What Your Pharmacist Doesn’t Know about Plan B

January 18, 2014January 18, 2014 ~ Pharmer

The folks at a major healthcare professional education provider were scooped by Mother Jones and, prior to that, by yours truly, regarding the ineffectiveness of Plan B ONE-STEP for the bigger girls.

They had to update their not so good analysis of the morning after pills and …. it’s still not so good. If they were offering compensation, yours truly would tell them more, but this example is blogged to illustrate a single point. The public should know that their busy health care professionals are treated like mushrooms: kept in the dark and fed B.S. concerning birth control in general.

Pharmacists have to think about a concept of steady state when asked by physicians to dose antibiotics and other drugs, or if they work in the field of drug development. Steady state is the condition during which the intake of a drug is in a sort of equilibrium with the output or the elimination of the drug. This assumes regular dosing of the drug. Steady state generally occurs after several doses and after about 5 times the half life of the drug. Ideally drug levels at steady state are high enough to be effective, and low enough to be ‘non-toxic’.

Casting about for the reason why Plan B ONE STEP doesn’t work in American women of average size or greater, the team at this Professional Education Provider, led by N B O’ Pharm.D., BCPS,wrote the following:

“The exact mechanism for the reduced efficacy seen in overweight and obese women using levonorgestrel is not known. One proposed mechanism is that in women with an increased BMI, there is a delay in time to steady state and a prolonged half-life as seen in studies with combined oral contraceptives.^21″

This nonsensically applied idea was blamed on the article below, which covered birth control hormones in general, and addressed the drugs that females take orally every day, or those which continuously supply hormone(s) to the body, such as patches and depot injections.

Edelman AB, Cherala G, Stanczyk FZ. Metabolism and pharmacokinetics of contraceptive steroids in obese women: a review. Contraception 2010;82:314-23.

Some poor PharmD educator is talking about STEADY STATE with respect to a drug which is taken in a single dose : Plan B ONE STEP!!

Steady State Never Happens with a single such dose!

This is just a single example but it illustrates the point.

1) Most of your health care professionals are generally lost in the weeds regarding birth control, and don’t know what they’re talking about. That includes the ones who really SHOULD know what they’re talking about.

Bonus) Be assured that birth control generally does not work as well in real life as the studies claim, and many factors contribute to this.

Please consider adjusting life style and reproductive planning with at least these two facts in mind.

Call a Waaaaaaaaaaambulance: Congressional Staffers Fret About Obamacare

January 17, 2014 ~ Pharmer ~ 3 Comments

A Congressional Management Foundation survey reveals that Congressional aides in Washington DC, who make between $95,000 and $170,000 yearly are fretting over the cost and coverage of Obamacare. One staffer commented: “Everyone felt as if we were pawns in this political argument,” says The Politico.

Remember, these are the people who write the regulations emanating from the multi-thousand page “Affordable” Care Act. They’re feeling put upon by the cost of Obamacare, even though the Feds are subsidizing 75% of their cost.

The bureaucrats and legislators of the federal government are living in a dream world. How can they complain about any aspect of the bill which they are inflicting on Americans, whose median family income dropped to $51,017 as of Sept 2013?

The federal subsidy for these Washington bureaucrats is funded by the very families who are only making half or a third of their salary. How do the idiots in government think Obamacare, or the subsequently planned single payer plan, is going to work????

A Gift from Obama for Notre Dame

January 2, 2014 ~ Pharmer ~ 1 Comment

After inviting the new “messiah” to bless the graduating students, Notre is receiving the gift of golden rain from above as recompense for their hospitality, four and a half years ago.

While awaiting the final results of a judicial decision on the HHS mandate to pay for birth control / abortion / sterilization, a judge is making them choose between paying $100 per day fine per employee, or bending over in acquiescence to the government.

Notre Dame appears to be bending over.

Expect worse “gifts” from the anti-messiah. He’s not done with the U.S. yet.

