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Apple Cider Vinegar, Folk Remedy Or Legitimate Health Aid?

Apple cider vinegar is an old folk remedy claimed to be beneficial in treating a long list of ailments. It is sold today by “health food” companies and others who claim it has remedial properties. Apple cider vinegar is a type of vinegar made by the fermentation of apple cider. Unlike white vinegar, apple cider vinegar is a light yellow-brown color and is often sold unfiltered and unpasteurized with a dark, cloudy sediment called mother of vinegar (consisting mainly of acetic acid bacteria) settled at the bottom of the bottle.

Over the centuries, vinegar has been used for countless purposes: making pickles, killing weeds, cleaning coffee makers, polishing armor, and dressing salads. While many of the folk medicine uses of vinegar are unproven (or were disproved), there is some medical research backing them up.

The main ingredient of apple cider vinegar, or any vinegar, is acetic acid. Apple cider vinegar is also said to contain an abundance of complex carbohydrates and dietary fiber. Do not use a metal container when making vinegar or storing it; acid in the mixture will corrode metal or aluminum objects making the solution unfit for consumption.

When it comes to losing weight, experts say you are what you drink. Apple cider vinegar has recently found new use as a weight loss and weight management aide, and has been included in many over the counter weight loss nutritional supplements. Anecdotally, ancient Egyptians used apple cider vinegar for weight loss. The acetic acid in this vinegar can curve the appetite which benefits those trying to loose weight and keep it off.

Some say apple cider vinegar can help arthritis, osteoporosis, high blood pressure, and assist in digestion. It is also thought to help the body maintain a healthy alkaline level. The acidic nature of this vinegar has been said to help scalp problems such as dandruff, itchy scalp, baldness and thinning hair. Apple cider vinegar can also help gastric problems as well.

Civil War, soldiers used vinegar to prevent gastric upset and as a treatment for various ailments including pneumonia and scurvy. Research suggests that this vinegar can delay gastric emptying. Ten patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus and diabetic gastro paresis were studied; when the study was over the patients were able to demonstrate a significant delay in already delayed gastric emptying after the ingestion of vinegar. So delaying the rate at which the stomach empties can keep a sense of fullness for those looking to loose weight.

The effect of vinegar on blood glucose levels is perhaps the best researched and the most promising of apple cider vinegar’s possible health benefits. Several studies have found that vinegar may help lower glucose levels. For example, a small study compared the effect of vinegar with white bread on blood glucose and insulin levels. Keeping blood sugar lower is important to diabetic patients which can help reduce the use of insulin. Subjects with type 2 diabetes showed a slight improvement in insulin sensitivity, but postprandial blood glucose and insulin levels were not affected when apple cider vinegar was added to a meal.

In conclusion, apple cider vinegar could theoretically interact with diuretics, laxatives, and medicines for diabetes and heart disease so you must be careful. Apple cider vinegar should always be diluted with water or juice before swallowed. If you have diabetes, check with your doctor before using apple cider vinegar. Furthermore, blood glucose must be monitored more frequently in patients with diabetes treated with insulin experiencing gastro paresis to prevent adverse hypoglycemic episodes. All those taking medications should consult a doctor because the acid in this vinegar can enhance absorption and increase Side effects.

More information on apple cider vinegar is available at VitaNet

Allergy Symptoms: Ways to Reduce Allergies This Summer

Summer is probably the first season that comes to mind when one thinks of allergies, and for good reason. Combined with the heat, summer allergens such as dust, pollen, and pet dander can cause some of the worst allergic reactions in sufferers and make what are supposed to be the best months of the year downright miserable. Prescription medications can help calm or prevent allergic reactions, but the best way to reduce summer allergies is to reduce your exposure to summer allergens. There are a number of simple ways to do this and, luckily, none of them require a visit to the doctor.

