If you have bipolar disorder, you will probably need medication. You may need it for the rest of your life. That can be hard to accept. Some people see medication as a crutch or a weakness; instead they want to get better on their own.
But you have to remember that bipolar disorder is a real medical illness. It’s not something you can cure with willpower. Taking bipolar disorder medication is just like taking medication for high blood pressure or heart disease.Medication can be like a pair of glasses. Bipolar disorder distorts your view of things; medication may allow you to see clearly again.
While your diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder may leave you feeling relieved on one hand because you finally know what is wrong, but more worried on the other, know that you are on the right path. Once your doctor or therapist has diagnosed your disorder, you can gain the knowledge you need to learn to deal with your disorder. Along with suggesting some lifestyle changes, your doctor may start you on a regimen of medicine to help control your symptoms.
There are several medicines available to help Bipolar Disorder, but in order for them to be effective, they must be taken exactly as your doctor prescribes. Here are some of the Bipolar medications your doctor may prescribe. The first medication used to treat Bipolar Disorder, and still prescribed today, is Lithium.
First used in the 1950’s, Lithium was not actually approved for use in Bipolar disorder until the 1970’s. Once your doctor prescribes Lithium, it will probably take about one week to start working and may take up to three weeks before you feel the full benefits. Along with its mood stabilizing abilities, Lithium users may also experience hair loss, thyroid problems and swelling. Your doctor may be able to prescribe medicines to help with the side effects of this Bipolar medicine.
Another type of Bipolar medicine often prescribed to help stabilize moods includes medicines originally formulated as anticonvulsants. These include drugs such as Depakote or Tegretol. Like Lithium, these drugs may also take up to three weeks to completely control your Bipolar symptoms.
Reported side effects include mild stomach cramps, hair loss, and sleepiness or grogginess during the day. The higher your medication dose, the more problems you may have with daytime sleepiness. Users of these medicines often report turning to coffee to help counteract this side effect.
A newer class of drugs now being used to treat the manic phase of Bipolar Disorder is called the psychotropic medicines. There are several drugs in this class that will help reduce chance of experiencing a manic phase and may even bring about a remission in your symptoms. The Bipolar medicine in this class offers a lower risk of weight gain as well as a lower risk of developing diabetes than some other treatments.
One note of caution about most Bipolar medications – they can be very dangerous to pregnant women. If you are a woman who wants to become pregnant or has just become pregnant, tell your doctor. He or she can help you to assess the risks to you and your baby and together you can decide how to progress with your treatment.
There are many types of Bipolar medicine on the market today. While some may produce desirable results in one patient, they may not help another. Some may find the side effects of one medicine intolerable while they do not affect another. Only by working together with your doctor and therapist you can find a medication that best suites you and best controls your symptoms.
Abhishek Agarwal
http://www.articlesbase.com/mental-health-articles/the-perfect-bipolar-medication-fishing-for-the-best-treatment-739511.html
How to prevent Diabetes has been a concern for many of us since we were kids. In my own family, my baby cousin was born with diabetes, so she had to have shots-injected once a day by my aunt, who just happened to be a Registered Nurse. Of course, while this many years later we have sub-lingual solutions, we have different levels of Diabetes (those not requiring shots included), and we have do-it-yourself daily blood glucose testing, for those with Diabetes or those with a concern for how to prevent Diabetes from going full speed ahead into full blown stages of the disease.
Besides my cousin on my mother’s side having the disease, on my biological father’s side, my grandfather had it. So my emphasis has always been (as it was taught to me) how to prevent Diabetes from setting in if you are genetically prone to it but don’t yet have it.
Is there a surefire solution for how to prevent Diabetes, though? Yes and no. Evidently, we can “delay” such forms of the illness as Type 2 Diabetes. According to such institutions and studies as NIDDK (National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases) and NIH (National Institute of Health), diet and exercise are found to help stave off the onset and symptoms. These findings are only reinforced by the additional smaller studies by organizations and institutes all over the world: from Finland to China, it has been found that at-risk people can slow the onset or fight the disease with rigorous exercise (with a goal of losing 2 to 7 percent body weight) and balanced, low sugar diets (with a goal of avoiding “trigger” foods). The sugars mentioned include, that is, sucrose, fructose, lactose, and other sugar forms found naturally and synthetically present in most foods.
