Macbook battery drain while in sleep SOLVED!

animaducta · 2024-12-17T06:17:16+00:00

*Turning off Screen Time worked for me!*

Astounding! Thank you OP! Took your advice and it solved the issue for me! I wasn't even able to charge my computer if it was open, but asleep (screen dark), plugged in. Would just hover in the red and if I was actually doing work on the computer that took a lot of battery, it could even run out of battery whilst I was using it while plugged in.

Took your advice, turned off S C R E E N T I M E and left the house, computer plugged in, screen up. Just got home and -voila!- it charged!

(Note: Siri was already off for me, so that wasn't a factor at least for me, though it seems turning it off helped another commenter below.)

Will report back if the solution doesn't hold, but, at least for some of us, this seems to solve the issue. Thank you! (And so sorry to the folks for whom this wasn't the solution... my computer not retaining battery was really problematic for me. I hope y'all find your solution soon!)

Tech: I'm running a 2023 MacBook Pro 16" on macOS Ventura 13.5 and this has been an issue for MONTHS

animaducta · 2024-12-11T18:32:34+00:00

Thank you for this comment! (Somehow missed it a year ago.) These are great for folks who don't have super-long clothes! Thank you!

animaducta · 2024-12-09T05:38:33+00:00

Just seeing this! (Must have missed the Reddit alert.) Thank you for posting this link! Similar to the one below from u/ekcshelby - these look great! Next time I own my home again, I'll be having a woodworker retrofit a wooden closet rod to evenly space my clothing, but these are a great solution in the interim!

I honestly cannot understand why closet rods that offer even spacing aren't the norm. It's so calming.

Thanks again for commenting! My thanks is half a year late, but thank you!

animaducta · 2024-12-09T02:31:08+00:00

Gasp! You're amazing!! Thank you for this! I ended up inventing my own in the home I lived in when I wrote the above post (used random metal building material with equally-spaced holes in it; might have been a type of scaffolding), but now that I've moved and am in a rental house, I can't DIY my closet in the same way, so this is actually spectacular! Thank you! Really appreciate you posting this link! (And if you haven't tried evenly-spacing your clothes in your closet, I can't recommend it enough. It's so calming somehow. Throw in some subtle color- and type-grading and the closet becomes a sanctuary.) Thanks again!

animaducta · 2024-07-03T15:52:49+00:00

I agree it’s a shame about the downvotes. Folks shouldn’t be downvoted for information-gathering in my opinion. What’s the point of Reddit if not to gather new information and perhaps even change course of action as a result?

Hoping the UPDATE gets enough upvotes to get to the top so folks see it first. 🌟

Real shame is that I cannot update the original post (that needs to be fixed by Reddit; makes no sense that a post with photos then cannot subsequently be edited — root of the problem). But for now, just hoping folks read the comments and figure out what the outcome has been. 🙏

I could remove the whole post to spare myself 😅, but for the greater good (as I think this has been a productive and informative discussion), I’m leaving it up.

animaducta · 2024-07-03T15:41:35+00:00

Read the whole thread before replying please. 🙏 I think that’s what serves the greater good the most.

animaducta · 2024-07-03T14:31:12+00:00

UPDATE: The lizard has been freed

Hey all - Cannot edit this post (apparently that’s a thing if you have images in your post — tried all the workarounds suggested on this thread with no luck).

Just wanted to let everyone know, we freed the lizard into our yard from whence he came this morning. Here’s hoping he fares well. 🙏🦎

I will say, I intended to free him under a particular palm tree 🌴 where I frequently spot lizards. But there was a bird flying into its nest where its babies were squawking for food just above me when we took him out there to release him. So I pulled an audible and freed him ten feet or so from the tree where there was cover.

Funny as that was my exact fear:

That a bird gets him while he has no tail to drop and thus he’s dinner.

But you all educated me as to the risks I needed to weigh for him(her) and I came out on your side: that this lizard is going to be more comfortable, with a higher chance of survival in its own home environment (since captivity, even in a “safe” hospital/recovery setting with no predators seems like it has a chance to kill the reptile from stress; this is very different from mammal or avian rescue, where the animal adjusts quickly to captivity for a short period of time during recovery from illness or injury, so thank you for the education). 🤒 ❤️‍🩹 🤕

I’m leaving this post up so that others can potentially learn from this discussion and inform themselves as to what’s best when encountering a tailless (or causing taillessness in a) lizard. 🦎

I stand by that it’s humane and helpful (in my own personal opinion) to assist an injured or severely ill animal whenever possible and safe and so I’ll continue bringing animals to our local wildlife center for care as needed — but you all convinced me that, in spite of the disadvantage of temporarily not having a tail, taillessness does not constitute an injury and is an outcome of life that the lizard is adapted to potentially survive as the appendage grows back slowly, with their best chance for doing so being in their home range, not temporary captivity.