Understand Your Allergies

The first step towards reducing your exposure to allergens is to recognize the types of allergens that aggravate your symptoms. If you’re like most allergy sufferers in the United States you experience hay fever or asthmatic symptoms. These symptoms are a result of your body’s immune system releasing antibodies into your bloodstream. These antibodies in turn create histamine, the agent that acts on your eyes, nose, throat, skin, lungs, and even gastrointestinal system to produce your allergy symptoms. The allergens that induce this reaction in your body are generally environmental allergens –airborne particles such as dust mites, pollen, and pet dander. It is virtually impossible to completely avoid these types of allergens. They exist inside and outside your home, at work, and anywhere else you might think of enjoying your summer months. Fortunately, there are a number of steps you can take to reduce the amount of environmental allergens you come into contact with.

Reduce In-Coming Pollutants

The easiest way to avoid contact with allergens inside your home is to keep your windows and doors closed. A clean air filter or air conditioner can help cut down your in-home exposure to allergens tremendously. If keeping your windows closed during the summer is not an option, invest in a good screen. Make sure you keep your window and door screens clean, too. Pollen that accumulates on your screen can be tracked into your home when you open and close the doors or windows.

Avoid Peak Pollen Hours

If you are particularly sensitive to pollen you may want to stay indoors during peak pollen times. Pollen counts tend to peak during the morning, and are especially high on dry, windy days. It’s best to avoid going outdoors until late afternoon or evenings, when the temperature has cooled off a bit.

Dry Clothes Inside

Inhaling pollen isn’t the only way to experience its affect. Pollen can also irritate your skin, causing dry, itchy rashes. Clothes, towels and bed sheets that are hung to dry outdoors can collect pollen spores and cause fairly severe allergy symptoms. It is best to use a clothes dryer if you can; if not, hang your clothes in the evening, when pollen counts are low.

Keep House Clean

There are other summer allergens beyond pollen you will probably want to avoid as well. Dust mites and pet dander can also cause severe reactions in allergy sufferers. Dust mites cause allergic reactions by producing waste products that irritate the linings of the nose, throat, and lungs when inhaled. The easiest way to control the amount of dust mites in your home is to dust surfaces and wash bedding and clothes often. Vacuuming a few times a week can also help reduce the amount of surface dust mites. Make sure your vacuum has a clean air filter, and if you develop symptoms while cleaning you might want to leave the house for a few hours or consider wearing a pollen-proof facemask.

Protect Your Sleep

Aside from simple cleaning, another way to avoid allergen symptoms in your home is to use mattress and furniture protectors. Mattress protectors are one of the best ways of protecting yourself against dust mites and pet dander. These impermeable covers provide a barrier between your mattress and allergy causing dust mites and dander. Covers are good options because they can be easily cleaned and reused regularly where as vacuuming or cleaning a mattress is difficult and doesn’t always remove harmful allergens. Waterproof mattress protectors are also available for children’s beds and baby cribs. These covers reduce the chance of your mattress developing troublesome mold growth, another cause of allergies.

Summertime can be particularly problematic for allergy sufferers. Runny noses, sneeze attacks, itchy eyes, and burning throats can easily ruin any fun-filled summer activity. By simply planning ahead, however, you can easily avoid most environmental allergens and have an exciting, allergy-free summer.

~Ben Anton, 2008

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How to Prevent the 8 Deadly Diseases of the Western World

A warning is definitely needed for the Western world, particularly for people eating food out of grocery stores and restaurants. Know anyone like that?

Like the aristocrats of ancient Rome, many Americans are literally eating themselves to an early death. I feel that with a little bit of basic knowledge, supported by statistics and research from the cutting edge of health and science, people can take some simple steps and put the odds of living a longer healthier life back in their favor. There are 8 major diseases that have been sweeping the land since the 1940’s. All of them were virtually unheard of at the turn of the 20th century.

I started to do some of my own research, because I am one of those 77 million baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964, that is quickly aging & I want to preserve my health as long as possible.

There is a lot of contradictory information available, which is why so many people are confused about what to do to maintain their health. I’ve heard people say things like: “there’s so much contradiction out there, who knows what to believe anymore–I’ll just eat what I want and take my chances”.

