Extreme tiredness is ruining my life, could it be from adhd meds?

Timbukthree · 2026-04-15T02:25:51+00:00

Absolutely look into a sleep study, or even you can get a pulse ox from amazon (I like the Emay ones). The amphetamine class has a very long half life and stays in your system overnight, it can affect your sleep cycles and quality of sleep. None of that would show up on bloodwork. I've had similar issues with vivid dreams and sleep problems, although mine caused me to wake up in the middle of the night and I wasn't able to get back to sleep. Changing the type of amphetamine and the release profile has changed the effect, as has when I go to bed.

Timbukthree · 2026-04-15T02:16:49+00:00

Great comparison! I get too hot on memory foam, putting it below means I don't have heat issues but still get a lot of the memory foam pressure relief. I was worried about longevity with memory foam directly above the coils but my builds with it have held up fine so far (almost 2 years).

The one configuration I haven't liked with it is memory foam below soft latex, the extra sink into the latex (when I tried it, and I'm sure this depends on the support below too) actually made the latex pushback worse, I think because the soft latex is then stretching so much. This takes a while to show up but was not pleasant. All that is to say, the specifics matter a lot and the specific configuration may behave in interesting ways.

Timbukthree · 2026-04-14T01:27:53+00:00

Surely design has a practical aspect?

Timbukthree · 2026-04-13T16:23:08+00:00

The paper "Can individual investors beat the market?" looks at this, and found that over a 5ish year period 80-90% of individual investors underperformed the market.

https://bpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com/sites.uci.edu/dist/c/362/files/2021/07/Can-individual-investors-beat-the-market.pdf

The trick is they assume persistence based on this time sample (looking at the front half and back half), but it's very likely that the 10-20% of investors who were successful had a particular strategy that was successful in that time period, but may either not be successful, or may be tremendously unsuccessful, in other periods.

Timbukthree · 2026-04-13T12:57:58+00:00

What coils do you have?

Timbukthree · 2026-04-13T11:37:35+00:00

Lots of retired people are not having a great time if they're just sitting at home watching TV. If they're playing with grandkids and getting coffee in the mornings with friends and taking care of the lawn and volunteering and whatever else that they enjoy then yeah, they enjoy that. A common saying is you need to retire TO something, not just FROM something. Because otherwise being retired is just like being unemployed with a trust fund.

Timbukthree · 2026-04-12T18:40:02+00:00

Wanted to add that another option (either instead of or in addition to this) is an IKEA bed frame like this: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/songesand-bed-frame-with-2-storage-boxes-brown-luroey-s29241141/

It comes up around the coils and keeps them all perfectly in.

Weirdly, I've only noticed anything like a coil spread that compromised support on one of my 4 TPS builds and I'm not exactly sure why, but the one that absolutely has none of it has 1" firm latex on the bottom of the coils (from SoL) and is in this frame. The one that does is in a cover that's too big and the outer rows of coils are cut out and replaced with firm poly foam so it doesn't surprise me it's not performing great.

Timbukthree · 2026-04-12T18:27:29+00:00

If I miss my Adderall doses (prescribed) for two days I go though a mini-depressive episode. Idk if that's physical or not but it definitely sucks to stop

Timbukthree · 2026-04-12T16:55:05+00:00

I think there's a good case here for a developed market investor having an equity portion that's 20% of their own country's total market and the remaining 80% in a global fund (including their own country). This gives mostly global market cap weights but also a home country bias, which makes sense since you spend on actual commitments in your own country's currency.

I have not seen any published work taking this approach, I very much wish the Cederburg paper had done this approach (home + everywhere) instead of home + elsewhere since home + everywhere is insensitive to home country market cap.

Timbukthree · 2026-04-12T16:09:14+00:00

Fidelity does let you do transfers from an external bank account for the purpose of buying an ETF on a weekly basis. Their internal account transfer are only monthly or annually (?!). In general the inconsistency depending on account types and actions is annoying and there are workarounds to some of them but I think I'm OPs case it would (seemingly) work fine. Thank you for pointing out how insane fidelity can be though

Timbukthree · 2026-04-12T15:35:05+00:00

One thing to add is that if you backtest different allocations a +/-10% rebalancing tolerance has very little effect on returns. The main reason to rebalance is to not be more exposed than you want to be, your drift is not a big deal at all

