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jmowreader

(50,559 posts)
Fri Jan 29, 2016, 03:06 AM Jan 2016

Onmel: Who thought THIS was a good idea? [View all]

Our friends at Merz North America, which is a pharmaceutical company, have introduced the new drug Onmel to treat the scourge that is Toenail Fungus. No, really. That's what it does.

http://www.onmel.com

It'll cure your toenail fungus if it doesn't kill you first: This shit has a Black Box Warning!

According to it:
ONMEL can cause serious life-threatening side effects, including:

Heart failure. Don't take this if you have had heart failure, including congestive heart failure, and call your doctor right away if you have any of these symptoms of congestive heart failure: shortage of breath, swelling of feet, ankles or legs, sudden weight gain, increased tiredness, coughing up white or pink phlegm, fast heartbeat, or waking up at night more than normal for you.

Serious cardiovascular effects. And then they give you a list of thirteen different drugs it cross-reacts with, one of which is "ergot alkaloids," which means if you drop acid you shouldn't take this either.

It also causes liver failure and death, nerve damage, hearing loss, increased liver enzyme in blood test results, upper respiratory infections, UTIs, stomach pain, diarrhea, nausea, headache, tiredness, throat pain, back pain...and, at $230 for seven tablets, starvation, car repossession, eviction, credit card default, deprivation, humiliation, debtor's prison and deportation, dark depictions, dire predictions, life as seen in Dickens' fiction, empty pockets, court dockets, may cause eyes to pop from sockets..and you can cure your toenail fungus with tea tree oil applied topically so what's the point anyway?

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Or cure with listerine flor-de-jasmim Jan 2016 #1
Listerine and vinegar jmowreader Jan 2016 #2
I've heard Vicks Vap-o-rub does the trick. bvf Jan 2016 #4
try taking your stinky shoes off. pansypoo53219 Jan 2016 #3
While this does sound scary, it doesn't surprise me that it has to be this dangerous passiveporcupine Jan 2016 #5
I hope you find some relief from that, passiveporcupine. Enthusiast Jan 2016 #8
I'll go with that! passiveporcupine Jan 2016 #12
I hope you find something that works. murielm99 Jan 2016 #11
You have my sincere sympathy. WillowTree Jan 2016 #14
Thanks for this info passiveporcupine Jan 2016 #16
I'm always shocked EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #6
Capitalist health care run amok. MH1 Jan 2016 #7
Nothing shouts commodity EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #9
That's what it is, you nailed it! Enthusiast Jan 2016 #10
Big pharma has run amuck there apparently ... passiveporcupine Jan 2016 #13
Go barefoot in the sun. hobbit709 Jan 2016 #15
Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2016 #17
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