Incredibly, some of the so-called studies I read were funded by the very industries that were directly affected by the results! For example, how serious do we take a study on the effects of pesticide use, when it is funded by a pesticide manufacturing company? Or how about a study on the effects of dairy products on asthma and allergy patients that was funded by the Dairy Council of America?

I call this “junk” science. They start out with a proposition to prove, and then they find a way to manipulate the data in order to prove it! I decided to sift through the science and only qualify studies where the funding source was disconnected from an interested party.

In addition, I started studying people who were healthy themselves and maybe had overcome personal illness through holistic healing or natural remedies, people who had experienced definite, verifiable results (like me), using alternative medicine. There has always been something about our “drugs and surgery” approach to health care that never made sense to me. During my research I found a huge number of people that supported the idea that good health resulted from right choices with regard to food, nutrition, water, exercise and rest. Using a combination of carefully filtered scientific studies, stories, and good old common sense, I found that if the body is given those five elements in the proper form and amount, the body can solve almost any problem.

Most of us assume we are living longer, because the longevity stats have gone way up in the last 100 years. But the sad truth is that because these 8 diseases are growing so fast, we are actually living shorter…but taking longer to die. Our technology keeps us alive longer, but we sacrifice the quality of life in the process. Can there really be dignity when our elderly spend months or even years in a vegetative state hooked up to a machine?

What about the economic impact of this trend?

I used to think that normal aging was the same for everybody. You get one of the eight deadly diseases, and then you slowly die. Imagine my surprise when I learned that heart disease, the number one killer of Americans, is a relatively new disease! The first modern cases were reported in 1912, and even then it was extremely rare. Today heart disease kills four times as many American women each year as breast cancer. For 300,000 people each year, the first and only symptom of heart disease is sudden death. How did it go from almost non-existent to the number one spot?

What about cancer? Only 3% of us died of cancer a hundred years ago. Today, almost 30% of us will succumb to it. The 1909 edition of the standard U.S. textbook, Principles and Practice of Medicine, devoted only 15 pages to cancer. Breast and prostate cancers were not even mentioned; colon cancer received 2 lines. In contrast, the 1994 edition of Principles of Internal Medicine devoted 174 pages to this affliction.

Stroke, which killed only a very few people a hundred years ago, is today the number three deadly disease killer of Americans.

Alzheimer’s wasn’t even diagnosed until 1907. Today, 40% of those over 85 are suffering from it.

Diabetes has increased 600% in just the last generation. Each year, Diabetes kills more than twice as many American women as breast cancer.

Over 40 million Americans suffer with some form of Arthritis or Osteoporosis. Ask any American woman what disease she fears most and she’ll probably say breast cancer. Yet hip fractures kill more women than cancers of the breast, cervix and uterus combined.

Finally, there are the auto immune disorders like chronic fatigue syndrome, Epstein-Barr virus, lupus, fibromyalgia, and AIDS. I lump them into one big category, and this group is growing like wildfire in the US right now. 20 years ago, they didn’t even have names for most of this stuff and many of them were written off by doctors as psycho-sematic. But the harsh symptoms of these auto-immune disorders are currently wreaking havoc on the health of tens of thousands of Americans, and in the case of AIDS, are killing people at an alarming rate.

Obviously, something has gone terribly wrong here, and it’s happened in our lifetime. But we’re acting as if all of these diseases are just a part of the normal aging process! Not so! There is nothing normal or natural about degenerative disease. We have convinced ourselves it is normal as a way of dealing with the terrible new reality of sickness and disease in the modern world.

Many of these deaths are totally unnecessary.

And that’s the tragedy. When a plane crashes and a few hundred people die, it makes the front page news for days. But when a million people die of heart disease or a half a million die of cancer, you would think there would be more of an outcry. It’s the equivalent of a jumbo jet full of people crashing every single hour of every single day of every single month for an entire year, year after year.

How long do you plan on living? To what age? 70? 80? 90? 100+? What do you think is reasonable? Now, take that figure and add 10 extra healthy years to it. What if you could live to 100 and beyond without the pain and disease that most people think comes with old age?

