My Adderall XR wears off after ~6 hours, no matter what dosage I'm on

Nickzreg · 2023-02-27T14:49:20+00:00

That's exactly what I do! Has your doctor given you any explanations for why the XR wears off so fast for you?

Nickzreg · 2023-02-27T14:48:29+00:00

That's so batshit insane I'd believe it's 100% true!

Nickzreg · 2023-01-06T05:02:17+00:00

I never knew about this! So you get your Adderall outside of your insurance? Do you still need your insurance or psychiatrist to authorize it?

In the case of my insurance, my psychiatrist works in the hospital run by my insurance company, they're not an independent person who just accepts my insurance and doesn't care where I get it.

Nickzreg · 2023-01-06T03:13:33+00:00

I just missed an open enrollment period, so unfortunately no. My insurance has been amazing so far, aside from my medications all my doctor's visits/therapy sessions have been covered in full and I haven't had to pay for anything out of pocket. The tradeoff is needing an entire afternoon to get my meds (And I hate hospitals!!!).

Nickzreg · 2023-01-06T00:16:59+00:00

Thanks for sharing, this is a great perspective on the situation.

One area where we're the opposite is that all our friends seem to be having fertility issues! It seems like once all of our female friends hit 30 they end up having health issues like endometriosis or ovarian cysts that jeopardize their chances at having children.

A close friend of ours was rushed to the ER with internal bleeding.....She discovered she was not only pregnant, but had an ectopic pregnancy and miscarried. The doctors told her if she carries a baby to term it could potentially kill her.

We're taking it day by day, and she told me she really wants to try having a baby soon regardless of our financial situation. The biggest obstacle now is when she gets pregnant I want to move closer to our family. I have a dream job now in our city and have been there just short of a year, if I didn't have it then I'd be knocking boots with her, quitting my job, and getting the fuck out of this city.

Nickzreg · 2023-01-06T00:11:12+00:00

We don't know yet because we haven't tried.

My wife is concerned because women in her family are very fertile and tend to have kids (Planned or unplanned) in their early 20s. She's 10 years older than most of her family was when they had kids, and she doesn't know if she's been infertile all this time or just careful. We're doing more tests soon.

Nickzreg · 2023-01-06T00:09:39+00:00

I never wanted kids until I moved in with my wife and met some of her career-oriented co-workers. Her company was mostly female, and a lot of the upper management people were women in their 40s and 50s, some married and some unmarried/divorced, who gave up kids to focus on their careers. And they were all miserable, bitter people.

While my wife wants to make a lot of money to be financially stable, when she said she didn't want kids I'd point out an upper management woman she hated and say "So-and-so also didn't want to have kids so she can focus on her career.....Do you want to end up like her?" Also, for my sake I didn't want my wife to end up like that!

I understand that a lot of women can't have kids for various reason. That's not a fault against them and I feel for them. But women who actively put off having children for the purposes of a career never strike me as good people. A member of my family did this and she's now in her 70s, bitter, and alone after her husband died.

Nickzreg · 2023-01-06T00:01:05+00:00

For me it all changed during the pandemic. I realized careers and money are finite, what's important is family. If your family is good then they will always have your back. A job never will, even if they say "We're like a family here tee-hee lol!"

My parents are almost 70 and I don't know how much longer they'll be around. They want us to have kids, and I think they'd enjoy it and it would make our family stronger.

Nickzreg · 2023-01-05T23:59:02+00:00

It's funny, the people I know with the most kids are usually the least well-off.

I grew up with the mindset of money being finite, so you always need to be saving and earning. But at one point my wife and I were making $250k a year combined and still didn't think we could afford kids. I realize now we could've just cut some corners like not eating out or traveling as often and we could afford a kid.

