Archive for February, 2010

Financial Woes Add Anxiety to Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Financial pressure puts low- and medium-income women at particularly high risk for anxiety and depression after being diagnosed with the noninvasive breast cancer ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a U.S. study has found.

The study included 487 women with newly diagnosed DCIS who completed questionnaires about their financial, mental and physical health at the start of the study and again nine months after diagnosis.

At the nine-month follow-up, women with financial difficulties reported higher levels of anxiety and depression than those with no financial problems. In addition, women with financial difficulties said their feelings of anxiety and depression grew during the study period, while financially secure women reported a decrease in those feelings.

A woman’s education level didn’t appear to affect her risk for anxiety or depression, and social support didn’t ease the negative impact of financial problems on a patient’s mental health, the study authors noted.

“Women with medium or low socioeconomic status are forced to manage competing stressors: the stress of financial hardship and the stress of a major health event,” study author Janet de Moor, of the Ohio State University College of Public Health, said in a news release. “Because these concomitant stressors leave women vulnerable to escalating distress after their DCIS diagnosis, women with medium or low financial status may benefit from psychosocial interventions.”

The study was published online Feb. 8 in the journal Cancer.

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Accident Raises Parents’ Traffic Anxiety

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Parents in the Sanford Avenue School area say some of their worst fears were realized yesterday morning when an 11-year-old girl was hit and trapped under the front of a minivan as she raced across the street in front of the school.

The child was pinned under the front of the van just before 9 a.m. as she crossed from the east side of Sanford Avenue heading toward the school. She was walking with her older sister.

She was freed by firefighters who quickly raised the front of the van using portable airbags. She suffered only minor injuries but was taken to Hamilton General Hospital.

Police Sergeant Terri-Lynn Collings said the girl was hit in a “low impact” collision, which is still under investigation.

Melissa Webster, whose five- and seven-year-old children attend Sanford school, said the girl was crossing the street with her older sister when she was struck by a van turning out of the Pinky Lewis Recreation Centre parking lot.

Webster, who will not allow her seven year old to walk to school by himself “even though he thinks he’s old enough,” said morning traffic on Sanford worries parents.

“In the morning, they get going pretty good between Cannon and Barton,” she said, “and the school’s smack in the middle of the stretch.”

“I live nearby,” she said, “and when you hear the fire and ambulance and police sirens stop close, you know it’s a child.”

Albert Wetherald, of Stirton Street, said in an e-mail he has been asking for a crossing guard at the intersection of Huron Street and Sanford since late 2007. He said he was told a review of crossings in the area done in 2006 recommended Cannon Street East and Barton Street East as the best locations for crossings.

Neighbours say traffic in the school zone is very busy, and that many morning commuters use the Pinky Lewis parking lot as a shortcut between Wentworth Street North and Sanford Avenue.

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Buspar Possible Concerns

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Buspar Possible Concerns Related to Buspirone’s Binding to Dopamine Receptors

Because buspirone can bind to central dopamine receptors, a question has been raised about its potential to cause acute and chronic changes in dopamine-mediated neurological function (eg, dystonia, pseudo-parkinsonism, akathisia, and tardive dyskinesia). Clinical experience in controlled trials has failed to identify any significant neuroleptic-like activity; however, a syndrome of restlessness, appearing shortly after initiation of treatment, has been reported in some small fraction of buspirone-treated patients. The syndrome may be explained in several ways. For example, buspirone may increase central noradrenergic activity; alternatively, the effect may be attributable to dopaminergic effects (ie, represent akathisia).

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Buspar Information For Patients

Friday, February 12th, 2010

To assure safe and effective use of BuSpar, the following information and instructions should be given to patients:

1. Inform your physician about any medications, prescription or non-prescription, alcohol, or drugs that you are now taking or plan to take during your treatment with BuSpar.
2. Inform your physician if you are pregnant, or if you are planning to become pregnant, or if you become pregnant while you are taking BuSpar.
3. Inform your physician if you are breast-feeding an infant.
4. Until you experience how this medication affects you, do not drive a car or operate potentially dangerous machinery.
5. You should take BuSpar (buspirone hydrochloride) consistently, either always with or always without food.
6. During your treatment with BuSpar, avoid drinking large amounts of grapefruit juice.

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Buspar General Precautions

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Buspar Interference with Cognitive and Motor Performance

Studies indicate that BuSpar is less sedating than other anxiolytics and that it does not produce significant functional impairment. However, its CNS effects in any individual patient may not be predictable. Therefore, patients should be cautioned about operating an automobile or using complex machinery until they are reasonably certain that buspirone treatment does not affect them adversely.

While formal studies of the interaction of BuSpar (buspirone hydrochloride) with alcohol indicate that buspirone does not increase alcohol-induced impairment in motor and mental performance, it is prudent to avoid concomitant use of alcohol and buspirone.

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Hormones and Panic Attacks

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Many of my female clients initially write to me to ask whether hormone imbalances which are present pre menstruation and during the menopause can influence anxiety and panic attacks. The simple answer is yes but it is a little more complicated than giving blame and living with it.

