Alright, but wasn't it like $25,000 worth? $25k worth of HGH to treat a simple glandular condition? Color me suspicious. Obviously any doctor prescribing a medication is going to put a medical condition in the record as a reason for prescribing it. That's going to be the case with normal prescriptions, as well as shady ones. So I'm not sure that really proves anything, but it's good to know. Obviously it didn't help Byrd's fastball. I don't think that's really the point either. i don't know if you are on any medications, but they ain't cheap. For something like recombinant (i.e. produced in a genetically engineered lower organism) hormones, they could be something like $300-500 for a dosing regimen Note: I have no idea if it is actually this expensive, just saying that recombinant drugs aren't cheap. EDIT: Went and looked it up. looks like a standard dose of somatropin is .2mg/day, and I found a 5mg vial online at Walgreens.com for $368. So that's a 25 day supply. So he's looking at $5372 a year. In 4.5 years, there's your $25k.