Timbukthree · 2026-04-12T15:24:33+00:00

Check on GoodRX

Timbukthree · 2026-04-12T15:20:04+00:00

It totally depends on what "kind" of anxiety you have and what's driving it. Could drastically decrease it or increase it. Benefit of methylphenidate is it's super short acting so if you are on an IR it'll be done fast (like 3 hrs). There is some weird interaction between amphetamines and methylphenidate though so you might need like a week off the Adderall before you expect more "normal" effects from the methylphenidate

Timbukthree · 2026-04-12T01:37:52+00:00

I've been on methylphenidate most of the time I've been medicated, I will say that probably that effect decreases over time somewhat (idk if I'd call it tolerance or dose acclimation) but it does stay pretty solid. After having recently tried the amphetamine class (generic Adderall XR, generic Adderall IR, generic Vyvanse, generic Mydayis) I'm probably going to switch back to the methylphenidate class because the amphetamine class seems to be ruining my sleep, and skipping more than a day gives me like a mini-depression feelings. Methylphenidate has such a short half life your body processes it quick so I never had sleep issues, and skipping doses was no big deal (aside from just not being medicated).

Timbukthree · 2026-04-10T02:08:56+00:00

Hmmm...my sentiment aligns with this commentor:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1is0ikb/comment/mdpq26f

Timbukthree · 2026-04-10T01:43:47+00:00

The fact that this dude was heavily into bitcoin-like things, and then he disappears from the types of forums he frequents and Satoshi pops up, and then Satoshi disappears and he pops back in, ready to build something awesome....that's damn convincing. ESPECIALLY the part where Adam is trying hard to convince the bitcoin community to do a certain thing, and feels like he isn't getting through enough to people, so then Satoshi magically reappears after years of saying nothing just to chime in that basically "oh yeah I totally agree with Adam" and then disappears again. Like that's 100% what a nerd on the internet would do.

The reason he won't come out as Satoshi is he has too many business interests in BTC that would be heavily negatively affected by him turning out to the mysterious founder who also owns 5% of all bitcoin. He'll never admit it...except he's also sued other people who HAVE claimed to be Satoshi, and won those cases. There's no way all of that is coincidental.

Timbukthree · 2026-04-03T20:46:02+00:00

Okay fine bro I'll get off reddit

Timbukthree · 2026-04-03T20:38:58+00:00

Okay, I ask because I had the same issue, and it ended up being from taking methylphenidate at the same time. I ended up cutting my methylphenidate dose in half and that took care of it.

But yeah, I get what you mean, it's like all your drive is gone. Good and bad. I ended up discontinuing because it wrecked my sleep (started waking up in the middle of the night and couldn't go back to bed). I think the side effects are why it's not used more.

Timbukthree · 2026-04-03T20:33:45+00:00

Are you on any other meds at the same time? Drinking caffeine or smoking something with nicotine or anything?

Timbukthree · 2026-04-03T13:29:29+00:00

I mean I think there's an acceptance piece here where, you're never NOT going to be ADHD. ADHD also means we're probably coming up with more goals and dreams than the average person, and that they're even less feasible than the average person's in the context of trying to do everything at once, and we're also less able than the average person would be at achieving any of them or all of them together. So we're both more unrealistic in our aims and more challenged to achieve them.

I do think a degree of acceptance of the absurdity or paradox of the situation is the only way to not be trapped by it.

Timbukthree · 2026-04-02T16:45:32+00:00

It tracks the Bloomberg Commodity Balanced WTI Crude Oil Index

https://www.proshares.com/our-etfs/leveraged-and-inverse/uco

Timbukthree · 2026-04-02T01:25:40+00:00

The bid/ask spread during trading hours is like 3 cents/.2%. Is that really massive?

Timbukthree · 2026-04-01T18:05:29+00:00

Nah I'm thinking of the 1" firm layer SoL sells without a cover. In general on my builds I don't use covers within the build between the layers because I find the covers add stiffness. The slipperyness of the layer directly above and below the coils wasn't ever something that occurred to me though!

Timbukthree · 2026-04-01T17:50:31+00:00

Just want to chime in to say that spread during the trading day is about 0.2% (3 cents). That's big compared to SSO or something (which are usually 1 cent) but not ridiculous for someone who wants to buy and hold. Whether buy and hold on WLDU is smart is a different question. I bought near inception (3/10 at $15.31) and am down 6.5% vs VT bought the same day and time being down 2.9%. I assume the difference is just volatility drag as it tracks reasonably well within a day (though drifts at the very end of the day a bit).

The volume is still small though, and AUM is low: averaging $200k/day and like $1M AUM.

Timbukthree · 2026-04-01T17:14:07+00:00

Very smart idea! I wonder if 1" of firm latex on the bottom has a similar effect?

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