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Avoid sources of negativity. We all tend to get a daily hit of negativity whether we like it or not. It's part of our routine and our society. Panic attacks are based on the way you think about yourself. It is easy to be tough on yourself so learn to stop doing it. It only serves to put you down when the people around you aren't. Stop telling yourself negative stuff like your boring, dumb, useless, ugly.
Avandia, also know as rosiglitazone, is an oral anti-diabetic agent that also improves glycemic control and reduces circulating insulin levels for those who have Type 2 diabetes and are not insulin-dependent. Avandia is sometimes prescribed with other medicines but is not used for the treatment of Type 1 diabetes.
Diabetes sufferers should know the signs of low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) and how to recognize them, including hunger, headache, confusion, irritability, drowsiness, weakness, dizziness, tremors, sweating, fast heartbeat, seizure (convulsions), fainting, or coma (severe hypoglycemia can be fatal). Always keep a source of sugar available in case you have symptoms of low blood sugar.
GlaxoSmithKline reported that annual sales of the drug climbed as high as $2.5 billion in 2006. The drug's patent expires in 2012. The drug appears to be quite versatile as researchers have suggested that it could also help treat some form of Alzheimer’s disease, ulcerative colitis and even malaria.
However, there is also a history of concerns about Avandia, including questions that it might lead to an increased risk of heart attacks. One scientific study concluded that there was nearly a 40 percent higher chance of a heart attack among Avandia users than those not on the medicine. The company itself has acknowledged there could other side effects, including peripheral edema, or problems in the extremities caused by fluid retention and swelling. Another risk is macular edema, in which there is swelling and protein buildup in the eye.
There have been numerous lawsuits filed over the effects of Avandia and it is easy to find notices about these on the Internet. If you track these over the last few years you will notice a growing number of warnings about the drug and offers by law firms to represent victims.
GlaxoSmithKline is well aware of the problem. The company notified physicians in December, 2006 of the dangerous side effects. However, the problem goes back much farther than that. If you do some research on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration web site you will find that on June 28, 2001, the FDA issued a warning to GlaxoSmithKline. The FDA told the manufacturer it was not being completely forthright in its promotional materials about the risks of the drug.
Then, in April of 2002, The FDA issued another letter about the dangers of Avandia. This one warned healthcare professionals about a change in the warning label on Avandia in connection with the possibility of excess fluid retention and congestive heart failure in patients taking Avandia.
That was followed in December, 2002, with a letter the FDA sent to GlaxoSmithKline to include another warning paragraph on the Avandia label:
"In postmarketing experience, there have been rare reports of unusually rapid increases in weight and increases in excess of that generally observed in clinical trials. Patients who experience such increases should be assessed for fluid accumulation and volume-related events such as excessive edema and congestive heart failure."
With a history like that those of us taking Avandia should wonder just what we should do. The FDA says that it is conducting a complete investigation but for those who exhibit the symptoms of serious side effects that the FDA warns about will the results of that investigation come in time?
That there are serious, unresolved risks with the use of Avandia goes without question. On its web site the FDA lists the following organizations that are in agreement with this:
- American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists
- American College of Cardiology
- American Diabetes Association
- American Heart Association
- Endocrine Society
“FDA agrees with these organizations and is conducting a thorough investigation,” the government says on its web site.
What will be interesting is whether the government and its investigators or the legal community and its resources get to the bottom of this first.
In 2006, a "prescribing information" paper issued for Avandia from FDA's MedWatch talks about the increasing evidence of risk of cardiovascular events. This is found on page 13 of the document and highlighted in yellow by MedWatch. MedWatch is the FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program.
The longer Avandia and Actos have been on the market, the more evidence of adverse cardiac events, fluid retention and congestive heart failure. All of this culminated this week with the newest study on Avandia which linked it to a risk of heart attacks and death from cardiovascular events.
Avandia Heart Attack
I ask this of all the new people I meet, when this day comes around now.
Where were you when the terrorist attacks were happening?
What were you doing?
What was running through your mind?
I ask this because it ends up being on most everyone's mind today. My sis gets bummed because although she feels sorry that this happened to the US, the 12th is her birthday. People get so wrapped up in it that the next day they tend to forget, at least in the first couple of years this happened. Now, memories are still long, pain lingers for those who were directly affected, and life has moved on, somewhat.
I still like to ask. It's amazing to see the responses. No two are alike.
