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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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All You Need to Know About Sleep Paralysis!
According to studies conducted by sleep researchers, sleep paralysis is a result of disturbed and rough movement during the stages of sleep. In most cases, the body movement is not smooth. In some cases sleep paralysis indicates underlying mental health conditions. That’s what researchers think of sleep paralysis. In ancient times many cultures believed that sleep paralysis indicated the presence of a demon. Even today many people believe that it is an act of evil who is wanting to trouble calmsage
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How to switch up negative self-talk
When your inner critic puts you down, stop, recognise it, and flip the statement with these tips Negative self-talk is a trap that many of us can fall into. They’re the niggling comments that creep into our minds when we start to doubt ourselves, or get caught in a shame spiral. And over time they can rub away at our self-esteem, holding us back from achieving our goals and from living a happy and fulfilling life. Often coming hand-in-hand with happi
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UK’s first children’s mental health festival for schools and colleges announced
Young mental health activists will be co-producing the first children’s only mental health festival this coming February Awareness of ill mental health has increased dramatically over recent years. With more and more of us talking about how we are feeling, we’re creating more dialogues and paths towards seeking help and support than ever before. Yet when it comes to children and young people’s mental health, it can be harder to know where to turn. One in six children aged five happi
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Jo Love: Therapy is Magic
Happiful is delighted to share this extract from Jo Love’s incredible new book Therapy is Magic. I’m Jo. I’m 37 years old. I have a great husband and a beautiful daughter who makes me proud every day. I studied and practised law for many years at one of the world’s premier law firms. I have an undeniably privileged and comfortable life and, as a white, privately-schooled, university-educated, heterosexual, cisgender woman in the UK, my experiences, by many objective measures, have happi
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How to recognise when you’re languishing (and start flourishing)
Feeling a bit ‘meh’? We’ve all been there – but you don’t have to stay feeling stuck in a rut. Here, we explore how to break free from languishing Imagine a line. At one end is depression and the other, flourishing. Where would you put yourself right now? This continuum can be a helpful tool to recognise where we are in terms of our mental wellbeing, but there’s another expression we need to add. Sitting at the centre of this happi
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Trichotillomania: Understanding The Urge To Pull Your Hair Out
Do you know of someone who constantly or repeatedly pulls their hair out? I once had a friend in school who would pull her hair out which later started to look like she had a receding hairline. She would always pull our hair from her forehead. I would always wonder why would someone do something like that? Only now that I realise that she must have been dealing with trichotillomania. Did you know that repeatedly pulling your hair out is calmsage