Migraine Headaches Support Group

If this doesn't beat all. Allergan, the makers of Botox, a drug which MAY help Migriaine sufferer,s but MOST OF US CAN'T GET IT because Allergan has made excuses and wasted time getting FDA approval for Migraine use (although they sell the drug, which is ONLY FDA approved for forehead wrinkles, and sweaty palms) NOW Allergan, (who for years claimed they didn't have the resources to test Botox for Migraines (the tests are "underway" right now, but they have been going on for years, still no APPLICATION to the FDA for migraine use, and Allergan couldn't care less, because they MAKE MORE MONEY selling the drug for wrinkles.)

NOW the company has somehow FOUND THE TIME AND MONEY to create, test, market and GET FDA APPROVAL for a drug which (now listen carefully, because this is a VERY important use) GROW YOUR EYELASHES. The drug is called "Latisse." How nice for those who HAVE MONEY for expensive, PRESCRIPTION cosmetics while the rest of us suffer because we can't afford DRUGS or healthcare for our REAL MEDICAL PROBLEMS. Thanks Allergan, you CAPITALIST PIGS.

Yep. A drug, which you have to get your doctor to write a prescription for, which will cost you an average of $140.00 PER MONTH, and has to be used for FOUR MONTHS to see any "improvement" and HAS to be used forever to KEEP your new eyelashes, has been FDA approved, and is being marketed by the company which STILL hasn't gained FDA approval for using Botox for MIGRAINES.

Here's a quote about the "drug" (cosmetic) "Allergan estimates the drug, likely to be called Latisse, could generate global sales of more than $500 million per year." A** holes.

And Brooke Shields is theirs spokes person. I guess because before she started using LATISSE, she was so damn UGLY before she used this drug. (I have had NO respect for this woman since she endorsed a certain brand of BABY FORMULA (for money) some years ago, after singing the praises of breaastmilk. Sure, I trust her (HEAVY HEAVY HEAVY HEAVY sarcasm.)

Screw Allergan. They KNEW about the migraine alleviating effects of Botox more than a decade ago, they INTENTIONALLY ONLY got FDA approval as a cosmetic, because they KNOW it makes them more money than ACTUALLY HELPING PEOPLE IN PAIN WITH THIER DRUGS. They are going to wait until the copyright (or whatever it is called, I am to angry to even write) on Botox Expires and then release it in a SLIGHTLY different form, maybe for migraine, WHY SHOULD THEY ALLOW THOSE OF US WITHOUT A MODEL or Movie Actresses Income be allowed to use this drug? THAT is one of the reasons that Botox isn't FDA approved (which would allow those of us whose insurance won't pay for it, because "it isn't FDA approved for migraine" to try it) YET. They have HAD THE TIME AND OBVIOUSLY HAVE THE MONEY to have got this drug FDA approved a decade ago.

I am PISSED.
Posted on 10/09/09, 01:10 pm