From: "Erica VD Ginter" <eginter at klgai.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: botox and the affluent
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 12:03:29 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Kit, I think the medication you're thinking of is Cafergot; I think there
are some others, though. I used it until the triptans (sumatriptan or
Imitrex, for example) came on the market.They're even better at stopping a
ligraine, though they don't always work.

In re botox, it's being used to treat intractable migraines; I know a few
people on my headache forum have tried it and gotten some relief.

Erica

-----Original Message-----
From: Kit Mason [mailto:kit at hers.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 11:43 AM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: botox and the affluent

Cathy Green wrote:
> --- Kit Mason <kit at hers.com> wrote:

>>For you, no.  For a vice president of a corporation
>>who has to look good
>>all the time -- and in some businesses, they do --
>>it may be a good
>>choice.

> I note that you made that judgment about me without
> having a clue as to what my job is and whether smooth
> and youthful looking skin and looking good might be an
> asset.   I'm an attorney.  Looiing good in court is
> important.  Jurors often make judgments about parties
> based in part upon how their attorneys look and dress.
>  I still hink injecting toxins is foolish and a
> mistake.

I said that it wouldn't do for you based on your distaste for it,
nothing else.  Obviously, if you don't like the idea of it, it's not a
good choice for you, regardless of your job or anything else.

> You don't have to join a gym to get exercise.  I find
> that a $25 dollar pair of sneakers is adequate for
> jogging, which doesn't require gym membership, nor
> does doing push-ups, sit-ups, jumping jacks, etc.
> while at home.

All of which was considered eccentric and vain a few decades ago.  Times
change.  People's general understanding of what is healthy changes.  In
the '40s, cigarettes were touted as being healthy; we don't think that
any more.

Botox is a toxic substance, and from an odd source, but so are a lot of
other medicines.  Premarin, the most common women's hormone pill, is
made from the urine of pregnant mares; penicillin is from bread mold;
there's a type of migraine medicine (can't recall the name, sorry) that
I used to take that was made from ergot, corn smut, which is a
hallucinogenic poison.  In very small amounts, it relieved migraines
better than anything else did for me at the time, and it didn't cause
hallucinations or visions.  Extracts of curare, the "poison frog"
poison, has been used in various medical applications for years.

Kit