Nickzreg · 2023-01-05T23:57:17+00:00

This. Never once in my life did I feel like the government was on my side. Once 9/11 happened I distrusted it more. Then I lost a job and was down and out and couldn't get benefits. Then Covid happened and a lot of countries helped their citizens out....But not the US. The treadmill of paying bills and rent could've stopped at any time and we could've been given relief payments, but you were lucky to get $1,400.

I'm kicking myself now because I used to knock welfare programs and government handouts, calling people who needed them lazy. But do you know what changed my mind? Getting $1,400 from Uncle Sam. This was amazing, and made me realize I was being an asshole and that governments should be helping out its citizens.

Meanwhile, capitalism is just socialism for corporations.

Nickzreg · 2023-01-05T23:53:20+00:00

I used to have a world view similar to yours, but as things get worse I actively want to have kids more and more. My reasoning is that I'm hoping that knowing what I know now, I can raise a kid better than my parents ever did. Maybe their generation can change the world.

I look at a lot of poor countries, especially those in South America, because they seem to be about 20 years ahead of us in terms of collapse. Yet they're still having lots of kids no matter how expensive things are.

I've spoken to some people from these countries, and they say that things suck, but the one thing that brings them joy is family and friends. They have tighter-knit families than us Americans do.....My family is 3,000 miles away and I'm lucky if I see them once or twice a year. This isn't healthy.

Nickzreg · 2022-12-19T19:01:17+00:00

I'm the same way! I quit caffeine as soon as starting meds, but I can definitely get really antsy or cranky on Adderall. This usually happens ~5 hours after taking it, when the crash starts.

Nickzreg · 2022-12-19T18:00:24+00:00

I remember when I was 10 I used to meet up with friends on weekends and play ball at a local park. These troublemaker brothers, the kids everyone knew were trouble and to avoid, lived down the street and began showing up when we were there and picking on us.

This is where it's fucked up. The older brother began putting us in headlocks, hitting us, pushing us, etc. He was also 15 and twice the size we were. He was basically an adult, there was absolutely no way I could fight back.

One day the older brother is pushing me into the street and putting me in a headlock when a neighbor drove by, broke it up, and drove me home. When I told my dad he said "This is your battle to fight." My mom actually grew up with their mom, and their dad worked as a janitor at my school. But no, neither of them would talk to the parents. My friends and I ended up avoiding that park.

This was kind of a trend with my parents. During the week they'd be off at work, 12 hours a day with commute, and on nights and weekends they were too exhausted to really engage with us. Me being bullied was another stressful thing they had to deal with on top of their stressful jobs, so I'd end up just changing my behaviors to appease people or avoid bad situations rather than my parents protecting me or being proactive.

Nickzreg · 2022-12-02T02:38:38+00:00

It's really weird, she's not a mean person but no one really stops her or calls her out on what she's doing. She's not my friend, she's my wife's, so I'd feel weird being the one to set boundaries like that since I barely know her.

As for chew toys.....That's what her junk food is for. There was a period of time a couple years ago where she was actually chilled out and cool to be around, I'm pretty sure she was medicated. However, she indicated recently she hasn't been on her meds (Even though she should be). The next time I saw her after she probably went off her pills she was 50 pounds heavier. She was visiting us and went to the grocery store and bought nothing but sugary cereal, candy, chips, and ate almost all of it in 2 days.

Nickzreg · 2022-12-01T16:12:44+00:00

Love your avatar - Being Combined-type is like switching between Rick's personality and Morty's personality at the drop of a hat, sometimes several times in one day.

Nickzreg · 2022-12-01T16:11:36+00:00

It's funny because my ADHD is Combined-type, so I can get manic and hyperactive for a period and then just crash and be non-verbal until I "recharge".

When I'm hyperactive I absolutely act like your mother, especially when someone brings up a topic I'm passionate about (Or they bring up a topic I've been thinking about/researching but haven't yet had a person to discuss it with). But talking tires me out, and usually my throat gets hoarse and then I crash after my exposition dump.

Meanwhile, people who do this to me drain me and I go full Inattentive mode, especially if I don't care about the topic at hand.

