Earlier today, manang B (for those asking, her name’s not Beyoncé), our house metformin weight loss pcos help told me there was something wrong with her left eye and that it kept twitching! I chuckled and told her that it is most likely because she stays up all night watching those cheesy soap operas on television. Funny thing, she answered back and said that she might have eaten something (like a bread or fruit perhaps) that the mouse has nibbled on. I thought, What the– how silly is that! And I rolled my eyes. Manang was simply referring to eyelid spasms, which you and I are also experiencing from time to time.
Eyelid spasms, may it be an eyelid twitch, blepharospasm or hemifacial spasm, are small muscle spasms in the upper or lower eyelid. These involuntary spasms of the muscles surrounding the eye are most of the time harmless. But in extreme cases, however, they can also be a sign for an underlying condition.
Generally, some of its causes are the following:
Here are a few remedies for eye twitching:
In extreme cases, injection of botulinum or surgery will be required. Botulinum is the same as botox, which is one of the most common treatments used eyelid spasms while surgery is a neurosurgical procedure that would relieve the pressure of the artery on the nerve. Both are beneficial in treating eyelid spasms yet they also have some side effects. Well, before jumping to conclusions that soon, someone will be sticking a needle on you why not just consult your doctor for correct and further prescription.
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Rainy days are here to stay so you need to protect your health twice as much. You see, everyone had at least one experience of having flu and a lot may even think that it is just a simple cough and colds that would probably go away after a day or two. However, flu may also lead to a more serious matter if complications arise.
To be able to avoid these things from happening, few and simple measures are advised to be done. As for flu being caused by a virus, antibiotics are not the recommended first aid. Here are a few tips you might want to note down:
There is actually no need to spend a lot of money on fighting flu. The best way to treat it is to take these simple tips as soon as the flu symptoms appear. Exercise, eat right and load up on Vit C to protect your health. For those who would rather spend a little more, you can opt for a yearly flu shot.
We all love the holidays and want to them to be a truly enjoyable and rewarding experience. As a result, we tend to spend a great deal of time and effort engaging in various activities trying to make the time period extra special. Our desire to have the best holidays possible often delivers a result more ironic than O’Henry’s Gift of the Magi. Instead of enjoying the holiday season, we spend it in stress, worrying about how to make our holidays perfect.
One of the chief causes of holiday stress is that gnawing feeling that the things you must do are going to outstrip your available time. Shopping, cooking, packing, wrapping and decorating suddenly fill what used to be your free time. Special holiday events and parties may begin to pepper your schedule, too. You fear being the crazed shopper banging on closed shop doors on Christmas Eve or are certain you will be forced to take the family out for a Chinese dinner because there is simply no way to get everything done!
There are many great resources providing quality hints and tips to reduce holiday stress, and if you feel yourself experiencing a great deal of pressure in December, you should definitely find some of these materials and consider the myriad of great ideas to make your winters easier. In addition to the many great suggestions these sources provide, there are a few basic steps you can take to make your to-do list seem more manageable and to reduce your stress level.
Adjust Your Expectations. Some may benefit from simply readjusting their expectations of the holidays. Instead of concerning yourself with every Christmas detail, you can reduce your stress level by focusing on the parts of the holidays that are most meaningful and important to you and placing less emphasis on other aspects of the season.
By readjusting your expectations and goals for the holidays, you can reduce time pressures considerably. A focus on what matters most to you insures that you will not spend precious hours involving yourself in activities and projects that are really not part of your “core” holiday goals.
Start Early. We often laugh at the fact Christmas decorations tend to go up in shopping malls right after Halloween decorations disappear. Although we don’t necessarily need to take the not-so-subtle message of holiday commercialization to heart, we can learn a little bit something from the early decoration trend. By starting our holiday preparations early, we can reduce the amount of pressure and stress we experience during the holiday season.
