I'm going to have 2 of the purple acid tabs. Maybe a third for lunch

An Andy imposter said...

> I'm going to have 2 of the purple acid tabs. Maybe a third for lunch


That's Nexium, for the rest of you! LOLOL!!!

Andy

Andy wrote:
> I'm going to have 2 of the purple acid tabs. Maybe a third for lunch
>
>
That sounds thrilling.

I had LO eggplant and chicken parm, a few shells. Coffees (pl).

--
Jean B.

On Sep 2, 8:57*pm, Andy > wrote:
> An Andy imposter said...
>
> > I'm going to have 2 of the purple acid tabs. *Maybe a third for lunch
>
> That's Nexium, for the rest of you! LOLOL!!!

Most likely an example of WASTE in the medical sector. Nearly
everyone tolerates Prilosec--or better yet, generic omeprazole--but
the drug companies are bribing doctors and fooling patients into
prescribing/paying for prescription Nexium.

I copied the following from Wikipedia:
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Controversy

There has been some controversy about AstraZeneca's behaviour in
creating, patenting and marketing of the drug. Critics allege that the
drug's successful predecessor Omeprazole is a mixture of two mirror-
imaged molecules (esomeprazole and romeprazole), and that the company
was trying to "evergreen" its patent by patenting the pure
esomeprazole and aggressively marketing to doctors that it is more
effective than the mixture,[8] claiming that romeprazole has no
beneficial effects on the patient. However, in the acidic environment
of the parietal cells both esomeprazole and romeprazole are converted
to the same active drug which stops the gastric acid production.

Dr. Marcia Angell, former Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal
of Medicine, spoke at Harvard Medical School to a German magazine on
August 16, 2007 and accused AstraZeneca's scientists of deceptively
doctoring their comparative studies such that the difference to
Omeprazole would look larger, providing a marketing advantage.[9] For
more information, see AstraZeneca's article.

Thomas Scully, head of the Federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
services also criticized AstraZeneca for their aggressive marketing of
Nexium. At a conference of the American Medical Association he went so
far as to suggest that Astra was using the new drug to overcharge
consumers and insurance companies. "You should be embarrassed if you
prescribe Nexium," he claimed, "because you're screwing your patients
and you're screwing the taxpayers." An AstraZeneca sponsored study
showed that 40 mg of esomeprazole provided more effective acid control
than 40 mg of omeprazole.[10] However, a more proper comparison would
be with an 80 mg dose of omeprazole because this would contain
approximately the same amount of the active enantiomer. However, there
are also indications, as shown above, that for omeprazole, both the
(R) and (S) enantiomers have the same therapeutic effect. In that case
the comparison is valid after all.
source-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esomeprazole

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The key sentence is: "You should be embarrassed if you prescribe
Nexium," he claimed, "because you're screwing your patients and you're
screwing the taxpayers."

They're taking a lot of us for fools.

>
> Andy

--Bryan, who buys generic omeprazole.