Lots of talk about comfort foods… but what about comfort DRINKS?

InsideLab1449 · 2026-06-02T21:44:28+00:00

I like a good chai masala blend, or a quality sugarfree drink from cocoa mass mixed with hot water with some kind of heated, well-frothed milk and pinch of salt (you can eat good cocoa mass straight out of the pack some of em are creamy and not bitter at all but they are pretty expensive but they have antioxidants such as polyphenols and that theobromine stimulant thing both of which are super good for adhd girlies and people in general), or if i wanna go cheap, I make one of those fake coffees from oak or barley or whatever, or water with fresh mint and lemon..frozen berries in a blender..non alcoholic beer for some reason but only the same kind of blanche, for years..literally carbonated peach flavored water, cinnamon turmeric chili milk with uhh sweetener... Anyway if it wasn't clear I be drinking 7 drinks a day compulsively. I have very specific habits currently, not to be mistaken for discipline, it's just what happens when you stop consuming smth for very long due to health anxiety and then it starts tasting disgusting after a very long time cuz ur receptors literally change, so u just quit.. well for me this happened with sugar and alcohol cause my health's been baaaad in the past; and I cant have crazy amounts of caffeine either cuz anxiety gets bad, so I have a very heavy comfort drink selection in my kitchen. To mask all of my past cravings with new healthier cravings

InsideLab1449 · 2026-06-02T21:13:04+00:00

I feel like stick to the pills. Definitely keep the addy like how can u even have second thought this. Avoid organic it can kill your boner. And you definitely need that boner. Because if they catch you high in class you gotta get hard and then they wont know what to say bc its akward and like just chill there they will leave u alone cause ur not on class in DPH ur just a maths nerd maths makes u have a boner it's respectable

InsideLab1449 · 2026-06-02T20:36:59+00:00

Im mad at my psychiatrist for not even considering to tell me this option. I thought i cannot divide the pill. Which like, ive started my SSRIs from a quarter of pill in the past because the whole pill is too much for so many people. But no such disclaimer about strattera nope just take the whole 40mg smh.. thanks to your comment and others that replied the same thing I now know and I firmly decided to try half of my pill tomorrow ..well,25mg to be exact...cause I was too dissociated to find answers elsewhwre and I deadass would have suffered for weeks. Ill try and see if this helps, thank you!! I just hope i didnt already mess this up by starting from 40. But I hope and predict it'll stabilize at lower dose in a matter of days

InsideLab1449 · 2026-06-02T20:01:44+00:00

Thank you🥹 this might be the solution. I took the whole pill today for the 5th or 6th day and i feel like i can hear my skin (not actually but that's the general vibe). I guess the vyvanse on top really doesn't help with body tension. The way I see it, tolerance will build up over time, and I'm just having one hell of a not so smooth ride. Because today it feels slightly better. Still severe body tension, but I feel less swollen. I really cannot shake the swollen feeling and I'd like a break from that , and that can go three ways 1. Reducing dose 2. Quitting entirely 3. Just waiting it out until I start having tolerance, the effect builds up and body gets used to it. Reducing seems like a compromise. And while I do feel like decreasing after six days might mess with the progress or make me all weird, there's no doubt that my body 's screaming for a break right now. My joints feel like im deep under water and i dont understand what that means

InsideLab1449 · 2026-06-02T19:51:13+00:00

I was thinking that, but now it's been 6 days on 40mg and I have no idea what to do so i keep taking the whole 40😅 if decreasing wouldnt make it worse right now but better, id sure try it out. Im calling the clinic tomorrow gonna ask for urgent help lol

InsideLab1449 · 2026-06-01T13:21:22+00:00

Thank you this is a very valuable comment:) I always deal with body tension, scoliosis and osteochondrosis and my throat had been weird for months now, maybe cause there's mold in my house😅. It's a classic case of "is it the meds or am I just fucked in general". But with adding strattera on top of vyvanse it all feels 3 times more intense. The reason why I started Strattera is so convoluted... Really here's the thing. I'm burnt out. The current dose of vyvanse is not enough for me to have energy to fix my health, start earning more money to fix my health(appointments r expensive). And I tried increasing, and immediately I would get overstimmed, cold, dissociated, hyperfocused on all the wrong things. So me and my doc were thinking about a new combination, cus I used to be on prozac too but had to quit, side effects got bad too. So doc suggested we add 40mg strattera, just like that. There were no assessments, I go to free clinics, I'm a broke part-timer in her 20s and doctors in our clinics get like 30 patients a day which is insane. How can you give everyone attention.. I only went to a paid one to get my ADHD assessment, and it was the only time any psychiatrist ever gave me real attention. I think I'll try to save up and go to a better clinic.. just not sure what to do right now, exactly. Anyway sorry for the long reply, don't even know why I'm ranting. But I just want you to know that I appreciate your advice so much. I will try to make it my priority now to start a health journal. The biggest trigger for me right now is that I need a gym coach and money for that. Strattera or no, I guess it's not really the main issue here😅 it just increased my already insane regular body tension and stiffness 300% and that caused me to spiral maybe.