Today the average person lives to about 76. That’s 79 for women and 72 for men. But in certain areas of the world centenarians are common. We have only lately started to uncover why.

Today, the risk of dying of any thing before you are 40 is really very small. But starting at 40, you enter the zone of the 8 deadly diseases. How deadly are they? They kill more than 80% of us, which is sad because the majority of the time they are preventable.

In summary food, nutrition, water, exercise and rest are the keys to enjoying the highest level of optimum health for many years after we thought possible.

See you at my hundredth birthday party, will you be there?

Sherrie Chastain Holistic Healing Health Care Consultant Holistic Healing, Natural Remedies, Alternative Medicine Helping People Live Healthier, Happier Lives for Over 25 Years

How To Get Rid Of Man Boobs

What are some simple tips to help you get rid of man boobs, also known as gynecomastia? Here’s 5 Important Tips:

1. If you’re a teenage boy and you’re experiencing enlarged and/or sensitive breasts, especially if you’re not otherwise overweight, then this is likely due to hormone fluctuations (mainly increased levels of estrogen) and a diet/exercise routine will not help you–you can either wait it out (it will go away eventually, probably by the time you reach your late teens or early twenties), or you can see a doctor to discuss hormone replacement therapy.

2. Otherwise, your man boobs are likely caused by being overweight, and the best course of action is a solid diet/exercise routine (if you’re not overweight but are older than a teenager, then it could still be due to a hormone problem and you should see a doctor), of which there are several important aspects.

3. Firstly, you should diet properly: anything that cuts your calorie intake down below what you are burning every day WILL work. You can take your pick from Atkins, South Beach, The Zone, or my personal favorite, the French/Medeterranian diet (the best book about this is called ‘The Fat Fallacy’, by Will Clower).

4. Next, I highly recommend strength training because not only does it burn as much if not more calories than an aerobic workout of the same duration (many people don’t know this and think only an aerobic workout is good for burning fat–not true!), but it also will help to harden, tone, and sculpt your pecs/chest so that they will look and feel attractive once you have burned off enough fat for the muscles to be visible. I recommend working each muscle group (chest, arms, back, legs, etc.) only once per week, as you WILL need at least a week to recover (I realize professional body builders do it a lot more often than this but you must remember they have 2 things you don’t: GREAT genetics, and even more importantly, LOTS of steroids), so you could do arms, chest, and abs on Monday, then legs and back on Friday, or whatever you want, so that you’re strength training 2-3 times per week. Combine this with aerobic exercise on 3 OTHER days during the week, and you’re exercising almost every day, now aren’t you? Think that might burn some fat off? You better believe it will!

5. Aerobic exercise–not only is it great for burning off fat when you’re not strength training, but it has the side benefit of significantly improving your health, especially that of your cardiovascular system. Another plus is that there’s so many ways to get it done: running, swimming, aerobics, spinning, cycling, elliptical machines, tread mills, stair climbers, racquetball, basketball, rock climbing, etc., so just pick your favorite and do it for 20-30 minutes 3 times a week (if you’re not already in decent shape you should start out with only ONCE per week and work up to 3 times per week).

Consider A Pre-Packaged Program:

A friend of mine, who struggled with man boobs for years, has put together a prepackaged program for guys who want to lose their man boobs together, and I highly recommend it to those that are serious about doing this and especially if you have a severe problem that previous weight loss techniques have been unable to help with, since the method he delves into has to do with hormone balancing–I personally saw him lose his man boobs in about 3 months time, even his doctor was surprised he did it–check it out here:

The Advanced Man-Boob Destruction Method!! For additional tips check out my blog post at: How To Get Rid Of Man Boobs: 3 Basic Steps

Canadian Pharmacy – Best Source For Generic Drugs

Canadian pharmacy is a leading pharmaceutical company of not only Canada but it has a major share in the pharmaceutical market of United States. Canadian pharmacy is equally popular in US primarily because of one main reason, the cost. The drugs from Canadian pharmacy are much cheaper than what you can get any where in US.

