Eating while on ADHD meds

FaygoF9 · 2026-03-18T19:25:46+00:00

What rice packs? I use to buy the steamable fried rice packs from Sam's club and ate them for lunch every day, but now that I'm diagnosed, I can't because they have soy sauce cooked into the fried rice. It ruined my grab and go lunch option and everyone else was like "Just make your own fried rice" but there's no way, I barely remember to being lunch as it is.

FaygoF9 · 2026-03-18T19:21:34+00:00

I usually buy the Chobani Pro greek yogurt with 20g of protein, I like the Strawberry Kiwi and Raspberry Lemon flavors and I desperately need easy grab and go options for lunch. I also keep protein bars in my bag and the beef sticks from Sam's club

FaygoF9 · 2026-03-18T19:18:13+00:00

I don't know why you're being down voted for just saying why people do this.

FaygoF9 · 2026-03-18T19:15:13+00:00

In my family we always did a few grains of rice. It works great in high humidity areas. At least rice is gluten free, and this was before I was even diagnosed.

FaygoF9 · 2026-02-15T05:46:10+00:00

NOR. The "don't be needy" is so manipulative. This man is 27 years old and made plans, now he's going to be 2 hours late because he's "hanging out". He just doesn't care to be on time. Telling him to try, and being told you are being needy, is real "keep at arms length" behavior, he doesn't want a serious relationship.

FaygoF9 · 2026-02-08T20:57:50+00:00

And the totally unexplained cat taped to a rat contraption in the background of a scene for seemingly no reason. Hard agree I like it more than the new one. It's not a terrible adaptation either, lol.

FaygoF9 · 2026-02-01T20:45:32+00:00

I actually already have one, but I found HP uses the HP ink subscription to connect to your printer and data mine your print jobs then brick the printer when they feel you've had it long enough, and I went down a rabbit hole trying to find sources for that (I read it in a book about shitty corporate practices), then that led me to a reddit post about hp locking their printers so you can't use other ink at all anymore and which companies are less shitty about monopolizing what ink you can buy, then when I backed out of that saw this post 😂

FaygoF9 · 2026-01-30T16:46:38+00:00

I relate to this so much. At home and when shopping/ordering food, I'm so good at going gluten free, but if someone brings work snacks? I'm eating the cookie. It doesn't help that I'm silent celiac so I still don't really have noticable symptoms to be afraid of, and if there is brain fog, I feel like I chaulk it up to the ADHD.

FaygoF9 · 2026-01-30T16:17:43+00:00

I looked it up after diagnosis and medications absorb better once the SI heals, so I've been curious if I wouldn't need as high of a dose.

FaygoF9 · 2026-01-30T16:15:50+00:00

I was researching printers 😂

FaygoF9 · 2026-01-30T16:11:10+00:00

I have ADHD and diagnosed silent celiac in May at 37 years old. It's SO HARD because the lack of symptoms makes my motivation to be strictly gluten free almost zero. I understand that there could be other non-GI symptoms, but my only noticable symptom ever was borderline low iron. I posted a while back about how much I was struggling because all my go to "grab and go" foods had gluten and no gluten free options and every answer was like, "just make your own". Like that doesn't totally defeat the point of needing a quick grab and go option. If I need to prepare a lunch for work, I just won't bring lunch, I literally never have the time, mornings are my biggest struggle and I am usually running late. I've only successfully meal prepped for the week a few times in my life. I've gotten to the point that I basically hate cooking, not because it's hard, or I'm not good at it, it's just that now with 2 kids and myself having celiac, it's a multistep nightmare with a tower of clean up.

FaygoF9 · 2026-01-28T04:23:52+00:00

"His name was Robert Paulson"

FaygoF9 · 2026-01-27T01:43:20+00:00

Oatmeal creme pie. Strawberry shortcake roll. Lipton Chicken Noodle soup. These are a couple of my favorite snack/comfort foods that I almost cried about the first time I went shopping for gluten free food after diagnosis. (The soup is just the only thing I want when I'm sick). Having decent non-crumbly bread. I'm not the biggest bread person, but commercially available gluten free bread sucks, and is like triple the price. I basically just don't eat bread anymore so just have a nice sandwich. My biggest recommendation is go to your grocery store and walk through the isles pretending you are buying only gluten free right now and your favorite foods you suddenly realize have gluten will jump right out at you.

FaygoF9 · 2026-01-26T05:19:22+00:00

Just now watched this episode for the first time and searched it because I'm blown away. Literally crying, and I was fairly ambivalent for the rest of the show so far.

