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These Sex Toy Advent Calendars Are the Grown-Up Holiday Gift You Need This Year
When you think of advent calendars, you tend to think of the cute little cardboard ones you buy for a school fundraiser that deliver some semi-okay chocolate or tiny plastic toys that will hurt to step on for 25 days leading up to Christmas. We love those for what they are but as grown-ass adult people, we deserve a grown-ass adult answer to the countdown calendar. Luckily, sex toy advent calendars exist. And they are just as sweet as the shek
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Unvaccinated? Don’t Count on Leaving Your Family Death Benefits
By Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News These days, workers who refuse to get vaccinated against covid-19 may face financial repercussions, from higher health insurance premiums to loss of their jobs. Now, the financial fallout might follow workers beyond the grave. If they die of covid and weren’t vaccinated, their families may not get death benefits they would otherwise have received. New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority no longer pays a $500,000 death benefit to the families of subway, bus and commuter Healthy
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Breast Surgery and Opioids: What You Need to Know
Erica Rimlinger didn’t know what to expect after her mastectomy. But she was feeling pretty anxious about the level of pain she’d be forced to experience. « My doctor gave me diazepam [a non-opioid medication used for anxiety, muscle spasms or seizures] to relax before I came to the hospital, » she recalled. « And then, before they put me under, they had to do a procedure that I wasn’t expecting. » The procedure was a breast biopsy, which involved a needle piercing her Healthy
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Are Therapists Okay? Mental Health Professionals Have Been Overwhelmed by the Pandemic Too
When the world shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health professionals did not. They continued to show up, work, pivot to offering their services online and run their businesses during unprecedented times. With many taking care of their households and families through months of racial unrest, a charged Presidential election and a global pandemic that raged on. “I have experienced the most extreme amounts of burnout during my time as a therapist in the midst of the pandemic shek
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Inspiring Wellness Gifts to Get 2022 Off to a Great Start
At the beginning of every year, a lot of people play the same “new year, new you” game, setting wellness goals for themselves that they hope will last past January 31. I’m sure we are all looking for ways to say goodbye to 2021 and look to next year with a bit of extra TLC for our minds, bodies, and spirits. While you can’t give yourself or your loved ones the fortitude to commit to their health and wellness, we shek
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Managing Postsurgical Pain
A swift and smooth recovery after surgery is critical for anyone, but it’s especially crucial for women, who are likely to be managing many different responsibilities. While there’s a time and place for opioids, there are non-opioid pain management options to treat acute pain after common surgeries for women, like hysterectomies, mastectomies, breast reconstruction and cesarean sections (C-sections). In our new education program, we help you understand effective non-opioid options and how to talk to your healthcare provider about making Healthy
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100 Vibrators We’d Recommend to All Our Friends
We love to recommend vibrators in these parts — wands, bullets, absurd luxury ones and high-tech robot ones. If I’m being honest, this is the closest thing I’ve had to a quarantine hobby (what can I say? I suck at bread-making.) Tell me your zodiac sign, your favorite color and something you find hot and I’ll match you with a vibe. Just call me your sex toy sommelier. We have countless reasons: For one thing, pleasure (solo, in couples, throuples shek
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Why You Need to Advocate for Yourself and Create a Pain Management Treatment Plan Before Surgery
Medically reviewed by Dr. Puja Shah When Heidi Bright underwent a complete hysterectomy for uterine sarcoma in 2009, she was in the hospital for nine days. Striving to be the ideal patient who had the best odds of recovery, Bright did exactly what the doctors told her, which was to rely strictly on opioid painkillers to manage pain after the operation. Opioids are a class of drugs that includes the illegal drug heroin; synthetic versions such as fentanyl; and pain Healthy
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Want to Manage Postsurgical Pain Without Opioids? There Are Other Options.
Dipal Shah had an emergency delivery for her baby. She was put under anesthesia during the complex procedure and awoke in tremendous pain. « I kept pushing the morphine push button. The nurse had to stop me, » the 45-year-old recalled. « They wanted me to take opioids, but after the first day, I was throwing up and nauseated immediately. I couldn’t function. » Shah then switched to ibuprofen, which she used throughout her 12-week recovery. Many doctors are quick to give women like Healthy
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Fast Facts: Alternatives to Opioids for Pain Management After Common Surgeries for Women
Medically reviewed by Dr. Puja Shah Pain levels after surgery are different for everyone, and there are non-opioid pain management options to treat acute pain after common surgeries for women, like hysterectomies, mastectomies, breast reconstruction and cesarean sections (C-sections). Here are some facts to consider when discussing a pain management plan with your healthcare provider (HCP). Women face differences in treatment when compared to men, and are 40% more likely than men to use opioids three to six months after Healthy
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I Recovered From Surgery on My Own Terms
As told to Alex Fulton Like so many things in life, the birth of my first baby didn’t go according to plan. I desperately wanted to deliver vaginally, but I wound up having to have a C-section because my baby had fluid in his lungs, and they needed to get him out quickly. I’d known this could happen, of course, and had done my best to have an open mind about the possibility. And when even my most basic expectation Healthy
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There Are Alternatives to Opioids for Pain After Surgery
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