Preparation H, the topical medication used to treat hemorrhoids, reportedly is catching fire as the latest “drug” to hit the New York City club scene.
The topical solution contains a medication called phenylephrine HCL, which shrinks the swollen tissues of hemorrhoids. It works by constricting the nearby blood vessels that surround the area. But the ingredient will shrink other tissue as well.
The method has been hailed on the Internet and has long been used by body builders in need of a quick fix for a problem area prior to competition, as well as women looking to reduce puffiness around their eyes.
But one doctor said the off-label usage of the drug is ludicrous.
“It doesn’t even work that well for hemorrhoids,” said Dr. Marc Siegel, a FOX News medical contributor. “I find in my practice it has to be combined with hydrocortisone. The notion of phenylephrine is problematic at best. It’s a placebo effect.”
Siegel told FOXNews.com that the drug can cause uncomfortable side effects such as rashes, as well as more serious side effects such as elevated blood pressure.
New York bouncer, blogger and author Rob Fitzgerald told ABCNews.com that men are slathering up their torsos with the hemorrhoid cream to make themselves look “ripped.”
Ripped? A ripped what…..asshole from picking up things that are really, really heavy? This gives (w)hole new meaning to the term assface!
Actually, this is not news to me. I have a cousin who has used Prep H for years. She has gigantic pop-eyes like this……….
…’cept they are not crossed most of the time. Whenever I see her and start talking with her, I’m always a little leery that one of those humongous eyes will fall out. I’m afraid that I’ll reach down to pick it up and it will roll away. Or, I’ll accidentally step on it. Yuck!
I tried some Prep H on my face before. The only thing that it did was make me smell like I had dunked my head in a vat of fish oil. Hey, maybe, that’s why my cousin’s eyes look like fish eyes……
Why do I talk about relatives like this? I should be ashamed of myself! But, dang it….it’s so much fun!
Speaking of looks, did anybody catch the National Spelling Bee on TV? I was just puttering around and didn’t even know that is what was on the television. I looked up and WTF????????
Why is this grown man spelling? Maybe, it’s a new test to weed out illegal aliens? Or, was it the show, “Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?”
Noooooooo…………this mustached boy is Sidharth Chand, Michigan,
Age 12, 7th grade!
I know kids look older these days. For examples, who could have possibly known that these kids were dressed up for pre-school graduation…..(can you say prostitot or kinderwhore?).
or that this little guy was just a month shy of turning the big ONE……
and already walking like a big boy!
Off topic again. I’m always getting off-topic. One of the days, I’ll finish what I meant to write about.
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There should have to be a warning before posting that picture of the “ripped” guy. ewwwwwwwwwww I also stumbled onto the spelling bee and was thinking of the little league ball players from the Dominican Republic who turned out to be 30 year olds who’d washed out of the big leagues. (Well, maybe only 17 year olds but still….) I was demanding to see Sid’s birth certificate. That’s how bored I was that night. : ) As for me, I’m happily waiting for the rest of the story.
Yes! That’s it! I couldn’t figure out what it reminded me of but now I know. The little league ball players.
Ya think that ripped guy was disgusting? I almost posted a female that looked like that. YUCK!
Ew. Do those guys really think that looks good? I see a picture like that, and I start force-feeding my boyfriend lol.
Good post. Happy Friday!
Thanks MJ.
I think you would have to force-feed him steroids to make him look like that.
I find absolutely nothing appealing about those abnormal muscles.
all this time at the gym, and all I had to do to look ripped was rub myself with preparation H??
Why apologize for going off topic? Your readers LOVE your rabbit trails!
Thanks, K! I really do have a topic in mind when I start writing but I write spontaneously and that’s how my mind works. I suspose it wouldn’t hurt to do a draft now and then. I tried that once. The trouble with that was by the time I got around to going back to it, I’d lost total interest and deleted it.
Whatever works!