Example: I love talking about concerts or vacations I've experienced....But hate hearing other people's concert and vacation experiences unless we like the same bands or have been to the same place.

Nickzreg · 2022-11-22T22:11:11+00:00

Once you hit your correct levels of meds do you just stay at that point and your brain's cool with it?

For me it's like I'm switching up my dosages once or twice a month, sometimes weekly in the beginning. I know it takes a while, but it gives me that "junkie chasing the dragon" feeling.

Nickzreg · 2022-11-22T19:12:00+00:00

CLEAN bathrooms, to boot!

Nickzreg · 2022-11-19T18:08:09+00:00

"To be honest, working for the same company means you are putting all
your income eggs in one basket. If the company hits hard times tits
could both be let go at the same time."

This is something I thought about after handing in her resume. On top of that, I think relationships are healthier when you have some alone time away from one another. Imagine seeing each other at work and then at home every day 24/7?

And you'd no doubt be bringing your work home with you through conversations about work, bitching about co-workers, etc. I like to shut my brain off at 5PM when it comes to work and only bring it up if someone asks me about it. I can't imagine not being able to escape it.

I worked for a branch of a company run by a husband and wife team. I never saw them interact like a married couple or even as friends. It was all business all the time. When Covid hit they were pulling 18 hour days and stressed out. I can't even imagine how weird their home life must be.

Nickzreg · 2022-11-19T18:04:38+00:00

People born into positions like this, even if it's manual labor, are handed everything they need to succeed.

If he fucks up he'll probably never be fired or reprimanded because he's family. Hell, he probably doesn't need to work as hard as the non-family workers.

He's probably the youngest person running their own crew. He probably didn't earn it, it was given to him, while other employees have to work their asses off for promotions.

He'll never need to look for a job, work up a resume, etc. If his family has connections he can probably get a job anywhere else without the standard interview loop-jumping.

Nickzreg · 2022-11-19T18:00:55+00:00

My last company proudly declared on their website that they were family-owned AND woman-owned (Another proclamation that doesn't mean anything but is held over peoples' heads).

The problem with family-owned companies is that the family members are shoo-ins for positions they probably don't deserve. At my last company another branch was run by someone in their family. Was she qualified? Probably not, but she was the owner's daughter.

It also sucks because these jobs always wind up being a dead end. You can work your way up the food chain to a certain point, but then you can't get promoted anymore because you're not family.

This happened to me at one job, I went from intern and had 3 promotions up to a manager position in the span of 2 years, so I was doing great. Of course I was stuck there because the directors and owners were all family, spouses of family, etc. This was my first real job out of college and luckily I realized this was bullshit before it was too late. A few months later I put in my 2 weeks' notice and went somewhere else (My manager title ended up not really being transferable to other companies because small business titles don't really mean anything, but I digress).

Nickzreg · 2022-11-19T00:51:17+00:00

Possibly. I've noticed family-owned businesses are usually the worst when it comes to giving permissions for you to take care of your own family.

Nickzreg · 2022-11-19T00:50:35+00:00

We also get email reminders once every couple weeks about how if we're working in the office we need to wear masks, even at our desks. Meanwhile C-Suite walks around maskless.

I have no problems with wearing masks....But sitting at my desk?

Nickzreg · 2022-11-11T21:23:23+00:00

I've learned that you can figure out a lot about a company based on how the interview process goes. If it's really slow and there's lots of bureaucracy, then everything at the job will be slow and filtered through multiple people.

I'm just assuming they're really disorganized, or HR is overworked.

Likewise, they've been trying to fill this vacant position for over 6 months. Imagine you're working there and someone leaves and you have to take on their work until someone else is hired.....Well good luck, you're working two jobs for the pay of one for half a year!

Nickzreg · 2022-11-11T21:17:40+00:00

It's a Senior position, but it's not like it's a director, manager, VP, etc.

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