Eastern Chinese hamsters! I kid you not. When I was on it, I had an urge to hoard food in my cheeks and scratch behind my ears! (that I am kidding about, the first part is true, you can look it up!) Ray Silva ----- Original Message ----- From: " gonzo_skye " <gonzo_skye@...> <Rheumatoid Arthritis > Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 5:18 PM Subject: Cost of Enbrel. > > > The cost of Enbrel is way off. It is about 700.dollars a shot. so I > get a month supply .That is 5600.oo $ a month!!!I believe it is so > coastly because the protein in the vial is from an animals > overies.Which one I forget.I think it was overies. My memory is bad. > Fibro Phog..................Skye > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 9, 2005 Report Share Posted April 9, 2005 ----- Original Message ----- From: Ray > Enbrel is expensive because it is grown, not produced. It is grown from the recombinant DNA technology from the ovaries of Eastern Chinese hamsters! I may want to rethink if I want to put that stuff in my body. :-( > I kid you not. When I was on it, I had an urge to hoard food in my cheeks and scratch behind my ears! (that I am kidding about, the first part is true, you can look it up!)Now that's funny! LOL Nina Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 10, 2005 Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 LOL…hoarding food in cheeks… isn’t that a side-eff of predisone? -----Original Message----- From: Ray [mailto:dyssilva@...] Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 5:41 PM To: Rheumatoid Arthritis Subject: Re: Cost of Enbrel. Enbrel is expensive because it is grown, not produced. It is grown from the recombinant DNA technology from the ovaries of Eastern Chinese hamsters! I kid you not. When I was on it, I had an urge to hoard food in my cheeks and scratch behind my ears! (that I am kidding about, the first part is true, you can look it up!) Ray Silva ----- Original Message ----- From: " gonzo_skye " <gonzo_skye@...> <Rheumatoid Arthritis > Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 5:18 PM Subject: Cost of Enbrel. > > > The cost of Enbrel is way off. It is about 700.dollars a shot. so I > get a month supply .That is 5600.oo $ a month!!!I believe it is so > coastly because the protein in the vial is from an animals > overies.Which one I forget.I think it was overies. My memory is bad. > Fibro Phog..................Skye > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 10, 2005 Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 Sure looked that way when I had "moon face" from prednisone. Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: Zoom Rheumatoid Arthritis Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 11:41 PM Subject: RE: Cost of Enbrel. LOL…hoarding food in cheeks… isn’t that a side-eff of predisone? -----Original Message-----From: Ray [mailto:dyssilva@...] Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 5:41 PMRheumatoid Arthritis Subject: Re: Cost of Enbrel. Enbrel is expensive because it is grown, not produced. It is grown from the recombinant DNA technology from the ovaries of Eastern Chinese hamsters! I kid you not. When I was on it, I had an urge to hoard food in my cheeks and scratch behind my ears! (that I am kidding about, the first part is true, you can look it up!)Ray Silva----- Original Message ----- From: "gonzo_skye" <gonzo_skye@...><Rheumatoid Arthritis >Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 5:18 PMSubject: Cost of Enbrel.>>> The cost of Enbrel is way off. It is about 700.dollars a shot. so I> get a month supply .That is 5600.oo $ a month!!!I believe it is so> coastly because the protein in the vial is from an animals> overies.Which one I forget.I think it was overies. My memory is bad.> Fibro Phog..................Skye>>>>>>>> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 10, 2005 Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 LOL! Ya'll are cracking me up!! kins -------Original Message------- From: Zoom Date: 04/09/05 22:42:24 Rheumatoid Arthritis Subject: RE: Cost of Enbrel. LOL…hoarding food in cheeks… isn’t that a side-eff of predisone? -----Original Message-----From: Ray [mailto:dyssilva@...] Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 5:41 PMRheumatoid Arthritis Subject: Re: Cost of Enbrel. Enbrel is expensive because it is grown, not produced. It is grown from the recombinant DNA technology from the ovaries of Eastern Chinese hamsters! I kid you not. When I was on it, I had an urge to hoard food in my cheeks and scratch behind my ears! (that I am kidding about, the first part is true, you can look it up!)Ray Silva----- Original Message ----- From: "gonzo_skye" <gonzo_skye@...><Rheumatoid Arthritis >Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2005 5:18 PMSubject: Cost of Enbrel.>>> The cost of Enbrel is way off. It is about 700.dollars a shot. so I> get a month supply .That is 5600.oo $ a month!!!I believe it is so> coastly because the protein in the vial is from an animals> overies.Which one I forget.I think it was overies. My memory is bad.> Fibro Phog..................Skye>>>>>>>> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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