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There are a wide array of medications that people of all types take every day. But let’s not forget about man’s best friend. Dogs and other nonhuman animals can often enjoy the same benefits of taking those medications as humans do.

The same diseases

Dogs and other pets have to deal with many of the same diseases and conditions that humans do. Autoimmune diseases, asthma, allergies, rejected transplant organs, kidney disorders, and even traumatic conditions such as spinal cord injury, anaphylactic reactions, and shock are just a few that we as humans have in common with our best friends. Makes sense that we would be able to treat these diseases in a similar way, seeing as how dogs share over 90% of our DNA.

The same drug

There is a drug that works to suppress the immune system by replacing a corticosteroid the adrenal gland naturally produces. You might wonder why anyone would want to suppress their immune system, but people with the conditions we just mentioned, like autoimmune diseases, want just that. Suppressing the immune system also works to reduce inflammation, bringing relief to asthma and arthritis sufferers. This drug has several serious side effects, but the improvement in the daily quality of life make those side effects worth it to many people, and now, many dogs too.

The body has a natural way of doing things. The liver turns out an active steroid called prednisolone. If one has the right amount of prednisolone in the body-it could be human, dog, ferret, or squirrel body-the adrenal glad will stop making more and the immune system will return to normal operation.

Here’s just a partial list of the conditions affecting pet animals that this drug can help:

• Asthma
• Allergies
• Lupus
• Arthritis
• Mononucleosis
• Kidney disease
• Pancreas disease

It is also used as a cancer treatment. Especially for leukemia, which is extraordinarily common in cats, this drug is excellent. It is an essential part of treating leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma in humans. [...]

Most medicines for conditions such as depression, anxiety, and panic disorder don’t come in the perfect dose. Mood altering drugs such as these are not like antibiotics. They have a subtle effect on body chemistry, while also being potentially very dangerous. That’s why doctors tinker and monitor doses so often. They have to figure out just how much (or little) medicine you need for it to do the trick. There are a few reasons for this.

High doses:

• Increase your chances of experiencing harmful side effects
• Are more likely to harm your body
• Make it more addictive
• Take a longer time to come off of

This does not mean you should settle for the dose at which you feel something. There is very little point in taking a potentially harmful medicine if you aren’t going to get much of a benefit. When you consider that the potential to really help is so high, then you almost have to fiddle with the dose to get the most from it. However, only do so with help from your doctor. Because you could run into some serious health problems, you should talk to the men and women who spent years of hard study on these topics.

Why do you have to tinker in the first place? Because every body is different and everyone’s condition is unique.

Modifying your Regimen

There are essentially two ways to go about this:

1. Changing dosage size
2. Changing dosage frequency

It would be too general to say that modifying dosage size increases the effect and increasing dosage frequency makes the effect last longer. In fact, while increasing size usually makes the drugs effect stronger, it might not be the effect desired. It may simply strengthen side effects while not making you any less anxious. However, if they are not the most dangerous side effects, you may want to push on in order to relieve anxiety.

These drugs only stay in the blood stream with effect for a certain number of hours. With dose frequency, the trick becomes controlling the times that the effect of each dose overlaps. Even though you are only taking a few milligrams, if you take the doses 6 times a day, you could have some overlap in which the level of the drug in your body is dangerously high. However, if you can schedule a slight overlap for the times when you feel the most anxiety – say, the first two hours of work – then you can make this work for you. DO NOT TRY TO DO THIS ON YOUR OWN. You have to work with a doctor who is conducting blood tests. [...]

This is one of those stories in which science and common sense seem to overlap. It should not surprise us that anxiety may be a contributing factor to heart problems. We’ve seen all too many movies and TV plots where the victim gets all stressed and, clutching his or her chest, then falls over moaning, “My heart is finally giving up my ghost.” or words to that effect. Anyway, there’s new research suggesting the way people are treated if they have an anxiety disorder may change their chances of survival. So, before we continue, here’s a little challenge for you. Just what do you think the relationship is between anxiety and heart attacks?

