This just happened live on CNN. McCain mentioned Barney Frank, the crowd booed and jeered loudly, and a plump man in a pink shirt behind McCain clearly mouthed "Barney FAG". It was clearly shown on CNN. Once again, McCain and Palin are riling up the hatemongers.
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
McHoppedUp Hothead
JohnInTexas
· 1 year ago
I've taken Ambien for years...We don't need a President who takes Ambien. I've slept through 2 tornadoes, countless phone calls, peed in the bathroom sink...McPappy would never hear the 3 a.m. phone call more than likely, so it would be up to VP Palin to take that one...yikes
benb
· 1 year ago
This is serious stuff. I heard a noise in the kitchen one night and went to investigate. When I turned on the light I found the boyfriend seated at the kitchen table eating ice cream with his eyes closed. He didn't remember a thing the next day. Ambien amnesia.
lutton
· 1 year ago
>>I missed it. Reading it yesterday for the first time, my jaw dropped.
me too...I did not know that...
Kansaskitty
· 1 year ago
Ambien is not for everyone for sure. My hubby got a prescription for it when he was going thru some bad times, he took it one night and said never again. He was zombified the entire next day and felt very weird. Didn't like it one bit. Just what we need - a zombie president. Sort of like we have now. Dangerous.
JohnInTexas
· 1 year ago
It takes more than one night to know if it works the way it is supposed to. It took a couple of weeks before I got up the next day without feeling a little bit of a hangover. I never felt any type of side effect longer than an hour after getting up the next morning and even then, that was only the first couple of weeks. If McCain has been taking it for awhile and Ambien is causing his odd behavior, his doctor should take him off of it, unless the Ambien is not the cause, which I suspect it isn't. He goes to bed at 6 p.m....so anytime you see him speaking at 7 or 8 (or debate at 8 p.m.), that's like anyone else who stays up 2 hours past their normal bedtime would be. He has a problem, but I doubt it's his night time med, probably what he takes when he gets up in the morning (or the crappy food he eats, hardly healthy for an old man)
lucky hussein
· 1 year ago
agree with this posting, although stopping Ambien won't make McSame a good candidate..
RIPWAMU
· 1 year ago
Everyone needs to go to CNN.com and watch the live video feed of the McSame/Barbie town hall which is turning into a lynching of Obama.
MC_Haiku
· 1 year ago
Jesus - I have two good friends in AA who were Ambien addicts - they would do all kinds of shit in ambien blackouts. That is a very dangerous drug.
OlderButWiser
· 1 year ago
This truly should be broadcast extensively. And that "energy drink?" Palin must have brought down some meth from Wasilla...
All of it just makes McBush seem scarier.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
Oh this is just lovely. It sounds like this drug could cause McSame to do all sorts of shit that we don't need. My god it's like Chimpy on ludes or something.
Well Ms Thang Cindy knows a thing or two about addiction. Maybe she is his pusher.
Cjeffery
· 1 year ago
This is totally of subject but this problem has been going on for a while. I live in a small town and my little brothers go to high school here. Well almost every day teachers tell them that Obama is a terriosit, Muslim or just weird. They have McCain signs up in the school but refuses to put up any obama signs. Today my little brother got a recording on his cell phone of one of the teachers saying it. Sense school's receive state and federal funding would this not be a violation of the hatch act?
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
get photos and send a copy of the voice mail
Cjeffery
· 1 year ago
He has photo's I'm waiting for him to e-mail me the video. He just gotout of school. the teacher also used the N word. But he states it is kind of cut off. He says his friend got a video also. This was a ART teacher. This is in rural MO.
Ambien? Oh, my! Plastic pacifier mind altering toxic biomedical waste in a pill. This is not a good thing. The warnings have been out there for ages. Senator Kennedy had to go to de-tox because of the Ambien thing. Is that all Our Lords & Masters have? Whatever happened to sipping a nice glass of wine at bedtime? or just a plain cup of Ovaltine? Is our world so unsettled, so unable to cope that Ambien plastic trance is the only remedy? The least we could do would be to normalize marihuana for anxiety and discomfort. It's organic.
