VIAGRA ERECTION

I’m a fall-apart Baby Boomer

April 30, 2007

One of the morning shows had a bit on how the Baby Boomers were starting to sleep in separate beds, and many new homes were being built with two master bedroom suites. I want one of those! With a hot tub, heated floor and a DVR-TV in the bathroom.

The thought occurred to me as I was planning my master bedroom suite palace that Baby Boomers are the decisive factor in marketing today.

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For instance, former sex symbols are now peddling Depends undergarments and senior reverse mortgages. Sally Field is touting Boniva and Cheryl Tiegs is discussing menopause. So far, Mick Jagger hasn’t recommended Viagra, but it’s probably just a matter of time.
My husband and I have quickly moved from desperate chagrin to numb resignation as aging has taken over our lives. We are both losing our brains - not our minds, our brains - and our keys, driver’s licenses, miscellaneous books, bills, the occasional car and whatever memory we had of recent events. It’s convenient in one way because we forget when we’re angry at each other.

I’ve lost the ability to distinguish faces. If someone looks at me and smiles in the grocery store, I ask them, “Do I look familiar to you?” Often the response is, “Yes, Arlene, I live next door to you.”

Oh, and there was that night at the movies when I left for a moment and came back and snuggled up to the wrong man for 10 minutes. That was special. I kept wondering why Bill was using such odd body language as I tried to fit myself under his arm. The really awful part is that Bill saw me do it, shrugged, and went on watching the movie, nonchalantly munching on Jordan almonds. He figured I just wanted to sit a little closer to the screen.

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Wouldn’t you just love to know what was going on in the mind of that guy when a strange woman cuddled up to him? I finally realized that something was different and turned to look into the laughing eyes of a total stranger. Sir, I salute your patience.

While all this falling apart is going on, I’m taking care of the world. I find myself often taking care of my grandchildren, while worrying about my adult children. I’m trying to tend to my aged mother, and watching my husband fall apart.

My husband has gotten hearing aids, glasses and a breathing machine in the last year alone. We don’t even want to get started on all the ways my body is falling apart. My hearing is so bad that I find myself faking it in conversation, just smiling and saying, “Oh bless your heart.”

Baby Boomers, like myself, need special consideration. We have so much to do with totally limited physical and mental resources that I don’t feel inclined to apologize one minute for that free cup of coffee I can get at Burger King. I will tell the bishop it’s medicinal.

Some things haven’t changed. We used to hide our candy and chips from our kids. Now we hide them from our grandkids. It’s not that we don’t love to give them treats, but Dyson has nothing on them when it comes to inhaling the food in our house. It’s a matter of survival to have some Cheetos in my drawer.

For now, I’m getting along without the master suite. Bill cannot bear my freight train snoring, so I get my own little room. I don’t have the hot tub, but I do have soft pillows and 400 count sheets - and a soft purple Teddy Bear

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Herbal sex pills found to contain Viagra substance

April 26, 2007

A HERBAL sex-enhancing product has been urgently pulled from pharmacy shelves after it was found to contain the active ingredient in the erection drug Viagra.

The national drug regulator recalled two “natural” medications, Excite for Women and Ultimates for Men, after it was revealed the capsules contain the powerful undeclared additive sildenafil.

Advertisements for the products claim they only contain a mix of Chinese and South American herbs to “enhance sexual performance naturally”.

But the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA) discovered the extra additive – the main ingredient in popular pharmacy-only drug Viagra – during routine product surveillance.

The urgent recall was issued because it exposed consumers to “serious injury if incorrectly administered,” the TGA said.

A spokesman for product manufacturer Herbal Health International said the product had been “contaminated, but not by us”.

“I’m not going to explain the detail, but it was contaminated so we’ve pulled it off the shelves and it’s all over now,” he said.

“It was relatively minor, really.”

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But a TGA spokeswoman said the issue was very concerning.

While no adverse effects had been reported, using the capsules could pose serious health risks, especially for patients with heart problems, those taking heart medication, or those at risk of stroke, she said.

“Consumers who have purchased these products are warned not to use them and to consult a medical practitioner if they have used either of the products and have concerns about their health,” she said.

One testimonial on the product website quoted a man called “John” saying: “Having a heart condition, I cannot take prescription enhancers, but I spoke to my GP and he was happy for me to try.

“This totally natural product is unbelievable, fantastic!”

The products are now being withdrawn from pharmacies, convenience stores, adult outlets, health food stores and other stockists, mostly in NSW and Victoria.

