Archive for September 28th, 2007

3rd day on accutane bought online 10mg

I am on my third day of 10mg of accutane. I bought accutane 10 mg over the
internet without a doctor.
I have my tubes cut, tied, and burnt so I
know I can’t get pregnant. my acne is mild but always there. I
usually end up mopping my face full of oil 5 or more times a day.
I’m a couple months away from being 30 and im so tired of having
constant breakouts. I am getting married at the end of may 2005 so I
think I am only going to take accutane for two months,then quit. Has
anyone taken 10mg for a short period of time and had it work for
them? what about tanning beds when you are done with the medication?
If anyone has any answers or advice please let me know. thanks!!!

Binge Eating Disorder

You’ve just returned to your table from your third trip to the buffet
line. You’ve had more than your fill of meat, pasta, vegetables and
salads.

The load of food is sitting a little heavy in your stomach and you’re
feeling just a touch guilty for gorging.

Yet you’re still contemplating going back because that lemon meringue
pie looks too good to pass up — and you’d like just a taste or two of
the chocolate cake, maybe with a small scoop of ice cream.

You think for a minute that maybe you have a problem. Then you loosen
your pants and feel a little better.

You may have gone overboard — binged, if you will. But does that make
you a binge eater?

Probably not.

Binge eating is one thing — binge eating disorder is another.

“Everyone overeats at Thanksgiving. It’s nothing to be alarmed about,”
says Ron Saxen, who suffered from binge eating disorder for most of
his adult life. “But when it starts to become a big issue in your
life, you can tell it kind of takes you over — it’s what you think
about when you wake up, what you think about before you go to bed at
night. Especially when you start doing the bingeing and you’re hiding it.”

Saxen — author of The Good Eater, a book that chronicles his battle
with binge eating — used food to deal with anxiety. It was not unusual
for him to put down a couple of hamburgers, a large order of fries and
a chocolate shake, then go to another fast food restaurant and order
half a dozen burritos before finishing the first meal.

“Then I would go to a place where I could get three king-sized candy
bars. Usually the coup-de-grace would be to finish it off with a
sundae — like a half-gallon of ice cream, a pound of M&M’s and a pint
of hot fudge. You couldn’t always finish that because you can only put
so much into your stomach.”

Saxen’s first bout with binge eating happened when he was 11. His
parents were members of a fundamentalist Christian denomination. His
father — who would return home from work late at night — frequently
beat him and his two brothers.

“My mom would leave a notepad [for my father] with all the things we
had done wrong. And she said ‘I’m going to give this to your dad and
he’s going to wake you up and whip you guys.’ One night, I got sweaty
palms and sweaty feet. There happened to be a candy sale [at our
school]. I had 20 pounds of chocolate in my closet and I got up during
the night and ate one five-ounce chocolate candy bar and it took me
away. But as soon as the candy bar’s gone reality comes back. So I
kept doing that.”

By the time he stopped, he had eaten three pounds of chocolate. Saxen
learned that food could cure his fears, at least temporarily.

Binge eating disorder affects 3.5 per cent of women and 2 per cent of
men at some point in their lives, according to a study published in
February 2007 by researchers at McLean Hospital, a psychiatric
hospital in Massachusetts affiliated with Harvard University. Or to
put the statistics another way, 40 per cent of people who suffer from
binge eating are men.

The survey on eating disorders found that binge eating disorder is far
more common than either anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. Anorexics
starve themselves, while bulimics eat to excess but then try to purge
their systems by vomiting. People with binge eating disorder don’t
normally try to rid themselves of the extra calories they take in,
although some over-exercise.

Saxen’s cycle was generally characterized by starving himself during
the day, followed by hours of working out and then bingeing at night.
By the age of 21, he had trimmed down to 179 pounds and landed himself
a one-year modelling contract. But when he was told to lose five
pounds two weeks before an underwear shoot, he responded by going on
an extended binge and putting on weight. He ate his way out of a
modelling career.