In addition, from what I understand, Diabetes Prevention programs set up a regime that includes, besides diet and exercise, standard care and the drug metformin. According to CDC (Center for Disease Control), the studies applying such treatment/prevention measures found that participants who included a healthy diet, metformin, and moderate physical activity of 30 minutes a day/5 days a week, reduced their risk of getting Type 2 Diabetes by 58%!
I used to go every year but now go every two years to get a glucose tolerance test along with a general physical. And since I have Diabetes in my family history, the doc always admonishes me about “dumping great amounts of sugar” into my system. If I can conquer that, and walk at least five days a week, you can too!
Ann Marier
http://www.articlesbase.com/medicine-articles/how-to-prevent-diabetes-97981.html
Sodas are the last drink hyperglycemics should pour down their throats
They contain a toxic brew of sugar, caffeine and include tartaric acid, phosphoric acid, artificial flavorings and additives. This toxic mix creates a rush of adrenalin which increases your low blood sugar levels (hypoglycemia).
Drinking sweet carbonated mineral water regularly during the day leads to the body’s check and balance mechanism being unable to pause and work properly. You must not have a constant flow of insulin through your body during the course of your day.
When you repeatedly drink high sugar sodas the body puts out too much insulin and the insulin receptors of the cells lose sensitivity. The result is the pancreas pushes out more insulin. Too much insulin then grabs more glucose out of the bloodstream to send to the cells.
Once too much glucose is taken from the blood, blood sugar levels drop too low and you have hypoglycemia.
But it doesn’t stop there, if you make no lifestyle changes. Eventually insulin receptors are so desensitized that insulin is unable to send glucose into the cells. Your body now has insulin resistance – not something you would want to encourage. If the matter is ignored, eventually you will have an excess of sugar and an almost guaranteed chance of developing type 2 diabetes.
As soon as you understand the serious course hypoglycemia takes, the sooner you will do something about your low blood sugar levels.
It’s your body and only you can make the decision. You will need an understanding of dieting and hypoglycemia that will help you make the changes to your lifestyle. But, above all, you will need information that motivates you to persist in your new lifestyle changes because of the seriousness of where hypoglycemia can lead.
Another problem with carbonated soft drinks is the ratio imbalance of phosphorous to calcium which they create. In the 1950’s the typical American diet was about 3 to 1 instead of 1.5 to 1. But today the ratio has slipped to 5 to 1. This ratio is explained by the huge increase in the volume of sodas drunk.
Because there is no calcium in sodas and the body must maintain a balance between phosphorous and calcium, it leaches calcium from the bones. This decalcification leads to osteoporosis.
Today 10 – 12 million Americans, mainly over 60 years of age, have osteoporosis. This explains the high incidence of broken hip bones and vertebrae.
Another bone softening disease caused by the imbalance of calcium is gum disease.
As soon as you understand the serious course hypoglycemia takes, the sooner you will do something about your low blood sugar levels.
It’s your body and only you can make the decision. You will need an understanding of dieting and hypoglycemia that will help you make the changes to your lifestyle. But, above all, you will need information that motivates you to persist in your new lifestyle changes because of the seriousness of where hypoglycemia can lead.
Noel Glass
http://www.articlesbase.com/fitness-articles/hypoglycemia-and-sodas-hidden-rush-of-sugar-736506.html
The highly publicized oral ED pills that are declared to be the most effective treatment for ED, at times fail to yield results due to their side effects. On specific occasions, even though the patients are tolerant of the side effects yielded by the erectile dysfunction medicines, they fail to achieve fruitful results from the ED drugs prescribed to them. This is also true in case of the ED drug levitra. Levitra is one drug that is publicized to be safe for erectile dysfunction patients suffering from diabetes and heart ailments, an advantage that oral erectile dysfunction medicines other than Levitra don’t possess.
However, the manufacturers and distributors of Levitra are hopeful that people would buy levitra due to these specific advantages of the drug. And they are not wrong altogether. The sales of the drug have been proved to be quite satisfactory. In addition people are also eager to buy levitra online as there are no specific rules and regulations to be followed with regard to levitra dosages. However, levtira prescription has to be obtained from the doctor to free oneself from levitra dangers. It is also true that regardless of these specific levitra advantages, the drug fail to yield results on certain circumstances.