A spokesman for Viagra manufacturer Pfizer commended the TGA on its investigation.

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Prison inmates found with Viagra

April 24, 2007

Inmates at an open prison have been popping Viagra pills - despite the shortage of female company.

The pills - which are used to cure impotence and enhance performance in the bedroom - were found in searches at the Category D Ford Open Prison near Arundel.

Ford’s governor, Fiona Radford, said the discovery of Viagra is rare.
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Prison staff believe inmates use the drug to perk themselves up for visits home and trips into town.

As Category D prisoners they are classed as the lowest risk, and many have jobs or are granted leave to go out unescorted.

Prisoners have gardening, vocational training, academic education and six snooker tables to take their minds off the parts only Viagra can reach.

Governor Radford said: “We do have town visits and home leave.

“It may be that they were using it for the purpose for which we all know it is used.

“We have got no indication there’s any other nefarious use for them.”

Ford, built on the site of a former Navy air support base, holds 541 prisoners.

The prisoner has been plagued by bad publicity over the last year, as it was revealed about 100 inmates a year, or two a week, escape.

The government sparked controversy with a decision to place more serious offenders in prisons such as Ford due to overcrowding elsewhere.

When told about the Viagra discoveries, Nick Herbert, MP for Arundel and South Downs, said: “If they’re having so much fun in prison you wonder why they want to abscond.

“But the passing or smuggling of drugs is a serious matter and does appear to be on the increase.”

In Parliament last month, he said prison officers at Ford had told him children as young as 15 were passing drugs into the prison.

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He has expressed concern that use of class A drugs such as heroin and crack cocaine are on the rise in the prison.

The Argus used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain details about prison operations.

Between January 1 and December 31 last year prison officers confiscated drugs on 67 occasions.

The most common substance found last year was cannabis.

Apart from Viagra, other finds included heroin, steroids, DF118 (a form of the opium-based drug codeine), cocaine and unidentified substances.

A spokesman for the Home Office said: “All prisoners found with a controlled substance were placed on report to be dealt with by the adjudicating governor.”

Prison officers also confiscated 12 blades and home-made weapons last year.

Many prisoners smuggle mobile phones into the prison, with 112 discovered in 2006.

One-fifth of those confiscations took place in December alone.

Staff use a hand-held detector to root out the phones.

Governor Radford said: “The vast majority of it is to contact their family and friends.

“In an open prison it is harder to keep them out than in a closed prison.”

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Spider Venom to Replace Viagra?

April 18, 2007

Israeli researchers at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa are conducting a study to determine whether or not toxins found in spider venom can be used to treat erectile dysfunction.

Senior urologist Dr. Ilan Gruenwald, of the Rambam neurourology unit and sexual health clinic, explains that the researchers are working with toxins from three types of South American and African spiders, including the Black Widow Spider .
The spiders will be bred in a special habitat and their venom will be milked with a special sponge.

The study was launched after a unexpected discovery; that men bitten by spiders often experienced unusually prolonged erections.

Dr. Gruenwald have approached several pharmaceutical companies and invited them to participate in studies on the subject, and some of the companies have already shown great interest in this new research.
Gruenwald says that:

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“This study is the first of its kind, and may help many men”.

As we know, Viagra and other PDE5-inhibitors have been the most common treatment for erectile dysfunction (ED) during the last decade.
But Viagra is not for everybody. Men who takes nitrate-containing heartmedicines shall not use Viagra, but do they have any alternatives? No, not really, or at least not yet.

Viagra increases the blood flow to the penis, and actually causes a light fall in blood pressure (hypotension). That is why it is dangerous to combine the medicine with nitrates, as they have the same effect.
The mechanisms of the toxins is not yet known or described, but hopefully they do not interact with nitrate-containing heartmedicines.

Of course, it is not likely that a new medicine will replace Viagra completely, but it can be a good alternative, and maybe even a supplement, to the PDE5-inhibitors.

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Health professor advocates changing attitudes toward sex

April 17, 2007

Today’s lesson is about sex.

About the way guys grow older and don’t seem to change their attitude toward being intimate. Indeed, the more years, the more they become “randy roosters,” according to one of my lady friends.

And the lesson also is about the way girls grow into women and do change their attitude toward sex. Indeed, the older they get the more they want a little romance, a lot of cuddling and loving, and not just physical action.

“I just don’t think men get it,” says Joyce Lowder, a retiree who lives in the Palm Springs, Calif., area. “They just want to get us into bed, and we want a little more attention, a little romance first.”