According to the Toronto-based National Eating Disorder Information
Centre, you may be suffering from binge eating disorder if you:

* Eat large amounts of food frequently and in one sitting.
* Feel out of control when you eat and can’t stop eating.
* Eat quickly and in secret.
* Eat to the point where you are frequently uncomfortably full.
* Feel guilty and ashamed of your binges.

Many binge eaters may also have a history of going on diets and
failing. An estimated 20 per cent of obese people are also believed to
be binge eaters.

The Harvard study labelled binge eating disorder a “major public
health burden.”

“Everybody knows about anorexia and bulimia; however, binge eating
disorder affects more people, is often associated with severe obesity
and tends to persist longer,” lead author James Hudson said.

“The consequences of binge eating disorder can be serious, including
obesity, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and stroke. It
is imperative that health experts take notice of these findings.”

Saxen got over his binge eating, but it took him more than 20 years to
do it.

“In the book, I would have loved to have said ‘here are the seven
things I did to get it under control.’ But it wasn’t like that. For
me, it was a traumatic event — my sister getting into an automobile
accident and almost dying. She was my one amigo — it got me. And then,
a person who I ran into about 10 years ago became my friend and later
my wife. It was that support and wanting to be a better man and
getting sick and tired of this endless cycle that said I need to do
something about it for myself and for those around me.”

He also got professional help, but that came late in the process.

“Nobody wants to get help, nobody wants to admit they have a problem.
But trying to do it on your own is impossible. When I finally went
down that path to getting better, it was like, I wondered what I was
waiting for because I knew there was something wrong, and I probably
should talk to somebody.”

Today Saxen’s down to a healthy weight and he’s learned to deal with
his anxieties in ways that don’t involve huge quantities of food.

“Most schools in the medical fields say you always have to be vigilant
like with alcoholism. There are others who say you can be recovered
forever. For me, I feel that if you’ve crossed this line of behaviour
a thousand times and you think that you will never do it again, that
seems kind of bold. I’m the best I’ve ever been and do I think I will
go back to those dark days? Never.”

“It gets way, way, way easier as time goes on. It feels pretty close
to effortless now.”

Pharm D Degree in 7 days!

Speaking of Certificates that do not mean anything, except you paid
for it….I found a place you can get a Doctor Degree in Pharmacy in
just 7 days. Looks like you can purchase the degree for less than our
pretend to be national organization NPTA charges for their “IV
Certificate.”

Why should NPTA be making all the money!

Joe Medina, CPhT

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Here is some info on it:

“…Students seeking admission in our online Doctorate degree
program are required to have at least 8 years of work or life
experience relevant to their desired major.

If you want to get your PHD degree online on the basis of prior life
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Yeast infection or Not?

Only one in every four women who seeks treatment for persistent yeast
infections actually has one, a new study suggests.

Women will frequently treat suspected yeast infections themselves with
over-the-counter (OTC) products, but the findings show that most of
the time this won’t help. In fact, using such medications repeatedly
may even cause harm, Dr. Susan Hoffstetter, the co-director of the
SLUCare Vulvar and Vaginal Disease Clinic at Saint Louis University,
told Reuters Health.

“We treat ourselves because we want our problems to go away quickly,”
Hoffstetter pointed out, adding that this isn’t only the fault of
patients. “We in medicine also do a lot of treating over the phone
just to keep women from having to come in.”

Hoffstetter and her colleagues looked at the medical records for 150
women visiting the clinic for the first time who reported persistent
yeast infections.

Lab tests showed that only 26 percent of the women were infected with
Candida — the fungus responsible for yeast infections. Other causes
of vaginal itching can include sexually transmitted infections, dry
skin, or inflammation, Hoffstetter noted, which won’t respond to OTC
antifungals and could even be aggravated by these products.

Overuse of OTC yeast infection remedies can alter the normal flora of
the vagina, which can lead to other health problems, the researcher
pointed out. And, she added, drug-resistant strains of Candida are
becoming increasingly common.

