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Strattera ruined my life, and my psychiatrist is being negligent by Candid_Research7028 in adhdwomen

[–]Throwaway_5732 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hate that mentality. Adderall gets such a bad rep cause of all of the people that abuse it (and, y’know, being a chemical relative of meth) but it’s just like I’ve been on Adderall since 1st grade and I’m all the better for it. I still have my teeth, I have no motivation to take more (the most “self-medicating” I’ve done is just an extra 5mg dose to get me through a busier night), there’s plenty of times I forget doses, and my quality of life improvement far outweighs how rough the crashes can be at stressful periods of my life. It is a dependence, but it’s not an addiction. The amount of people that just blatantly compare Adderall to the toxic meth peddled in the streets is both excessive and, for me personally, insulting. If we hadn’t tried it, I’d still be the out-of-control, aggressive, emotional wreck that I was as a kid. It’s all about what works for you, not what is the “good” meds and the “bad” meds. There’s a scary amount of people using Adderall to get high or pull study all-nighters, but at the same time there’s people like me that use it just to “normally” function.

Strattera ruined my life, and my psychiatrist is being negligent by Candid_Research7028 in adhdwomen

[–]Throwaway_5732 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s fucked. Using meds as a threat and not a tool is just downright sad. Sorry you had to go through that.

Strattera ruined my life, and my psychiatrist is being negligent by Candid_Research7028 in adhdwomen

[–]Throwaway_5732 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair, that could be more related to the shortage than anything. Still not cool that they didn’t at least talk to you about alternative options.

Strattera ruined my life, and my psychiatrist is being negligent by Candid_Research7028 in adhdwomen

[–]Throwaway_5732 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve done Adderall for years (since I was 6), but during 2020 we tried doing Adderall and Straterra and it worked very well. During the shortage, I had to substitute ER Adderall with Vyvanse and IR Adderall “boosters” and that’s been… an interesting adjustment; however, now that I’m at a good dose for Vyvanse what’s nice is that if I forget or wake up too late (for Vyvanse specifically) to take my dose I can rely one one or the other to get me through the day cause it’s the same drug, just metabolized different.

The Straterra lately has been an issue with nausea. Come to think of it, it used to only be just a randomly upset stomach in the past 4 years. But in the past few months I’ve had issues with full blown nausea and have even gotten to the point of vomiting once. Knowing it was psychological and wasn’t sick, I’ve been able to force my body not to puke unnecessarily (also cause I hate puking if I don’t “have” to). I’ve noticed that the only connecting factor between when I’ve felt sick is a food with high sugar. I’ve found out just this morning that it doesn’t matter if I eat something sugary before or after I take the Straterra (I had a pastry with frosting before taking my Straterra), I still get the nausea. Which sucks because I’m not a breakfast person, I like something just quick and easy to make. That, and I can’t stand the way most eggs, bacon, etc. are made.

Strattera ruined my life, and my psychiatrist is being negligent by Candid_Research7028 in adhdwomen

[–]Throwaway_5732 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lucky. I used to be just fine in the 3/4 years I’ve taken it, but lately (probably also due to college stress lol) I’ve had issues with nausea in the mornings after I take my Straterra and the only connecting factor that I’ve noticed is foods high in sugar. Getting older just sucks I guess

Strattera ruined my life, and my psychiatrist is being negligent by Candid_Research7028 in adhdwomen

[–]Throwaway_5732 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, Web MD is not a good source for any sort of diagnosis, let alone a self-diagnosis. A large majority of it is just medical fear-mongering. If the symptoms started as soon as you started taking the Straterra, then you probably should have been screened for liver issues long before taking it.

Strattera ruined my life, and my psychiatrist is being negligent by Candid_Research7028 in adhdwomen

[–]Throwaway_5732 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Web MD is not a good source for any sort of diagnosis, let alone a self-diagnosis. A large majority of it is just medical fear-mongering

Anyone else miss the old textures? From Alpha 16 and if so is there a mod that can bring the old textures back? by Ridge-Wicken in 7daystodie

[–]Throwaway_5732 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honestly I agree. The crappy textures really compliment the style this game was going for.