By and large, our mothers and fathers didn’t cope with this problem, says April Winningham, a health professor at the University of Arkansas who specializes in the sexuality of people 50 and older.

The difference, of course, is Viagra, Cialis and all the other erectile dysfunction medications.

“I think (the reason) the sales of erectile dysfunction drugs have soared is because sex identifies a man as manly,” she says. “In various generations, men with lots of women are `players’ while women have to be chaste and virtuous. That’s what we’re taught. Now, with the help of these drugs, men are able to be sexually active at a later age and, because there are fewer men than women, they have their pick of lots of partners.”

Winningham wants to help older men and women change their definitions of sex.

“Women go through physiological changes as we age,” she says. “Our vaginas are less elastic, have less lubrication. Our estrogen levels decrease and vaginal intercourse can become painful.”

So, she says, women have to look for pleasure in other activities like cuddling and masturbation.

Yes, the good professor is advocating what is often called “self-loving.”

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I first heard her talk at the Looking Ahead healthy aging expo sponsored by the Orange County (Calif.) Alzheimer’s Association on March 30. Her audience, many of them caregivers for spouses with Alzheimer’s, sat silent and seemed somewhat bemused by her remarks. As she talked, she looked out into the gray-haired crowd and asked, “Are you with me on this? Are you OK with this?”

I spoke right after Winningham, so I was not able to ask individual audience members what they thought.

But no one shouted out a negative.

Winningham knows there’s a social stigma to masturbation. But she believes that every human is a sexual being entitled to express that sexuality.

“When we close the door on self-loving, we shut out part of that quality of life that is very important,” she says. “Once women got through menopause, they were told their purpose in life was over so even talking about sex was a difficult issue for them.

“There is a stereotype - men have multiple partners and women only one at a time; women don’t need sex. I encourage them to not be OK with that.”

Someday pharmaceutical companies may market a female version of Viagra, but until then, Winningham told the Alzheimer’s conference attendees to consider sex toys, such as vibrators.

Most of us were taught growing up that masturbation is sinful. Winningham says it’s time to change that attitude.

The professor doesn’t believe there is any difference between men and women when it comes to wanting sexual satisfaction.

But if men, as she suggests, expect and demand lots of sex and most women don’t seem to care that much, is that the way nature intended things to be? Or are women culturally taught to suppress their desire?

I’ll open the floor now and wait for your comments on “self-loving” after 50.

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HIS HEALTH - Premature ejaculation - A little wine will help

April 12, 2007

Premature ejaculation (PE) may be managed by a number of methods with varying degrees of success.

Some wine

Prior to seeking medical help, some men discover and report that a number of behavioural adjustments seem to help in ameliorating the condition. These include drinking alcoholic beverages such as wine in moderation (two glasses) prior to engaging in sexual intercourse. This depresses the ejaculatory reflexes thereby prolonging intercourse and has the added benefit of loosening inhibitions. Too much alcohol, however, will depress not only ejaculation but also erections and becomes self-defeating.

Ejaculating some time prior to intercourse through masturbation may make subsequent ejaculation during intercourse more difficult and may prolong intercourse long enough for both partners to experience sexual satisfaction. However, if this is improperly timed too close to the ‘main event’ then the refractory period (the length of time after ejaculation in which the man is unable to get an erection no matter how much he is sexually stimulated) will prevent sexual intercours and would again be self-defeating.

Some men compensate for their PE by ensuring that their partners are adequately stimulated to the point of orgasm prior to intercourse through manual and/or oral stimulation. Yet others have found that frequently stopping intercourse and changing sexual positions allows sexual tension to decline at intervals, thereby prolonging the time to ejaculation.

Medicated condoms

It is felt by some experts that strengthening of the male pelvic floor muscles through repeated Kegel’s exercises helps ejaculatory control if these same muscles are voluntarily contracted as ejaculation nears.

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Condoms, medicated with desensitising gels, decrease the intensity of the stimulation experienced by the man, thereby allowing him to take a longer time to build up to the point of ejaculatory inevitability (point of no return). Similarly, local anaesthetic creams or sprays may be applied to the head and shaft of the penis to decrease its sensitivity, successfully prolonging intercourse. However, it’s important not to allow these chemicals to get in contact with the vagina as this sex organ may become desensitised as well.