If a woman experiences pain during sex, burning sensations in the
vaginal area, a thick white discharge, and pain during urination, she
may indeed have a yeast infection, Hoffstetter said. And it’s probably
okay for women to self-treat if they experience these symptoms rarely,
and they get better with OTC medication, she added.

But women who think they are suffering from yeast infections that
never go away are likely to have some other problem, Hoffstetter said.
In such cases, she advised, it’s important for a woman to actually see
a doctor or nurse practitioner and have a pelvic exam and lab tests,
if necessary, rather than just getting medical advice over the phone.

Ample Supply of Flu Vaccine This Year - but is it the right one?

Come one, come all: After years of shortages and confusion, this fall
promises plenty of flu vaccine to go around — up to 132 million doses,
more than the nation has ever produced.

The ample supplies have the government urging vaccinations not just
for people at highest risk of dying from influenza, but for anyone who
wants to avoid a week of aching misery.

“Flu is a formidable foe,” Dr. Julie Gerberding, head of the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, said Wednesday. “It is not an
illness we should be complacent about.”

But new CDC data show only a fraction of people who need flu shots the
most get them, including just one in five babies and toddlers. And
there’s wide geographic variation, with Rhode Island reporting the
most high-risk adults vaccinated and Nevada the fewest.

Shots aren’t the only option. Wednesday, the government ruled that
it’s safe for younger kids than ever before to try a nasal-spray
vaccine called FluMist. Once only an option for people ages 5 to 49,
FluMist now can be used by children as young as 2.

Flu usually peaks in February, so a winter vaccination isn’t too late.
Still, Gerberding advised seeking vaccine early in case flu begins
striking before the usual November.

Indeed, there already are reports of sick schoolchildren in Hawaii,
although the geographic distance makes it impossible to predict if
that signals an unusually early flu season for the rest of the country.

Perhaps of more concern, CDC is closely monitoring whether a new
strain that emerged near the end of Australia’s flu season will cause
illness here — a strain that this year’s vaccine doesn’t specifically
target.

Each year’s vaccine contains protection against three influenza
strains — two Type A strains, an H1N1 and an H3N2 version, plus a
milder Type B — that experts predict will cause the most illness. The
vaccine isn’t always a perfect match, and this year’s contains a
different H3N2 version than the newly emerging one, nicknamed
H3N2/Brisbane-like.

Get vaccinated anyway, Gerberding stressed. The other two strains in
the vaccine are causing illness around the world, and even if the
newer one travels here, too, the vaccine should provide some
cross-protection.

Every year, flu infects up to 20 percent of the population, causes the
hospitalization of 200,000 people and kills 36,000.

Who’s at highest risk? Anyone over 50 or under 5; people of any age
who have asthma, heart disease, weakened immune systems or other
chronic illnesses; and pregnant women.

Vaccine also is particularly recommended for relatives and caregivers
of those people, and health care workers — people who may be robust
enough to recover themselves, but could infect the more vulnerable
before they realize they’re ill.

“The day before you become sick, you’re already excreting the virus,”
warned Dr. William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University, vice president
of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.

That equals 218 million people who should be vaccinated each year.
Nowhere near that many seek vaccine. Last year, about 18 million of
the nearly 121 million doses produced weren’t used and had to be
thrown away.

But the CDC’s new estimates of how many high-risk patients get
vaccinated, gleaned from public-health surveys, shed new light on the
most troubling gaps.

People 65 and older are most likely to get vaccinated, 69 percent
during the 2005-2006 flu season, the latest count available.

But that’s still well under the national goal of vaccinating 90
percent of seniors — even though Medicare provides them flu shots for
free.

Just over a third of 50- to 64-year-olds are getting vaccinated, and
just 30 percent of high-risk younger adults, CDC found.

Flu vaccine is a little more complicated for young children, because
they need two doses a month apart the very first year they’re
inoculated. Just 21 percent of youngsters ages 6 months to 2 years
were fully vaccinated, and just over one in 10 who needed two doses
got both, CDC reported.

If a young child missed that necessary second dose last year, health
officials are recommending that he or she make it up this year with
two shots.