Canadian pharmacy is a reputed company. It sells the same ingredient drugs available in US but definitely at a much cheaper rate. This economical rate is owing to certain policies of Canada support pharmaceutical industry. More over Canadian dollar is cheaper than US dollar, so that makes the drugs even more affordable for people of United States. Apart from this Canadian pharmacy also provides many discount offers, almost 80 % saving.

Shipping is free and very quick. It hardly takes a week to get the drugs. Though, there is a system that needs to be followed. You need to fill a form and attach a copy of prescription and other related medical documents. And once these are verified the Canadian pharmacy will immediately ship your demand. The process of filling form is also much speedier than any other pharmacy. There are few options that you can choose from according to your convenience. Canadian pharmacy has e-forms; you can fill them and send it electronically. The process will be faster. You can also download the forms from their website, fill it duly and then mail it or fax it for speedier action. You can also request fro form through fax, by giving your fax number details or get them e-mailed to you.

Once you send the form, it takes almost a week to verify the details and then another one week to ship the order. The entire process is completely hassle free. And the process of filling form is must to maintain the legal and security aspects. In Canada you can not sell drugs without prescription, so the requirement. You must compulsorily attach a genuine prescription from a licensed physician. This is the only and the main requirement of getting drugs through Canadian pharmacy.

Apart from the huge savings on medical bills that you will surely make by ordering drugs through Canadian pharmacy, you can also order in bulk for a maximum of three month, if you have the prescription for it. Ordering in bulk means more saving. Canadian pharmacy is extremely professional in its work. They have a toll free number and a very good customer care service that will patiently answer all your queries and aid you in getting the order through. All the drugs that are legally permitted in US will only be shipped. Any demand for any sort of illegal drug will be rejected. And the process of filling form is must to maintain the legal and security aspects. In Canada you can not sell drugs without prescription, so the requirement. You must compulsorily attach a genuine prescription from a licensed physician. This is the only and the main requirement of getting drugs through Canadian pharmacy.

Paying for the drugs is also a simple procedure. Canadian pharmacy meets high quality standards and economical prices and all this comes with guarantee of good service, what more does a consumer requires?

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Cialis Soft Tabs - Nine Times More Effective Than Viagra

Sexual Health is a topic that has come to the forefront in the last 10 years or so. While in the earlier days any hitches in a normal healthy sexual life was quickly hushed, thanks to advancement in medical science, the subject has received much deliberation and some path breaking discoveries to aid men to have a longer lasting vigorous sex life. And it is necessary to remember that without a good sexual health, the overall physical health and the emotional and mental health also deteriorates.

So whether you are in your middle age with signs of growing erectile dysfunction or suffering the ills of an unhealthy lifestyle giving you penile problems, you are in need of some good advice about how to deal with the situation. Thanks to marketing and publicity, today everyone thinks that Viagra is the natural panacea for all ills. But a word of caution. You should know what you are taking and believe it or not, Viagra is not the universal remedy for erectile dysfunction as it was trumpeted to be. So what do you do now? Come, there are other options and lets explore them.

Lily-ICOS has brought for you the wonder drug Cialis to help you battle the blues of penile dysfunction. Cialis Soft Tabs contains Tadalafil and comes with the disadvantages of Viagra swept away. Now not only can you experience the vigor of sexual libido for a continuous 36 hours, which is nine times more effective than Viagra, but you are not forced to go through the mechanical motions of coitus in an empty stomach as the earlier drug didn’t work if you had food containing fats before a sexual intercourse aided by drug. With Cialis Soft Tabs, you can have a delightful dinner without being harrowed with how much fat content there was in your diet and afterwards indulge in pleasant sexual activity with your partner. Interested?

The action of Cialis Soft Tabs is such that it breaks all frontiers of blockade in the arteries supplying blood to your penis in the moments of excitement which makes it tumescent. And the cost effectiveness of the Cialis Soft Tabs makes it an ideal choice for you if you are in the wrong side of 50 or experiencing any erectile problems due to any reason. The tablets are cheaper than any other similar drugs available in the market and more efficient as it assures a performance period of 36 hours. It is no wonder that the Cialis Soft Tabs are nicknamed Super Viagra for their proven prowess.