Compare and Contrast these Home “Health Care” Attempts.

January 2, 2014January 2, 2014 ~ Pharmer ~ 1 Comment

A couple charged and may face Jail in New York for illegal home neutering of a dog and cat. The animals are said to have required extensive veterinary attention after the botched “amateur” operations.

Women on Waves purports that do it yourself home abortion is sufficiently safe using misopristil. The results of such attempts can be disastrous for the women.

In California, non physicians are now permitted do surgery on women, if it’s a vacuum aspiration abortion.This is despite the fact that women sometimes need extensive care in a hospital when the procedure is botched, even if it is done by a “physician”.

FOX News -Not Leading Edge News Source for Pro-lifers

January 1, 2014 ~ Pharmer

A good number of social conservatives regard FOX news as fair and balanced, and a good source of news that other networks choose to lose. This has sometimes, but not always been the case.

It used to be that when a pro-life health care professional was fired, demoted or suffered other kinds of discrimination for their refusal to kill patients, almost no news coverage would result.

Breaking into the news on this issue required the development and use of the internet. Once the information reached critical mass there, it was then possible to get some mainstream media attention. In other words, it had to become sufficiently common knowledge before the media would feel obligated to cover it.

Once the news about being fired for refusing to dispense abortive drugs had sufficient internet attention, and made a few local news papers, and the American Center for Law and Justice put out a press release about a lawsuit, then Bill O’Reilly got interested enough to cover it. Actually many local FOX news reporters inquired and attempted to set up interviews, but their EDITORS could never find the time or means for them to follow up. Instead, FOX news generally left it to NBC,CBS and ABC (and international media) to cover the desire to avoid chemically killing unborn humans as a freak show.

In an interesting contrast, FOX has decided to extensively cover a Nurse who was fired before Christmas for refusing a flu vaccine because she is pregnant. She was fearful of using an vaccines during her current pregnancy because of a recent history of miscarriages. She cites the comparative lack of studies of flu vaccine use during pregnancy. (It’s not uncommon for vaccines to go into general use without extensive safety and efficacy data in various subpopulations.)

Your friendly Pharmer would not be using the flu vaccine at this time of life, if it were not a job requirement. It is possible through personal hygiene practices to significantly reduce the likelihood of infection. Most vaccines, (which confer only partial protection against disease) are more helpful for the people who do not exercise a knowledge of infectious processes in their daily living habits. Kids who are too young to be personally hygienic can benefit from certain vaccines, for example. The population whose Mamas did not teach to wash their hands after going potty would obtain significant overall benefits from such a public health program. Where cleanliness is not possible as a means to prevent disease, the vaccines confer the most benefit. As the “environmental engineering” departments inside hospitals become defunded, due to the crunch of socialized medicine, and the filth becomes apparent to the naked eye, vaccines will become more and more necessary in the United States.

Pharmer feels empathy for the nurse who was fired on Dec 17th, likely after she blew the big dollars on various Christmas preparations. This is basically due to a instinct towards freedom, bodily autonomy, and the right to choose one’s own form of hygiene, as well as having gotten the boot at a similar time of year.
Pharmer is happy that FOX decided to cover the story, so that people can see the heavy hand of governments and corporations encroaching on personal bodily integrity. Prayers for Ms. Dreonna Breton, for her baby-on-board, and her future job prospects in nursing.

Pharmer is still wondering which government bodies and advertisers stopped FOX News from similarly covering those pro-lifers who were fired for refusing to dispense chemically abortive drugs, and left the stories to all of the other U.S. and international media outlets. The decision by FOX News and the U.S. Catholic Bishops to ignore this issue is the reason that that we now face the spectre of the HHS mandate (temporarily stayed by Justice Sonia Sotomayor last night), which will force participating U.S. citizens to be complicit in birth control, sterilization and abortion practices, despite their religious beliefs.