It may seem unusual, but it really is okay to check whether or not the Christmas lights are working before the day you plan on decorating. And there’s no reason you can’t spend a little idle time in November doing a big of holiday shopping. By doing some of your “required” tasks early, you can avoid the feeling of being in a rush in late December.
Follow Santa’s Lead. Santa Claus, the song tells us, makes a list and checks it twice. If he left delivery of millions of toys up to his memory, he would probably be the North Pole’s most stressed resident. You can learn an important lesson from Santa Claus and can create your own organized list of holiday tasks and chores.
Although you may not want to over-regulate yourself, it is a good idea to make a pretty detailed list of everything you’ll need to do in preparation for the holidays. If you can produce this list early, you will be able to schedule out events in a reasonable manner, making sure you are not caught up in the hustle and bustle that makes the holidays so frustrating for some people.
Have a stress-free Holiday!
All of us fear something – maybe one or two things. Some people fear heights, water, enclosed places, frogs etc. If you google it, there is this looooooooong list of phobias- from A to Z! Do you know there is this thing called Cacophobia – which is fear of ugliness. LOL. So, okay I have arachnophobia. I know most spiders are harmless but I have to admit, I really am a little Miss Muffet. How arachnophobic am I? I’m terrified at the sight of spiders. One look at a tiny spider makes me shiver. Even those tiny “jumpers” and daddy-long-legs freak me out. How much more if I see a tarantula? Yikes, I will surely faint! :-S Well, I naturally hate spiders. No bad experience, no nothing like that. I just don’t like them at all. I don’t like plastic spiders either. :p
What I do when I see spiders? I whack them with rolled news papers, slippers or anything I can get hold of. I like my room sealed. No holes, no vents, no cracks on the walls. I get squeamish at the idea of kids playing with spiders. I don’t like cobwebs around the house. As much as possible I keep my place clean. Like squeaky clean. I don’t like people teasing me with spiders. I whack them with newspaper too or sometimes with a firewood 
Have you seen a big, dark brown one around your house that sort of looks like the brown recluse spider? Its body is as the size of your thumb, with long legs and sometimes carrying a sack of white cottony whatever thingy, probably her eggs. Now that one really can freak me out big time and can definitely scare the hell out of me. Armed with a broom and a huge can of bug spray, I think a hundred times on how to attack it. Seriously, it’s like I’m making my own battle plan. I call reinforcement if I have to. Well, okay so I usually call for help first.
So glad I found this:
SPIDERS 101: Keeping spiders at bay
OK — so you’ve tossed the spiders out of the house. Now how do you keep them out?
Turns out it’s not so easy.
“There are no sure, long-lasting control measures for spiders,” Vetter writes. The best defense, experts say, is to create a home that’s not hospitable to them. To that end, there are several things you can do:
1. Close the door. “Try to close all of those openings that a spider can come into,” Zack says. Walk around your house and think like a spider: Where could you slink in? Spiders frequently use the door — or the gaps around one, Brown says. “If you can see daylight around the door, it’s not a good seal.” Check whether screens are repaired.
Now look more closely around the house’s base. Air vents should be covered in fine hardware mesh that allows for circulation but keeps spiders out. Seal cracks in the foundation. Weep holes around pipes should be stuffed with steel wool, caulked or filled with foam. “That really will go a long way toward solving your problems,” Zack says.
2. Pull it back. Everybody likes a smooth path toward home. That goes for spiders, too. Deny them that. Trim shrubs adjacent to your house. That “will discourage spiders from first taking up residence near the structure and then moving indoors,” according to the University of California. And look up: Cut back tree limbs several feet from the house, Brown says. (That’s also good advice for keeping squirrels at bay.)
3. Clean up your act. “Both inside and outside, you want to just eliminate as much debris as possible,” Zack says. Why? Spiders generally don’t like wide open spaces. They prefer to hole up in dark little nooks and crannies. Behind stuff. In between things. Under clutter. “Human beings are very, very good at creating ideal situations for critters that were intended to live out of doors,” Zack says. When you remove hiding places, you make a place less inviting.