Cialis Soft Tabs are available over the counter in any leading medical store near your home without any prescriptions. This will tell you how safe medication these tablets are and also having no harmful side effect which is why they are sold like that openly. So, once you have used Cialis Soft Tabs, there is no longer need to feel disappointment and frustration as you feel aroused with your partner, and instead, an exhilarating time is promised.

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Plasma Lift: Lift Your Spirits

Until recently cosmetic procedures designed to combat scars, fine lines, deep wrinkles and sun damage worked by treating the outer layer of facial skin. The traditional resurfacing lasers used in these treatments caused discomfort, lengthy recovery times and a number of risks associated with aggressive skin resurfacing. Now a newly developed technology called Portrait

Smartlipo: Plastic Surgery For a New Generation

Something that many people often strive for is to look their best. That’s why personal trainers, hairstylists, makeup artists exist. If you were to take a survey, you’d probably find that most people have been to a gym at least once in their lives.

Sometimes, however, the gym thing doesn’t work, and this is where Smartlipo comes in. Isn’t it great that there’s an option other than spending hours sweating at the gym? Of course it is! You’re a person who belongs to a gym and, so far, hasn’t seen any results. It’s been three months, shouldn’t something have changed?

Yes, yes, it should have, and that’s why you’re thinking of getting Smartlipo. You originally joined the gym thinking that this was the way you’d combat that muffin top you’ve been carrying around. Well, one million sit-ups later, your muffin top still looks like it would win a prize at any bakery. You refuse to even consider that the extra large mocha shakes you get each day have anything to do with this.

You don’t want a muffin top any longer, darn it! You want a breadboard, and Smartlipo now seems like it’s your best bet. While running on the treadmill one day, you see an article that’s about Smartlipo. It’s definitely a sign! Yes, this is indeed a sign from the plastic surgeon gods, telling you to consider this intriguing option.

As you know there are a bunch of different ways to combat fat artificially. Liposuction has pretty much become an art all of its own. You can have the fat sucked away, dissolved away, and now you can even have it lasered away, which is where this procedure comes in.

This procedure is an especially convenient one, because it requires a minimal recuperation time. This really is great for you, since you have a job that really takes up a good chunk of your time. You’re hoping that you can somehow arrange to have the procedure done during the vacation time that you’ve slaved for months to finally acquire.

Something that most people worry about before having a procedure done is whether or not it will leave scarring. In this case, you’ll be happy to know that it’s a minimally-invasive procedure. Aren’t you glad that lasers have come as far as they have?

Some additional research you’ve done shows that this procedure is safer than other ones. While there’s a procedure in which fat can be dissolved, the fat doesn’t actually leave the body. Another procedure does, in fact, suck the fat out, but it’s more invasive. This procedure eliminates the fat from the body in a short amount of time, so you get the best scenario possible.

However, since this procedure is a new form of technology, you need to be very stringent in selecting only the best surgeon available for the job. Make sure that the surgeon is certified, and specializes in doing laser surgery. Also, make sure you either have a very large credit limit, or you have a nest egg. After all, beauty doesn’t come cheap!

More information on Smartlipo, Lipodissolve and a Portland skin care clinic of Oregon in your area is just a click away.

Is a Spider Vein a Cause For Alarm?

No one likes blemishes. There area number of ways that people try to combat these skin problems, and one of these ways is, ironically, just ignoring the situation altogether.

You’ve taken the same approach with the spider vein you’ve spied on your upper thigh. Yes, you’re far too busy to concern yourself with this one, annoying little spider vein, so that’s that. However, it seems as if while you are determined to forget about it, your friends aren’t.