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is increasingly severe worry without any specific cause. So, before you have a stroke or heart attack, the link is less clear. How are we to decide whether you have heart disease because you smoke, or are overweight, or have a poor level of health and never exercise, or have a general level of anxiety in your life? But once you have an “incident”, this will naturally give you a real health problem to worry about. To that extent, the GAD stops being generalized and becomes the entirely understandable fear of death from a further “incident”. Now there really is a choice to be made by the doctors treating you to decide what balance to strike in the treatment for the heart and the anxiety problems. But before the “incident”…

Recent research out of Holland followed just over one-thousand people whose health was less than perfect, but all had a stable heart. Of them 10% had GAD. Over time, the risk of heart attacks was 75% higher for those with GAD. This is not the first time research has shown anxiety as a major contributing cause of strokes and heart attacks but, because of the problems of identifying cause and effect, the results are not yet scientifically convincing. You first have to eliminate all the other contributing factors. Nevertheless, if you are young and have GAD, it may be worth having a full health check-up including your cardiovascular system. Just because these scientists are not convinced does not mean you should not protect yourself against the possibility. [...]

Chronic pain is a problem that affects million of men and women all over the globe. This problem is associated with a wide range of medical conditions that require serious treatment and a lot of time for recovery. And it’s obvious that people are looking for various ways to relieve chronic pain effectively. It is estimated that between 50 and 80 million US citizens are dealing with chronic pain problems on a regular basis. If the condition behind pain symptoms is treated at an earlier stage then it will be much easier to relief the pain itself. But if the problem is left untreated, the pain will last for longer periods of time and will be much harder to deal with in the future.

Chronic pain has been in focus of many healthcare specialists for decades, and now there are new techniques and methods for relieving this problem. There are many effective drugs developed and special therapies such as electrical and magnetic stimulation, which are used throughout the world. The choice of treatment method is often linked to the actual cause behind the problem.

Chronic pain can be caused by injuries to muscles, joints and blood vessels. It can also be induced by other health conditions such as diabetes, cancer, arthritis or shingles. Sometimes chronic pain is not the only problem, as acute pain attacks can also occur without any evident reason, while chronic pain is not observed. No matter what is the problem you’re suffering from, you should seek medical assistance as soon as possible to find an effective solution for relieving the condition. [...]

If you are struggling with chronic pain, you know how debilitating it can be. Add to that the stricter controls on prescription medication, the rise in pain killer addiction, and a health care industry that isn’t so quick to dole out the meds, and you will have yourself a real problem. When it comes to pain management, patients are not often given the immediate care they need, as tests and doctor’s visits will first be needed to rule out any underlying conditions. The problem is that pain doesn’t wait for test results to come back, so if you are suffering from serious pain, you want relief fast. Use this article to see if you can find treatment options for your chronic pain that will give you relief much sooner than your doctor may be able to.

For many patients suffering from chronic pain, narcotic pain medication is sometimes the first method of attack when it comes to treatment. The reason for this is that if underlying issues or a diagnosis may be a long time coming, relief is given to manage the symptom of pain while waiting for more information. The problem with this is that these medications have a very high rate of addiction, and so while you are waiting for one problem to be solved, you are essentially creating another. So what can you do for your chronic pain?

You can take comfort in the fact that narcotic pain medication is not your only option when it comes to relief. Additional treatment for pain is available through non-opioid analgesic medication, to alternative therapies such as yoga or meditation. When you use more than one pain relief method together, you will find the comfort and relaxation you need from your pain.

Common alternative therapies for pain include a wide variety of options. Massage therapy, acupuncture, biofeedback, electric analgesia, ultrasound, and paraffin wax are all methods being used more and more frequently today as options over prescription relief. You may find even that your insurance company or HMO will cover options such as chiropractic care or acupuncture, and this will relieve not only your pain, but your wallet as well.

Herbal supplements and remedies are also becoming a very popular alternative to prescription pain relief. These you will find are not often covered by insurance, but with the cost of these options comes the relief of coming out of that prison of pain. The best way to get the most effective alternative remedies for pain is to visit a naturopath or alternative healer that specializes in these options. If you are able to find a naturopath that is also an M.D., you will have the added benefit of being under the care of a medical doctor while undergoing alternative therapy. [...]