Yes, hormone imbalances during your period or the menopause can create the environment where you are more susceptible to anxiety disorders, but, not everyone develops anxiety or panic attacks so other factors must come into play.

You do not have to take medication or hormone supplements in order to eliminate the anxiety or panic attacks!

Although hormones may be the catalyst for your anxiety or panic attacks, they aren’t the cause and certainly doesn’t mean that you have to live with your symptoms. Anxiety and panic attacks are caused by a small organ in the brain called the Amygdala which is responsible for the anxiety reaction, even when hormone imbalances during menstruation or the menopause may have ‘sparked’ the initial problem, you can quickly eliminate them again.

The Amygdala becomes ‘re-set’ at a higher than normal level creating anxiety and panic attacks.

Anxiety and panic attacks are not a symptom of the menopause or of hormone fluctuations, they are the spin off affect of those conditions. They may be the initial catalyst for the anxiety and panic attacks but they do not drive those conditions. Rather like a person who takes a drug, experiences a panic attack and then thinks that they have permanently changed their brain chemistry… it just isn’t true.

Anxiety and panic attacks need very little coaxing to get started. Once sparked, they are self perpetuating.

By correcting the imbalance in the Amygdala anxiety levels are returned to normal. This won’t, of course, affect your hormone imbalance but it will take away the anxiety and panic attacks making the situation a whole lot more comfortable and less distressing.

Anxiety and panic attacks are not a ‘normal’, or acceptable, symptoms of the menstrual cycle or menopause. I promise you that they can be reduced and eliminated quickly and simply using the correct method.

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Stopping Panic Attacks

Monday, February 1st, 2010

I’m going to share with you a few tips on how to stop your panic attacks. I’ve had them for almost 30 years so I believe I have some information that will help you out….

This is how to stop your panic attacks

Tell yourself in your mind that you have gone through a panic attack before and you lived, and this attack is no different. Laugh out loud at it and do reverse psychology on it. When you lapse, immediately get involved in something to keep your mind instantly busy to take your mind off the immediate thoughts until your manifested thoughts subside.

Force yourself to get your mind involved in a funny television show. If you can’t sit for obvious reasons stand up and watch it and pace around until your mind eases. Take a few deep breaths.

Start drinking a bunch of water telling yourself in your mind that it cools you down and makes you feel better. Drinking water Is like an IV the hospital gives you. It works!

Stand by your computer and go to YouTube and watch funny videos until your thoughts subside

Start talking to someone about anything if you can stand still and not look like your freaked out. (Depends on the level) until your mind eases.

Don’t fight it. Let it come and take its course and assure yourself that you will live because you have had them before. Also remember that as the author of these tips I’m sharing with you, that I’ve had severe panic disorder of the worst kind and if I can live this long with this disorder than so can you….

The more you beat your panic attack away from the places that make you feel comfortable the more will power you will get at beating the panic attack next time in places that normally make you feel uncomfortable and keep you from lapsing when your out and about.

Those were some of the techniques I’ve used over the last 30 years to help stop my panic attacks when I was having them.

After nearly 30 years, I do not get panic attacks anymore. But I use to have severe panic attacks where my heart would actually start skipping beats while I was having an attack along with all the other panic attack symptoms that are so typical but very terrifying. Like an intense feeling of unreality like I was going to die of a heart attack or stop breathing any second as my chest was hurting and the palms of my hands were sweating.

Well…. I don’t want to get into to much more detail as I know this can also stress you out and possibly lead into your own panic attack. Just remember this… you will not die from your panic attack.

I also want to tell you something extremely important about your panic disorder that you may or may not know….

The couple of techniques I shared with you above will only help you while your actually having a panic attack. To stop your panic attacks forever you need to get to the root of your disorder which is breaking your perpetual loop of being afraid to have your next panic attack, which leads to you obsessing when your next panic attack will come.

Its a vicious circle and it all sounds crazy, but your afraid of being afraid.

If you don’t stop worrying and obsessing about when your next panic attack will come they will just keep compounding daily, weekly, monthly and yearly and can have significant negative affects on your personality that can lead to avoidence of certain places or things. You will also develop poor relationships with people as you start withdrawling and become more introverted, which can also not only affect your relationships, but your job performance, your quality of life, and your overall health.

Since your panic attacks are triggered by fearing fear itself, then Your probably wondering how do you stop worrying about when your next panic attack will come if it completely scares the hell out of you each time that you have a panic attack?

How Do you break your perpetual loop of fear that causes you to constantly think about when your next panic attack will come, which then triggers yet more panic attacks inside you?

How do you stop your panic attacks forever? Is it even possible?

Honestly after 30 years I had no clue it was even possible to stop my panic attacks forever since my constant fear over the years had deeply damaged my thought process from all the panic attacks I had.

Maybe you’ve only had one panic attack before? Maybe you’ve had panic attacks only a few times? Maybe you have panic attacks all the time like I use to?

Whatever your case, I can tell you that based not only on my first hand experiences having panic attacks myself for years and years, but also being highly educated about panic disorder, that your panic attacks are not over. They will only continue to get worse over time and eventually haunt you for the rest of your life unless you find out how to stop your panic attacks forever.

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