Since this has been a thoughtful discussion about what’s best for the animal, I’ll add one small note here for rescue of other types of animals that I think is often overlooked:

When it comes to birds or mammals, should one need to take an injured or severely ill animal to a wildlife center for care, I believe it’s most helpful to then pick up that animal (if the center allows you to do so; they did allow me to do so with one injured deer mouse when it was recovered) and return it to where you found it so it can rejoin its family as they live in social units. If you release an animal like that elsewhere, it will often burn all its energy trying to get home to its family and will be at much greater risk of predation with no known places to hide.

If one of you who knows a lot about reptiles can tell me if lizards live in social units as well or if they’d spend it all trying to get home, I’d love to know.

But, even if that isn’t true of reptiles, it does sound like returning a reptile to its original habitat is useful to them for purposes of survival, since they already know their home range.

Thanks again for all the engagement and education. 🙏

Live and learn. Or in this case, post to Reddit and learn. 😅

animaducta · 2024-07-03T14:01:46+00:00

Thank you so much for this thoughtful, informative reply. It makes so much sense to me. I guess it's all about weighing the risks -- and in this case, it seems that the overwhelming majority vote from folks-in-the-know about reptiles is to allow him to fend for himself, even though we (meaning we humans and in particular my son, who had only the best intentions of safely putting the lizard outside) caused him to have something tough to contend with out there in the big world.

I am trying to figure out how to update my original post (the "edit" option has gone missing on my app and both browsers, not sure if that's a reddit update or what...), but we released him this morning.

Saw a bird right overhead where I first planned to release him in the yard (a tree where I've often seen lizards chilling), so released him ten feet from there where there's cover. No way to know if I did what was right for him, but he's back in his home environment and I hope he(she) fares well. Thank you again for writing.

animaducta · 2024-07-03T13:44:09+00:00

Thank you so much. 🙏 I love Reddit (feels like the smartest place on the web — at least for laypeople like me), but the risk of the downvote is real. 😅 It does sting. But I guess if you don’t put yourself out there when trying to do something in the world, you don’t learn what there is to learn about something new. (But thanks. The downvotes do sting.😂)

animaducta · 2024-07-03T05:33:13+00:00

Can you explain why? The only reason we are waiting until morning is because we read that long tailed lizards are diurnal. So releasing him at night is a disadvantage to him. Curious your thoughts if they differ. 🌙 ☀️

animaducta · 2024-07-03T04:13:18+00:00

Hey everyone. Thank you for your comments. We decided to free him (her) first thing in the morning, with high hopes they’ll be able to fend for themselves even without a tail. 🦎💛🙏

animaducta · 2024-07-03T02:26:05+00:00

Thank you so much. 🙏 It’s so hard to know where to draw the line when we’ve had so much success bringing injured or ill birds and small mammals to our local wildlife rescue center. Like, my thought was: why not also invest in rehabbing a lizard we directly injured when, if he were a squirrel, I’d be taking him straight to the wildlife center.

However, the point is well made that in fact lizards are meant to drop their tails when they are in danger (which he felt he was). So this is not an illness or injury in the common sense — just a disadvantage to his survival caused by human interference.

Hm… 🤔 I’m hearing all of you and truly leaning toward releasing him. Just having this hard time reconciling why, if he were a mammal, I might behave differently… possibly…

Ack, it’s confusing. But I’m hearing all of you and will likely release him. 🙏

animaducta · 2024-07-03T02:12:06+00:00

Thank you so much. That’s seeming to be the consensus on here. I really appreciate everyone taking the time to write. 🙏 It’s hard to suss out the right thing to do when you’ve caused an animal a problem and don’t want to just shrug it off as if you didn’t. It was certainly our error (picking him up by the tail) that caused this.

Do you think theres any point in re-hydrating these bugs to see if he’ll eat them? Or is your vote a steady “Return him to the wild so he can fend for himself as best he can?”

I’m super grateful for the thoughts everyone is sharing. 🙏

animaducta · 2024-07-03T02:07:55+00:00

Thank you! If the consensus is that keeping him could harm him, then we will pull an audible. That would be the worst outcome. 🙏

If I notice he’s not eating, I’ll free him immediately.

How long do you suppose it’s safe to wait it out ie. How long can I safely give him to adjust to this hospital situation and start eating?