Go to your alternative media for the news that FOX chooses to lose. Lifenews is growing by leaps and bounds, and as an important source of info and events which get NO coverage elsewhere, is worth your attention, and perhaps your monetary support.

Supreme Court Justice Delays HHS Mandate

January 1, 2014January 1, 2014 ~ Pharmer ~ 1 Comment

The Little Sisters of the Poor who run a Home for the Aged in Denver, requested an emergency stay of the HHS mandate, forcing religious organizations to pay for birth control / sterilization / abortion. After a federal appeals court failed to respond, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor decided late on New Years Eve to block this requirement of Obamacare. Government officials have until 10am Friday morning to respond.

Sotomayor’s decision excuses the religious organizations from being forced to comply with the birth control / abortion / sterilization mandate while the Supreme Court addresses the issue.

Options for Patients Who are Dodging Obamacare

December 26, 2013 ~ Pharmer

A website called selfpaypatient.com has useful info for people who wish to avoid signing up for Obamacare. There are a number of other options for covering health care expenses, including health care sharing ministries. Some people who are serious about avoiding plans that cover abortion choose those options. There are four or five of these, with most open to practicing Christians, and one which is open to anyone who agrees with their commitment to religious liberty.

Visit the website to learn of more options for self pay and catastrophic coverage, which can save a person from bankruptcy, should disaster arise. Pharmer is keeping a link on the sidebar, as a public service.

Sebelius Met with Obama Rarely in 3 Years before Rollout of Obamacare

December 5, 2013December 11, 2013 ~ Pharmer

How can we KNOW that the White house directed IRS persecution of right wing organizations? Because IRS Commissioner, Douglas Shulman, visited the White house 157 times during the Obama administration, more than any other cabinet member. Smashing the Tea Party was uppermost in Obama’s mind. Click the link above for more detailed comparison data.

It was MUCH more important to him than the success of Obamacare. We know this because Obama appears to have only met face to face with Kathleen Sebelius ONCE during the 3.5 years before the Obamacare website rollout. This data comes from the Government Accountability Institute’s analysis of the official White house calender and the Politico records of his meetings.

The first link compares White house visits during 2 years up to the 2012 elections, and it shows Sebelius visiting the White house 50 times compared to Shulman’s 157 visits. In any case, the difference is HUGE enough to know what is most important to the Obamanator, and it certainly isn’t the health and well being of the American people.

recreational drugs

December 1, 2013December 11, 2013 ~ Pharmer

Certainly if Obamacare forces taxpayers to cover birth control drugs, then other recreational drugs such as marijuana, LSD, methamphetamine, cathinone derivatives, cocaine, beer, and of course TOBACCO, should also be covered.

It’s fun to hear leftists say that birth control drugs are not recreational……. which means that to them, sex is more work than pleasure.

Bummer for them 😉

Obama Administration Revving Up for Christmas

November 30, 2013December 11, 2013 ~ Pharmer

The first Christmas Present from Obama is to delay the Obamacare Mandate for Small businesses (unilaterally, without an act of Congress) so that fewer people will find out how much his health-kill plan sux until after the 2014 elections. The other reason for the delay is that these incompetents could not get the website up and running in time to implement the requirements of the law as it was written. The delayed, Dec 1 deadline also can’t be met. This should increase your longing for a totally socialized system, with the current administration of idiots running it.

visit thepeoplescube.com — Obama Evil Santa from **The People’s Cube**

You can head to The People’s Cube to find out the 12 burdens of Obamacare that SantObama has for us… in a parody of the classic song.

Evil SantObama’s IRS is now auditing a cancer patient who dared to tell Fox news that his insurance policy had been cancelled because of Obamacare. The man’s luck changed when insurance company subsequently found a way for him to keep a policy, but the IRS is going to audit his 2009 books and punish an insurance broker, who dared to lend him assistance, with an audit back to 2003.

visit http://theloonkingspoon.com — Take your Medicine **-The Looking Spoon**

The message is that you are to keep silent while Obama screws your life away.