You made the mistake of having a pool party soon after your spider vein discovery. You certainly weren’t going to let a teeny four-inch (okay, you measured it, so what?) scraggly little vein spoil the bathing suit you had purchased especially for the occasion. Alas, the spider vein managed to ruin what was otherwise a perfectly nice party anyway. There you were, attempting to get some sun, when Great Aunt Rita comes and sits in the chair next to you. You silently cringe. Great Aunt Rita isn’t really a person that you’d like to talk to. She always finds something to criticize.

This time, it just happens to your little vein problem. She shifts her large sunglasses up over her frizzy gray hair, and squints at your thigh. “What is that?” she asks. “Oh, it’s nothing, just a little vein thing” you say. Good ‘ol Rita doesn’t listen to you, and starts yelling about how you really should have that looked at. After all, your leg could fall off! Then, she notices that there’s a new bucket of wine coolers on the patio, and toddles off.

You think about continuing to ignore the situation altogether, but you still have the shrill of (not so) Great Aunt Rita ringing in your ears. What if your leg could fall off? How the heck would you get a proper pedicure with just one leg?

That was the final straw. You simply have to make an appointment with your doctor to know once and for all. After the examination the doctor said…wait for it…you’re fine and there’s nothing to worry about. He then asked you if you come from a particularly “vein” family. Haha, but seriously, genetics play a big part in getting these kinds of veins. If the vein hasn’t bothered you thus far, it’s best just to watch it, and if it starts bothering you, then that’s the time to seek treatment.

Great Aunt Rita’s shrill voice is now muffled in your great sigh of relief. At the next family party, you seek her out. She’s lying in a lawn chair, trying to tan her already orange skin. You grin sinisterly as you sit down next to her. It turns out she has far more veins on her legs than you could have ever dreamed of. You tell her that really it’s such a good thing she had warned you about your vein, because if it wasn’t treated your leg would indeed have fallen off. Now, has she happened to have those veins looked at? If not, she really should…

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You’re Nervous About Your Varicose Vein Treatment

You’ve always been considered a scaredy-cat, even in situations that aren’t really something to be scared about. You vividly remember the time when, in high school, you were sent a letter that informed you that you’d be given an academic award. You were terrified, and tried to practice your composure, but when you got up to accept the award and shook the principal’s hand, you wet your pants.

That was the first in a long line of embarrassing situations, and you’re hoping to relax as much as possible when it comes time for your varicose vein treatment. When you first went to the dermatologist, he had quite a hard time getting ultrasounds and x-rays, because your legs were shaking.

No, this time you need to be brave, because if you shake (that pant-wetting instinct has, thank goodness, subsided) during your varicose vein treatment, you could end up scarred. You imagine having to be restrained by several (preferably handsome) doctors while the procedure is being done.

You had a few options for your varicose vein treatment, but most of them you rejected because it would involve you coming back multiple times. You don’t think your nerves could hold up that long. So, you’ve decided that it would be better to choose a laser procedure as your varicose vein treatment.

So, the date of the procedure has been set, and you now have two weeks to start learning some courage. You spend most of your time in front of a computer anyway, so it’s a good excuse to mentally prepare. You want to know how much this procedure is going to hurt.

Well, you see that the reviews have been mixed, as they would be, since people have different thresholds of pain. One thing that everyone seems to agree on is that it’s quick jolts of pain, much like being burned after quickly touching something very hot, or getting slapped.

You walk into your kitchen and eye the stove. Should you practice touching a very hot pan while you cook? Well, it’s worth a shot. While cooking dinner for your family, they watch as you slowly touch your very first hot pan. You scream as you’ve never screamed before. Your kids run to shut all the windows so that the neighbors don’t call the cops.

One hour, and several burns on your finger later, you’ve brought the scream down to a whimper. Good, very good. The next step is conditioning yourself against slaps. You instruct your husband to slap your leg every once and a while when you least expect it. He tries to make a naughty game out of it, and you tell him no, you’re most definitely not in the mood for such things. You need to focus on conquering fear!

It’s now the day of your procedure, and you’re pretty sure that you’re ready. You walk stoically into the procedure room. The nurse actually comments on your calmness. When the procedure begins, you have a momentary “fight or flight” response, but you hold up well. You are a champion!

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