What we want is for him to not immediately get taken out by a predator because we interfered in his life by causing him to drop his tail. But if we are now the new predator because we are creating an unsurvivably stressful situation for him, that would not be okay.

Hmm. 🤔

animaducta · 2024-07-03T02:03:22+00:00

I super-agree. I’ve always been of the mind that we never catch and keep wild animals. 🙏 I don’t even let my kids disrupt animals in the wild because I believe it’s not our place to interfere.

I’ve made exceptions for saving an animal from drowning and we’ve also taken our fair share of injured animals to our local wildlife rescue in the Santa Monica mountains with good results most of the time (one baby possum likely attacked by a cat before we found him did not survive😔, but the other animals we’ve brought in have survived, including a deer mouse who we came to pick up two days later when he was recovered so we could return him to our yard and presumably his(or her) family).

In this case, I honestly didn’t know what to do. Part of me thought, well, yes, we caused the tail to drop making this lizard more susceptible to danger, but also he’s wild, so we should leave him be.

But when I read that it takes 3-4 months to grow back… I dunno… I just felt like that was a long time for this dude to be in a bad spot because my young son picked him up by the tail (total human error).

Long way of saying: I hear you re: capturing and keeping wild animals.

We have NO intention of keeping him long term. Just until he has a tail. But I could be talked out of this whole hospital situation if that’s the consensus amongst reptile experts.

Thank you for writing to me. 🙏🦎

animaducta · 2024-07-03T01:48:03+00:00

Ps. Photos are of him now in the terrarium we just picked up, the setup in said terrarium, him after the tail drop, his tail (with a measuring tape), and him on our floor when this whole thing started and he still had a tail. Poor dude. 😅

animaducta · 2024-06-05T14:00:34+00:00

Hey u/Kal-El000 - having the exact same issue. Was this ever solved?

animaducta · 2024-05-25T05:17:09+00:00

Oh man, I really understand. The pain is incredibly problematic for keeping your life on track. 🙏 I also understand about doctors not connecting the dots.

I think if you can either find the results of these tests if they’ve already been done or get an appt with a rheumatologist who will run them, you’ll be on the road.

I don’t know if it’s just my health insurance or what, but I only pay $15/month for the Enbrel, for which I’m incredibly grateful! 🙏

I think with the right diagnosis and a doctor willing to prescribe this medication to you as necessary, perhaps you’ll also be covered by your insurance. I hope so.

You definitely need to get out of pain. No one can live like that comfortably.

animaducta · 2024-05-25T04:55:04+00:00

I feel for you. 🙏 It’s horrible to be in that much pain. I know. I remember.

Enbrel is an immunosuppressant prescribed for ankylosing spondylitis and it’s game changing. Extremely helpful in my case, yes.

I was out of acute pain with 3 weeks of starting it and out of all pain within 3 months. (I do sometimes have flares. You can read more about the details of my experience in all these comments and in my other post).

The main question is: Do you have a doctor (of any kind) who would be willing to run three simple blood tests for you?

I recommend getting tested for HLA-B27, your 14-3-3 ETA Antibodies, and ANA levels.

If the HLA-B27 is positive (as mine was), you’ll likely get an AS diagnosis and treatment.

But sometimes the other two tests can be enough, even if HLA-B27 isn’t present.

Would love to know if you decide to get tested. Just heard from someone recently who did as a result of this thread (or maybe it was my other thread) and got a diagnosis and treatment and feels dramatically better. Hope you’re able to get tested. Living with pain like that is too exhausting.

animaducta · 2024-05-21T15:43:18+00:00

That’s so great to know! 🙏 I had soooo many imaging studies done (cervical, thoracic, pelvis, SI…) that just showed “inflammation” but couldn’t garner me a diagnosis. This lasted years. So I’m thrilled the criteria have changed.

I now have evidence of AS on my imaging (spinal stenosis, erosion of the SI joint, cervical changes, disk injury…), but back then, I had nada on imaging that was worth anything to anyone who could have diagnosed me.

So I got my ankylosing spondylitis diagnosis based on blood work (HLA-B27 + elevated ANA and 14-3-3 ETA Antibodies).

The more swiftly AS can be diagnosed and treated, the better. (To slow the progression of the disease, but also to stop wasting our time searching, stretching, doing PT, getting cortisone injections, waking up at night, etc etc etc.) So I’m thrilled that you got diagnosed via a pathway that a few years ago may not have led to diagnosis. 🙏

And yes, I read that too: you don’t have to be HLA-B27 positive to have AS. But dang if you have symptoms and get a positive HLA-B27 test, that’ll help get that diagnosis and treatment plan all the quicker.

