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[DollyLamma]

This article is a good warning if you are tempted to buy medicines at a sidewalk pharmacy you know nothing about:

"A second man has died after taking sexual enhancement pills laced with high amounts of a drug intended for diabetics, news reports said on Saturday. The 50-year-old Singaporean had been hospitalized in a coma after taking fake Cialis pills, one of four products found to have the drug glibenclamide at levels of up to five times the maximum therapeutic dosage, The Straits Times said.

The others were identified by the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) as Power 1, Walnut, Santi Bovine Penis Erecting Capsule and Zhong Hua Niu Bian.

Five other men are seriously ill, the report said. One has been left brain-damaged after a stroke. Another remains unresponsive after emerging from a coma. Two others are in comas, while another is suffering from brain damage. . .

Since January, there have been 35 confirmed and 70 suspected cases of adverse drug reactions to illegal sexual enhancement drugs in men aged 21 to 97."

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/worldhotne...newsid=30071660

[gay_grampa]

in men aged 21 to 97."

Aged 97 ... so I still got a few years to enjoy?

[Terry]

I stopped buying Viagra pills in Thailand a long time ago when I found that they always seemed to have only a fraction of the effect I get from using the ones I buy at home. It never occureed to me that they might actually be dangerous because lord knows what they are actually made of.

[Snowy]

I stopped buying Viagra pills in Thailand a long time ago when I found that they always seemed to have only a fraction of the effect I get from using the ones I buy at home. It never occureed to me that they might actually be dangerous because lord knows what they are actually made of.

Hallelujah, at least someone has seen the light.

Anyone who buys drugs over (or under) the counter in Thailand without prescription, especially but not exclusively sex-enhancement ones, deserves every adverse reaction they get. Thailand is one of several Asian countries who specialise in these sort of preparations, which are nowhere near as effective or pure as the real thing.

[francois]

Hallelujah, at least someone has seen the light.

Anyone who buys drugs over (or under) the counter in Thailand without prescription, especially but not exclusively sex-enhancement ones, deserves every adverse reaction they get.

No one "deserves" adverse reaction they may get from any drug, however you do get what you pay for.

[Snowy]

No one "deserves" adverse reaction they may get from any drug, however you do get what you pay for.

Au contraire mon cherie! Anyone who watches or reads the news knows full well that a large proportion of these drugs are counterfeit and not made to the standard of the originals. They also in many cases include alternative or additional dangerous and/or untested substances. They are not regulated or subjected to the same rigorous checks given to drugs and medicines in western countries.

Knowing all this therefore, those who purchase these drugs on the cheap just to save a bit of money do 'deserve' everything they get including the adverse reactions.

[Tuckerton]

Good Grief Snowy! Are you suggesting that John Q. Public be responsible for keeping abreast of separating approved prescription drugs from counterfeited or diluted bogus products? That you state consumers who don’t keep abreast of such technical matters DESERVE to suffer the consequences is daft, or maybe you are just suffering from menstrual cramps; try some Mydol m'dear.

In most “western" countries there are laws AND regulating agencies that do that. Thailand should do the same!

[Snowy]

In most “western" countries there are laws AND regulating agencies that do that. Thailand should do the same!

That's exactly my point.

It is general knowledge to anyone with an ounce of interest in current affairs that Thailand, India and China and other Asian countries are major manufacturers of counterfeit drugs and that these are widely available and generally sold in lieu of the 'real thing' in Thai pharmacies. This fact is regularly publicised on various message boards (especially for sex-enhancement drugs and for heart and blood pressure medications) and in the media of most western or civilized countries. Anyone who has spent any time outside of a monastery should be aware of this. The fools who buy these drugs over the counter in Thailand just to save a few baht/pence/cents deserve all they get.

[francois]

Au contraire mon cherie!

Knowing all this therefore, those who purchase these drugs on the cheap just to save a bit of money do 'deserve' everything they get including the adverse reactions.

Merci mon vieux, Snowy, for the endearment, although "mon chéri" is the masculine form.

Years ago I told a lovely lady that anyone who smoked cigarettes "deserved" to have cancer. Later I met her husband, a tobacco user, whose lower jaw had been surgically removed due to cancer! Yes, he was dead in his coffin. People deserve to live, not die. Then there were those who said gays deserved to die from AIDS. Not so.

But yes, caution is the keyword.

François

[mauRICE]

Merci mon vieux, Snowy, for the endearment, although "mon chéri" is the masculine form.

François

Feminine form, you mean, or directed towards a female. mon chéri = my dear/my cheri?

mon vieux = my old man?

[Hedda]

Feminine form, you mean, or directed towards a female. mon chéri = my dear/my cheri

I think that Feminine form would be: ma cherie, referring to a woman friend

[francois]

I think that Feminine form would be: ma cherie, referring to a woman friend

Bravo Hedda!

Masculine form(directed toward a man) = mon chéri ; feminine form(directed toward a woman) = ma chérie.

Both forms = darling, boyfriend, girlfriend, honey, etc

Mon vieux = old chap, mate, buddy. Used between friends(normally)