OlderButWiser
· 1 year ago
Frankly, I'm 67 and a joint an hour before bedtime does it for me. : )
jcgraham77
· 1 year ago
my problem is i wake up a few hours later and few joints later wildly talking about nothing with nobody there...
ms elyse
· 1 year ago
Me too. I do that and I am out for the night.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Wall Streeters normally accustomed to paying top dollar for top ganj are now willing to pay cheaper fees for an inferior stash.
I have taken Ambien and it can knock you completely out and it is hard to be alert in the morning(unless you sleep until noon). McCain probably already takes other medication like pain meds so when you combine that with a sleep medication most people over 40 would have issues let alone a person over 70.
brb915
· 1 year ago
My mother was a caregiver for an elderly lady who took this stuff---she only took half her prescribed dose and she would sleep from 9 at night to 12-1 the next day. A couple times my mother became so concerned she called the paramedics because of her inaility to wake this woman. Guess what----------------this woman was in her mid seventies
JohnInTexas
· 1 year ago
Jesus, some people HAVE to take it. Most of you don't have a clue what you're talking about. You sound like it's LSD or something, get a fucking grip. And surprise, Google is not the most accurate place to get your information, ask your own doctor.
OlderButWiser
· 1 year ago
Sorry, JohninTexas. but just because it's a pharmeceutical doesn't make it less dangerous, especially in someone McCain's age. I imagine he already takes a pill cocktail every day as it is, with his health history. In NC, people who undergo traffic stops and determined to be using narcotic drugs for chronic illnesses are required to taske a special class to see if they are fit to drive. Happened to my 32 yr old neighbor who has many health issues. Seems it would be appropriate for someone who has a finger on the red button as well.
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
Rob quoted the letter from the maker of the drug. And it's irrelevant if people "have" to take it. Then those people shouldn't be president of the United States of America.
JohnInTexas
· 1 year ago
My reference to the "don't have a clue" are the speculators who "I tried it once and it made me skin rabbits and see flying saucers" mindset. I stated in my post earlier we did NOT want a president who has to take or takes Ambien, see below. I'm sure those of us to HAVE to take it wouldn't be allowed near the Whitehouse if anyone knew the reason we had to take it, mainly the HIV med makes sleep very difficult for some so whatever works to get sleep is what the doctor prescribes.
brb915
· 1 year ago
read my post above JIT----I witnessed this stuff myself---------If you are perfectly okay with the President of these United States of America being on a pharmeceutical that impairs his ability to handle a crisis at WHATEVER time of day i happens to be, you are the one who needs a grip. Some people were told they had to take VIoxx and Accutane too-------look at the debacle that became
JohnInTexas
· 1 year ago
read my post from down below...I SAID WE DID NOT WANT A PRESIDENT WHO TAKES AMBIEN
C'Mon, everybody knows ALL RIGHTWINGERS ARE DRUG-ADDICTS (except for the righties who are child-abusers and pedophiles).
lucky hussein
· 1 year ago
OT, but, an Oct surprise is coming... voter fraud, acorn, etc...
DCinDC
· 1 year ago
Check to make sure you are registered to vote at your voter registration office! The GOP is reducing the voter registration rolls.
Styve
· 1 year ago
Good point, but the fact that this is coming out now, and that it seems an obvious GOPloy, tells me that is could be an intentional distraction to obscure a much greater fraud.
Ben Dover
· 1 year ago
Check out the projected electoral vote, good news for all of us!
Hi Americablog - Long time reader, first time poster, and internal medicine doc in NYC...
Although I would say that the Ambien-related incidents related to sleepwalking, sleepeating, sleepdriving are well-documented and certainly shocking they occur on a relatively infrequent basis in most users. The reason you hear about these incidents is because millions of people take the drug (so even rare side effects are actually observed) and these cases tend to make for sensational news stories (remember Rep. Patrick Kennedy sleepdriving and crashing his car near the capital).