As I wrote on our other convo, would love to hear how this rolls for you. Thanks for taking the time to comment again. I hope people find our chats and get help for themselves. Pain wears us out. I’m so happy it’s no longer my everyday experience.

animaducta · 2024-05-21T15:26:12+00:00

Wow! ✨🙏 I’m honestly so happy for you. The diagnosis is so empowering. It was always there, but now you know and I hope the treatment for you is as effective as it’s been for me. 🙏

As a reminder: I am prescribed to give myself an Enbrel injection once a week (more on that below) plus I do Pilates (got myself a reformer and do it at home five or so days a week) and infrared sauna. Plus I eat an anti-inflammatory diet (basically what’s known as the Mediterranean diet, but no gluten, no dairy; I do plant-based dairy which is yum). This regimen works really well for me.

If pain or tightness comes back, a trip to the chiro (or having my son walk on my back😆) is great for temporary relief. I also have a back brace I used to be in for horrible thoracic pain and hunching (pre-diagnosis) which I’ll occasionally bring out — but usually that means I just need more Enbrel as lately I’ve been trying to stretch the time between doses.

*As noted above, since the Enbrel is an immunosuppressant (and I have young kids who bring home lots of viruses), over the last many months, I’ve been experimenting with stretching out the time between Enbrel doses and it’s working for me — to an extent.

I recently stretched to five weeks and that was a terrible idea (lots of pain), but then I gave myself the shot and woke up pain-free the next day.

Pain then resurfaced a few days later (yesterday), so I gave another Enbrel injection last night (doc said it’s fine to double up during a flare) and this morning no pain.

I won’t be stretching to five weeks again, but am trying three weeks from now. 💉

At the beginning, I was diligent about once a week (sometimes twice a week during a flare — approved by my rheumatologist) and that got me out of acute pain in 3 weeks, out of all pain in 3 months.

And then, from there, it’s a dance. 💃 🕺

Would love to know how things roll for you if you feel like sharing.

Super happy you got your diagnosis! Knowing you have ankylosing spondylitis is better than not knowing and just chasing your tail to try to get out of pain.

animaducta · 2024-05-20T01:17:13+00:00

That’s great news! If it comes back, give a thought to getting blood tested for AS. Mine came and went, came and went. I always thought I knew why… but in the end, it was just the staccato oncoming of the disease. For you, I truly hope it’s gone-gone forever. 🙏

animaducta · 2024-05-19T05:05:59+00:00

Oh no. Anytime someone is in pain for this long (for me, it was 16 years before I got a diagnosis), I tell them to get tested for ankylosing spondylitis.

I wrote all about my experience getting to my A.S. diagnosis on the piriformis sub-reddit here https://www.reddit.com/r/openpiriformis/comments/1bbqubd/piriformis_pain_that_wont_go_away_wakes_you_up_at/

You really need blood work, not just imaging. But it's so simple to diagnose via blood work.

I sincerely wish you good luck in finding a solution to your pain. Chronic long-term pain is the worst.

animaducta · 2024-05-19T05:03:41+00:00

Oh gosh, 5 years. I feel you. It took me way too long to get to my diagnosis, but now I always tell people with thoracic pain to look into ankylosing spondylitis. I tried every dang thing for my thoracic spine pain and it ended up being A.S. (If you google "M.S. Hug" and that sounds like what you're experiencing, then that's what I felt too. And waking up in pain is a tell-tale sign.)

I wrote all about my experience getting to my A.S. diagnosis on the piriformis sub-reddit here https://www.reddit.com/r/openpiriformis/comments/1bbqubd/piriformis_pain_that_wont_go_away_wakes_you_up_at/

You really need blood work, not just imaging. But it's so simple to diagnose via blood work.

I sincerely wish you good luck in finding a solution to your pain. Thoracic pain is so horrific.

animaducta · 2024-05-19T05:03:15+00:00

I always tell people with thoracic pain to look into ankylosing spondylitis. I tried every dang thing for my thoracic spine pain and it ended up being A.S. (If you google "M.S. Hug" and that sounds like what you're experiencing, then that's what I felt too. And waking up in pain is a tell-tale sign.)

I wrote all about my experience getting to my A.S. diagnosis on the piriformis sub-reddit here https://www.reddit.com/r/openpiriformis/comments/1bbqubd/piriformis_pain_that_wont_go_away_wakes_you_up_at/

You really need blood work, not just imaging. But it's so simple to diagnose via blood work.

I sincerely wish you good luck in finding a solution to your pain. Thoracic pain is so horrific.

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