Archive for October, 2008

Sleep yourself better

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Get proper medical advice. Some drugs interact when you mix them. Ultram is no exception to this rule. So ask your doctor before adding a sleeping aid. Sleep does not come until you are too exhausted to care any more. Then, when it seems as though only an hour or so has passed, you’re awake again. Although the first thought when the pain starts is to take Ultram, an equally urgent problem is the need to get a good night’s sleep. When you have a fairly constant level of pain, sleep is the first thing to suffer. Effective pain management is really the management of your feelings about the pain. To make the best recovery, you have to remain as positive as possible no matter what the world throws at you. That means taking drugs on top of the painkillers to help you sleep properly. Once you’ve established a better sleep routine, you can move on to the next step which is learning how to live your life within the new limits imposed by the pain. Now, with Ultram to help you through the first steps, it’s back to the drawing board to relearn how to move around with the least pain. There will be a short-term role for sleeping pills to restore your strength of purpose.

McCain and the GOP on the defensive (review)

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Some folks have been looking at the voting records of both candidates in this year’s Presidential race - seems a little unfair. If you think that everyone votes with reason only, you’re mistaken. But, hey, when news is in short supply, you go for the jugular with what you’ve managed to dig up from the past.

Looks that McCain has been voting against laws to force medical insurance companies to fund contraceptives. The argument is one of gender discrimination. The same insurers pay for Cialis when men ask for their pills. Why are women denied their pills when the men are back in action? “Ah ha,” you say, “these are two different things. Men need the pills to get back to work. Women are working just as God intended without the pills, thank you very much.”

Cialis is not a treatment for a life-threatening condition. Birth control pills reduce the loss of menstrual blood so less anemia, reduce the risk of cancer in the reproductive system, reduce the pain of menstrual cramps and eliminate acne. But there are no health benefits in the eyes of the insurance companies.

Well, since Cialis works so well, this is adding to the world’s chronic overpopulation at a time when global warming is reducing food and water supplies. Millions of children die every year from malnutrition, thousands of women die from back-street abortions gone wrong. Go figure.