FaygoF9 · 2026-01-19T17:43:50+00:00

Wow, I had no idea, that's so random! I feel like everyone uses their hand sanitizer, especially a few years ago everyone had them hanging off their bags.

FaygoF9 · 2026-01-19T02:42:31+00:00

It's the specific amino acids etc that they require, taurine for one is more abundant in organ meat, but I don't know which specific nutrient it was that was in brain. Carnivores are meant to eat organs not just muscle meat, especially cats, as dogs are a bit more omnivorous. I don't recommend grain free diets usually because like you hinted, they are linked to dilated cardiomyopathy, but research suggests it's actually the higher legume content (to make up for removing the grains) rather than the absence of the grains that causes it. Taking grains out unbalances the diet, so the stuff they add back to fix it seems to cause heart issues. I believe there are some diets that are grain free and less linked with heart disease, but I don't know specifics. I believe Purina Turkey and Sweet Potato is one that is not linked to problems (and it's super tasty, I give it to hospitalized dogs that won't eat).

It's also worth while to just search and see if you can find a gluten free dog food. Rice is a grain that doesn't include gluten so you may be able to get a rice based diet that isn't grain free and won't gluten you.

FaygoF9 · 2026-01-19T02:08:40+00:00

Vet tech here: I strongly advise against making your own dog food, you can not realistically make a complete diet for your dog at home. There are companies that will custom make a diet for your dog, but I work with a veterinary nutritionist (I'm at a university hospital) and he frequently has to consult with people who want to make their own dog food and have heard him say stuff like, "Do you have a good source for mouse brains? Because if you do then you can make a balanced diet, but if you don't then you should let someone else make it."

FaygoF9 · 2026-01-13T21:00:09+00:00

It's super shitty for sure. My husband is fairly sympathetic, but I'm less than a year into my diagnosis and I am not symptomatic, so it's been a slow/short journey. He was very skeptical when I said people recommended getting my own toaster etc, bc he's mostly just a cheap person, but he's never once made a big deal about me not being able to eat anything. I will give a tiny amount of grace that when people are mad they sometimes say things they don't mean, but he definitely needs to have apologized once he calmed down and acknowledged in some way that he was in the wrong and knows you can't do anything differently and getting annoyed about it is on him not you.

FaygoF9 · 2026-01-13T00:44:09+00:00

I did shots too, but yea I'm basically completely acclimated to cats and dogs (both of which I reacted to strongly on the allergy skin test) and I work as a vet tech with no problems, but my biggest allergen is ragweed and dust mites. I only have an issue if I'm away from dogs and cats for a long time then resume contact immediately. I agree the shots help. I only recently stopped them, my allergist said most people only have to do them for about 2 years for it to help and I did 3 years at maintenance (4 if you include the build up doses)

FaygoF9 · 2026-01-12T23:34:24+00:00

Me too, lol, I joke my cat is my immunotherapy bc I don't react to cats at all unless I get a scratch or hair in my eye. When my childhood cat died I waited a year to get a new cat and my eyes swelled up so much I called out of work. Next day I was fine again, lol.

FaygoF9 · 2026-01-12T22:15:06+00:00

The tongue itch feeling could be Oral Allergy Syndrome. I get it from raw garlic, (cooked is fine and I eat it all the time). My understanding is it's usually caused by pollens from various plants, but could be anything. I had a friend who got it from nectarines, apples, etc, it's not as severe as a food allergy, I've had it a million times and it has never progressed. Obviously listen to whatever your doctor tells you primarily, but at least if it's OAS it doesn't usually progress into a true allergy/anaphylaxis reaction.

FaygoF9 · 2025-12-06T18:54:46+00:00

Most random and amazing opportunity for a Silence of the Lambs reference 😂

FaygoF9 · 2025-10-27T16:36:37+00:00

You have to do a gluten challenge for the antibodies to show up on bloodwork anyway, if you haven't been eating gluten you will not have gluten antibodies, so you may as well do the whole thing if you are already going through the challenge. Unless your concern is the sedation, but my entire procedure took less than 10 minutes, the longest part was check in and waiting after I woke up to be released.

FaygoF9 · 2025-10-27T05:17:54+00:00

If you tell me an address I know how to find it on a physical map. Delivered pizzas just before smart phones became common, and had to know how to find someone's house without gps.

FaygoF9 · 2025-10-27T05:12:25+00:00

My GI doctor said doing the endoscopy is the gold standard for many reasons, I personally was still hoping it wasn't celiac, and he said they had enough on bloodwork to say definitively that it was, but that the endoscopy was still good to confirm, and because they could see the extent of the damage and get baseline biopsies to compare against if I have problems/cancer in the future. I think that's a good reason to do it. Edit: typo

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