However, when it comes to elderly people using Ambien (particularly in a chronic, long-term fashion) all bets are off - and remember McCain is >70 years old. Many drugs affect elderly people in paradoxic and unpredictable ways and sometimes have to be redosed or stopped altogether. Drugs taken for sleep or mood, in particular, can have strange effects and can produce some of the weird behavior you've seen in the senior senator from Arizona lately.
Styve
· 1 year ago
I seem to remember a story or headline from 5+ years ago about many of the White House staff being on Ambien, perhaps required to be. Anyone have info on that?
Dianne_in_DC
· 1 year ago
This was widely reported when Patrick Kennedy had his 2 am driving-on-Ambien incident in 2006.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=1927026 After he smashed his Ford Mustang into a barrier near Capitol Hill early Thursday morning, Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy released a statement, saying that he had been disoriented by two prescription medications he had taken.
One of which was Ambien, a prescription sleep aid.
While Kennedy said he was "disoriented" in his statement, police officers described him as "intoxicated."
How could using Ambien, the nation's most widely used sleep aid, explain his behavior?
Kennedy's situation echoes a growing trend, police and toxicologists say. In some states, Ambien has made it onto the lists of the Top 10 drugs found in impaired motorists. http://nobloodforhubris.blogspot.com/2006/05/re...
Zolpidem tartrate, the sedative-hypnotic better known to wide-awake, stressed-out sheet kickers as Ambien, is an efficacious little helper if you ever thought you might go crazy from not sleeping. It's "Goodnight Moon" for grown-ups. You should take it only with some Charlie Rose. Now it's also become the new explanation for that which goes bump in the night: I took an Ambien, Americans are saying, and then I don't know exactly what happened
JohnInTexas
· 1 year ago
Gee wonder what the OTHER prescription medication was, and why he was taking a sleeping pill and then driving around Washington...oh yeah, and it is a Kennedy, so how much scotch did he wash them down with.
nikto
· 1 year ago
I love you, John from TE-HAS!
You're so brave, savin' us from the Kennedy's & all.
Now, go grease that steer!
JohnInTexas
· 1 year ago
LOL I love the Kennedys so FO
middlegirl
· 1 year ago
I have a had a very negative first hand experience with Ambien. I am normally a fairly mild mannered person and I noticed that whenever I take Ambiien I had real issues with anger. I got very agressive with some poor customer service person and another time completely, irrationally flipped out at my mom (who is a total sweetie). I finally put two and two together and correlated that my unexplained bouts of anger was tied to the nights I took Ambien.
Needless to say, I will never, ever take it again.
nikto
· 1 year ago
So one side-effect of Ambien is Suicidal thoughts?
So far, all we've heard from McSCUM are HOMICIDAL thoughts!
The drug just ain't workin' right.
nikto
· 1 year ago
McSCUM doesn't need Ambien.
McSCUM needs formaldehyde!!
JohnInTexas
· 1 year ago
I've taken Ambien for years...We don't need a President who takes Ambien. I've slept through 2 tornadoes, countless phone calls, peed in the bathroom sink...McPappy would never hear the 3 a.m. phone call more than likely, so it would be up to VP Palin to take that one...yikes MY ORIGINAL POST AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS THREAD, READ IT BEFORE JUMPING UP MY ASS
dougsa
· 1 year ago
I thought the ambien espisodes were funny, getting up in the morning to discover I had tried to bake bread with a pan of dry flour in the oven. Moving a bunch of my clothes that I wear all the time out to the storage shed on the far side of the lawn. Then I drove and wrecked my car and my neighbors, woke up in the hospital, but I was fine. Last time I took Ambien. I noticed that I was more likely to do something crazy and not remember if I had drank too much coffee or an energy drink. Also alcohol, but the problem is sometimes it's when you are in the ambien haze that you START drinking. This is not something that a president should take. There are better alternatives, lunesta or trazadone work for me without the side effects.
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
I said this article is thought provoking and it is in light of the strange behavior of John McCain HOWEVER thought provoking doesn't mean it is absolute. I have given Ambien countless times without the patient suffering any side effects of the drug. It can produce everything Rob said but those cases are more rare than they are standard. Any medicine can produce a whole set of side effects, especially in geriatric patients (McCain would be considered geriatric), but not everyone would display the effects.
