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Scott, the way to take the Sporonox is 100 mg 2 pills twice daily x 1 week each month for three months. This is called the pulse pack method, It is a lot cheaper to take for one week per month only and puts enough medicine in the nail to work that way. By the way it take 6 months to grow a complete new nail so you won't be able to really see a big difference for a few months. John in S. C. (I am a MD and treat this regularly but most likely this is not from diving....) -----Original Message----- From: ScottBonis@ao*.co* <ScottBonis@ao*.co*> To: techdiver@aq*.co* <techdiver@aq*.co*>; cavers@cavers.com <cavers@cavers.com> Date: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 2:59 AM Subject: Nail Fungus >Hi guys, > >I discovered last week that (from diving I think) I have a toe nail fungal >infection on one of my big toes. So I went to my local doctor and he >prescribed the drug Sporanox (generic is Itraconazole), two 100 mg tablets >taken daily for three months. > >This didn't seem like a big problem until I went to buy the drug. You see my >health insurance has limited drug coverage so I check prices carefully on the >web. Now I don't know what price you may think is reasonable to kill a >little nail fungus, but I thought maybe $50 or even possibly $75 on the >outside. I couldn't believe my eyes when the prices I got from both Planet >RX and Drugstore.com were just over ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS. > >So I'm asking the medical types on this list for a plan "B" to consider. >What other treatments are available that fall somewhere within the ballpark >of reasonableness. I'm not asking for detailed treatments, just suggestions >of what might be possible. > >Thanks a lot for your time. Scott
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