Основные признаки и симптомы диабета І типа – это постоянная жажда в сочетании с частым и обильным мочеиспусканием, увеличение количества суточного объема мочи до 8-9 литров. Характерной чертой сахарного диабета І типа является значительная потеря в весе, достигающая 15 кг в течение месяца. Симптомом может быть общее недомогание организма, быстрая утомляемость, во рту появляется запах [...]

An appointment three months after the postnatal visit is usually given to check the coil or give further supplies of contraceptive pills. For physical reasons, the method chosen may be no longer appropriate. Bleeding with a coil or with the injectable contraceptive may be unacceptable, and a decision to stop breast feeding may mean a [...]

Control is an important theme in psychosexual medicine. The matter of who is in control colours many psychosexual problems. Impotence may be a dumb protest against a controlling partner. Desire for sex can evaporate when advances are rebuffed, or one partner demands attention in circumstances that they know are unevenly disempowering. Vaginismus enters self-perpetuating cycles [...]

The patient who brings someone to the clinic may give valuable information about herself. She may feel too immature or helpless to cope alone, or she may anticipate a battle and bring a friend to fight on her behalf. Partners may come out of true caring but they may also come to make sure she [...]

In a specialist psychosexual clinic, those under 20 years comprise less than 10% of the total workload. However, they are an important group. Some patients in this age group are able to tell their doctor openly about the problem (see Miss A., Chapter 12, p. 181). However, others do not find it easy to raise [...]

By this time Mrs H. had stopped taking the Pill as she said it made her depressed. Soon she left home again, returning pregnant a few months later. While discussing what she wanted to do she began to talk about her own childhood, when her mother had often left home, eventually for good when Mrs [...]

The technique here is often used in operations on other tissue—in eye surgery, for example—and now doctors have begun applying it to BPH. It uses a special ultrasound probe that works through an endoscope, a lighted «periscope» used in exploration and treatment of many diseases. The ultrasound targets tissues high in water content, like BPH [...]

Your doctor may want to do these studies if your history or the physical exam suggests that the primary cause of your symptoms—perhaps from a neurologic condition—is bladder dysfunction, not BPH. Cystometry is a means of measuring bladder pressure and function. It’s performed by threading a small catheter into the penis, through the urethra and [...]

A new approach to bone pain has arrived with the development of a compound called radioactive strontium-89—a radioactive isotope that is injected into the body as an outpatient procedure. Strontium-89 is specially tailored for bone pain. Like calcium, it is taken up immediately by bone, as water is absorbed by a sponge—except this compound tends [...]

One day, as new and better drug therapies and combinations are developed, it may be possible to cure prostate cancer at any stage—or at least to restrain it, to make sure that it never leaves the prostate, or that it stays well-differentiated and slow-growing rather than becoming an aggressive, lethal invader of tissue and bone. [...]

PSA GOES UP AFTER SURGERY? You will be given general anesthesia, which means you’ll be unconscious during the procedure. To reach the prostate, surgeons make an incision just above the rectum. The prostate is gradually separated from the rectum, bladder, urethra and vas deferens. The seminal vesicles are removed along with the prostate, and then [...]

HELPING YOURSELF-SEX TECHNIQUE, TIMING, FREQUENCY Masters and Johnson found that simple advice on and attention to technique, such as in the list below, provided the answer for one in eight of their so-called ‘infertile’ patients. Sex technique-To have the best chance of getting a woman pregnant a man’s penis must penetrate her vagina deeply and [...]

MEN-PREMATURE EJACULATION One way or another anxiety usually lies at the heart of a man’s problems which are of psychological origin. The anxiety is usually unconscious but either way it diminishes his pleasure and impairs his performance. Premature ejaculation-Sex therapists argue about the definition of premature ejaculation. Some say it is present if a man [...]

Obviously women’s likes and dislikes are very personal and individual when it comes to love-play and the caring man finds out what pleases his partner most by asking her to tell him and by experimentation. We cannot stress enough how different women are one from another in what they like, so don’t go by your [...]

Controversy rages on the subject of circumcision and its effects on a man’s sex life, so it is worth a mention here. Circumcision is an operation carried out to remove the foreskin and so leave the penis head uncovered all the time. Circumcision is now a rare operation and is usually only carried out for [...]

Marriage, like all human endeavours, never stands still; it evolves with time. Phase one-This first phase lasts until the couple start a family. Changing homes, friends and life-styles to accommodate the marriage can be difficult. However, for many, the first few years spent together — with the wife working and no children — providing themselves [...]

Weave the threads of sensuality and colour powerfully into your life. Colour is a fabulous way to enhance romance, love and relationships. Team information on sensual colour psychology with positive communication strategies and notice the changes in your relationship. Colourful changes. You will enjoy them, absolutely. The Colour of Sex provides you with romantic remedies [...]

You need your home to look attractive too so you feel proud when your guest comes calling. Can’t afford the home decor you yearn for? Choose some splashes of happy colours as accents in the meantime. Something as simple as a vase of flowers or new and colourful cushions, will make you look and feel [...]

Take a new look at yourself. Decide to involve the senses as much as possible in your life. Be as sensual as you can. Examine what you do each day to recognise and gratify your sensuality. Then you can bring that awareness to your romance. What can yourself more in tune with your senses of [...]

We asked Elizabeth, who is in her late 40s, to list her courting behaviours when she went out on a first date and after much honest consideration and embarrassment about her modus operandi, this is the list she came up with: 1. When 1 like someone, early on in the relationship 1 touch his hands, [...]

On a first date, you want to be confident, comfortable and show yourself off to the best advantage. A first date is in many ways like going for a job interview. There, you present yourself in the best light possible, dress in an appropriate manner and hope you say the right words and have the [...]

Having a surgical operation throws your life into turmoil, at least for a while. The length of time you’re out of action obviously depends on how severe the illness is, and the prognosis will determine the way you face the rest of your life. If there is a threat to your life, survival will naturally [...]

What would really help is preparation — talking about the likely changes so you don’t think you’re going crazy and how to cope with problems as they arise. Terence told me, ‘I wish there had been some way of preparing myself for the incredible change in my lifestyle. We sailed through the labor without a [...]

The success rate of fertility programs refers to the ‘take-home-baby rate’, but for every one of these babies (the ‘success stories’) many more will have a near miss. One of the cruellest blows is when the euphoria of a positive pregnancy test turns to disaster when the pregnancy miscarries. After an assisted fertilization, things are [...]

There’s an old saying that you have to work at marriage. Now while that’s definitely true, it helps if you start off with the right raw materials: some interests in common, compatible goals in life, an ability to compromise and adapt, an ability to listen, compatible beliefs about childraising and financial management, mutual respect, and [...]