So I pose this to whomever reads this blog entry. See the three questions above. :)
I personally was not at home during the attack, I was in Franklin, IN. I was on the job with a previous company supervising the installation of a conveyor system into the distribution center (DC) of what was Musicland. Eventually Best Buy bought Musicland, and so where I was at was at a recently 'converted' DC.
The installers were laying down conveyor and securing it, and in this area was an open break 'room' with a 27" TV next to all the coffee and snack machines. A small crowd gathered around the TV in the middle of the morning, watching the breaking news unfold as a plane had hit the WTC. At the time, they were surmising that it was a Cessna that hit, because noone saw the plane - or came forward just yet. It was still too fresh. I remember seeing that scar in the side of the building, smoking slightly, papers fluttering down. And I remember thinking, "No Cessna did that much damage."
A little while later, the crowd grew around the TV as the second plane hit. Now it got serious. People were wondering what the heck was going on. Was this an attack? Who was doing this? What was wrong with the Air Traffic Control? Then it started to come across that there were hijackings going on. Then the third plane crashed into the Pentagon, and it seemed everyone went into a low-key panic. News reports were coming in like crazy - missile this, hijacking that, type of plane upgraded to passeger airliners.
Then the 4th plane crashed in PA.
Then the first tower fell.
And then the second.
Going back to the hotel in Indianapolis, it was a madhouse in front of the gas station. Prices skyrocketed to $5.00/ gal from a little under $2.00 the day before. I filled up when I got down there the previous day, so I was good to go. All that night in Indy, all I could hear were emergency vehicles going somewhere. For 2 hours, I estimated. This small Midwest city was going haywire. I think the crews were going to NYC to see if they could help. A friend/neighbor of mine was going to fly to Cancun the next day. She ended up driving instead to catch the ship. That was a long haul.
The next few days were surreal. Not one aircraft in the sky. Where I live is in the flight path of one of the major airports, and I got used to, over the years, hearing an airliner scream on takeoff and make whatever turn it needed to head to its destination. Seeing the contrails as airplanes passed through different temperature layers and water-laden air. None of that in the following days. I thought, "This is the way the skies were about 100 years ago, before powered heavier-than-air flight became a reality. Amazing."
An eerie peace. I know that the Sears Tower was evacuated, as it was theorized that it would be the next target at the time. I can't imagine how things would have been if an aircraft had smacked into the single tallest occupied building in North America.
So... where were you when 9/11/01 was permanently etched into US History?
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Nearly everyone has seen something like the following little scene...
A three-or-four-year-old is with his mother in the grocery store. He points at a candy bar, looking at his mother with the brightest, cutest, most engaging little face you ever saw. Mother is busy and hardly glancing at him as she reads her grocery list and says, "No, you don't---"
She was going to say, "No, you don't need that," but she didn't get half the words out before he erupted into "WAAAAH!!!!"
But he hasn't got the first "WAAAH!!!" half out yet before his mother, with a quick look around at all the people looking at her, grabs that candy bar and thrusts it into his hand.
WAAAAH--off, mid-WAAAH, and there is that darling little beaming angel-face again, unwrapping his his candy bar.
That's what you call a spoiled brat -- a kid who has learned to use temper tantrums to control his parents. The dead giveaway is how instantaneously he switches from one emotional extreme to the other. Real people don't do that in one split second, do they?
He can do that because those emotions are bogus. Faked. He isn't upset when he's screaming, and he isn't happy when he's not. He's just a little actor. He has two masks. One is for positive reinforcement, and the other is for negative reinforcement. He switches from one to the other in the blink of an eye.
Now notice how similar this is to an adult narcissist's rages.
They are exactly the same thing.
Whenever you aren't behaving the way they want, they throw a fit. Like that brat in the grocery store, they don't think they should even have to ask for what they they want. They think you should be so attentive to their desires that you just offer it to them. It would be beneath them to ask for anything. So they throw a "Don't-go-there!" tantrum whenever you aren't playing the part they've assigned to you in the stageplay of their life.
That could be because you are behaving like you deserve respect. Or maybe you are busy and do not have lunch on the table yet. Whatever, the cowboy just herds people by yelling and waving things whenever the cattle in his home get out of line.
His wild act is so obnoxious and menacing that people soon learn how to turn it off. They would rather conform to his specifications than put up with that obnoxious wild act all the time.
Thus he trains them to behave the way he wants them to.
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