Could be the Ambien with McCain or could be simply old age and the rigors of non-stop campaigning. You can theorize but there is no definitive answer to his strange behavior.
lostmypassword
· 1 year ago
Relax, Sarah Palin will be on the job, you betcha.. also
Greek_in_Cali
· 1 year ago
No, Sarah Palin is just waiting to put into action Ammendment 25 Section 4 of the US Constitution declaring a President McCain incompetent, depose him, and take over the Presidency. They may subject McCain to "further medical treatment" "for his own good."
On another topic... has anyone noticed that the Palin rallies look like white supremacist shingdings? The only thing missing is a burning cross!
seohio
· 1 year ago
Ambien is the drug which Patrick Kennedy took when he thought he was to be at the Capitol for a vote.
Generally, though, Ambien is safe.
larz
· 1 year ago
Cindy has it for breakfast with a bottle of merlot and a double dose of Alli.
TXfemmom
· 1 year ago
No, she is still on narcotics. Look at the weight loss she has had.
From a medical person, I have never, ever known a fat junkie. The first thing we did when we got a patient in who was as thin as she was to check their eyes, to look for constriction of the pupils, look up their nose to see if cocaine had eaten their septum, and then check their hands to see if the skin and nails on their hands were horrible from stomach acid from being bulemic.
She does not look healthy, and remember, she had a stroke a few years ago, and she may well have been on something which caused that.
fritzson
· 1 year ago
Actually, we already know what an administration that lives on Ambien would be like. Check out this 2003 interview with Colin Powell. Note that he won't even acknowledge that they are sleeping pills or even a medication.
QUESTION: So do you use sleeping tablets to organize yourself?
SECRETARY POWELL: Yes. Well, I wouldn't call them that. They're a wonderful medication -- not medication. How would you call it? They're called ambien, which is very good. You don't use ambien? Everybody here uses ambien.
Milli
· 1 year ago
I was on Ambien for a while. Once I slept through my step-daughter being sick in the middle of the night. She couldn't wake me up.
Found a better alternative: eating right, drinking more water, lots of exercise, and a strict bedtime.
zavlin
· 1 year ago
I had the displeasure of dating someone addicted to ambien and it really is a terrible drug. They couldnt sleep without it and often times would sleep 16 hours on it. There were times she'd lie in bed and beg me to go get her more, and id tell her to go get it herself, and she'd try to get up, and then fall back asleep. And there were definitely times she would talk in her sleep or try to get up and function while completely out of it. From my experience this is a pretty serious drug.
jcgraham77
· 1 year ago
My bf and his roomate both take it. I will be visiting and talking to him and think "why is he being so weird". And then I will ask if he took an Ambien--"no". Next day he will be talking about how good he slept cause he took one. It is nuts...if you fight the sleep you go into almost a wake trance...very scary. Neither of them have ever driven that I am aware of while taking it.
Chimpeach
· 1 year ago
I wonder if one of the side effects is improper dressing. Like having your tie sticking out below where the jacket is buttoned. I'm female so don't know the first thing about tie etiquette, but it just looked so damn weird during the last debate. Any male fashion police out there?
JustAnOldLady
· 1 year ago
You betcha it's scary..............doggonit............
sisterfaith
· 1 year ago
And add to this video....today or was it yesterday.....he was talking to his "fellow prisoners"........
And I hope everyone has seen the PA rally goers....scary!!
bluestockton
· 1 year ago
I keep wondering when he's going to go completely around the bend like Matthew Harrison Brady in "Inherit the Wind" and collapse in front of an audience.
bluestockton
· 1 year ago
Isn't Ambien what Rep. Patrick Kennedy (Ted's son) was on when he was arrested for DUI in 2007 or 2006?
TXfemmom
· 1 year ago
Yes, and he thought he was on his way into the Capital for a vote.