Patients suffering from erectile dysfunction who do not respond to the famous oral ED pills including levitra, are in quite a fix. Levitra and similar other anti-impotency medicines are listed among the most effective ED treatments. Their failure in yielding effective results for erectile dysfunction patients is actually an issue and a matter of worry. An alternative mode of treatment is really necessary for these people who do not respond to the PDE5 inhibitors. Today, there are quite a few ED treatments that are as effective as the oral ED pills. Certain surgeries, pumps, penile prostheses etc come under these alternative ED treatments that yield results for erectile dysfunction patients who don’t respond to the PDE5 inhibitors.
Trimix gel is another alternative ED treatment that is recently invented and altogether successfully tested in the US. This gel proves effective for erectile dysfunction patients who fail to trigger off results with the help of oral ED pills. Apart from this, Trimix gel is also equipped with a couple of other specific advantages.
Trimix gel is bereft of side-effects and clinical experiments make it apparent that it triggers off successful results in 40% men who fail to achieve erections necessary for satisfactory sexual intercourse with the help of oral ED pills. For this clinical experimentation, 42 men within the average age range of 55 and 17 were enrolled and as soon as this experiment came to a close, it became apparent that 40% patients achieved results with this gel.
The best thing about this gel is that it can be used by patients of heart ailments, diabetes, et al and also by those that have undergone prostrate surgery. In fact, men enrolled in the test were suffering from one or any other of these conditions. Thus it becomes wholly apparent that trimix gel has overcome a peculiar drawback of the oral ED pills and it is that some of the erectile dysfunction pills cannot be administered to patients suffering from above mentioned health conditions. Apart from all these specific advantages of trimix gel, it is also very simple and easy to use. However, one common aspect of this gel and oral erectile dysfunction drugs is that trimix gel as well as oral ED pills such as Levitra are prescription-based!
Sangi Tons
http://www.articlesbase.com/alternative-medicine-articles/trimix-gel-comes-to-the-rescue-of-ed-patients-not-responding-to-pde5-inhibitors-445482.html
Obesity has been a world wide problem, even as a silent epidemic in developed countries. Diabetes on the other hand has been one of the most difficult to treat human diseases. Put the two together and you have an endemic that would test the limits of science in saving lives the peril of obesity and diabetes.
Although not all diabetes are a result of obesity (and not all diabetics are/become obese), more and more studies have been developed to prove the increase in the percentage of diabetes disease as a result of excessive weight gain. As one of the crucial consequence of obesity, diabetes is the final detriment in the life expectancy of an obese person. How so?
Obese fat accumulations damage the cells in the body that produces insulin. Obesity and diabetes is a fatal cause and effect that also moves in a vicious circle. The already diabetic person would put a final tip in his health balance once he gains excessive weight. At the same time, the obese person would cut more inches from his life thread once he reaches the point of diabetes.
Clinically obese patients, once diagnosed are also already pronounced ‘pre- diabetic’, having blood sugar levels higher than normal, and if left untreated, obese patients would develop the full- blown Type 2 Diabetes in only within a decade. Yet the obese- diabetic should stop counting his years.
Studies made on obesity and diabetes produce promising results of treatment. And the cure is just as good as hitting two birds with one stone weight loss. It appears that losing weight doesn’t only prevent escalating obesity up to the morbid diabetes stage, but it also actually reverses the damaging cause of obesity to the cells that produce insulin. Obesity and diabetes are treatable; and starting the challenge is fairly simple targeting the cause.
In dealing with obesity and diabetes, the most important concern is the amount of weight gain that takes to develop obesity and diabetes?’ The key then is to determine the causes of weight gain and then reverse it. Soon enough, we’ll find out that the successful combination of diet and exercise to be the most likely answers to beat the worst human disease combination. Diet and exercise negates obesity and diabetes.
Attention to diet should start even from a very young age. In particular, obesity and diabetes prone (or generally health concerned) individuals should concentrate on serving sizes, required dietary allowances, and avoiding excessive sweet and fatty foods; the myriad benefits of exercise could not at all be overstated. The key however, in getting the equation right is starting and starting now.
Milos
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/diet-exercise-obesity-and-diabetes-74021.html