Exercises

Therapeutic interventions include masturbation exercises in which the man focuses on his bodily (primarily genital) sensations as he approaches that point of ejaculatory inevitability and stopping just short, he continues for at least 15 minutes whereupon he may ejaculate if he wishes. The squeeze technique is a modification of this, in which pressure is applied to the crown of the penis after stopping stimulation.

These exercises require a highly motivated man and have not been shown to produce durable results in treating PE. If the man successfully masters these exercises he then graduates to partner-related exercises.

Medication

Concurrent with or in lieu of these exercise assignments, the man may be prescribed a class of drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors which increase serotonin levels and are highly successful in treating PE, notwithstanding the presence of some distressing side- effects. In treating PE, these drugs are commonly combined with Viagra which offsets their tendency to impair erectile function, especially in the older man. Another drug which is helpful is clomipramine (Anafranil) but tends to be of limited applicability because of unpleasant side-effects such as frequent yawning, drowsiness, upset stomach and tremors.

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Campus Crisis

April 10, 2007

There is a new trend on college campuses: students using a drug called Adderall XR Extended-Release. It is known as the “study drug” or “Viagra for the brain,” but abusing it can be deadly.
“It’s the drug that you go to get to pull the all-nighters,” said Sarah Davis.

College students Sarah Davis and Brandy Brooks thought they discovered a way to study all night and it even helped them lose weight.

“Amongst women it’s called the diet cocaine. Women who want to lose weight take it,” said Brandy Brooks.

The drug they were abusing , Adderall XR, can be dangerous , even deadly if not taken properly. It’s listed in a recent government report as a drug gaining favor with the college crowd. Its intended use is for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. You need a prescription to get it and should only take it under a doctor’s supervision.

“You may have an underlying cardiac problem, a heart problem, that then when you take Adderall or another stimulant medication, you may increase your heart rate, you may increase your blood pressure,” said Sharon Hirsch, interim section chief of child adolescent psychology, U of Chicago.

Adderall XR abuse is so bad, the drug’s maker is working with universities now, hoping that incoming freshmen will be required to learn about Adderall XR and its dangers through a quick, required online course.

“I would get so shaky, and I would have to stop and be like, ok, I have to eat now. Honestly, the drug just takes over your mind, and that’s what’s scary, because you forget basic things in life. You forget about, ok I need to eat, I need to drink water, you’re so focused on your work,” said Davis.

So where are students getting Adderall XR? Pharmacists ABC7 talked to say they are seeing a suspicious increase in prescriptions and dosages. Students say they get the drug from peers who have prescriptions.

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“So, come finals week and come midterm, you have a friend who has a prescription, or a good number of them, would be willing to sell it,” said one student who asked not to be identified. The anonymous student says he has illegally bought Adderall XR.

Another student, who also wants to remain anonymous, says he sells his own prescription. “It’s a big market. A lot of kids want it. So there’s a lot of colleges around, it’s easy to get rid of.”

Many of those “kids” may not know the risks. The FDA says, from 1992 to 2005, nearly 30 teens 17 and under died who were taking ADHD drugs.

Is there a direct link? Experts say it is difficult to make a concrete connection because those teens may have had a pre-existing condition or had been taking other medications.

“If I need to study for a really big test, I will take an extra pill,” Brooks said.

Brandy has a prescription for Adderall XR. Sarah does not. Both say they are being more cautious. Though the pressure of doing well in school makes a little extra “hit” tough to resist.

“It’s honestly a quick fix and you don’t think about, ok, well I’m going to end up in the hospital,” Davis said.

The Food and Drug Administration says, overall, Adderall XR is usually safe if taken properly, and the benefits of helping ADHD patients focus outweigh the risks. But, the FDA also recently issued a warning to patients, saying Adderall XR and other ADHD drugs may have cardiovascular risks, even if taken properly.

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SICK BABY KEPT ALIVE BY VIAGRA

April 3, 2007

A 16-MONTH-OLD baby is being kept alive with Viagra after she was born with a rare genetic condition.

Hannah MacDonald was diagnosed with Chromosome Deletion Syndrome - where a part of a vital chromosome is severed and missing - when she was just four days old.

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She suffers from severe heart problems and needs help to eat, drink or sit up.

Viagra - used to treat male impotency - is fed through a tube in her stomach which opens up her veins and allows the blood to flow freely.

Mum Rebecca, 22, from Sunderland, said: “It’s so effective in helping to keep the blood flow.”

The actions come six weeks after doctors in Newcastle used Viagra to save premature baby Lewis Goodfellow when one of his lungs failed.

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