Ambien has THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of untoward reaction reports which have been made with it. I don't want anyone that is responsible for making decisions about my life taking the stuff. They wouldn't be able to awaken a 72 year old who had taken it at 10 p.m., at 3a.m. and they might have to CALL FIRST DUDE TO GET AN ANSWER.
karen52
· 1 year ago
There are plenty of things to worry about when it comes to John McCain's physical and mental health status; let's not get hysterical about Ambien. It could be causing him some problems, but the odds are that it isn't. We don't know anything about his history of using it, what else he is taking, how he is being monitored--that, of course, is the really salient issue, that WE AREN'T SEEING HIS MEDICAL RECORDS.
TXfemmom
· 1 year ago
Ambien is alright for an occasional use, such as when travels across four or more time zones. However, becoming dependent upon it is bad, and after one has taken it, one is incompetent and unable to get awake enough to be competent for several hours. It also has a relatively long half life, meaning that some of it can still be on board and capable of causing the effects listed in the article for up to 24 hour later. that means that the entire next day one isn't up to par. Add being 72 years old, being a grumpy, nasty, combative butt to boot and you have the recipe for disaster.
Additionally, if someone drinks, and it has been reported that John belts a few, and you have real problems on hand.
In older individuals, such as McCain, one also has to consider that drugs often last much longer in the elderly and can take much longer to metabolize, so one could be facing an old, mean coot whose Ambien from the night before hasn't been fully metabolized, he belts back a couple, takes another Ambien and it is syanara forever, and then we HAVE PALIN.
FuzzyandBlue
· 1 year ago
Apparently, PLENTY of folks are worried about McCentury's health, and I'm sure most of them do NOT know about McConfused taking the sketchy supplement Neuro1 (used to assuage the symptoms of Alzheimer's and dementia), and his use of the even sketchier Rx drug Ambien (and all of its scary and serious side effects): "According to a CNN/Opinion Research study, nearly half of Americans fear that, if elected, John McCain would not be able to finish his first term in good health, a new poll released Thursday showed. 47% of respondents said they were concerned about McCain's ability to finish a first term, including 29% of all respondents saying they are "very concerned" about McCain. Add to this that Scary Sarah the Secessionist would be the heir to the throne, and I'm beyond horrified. Hopefully the rest of the thinking world is just as horrified, too. But given the last 2 general elections.... my failth in thinking WHILE voting is at an all time low.
Hope_I_Get_Old_Before_I_Die
· 1 year ago
A couple of years ago I had a very scary loss of short term memory after taking Ambien. I don't know if they use the same formula now that they were using then, but I know that under no circumstances will I ever take Ambien again.
karind1
· 1 year ago
i take ambien - and i wake up with food wrappers of food i ate and forgot eating. it does affect my memory and i am 60. so he can order an attack on someone and never remember doing it. it makes you forget things and remember the other day when he said "my fellow prisoners". he is still at campaign events telling the same lies that were discredited. this guy has lost his integrity and sold his soul to some devil.
kajc
· 1 year ago
Prescription sleep meds. are bad news. Remember they killed someone young and strong like Heath Ledger!
I was addicted to Lunesta for two years, and I built up such a resistance to it that I couldn't sleep anyway. I had to go to a sleep study lab (where I never fell asleep, what the hell did they study?) The doctor there tried to put me on different sleep meds., which insurance didn't cover anyway. Then I said fuck this, and went of the damn Lunesta cold turkey. I slept better in a few days than I did while ON that shit.
The doctors need to quit pushing those meds. Benadryl and melatonin work just as well and aren't as toxic as and addictive as hell!
MommaKat
· 1 year ago
not to get off topic, but benadryl is a very dangerous over the counter medicine that people take inappropriately all the time, particularly kids (parents administering), and can lead to coma. Studies are showing that there's a life time limit to how much benadryl a person can take as well. Also, Ledger died in part due to the combination of meds he took. A patient with pneumonia, bronchitis, or a serious upper respiratory illness can't take an expectorant to loosen all the crap in their airways, and add a cough suppressant on top without running the danger of drowning their lungs. Not saying the sleep meds weren't a contributor, but they weren't the sole cause. And I'm only saying something b/c we lost two people to the same problem last winter the same week Ledger died. The beginning of flu season is almost here, and it's just worth putting out there.
kajc
· 1 year ago
I know he died as a result of taking a combination of things. But I was on a combination of things and could have easily died too, as can McCain who is significantly older than either me or Heath. That was my point.
