{"id":190,"date":"2008-11-26T23:50:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T06:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=190"},"modified":"2008-11-26T23:50:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T06:50:17","slug":"i-just-posted-this-to-craigslist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"I just posted this to Craigslist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.craigslist.org\/brk\/zip\/935852283.html\">We will see if it gets taken down<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I think it violates the Terms of Service.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Interferon &#8211; Intron A<\/p>\n<p>I am 14 weeks into a 48 week Interferon (Intron A) regimen for Stage III Melanoma Cancer.\u00c2\u00a0 I get a monthly supply of IFN in 4 self injection needle pens. My dosage is 20 MIU, there are approximately 75 MIU per pen, which leaves approximately 13-15 MIU in each pen after I am done with it.<\/p>\n<p>This stuff costs a bloody fortune, but my insurance covers it. Each of those pens w\/ the 13-15 MIU is probably &#8220;worth&#8221; $500.\u00c2\u00a0 And I have 14 of them right now, and a new one every week.\u00c2\u00a0 So that&#8217;s $7500 of IFN.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, it is not enough for a full course for a Melanoma patient (10 MIU\/m^2), but would work fine for a hepatitis c patient, or a MS patient (3 MIU\/m^2).\u00c2\u00a0 Though to be honest, I&#8217;m not sure what the differences are in the brands\/variants of Interferon Alpha.<\/p>\n<p>I am hoping to find an IFN requiring patient who does not have the good fortune of having health insurance.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want payment.\u00c2\u00a0 I just want these insanely expensive drugs to help save someone&#8217;s life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will see if it gets taken down.\u00c2\u00a0 I think it violates the Terms of Service. Interferon &#8211; Intron A I am 14 weeks into a 48 week Interferon (Intron A) regimen for Stage III Melanoma Cancer.\u00c2\u00a0 I get a monthly supply of IFN in 4 self injection needle pens. My dosage is 20 MIU, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=190\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I just posted this to Craigslist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31,11],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-update","tag-brooklyn","tag-interferon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}