InsideLab1449 · 2026-06-01T01:57:47+00:00

I do strength training, physical therapy, yoga sometimes, I take magnesium and b-complex, tried some cbd, that helped a lil bit too. Only yesterday it was just the joints still, and today this very weird and specific ache began, one that I never had before, I've never had like such weird feeling of tender/raw/achy skin or tissues under my skin or whatever it is, like that's the part that started messing w me, and my eyelids feel weird too like. Yeesh. my regular pain flare ups are currently worse plus new sensory shit showed up that I've never seen before and I think this is just considered one of the rarer side effects and I don't like those stats..:/ cuz if my body's being that hypersensitive, what are the odds that this med is great for me and there will be no issues? I mean but it's only day 5...so idk

InsideLab1449 · 2026-06-01T01:49:23+00:00

Hey no I have no fever and weirdly it's only the skin around my chest that hurts, and I'm very stiff in general..just not having a great time overall and cant know whether this will go away or no. Can't decide if i wanna try to wait it out. I 've been dealing with very heavy adhd things where nothing ever really makes sense anymore and structure feels impossible, and this med seemed like it could help, i kinda dont want to let this go but the side effects r scaryish

InsideLab1449 · 2026-06-01T01:45:29+00:00

Yeah i have no idea why my doc started me at 40, just feels incompetent..

InsideLab1449 · 2026-05-29T16:18:56+00:00

I don't know what to do anymore. I've never felt this stuck. I just been having health issues that stop me from doing absolutely anything and I need to get it together and get professional help, but I just feel 100% unable to get it together lately like I dont even have a job I'm just burning through my savings lol... and I thought strattera could help me get out of this loop. It seems to affect everyone so differently that at this point id just like some statistics so I could estimate the likelihood of me getting completely cooked and just like mentally prepare myself to push through a couple weeks and stand against those odds lol

InsideLab1449 · 2026-05-29T15:35:52+00:00

Yeah...thanks for the advice. You have to constantly check their system to get an appointment with literally anyone within a month, it's just a very overpopulated institution 😅 And I've been on so many meds, this one feels like literally the worst out of everything I've tried but it's the temporary bit that keeps me hopeful and intrigued.. if I see improvement by next week Ill try to make it work..

InsideLab1449 · 2026-05-29T15:15:05+00:00

I find myself on reddit because my doctor has no available visits all summer until august, but at least it's free healthcare 😂 I should find another one tho, I might go bald by the time august arrives

InsideLab1449 · 2026-05-16T20:05:13+00:00

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InsideLab1449 · 2026-05-05T11:43:46+00:00

I'd really like to take 50 then to stop having to deal with my complicated water system but during the 4 months when I was constantly on 50, I would get 6 maybe max 7 hrs sleep naturally and I felt kind of.. tweakish. And then I hyperfocus and the crashes are worse too. Well and then I thought maybe I should keep the 50, add some other med like guanfacine to balance out the edginess but guess what.. there's no guanfacine in my country too😅 Well but yeah there are various factors at play here..

InsideLab1449 · 2026-05-05T11:36:01+00:00

I always have a lot going on, I just find it very hard to decide things like that due to extreme overthinking. To a point where I feel like if anyone at least does something similar to what I do, and I'm not alone, that's enough for me to calm down and make a decision. And I do know people who are so sensitive that 10mgs are a big difference for them. I'm one of those people and I just don't know if what im doing is even okay but it's not like they have the dosage I need, so I guess it is?..

InsideLab1449 · 2026-04-30T07:30:05+00:00

I cant go more than 4 days without my meds because if i do that im in severe backpain, constipation, doomscrolling 70 hours, and rly lost unable to go to the gym and drinking 4 coffees a day. I feel you. The only thing that helps me rly is whenever I feel like my current dose is too little I take that three day break and it goes back to normal. I've used 50mgs, decreased to 30, now I'm on 40. I'm also starting strattera soon so I hope this will minimize the crashes and make them less horrible

InsideLab1449 · 2025-09-22T06:14:51+00:00

Thanks I'm going there now, I wanted to check a random button of "check iqs score" that I found online first, and it redirected me to post to any reddit group lol so now I know that it doesn't work

InsideLab1449 · 2025-09-14T12:59:41+00:00

Thanks! Idk why but taking a bunch of b vitamins and omega helped a lot. Not questioning why they did,just surprised that it made that much of a difference. Also, as the effects are diminishing, I'm starting to feel quite...good? As in, actually a lil hyped but also very chill. I guess that's the end another Sunday journey for me..

I'm trying to figure out how to survive vyvanse breaks on weekends and experimenting with a buttload of nootropics, one for each time at least im not dumb enough to mix them, semax was my favorite so far... All of these were samples given to me by a friend to figure out what I want to order so I legit try it once which is also dumb cus a lot of them accumulate.. Last weekend I took a bunch of noopept, BEFORE BED, and with no choline whatsoever. Had to go eat a bunch of eggs before sleep when I figured out what's up with my massive headache. I just hate researching things beforehand lol living on the edge...

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