Also, I'll have to look into that lifetime limit for benadryl thing. My daughter has life threatening food allergies and has taken it so many times it's not even funny. But ,I heard epinephine shortened your life span by a few years every time you used it. She's only had to use that twice, because usually enough benadryl can control the reaction.
Okay, now I've really gotten off topic!
sisterfaith
· 1 year ago
Another thought.......I always wondered how these people (Neocons, Rethuglicans, et al) could sleep at night......now we know!!!!
MommaKat
· 1 year ago
Okay, I did NOT know this and this abso-freakin-lutely freaks me out. Ambien (zolpidrem tartarate) is CONTRAINDICATED in patients wtih: a history of depression, a history of psychiatric disorders including problems with rage, PTSD, or psychosis, elderly patients or those with chronic impairment, and those with hepatic or renal impairment (liver or kidney). This man has undergone radiation therapy and chemotherapy more than once. There is NO way he doesn't have some hepatic and renal insufficiency simply given his age, and more than likely has some due to chemo. Ambien should never be taken in conjunction with alcohol intake - and that's within 12 hours of intake. We rarely used it in hospital with our elderly b/c it was known to cause pyschosis in the elderly. Hell, in hospice my job was to get my elderly patients off the damn drug. It should not be used in conjunction with medications that effect the central nervous system, and taurine - the amino acid in his neuro energy drink, is used to treat CNS disorders. DMAE, another main ingredient, is a CNS stimulant! Most of the energy provided by neuro comes from some rather hefty doses of the B vitamins, and three of them (niacin, thiamine, and riboflavin) play a direct role in CNS function. No medical practitioner on earth should allow anyone to mix that drink with this med! This is nucking futs, and it is absolutely not okay.
All Comments
me too...I did not know that...
All of it just makes McBush seem scarier.
Well Ms Thang Cindy knows a thing or two about addiction. Maybe she is his pusher.
Don't wait--It's important!
http://www.jossip.com/the-real-impact-of-dow-jo...
A well written and thought provoking article.
http://planetsean.blogspot.com/2007/01/accordin...
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2007/1/4/134913/2967
ALL RIGHTWINGERS ARE DRUG-ADDICTS (except for the righties
who are child-abusers and pedophiles).
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/
Although I would say that the Ambien-related incidents related to sleepwalking, sleepeating, sleepdriving are well-documented and certainly shocking they occur on a relatively infrequent basis in most users. The reason you hear about these incidents is because millions of people take the drug (so even rare side effects are actually observed) and these cases tend to make for sensational news stories (remember Rep. Patrick Kennedy sleepdriving and crashing his car near the capital).
However, when it comes to elderly people using Ambien (particularly in a chronic, long-term fashion) all bets are off - and remember McCain is >70 years old. Many drugs affect elderly people in paradoxic and unpredictable ways and sometimes have to be redosed or stopped altogether. Drugs taken for sleep or mood, in particular, can have strange effects and can produce some of the weird behavior you've seen in the senior senator from Arizona lately.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=1927026
After he smashed his Ford Mustang into a barrier near Capitol Hill early Thursday morning, Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy released a statement, saying that he had been disoriented by two prescription medications he had taken.
One of which was Ambien, a prescription sleep aid.
While Kennedy said he was "disoriented" in his statement, police officers described him as "intoxicated."
How could using Ambien, the nation's most widely used sleep aid, explain his behavior?
Kennedy's situation echoes a growing trend, police and toxicologists say. In some states, Ambien has made it onto the lists of the Top 10 drugs found in impaired motorists.
http://nobloodforhubris.blogspot.com/2006/05/re...
Hank Stuever seemed to think it was all a big joke:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...
Zolpidem tartrate, the sedative-hypnotic better known to wide-awake, stressed-out sheet kickers as Ambien, is an efficacious little helper if you ever thought you might go crazy from not sleeping. It's "Goodnight Moon" for grown-ups. You should take it only with some Charlie Rose. Now it's also become the new explanation for that which goes bump in the night: I took an Ambien, Americans are saying, and then I don't know exactly what happened
John from TE-HAS!