Outside: If possible, get rid of woodpiles (especially next to the house), tin cans, piles of cardboard and plywood. “Those are perfect places for insects,” Zack says.
Inside: Don’t make a pile of shoes in the closet — that’s practically an apartment complex for a spider — but instead hang them on one of those back-of-door shoe hangers, Zack says. Keep items from accumulating on the floor, including books. “Don’t allow things to build up,” Zack says. “Those are great habitats for spiders.
“A little organization will go a long way to helping to eliminate the problem.”
4. Take away their food. You can’t take away everything spiders dine on, experts say. But you can remove some of the obvious insects that make your home a supermarket. For instance, some outdoor lighting attracts insects, which then attracts spiders. “If possible, keep lighting fixtures off structures and away from windows and doorways,” says the University of California.
Next, figure out whether you have insects in the house, from flies to earwigs to fruit flies — and determine how to reduce their numbers, Brown says. If you have a lot of flies inside, you can reduce your spider population by fixing your screens, covering food and taking out the trash more often.
5. Take the fight to the bedroom. Small children and infants can be more vulnerable to the bites of spiders. And small children also spend more time in bed, where spiders seem to like to hang out. (Some brown recluse bites occur when a sleeping person rolls over on one, trapping it, says the University of California.) If you’re nervous about spiders in the bedroom, try these simple strategies:
6. Spray anyway? “If you are seriously afraid, and you do have problems with spiders — say you have an old home and you can’t close all of those openings — then I would talk to a reputable pest-control operator,” Zack says. A company can put perimeter sprays around the house — barriers that the spiders can’t cross, at least until the sprays wear off with time and weather.
Inside, the pros have “sorptive dusts containing amorphous silica gel (silica aerogel) and pyrethrins,” according to the University of California. Those dust particles dry out the spiders and insects that they touch. “When applied as a dustlike film and left in place, a sorptive dust provides permanent protection against spiders. The dust is most advantageously used in cracks and crevices and in attics, wall voids and other enclosed or unused places.
Do you think I like spiderman? Hmn, let’s just say I’m a batman kind of person.
What’s your phobia? Share it with me or better yet, find your Phobia here!
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.”
— H.P. Lovecraft
You’re free to sing-a-long
I’m just a little bit caught in the middle
Life is a maze and love is a riddle
I don’t know where to go I can’t do it alone I’ve tried
And I don’t know why
Slow it down
Make it stop
Or else my heart is going to pop
‘Cause it’s too much
Yeah, it’s a lot
To be something I’m not
I’m a fool
Out of love
‘Cause I just can’t get enough
I’m just a little bit caught in the middle
Life is a maze and love is a riddle
I don’t know where to go I can’t do it alone I’ve tried
And I don’t know why
I’m just a little girl lost in the moment
I’m so scared but I don’t show it
I can’t figure it out
It’s bringing me down I know
I’ve got to let it go
And just enjoy the show
The sun is hot
In the sky
Just like a giant spotlight
The people follow the sign
And synchronize in time
It’s a joke
Nobody knows
They’ve got a ticket to that show
Yeah
I’m just a little bit caught in the middle
Life is a maze and love is a riddle
I dont know where to go I can’t do it alone I’ve tried
And I don’t know why
I’m just a little girl lost in the moment
I’m so scared but I don’t show it
I can’t figure it out
It’s bringing me down I know
I’ve got to let it go
And just enjoy the show
Just enjoy the show
I’m just a little bit caught in the middle
Life is a maze and love is a riddle
I dont know where to go I can’t do it alone I’ve tried
And I don’t know why
I’m just a little girl lost in the moment
I’m so scared but I don’t show it
I can’t figure it out
It’s bringing me down I know
I’ve got to let it go
And just enjoy the show
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dudum de dum
Just enjoy the show
dum de dum
dudum de dum
Just enjoy the show
I want my money back
I want my money back
I want my money back
Just enjoy the show
I want my money back
I want my money back
I want my money back
Just enjoy the show