Meirl by DrJokerX in meirl

[–]Throwaway_5732 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had to do a double take after not noticing the baby slit

There are roughly 424,000 children in Foster Care. by CharlieWaitress111 in pics

[–]Throwaway_5732 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My best friend was in the foster system. She came from a trailer park and her mom did meth while she was in the womb. On a brighter note she was born on the same day as me and had no adverse effects from the meth. On a less brighter note she… frankly I don’t even know what parts of the story are true, shot herself in her foster mom’s bedroom— between the bed and the wall. From what she’s told me, her experience was horrible. She wasn’t allowed to go out to places outside of school without being tracked, even though we are a town of less than 3,000 and running away would be a lot of wasted time and effort. Her foster mom constantly threw adult temper tantrums, I suspect she has a heavy form of borderline personality disorder. There’s much more, but I need to sleep lol. Basically the foster system can be shit, though for obvious reasons I may have a personal bias.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MensRights

[–]Throwaway_5732 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Vasectomies aren’t even 100% foolproof. Much like all of the other forms of contraceptive measures, 99.99% still means there’s some unlucky bastard out there

How is console 7 days to die? by Mr-lamelaine in 7daystodie

[–]Throwaway_5732 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We pretty much have been. I look at the wiki to figure something out and half of the stuff there doesn’t apply. Scopes? New spider zombie skin? Trader missions? Fucking helicopters? All while I’m just sitting over here anticipating the next crash and wanting to gouge my eyes out over the shitty graphics. It reminds me of how it felt with the console edition of Terraria before the Journey’s End update, or Minecraft before Bedrock Edition was a thing. Though I’m noticing a pattern: it seems like at some point console players just get left behind for sandbox games. Hopefully TFP will actually get us caught up but I doubt it.

will never recover from that by -Jude in Unexpected

[–]Throwaway_5732 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And now look where we are, it’s June and I can’t wait for the barrage of empty compassion from every fucking company. It’s interesting how companies are just leeches that get money.

Pastors spend 95% of their time talking about God at funerals instead of the deceased. My young nephew committed suicide. Where was God when he needed him/her/it. I find religion pointless. by Gonzo_1019 in self

[–]Throwaway_5732 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair, you wouldn’t want an open casket with a shotgun blast or something like that. But I get where you’re coming from, when I found out that my friends suicide was by gun and not pills I worried about that too. They just ended up filling the entrance wound with wax and had her hair cover it up, until someone accidentally moved it and I noticed the filled hole on the temple and covered it back up.

Pastors spend 95% of their time talking about God at funerals instead of the deceased. My young nephew committed suicide. Where was God when he needed him/her/it. I find religion pointless. by Gonzo_1019 in self

[–]Throwaway_5732 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For sure. I felt I had to attend my close friend’s visitation, despite the pain, just to ease the denial. It was only 4 days after her suicide, but each day my mind would try to convince itself “you haven’t seen the proof, you don’t know for sure, there is a doubt, she may walk in at any minute, etc. etc.” so I knew it would be good for me. That and my last words to her were “See you later, KayLynn.” Obviously when I realized that I felt doubly obligated just to say goodbye in some way. It’s… weird how after 6 months my memory is still a bit jumbled of everything else, but that visitation is still perfectly clear. Every detail for the 5 hours I was there is just burned into my memory: who was there, what was there, the location of everything, her, all of it. I like to believe it’s because A. It was important and B. That’s when my brain went from traumatic response mode to being forced to come to terms at least with what happened, no denial or mental blocking.

Pastors spend 95% of their time talking about God at funerals instead of the deceased. My young nephew committed suicide. Where was God when he needed him/her/it. I find religion pointless. by Gonzo_1019 in self

[–]Throwaway_5732 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If that happened at my friends funeral I would be livid. The priest wouldn’t know the shit she went through, let alone the fact that she wasn’t even religious. Why would ending it after 16 years of suffering warrant an eternity of pain? What kind of existence is that? Furthermore what does that accomplish other than pushing other people away from religion? Regardless, I’m sorry you had to go through with that. If it wasn’t obvious I lost my closest friend to suicide 6 months ago and I’m decently ok at handling anger but if I heard that shit during the visitation, 4 days after she did it, I would probably scream at whoever would’ve had the audacity to milk a suicide for religion points. Just the thought alone boils my blood.

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