You're so brave, savin' us from the Kennedy's & all.
Now, go grease that steer!
Needless to say, I will never, ever take it again.
So far, all we've heard from McSCUM are HOMICIDAL thoughts!
The drug just ain't workin' right.
McSCUM needs formaldehyde!!
Could be the Ambien with McCain or could be simply old age and the rigors of non-stop campaigning. You can theorize but there is no definitive answer to his strange behavior.
On another topic... has anyone noticed that the Palin rallies look like white supremacist shingdings? The only thing missing is a burning cross!
Generally, though, Ambien is safe.
From a medical person, I have never, ever known a fat junkie. The first thing we did when we got a patient in who was as thin as she was to check their eyes, to look for constriction of the pupils, look up their nose to see if cocaine had eaten their septum, and then check their hands to see if the skin and nails on their hands were horrible from stomach acid from being bulemic.
She does not look healthy, and remember, she had a stroke a few years ago, and she may well have been on something which caused that.
http://www.state.gov/secretary/former/powell/re...
QUESTION: So do you use sleeping tablets to organize yourself?
SECRETARY POWELL: Yes. Well, I wouldn't call them that. They're a wonderful medication -- not medication. How would you call it? They're called ambien, which is very good. You don't use ambien? Everybody here uses ambien.
Found a better alternative: eating right, drinking more water, lots of exercise, and a strict bedtime.
And I hope everyone has seen the PA rally goers....scary!!
Ambien has THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of untoward reaction reports which have been made with it. I don't want anyone that is responsible for making decisions about my life taking the stuff. They wouldn't be able to awaken a 72 year old who had taken it at 10 p.m., at 3a.m. and they might have to CALL FIRST DUDE TO GET AN ANSWER.
Additionally, if someone drinks, and it has been reported that John belts a few, and you have real problems on hand.
In older individuals, such as McCain, one also has to consider that drugs often last much longer in the elderly and can take much longer to metabolize, so one could be facing an old, mean coot whose Ambien from the night before hasn't been fully metabolized, he belts back a couple, takes another Ambien and it is syanara forever, and then we HAVE PALIN.
"According to a CNN/Opinion Research study, nearly half of Americans fear that, if elected, John McCain would not be able to finish his first term in good health, a new poll released Thursday showed. 47% of respondents said they were concerned about McCain's ability to finish a first term, including 29% of all respondents saying they are "very concerned" about McCain.
Add to this that Scary Sarah the Secessionist would be the heir to the throne, and I'm beyond horrified. Hopefully the rest of the thinking world is just as horrified, too. But given the last 2 general elections.... my failth in thinking WHILE voting is at an all time low.
I was addicted to Lunesta for two years, and I built up such a resistance to it that I couldn't sleep anyway. I had to go to a sleep study lab (where I never fell asleep, what the hell did they study?) The doctor there tried to put me on different sleep meds., which insurance didn't cover anyway. Then I said fuck this, and went of the damn Lunesta cold turkey. I slept better in a few days than I did while ON that shit.
The doctors need to quit pushing those meds. Benadryl and melatonin work just as well and aren't as toxic as and addictive as hell!
Also, I'll have to look into that lifetime limit for benadryl thing. My daughter has life threatening food allergies and has taken it so many times it's not even funny. But ,I heard epinephine shortened your life span by a few years every time you used it. She's only had to use that twice, because usually enough benadryl can control the reaction.
Okay, now I've really gotten off topic!
It should not be used in conjunction with medications that effect the central nervous system, and taurine - the amino acid in his neuro energy drink, is used to treat CNS disorders. DMAE, another main ingredient, is a CNS stimulant! Most of the energy provided by neuro comes from some rather hefty doses of the B vitamins, and three of them (niacin, thiamine, and riboflavin) play a direct role in CNS function. No medical practitioner on earth should allow anyone to mix that drink with this med! This is nucking futs, and it is absolutely not okay.