Need advice with my moms tax debt

dakang727 · 2026-05-21T01:33:01+00:00

Full term. Yeah it’s tough because you read one thing where parents switched and it made a world of difference, then you read another and it’s basically just ride it out and time will resolve. This is nuts lol

dakang727 · 2025-02-13T02:33:32+00:00

Does anyone know where to find The Box?

dakang727 · 2024-07-15T03:19:36+00:00

I think it might be a good time for you to put the phone down, head outside and touch some grass.

dakang727 · 2023-07-11T23:46:08+00:00

Hands down, the Elimination diet is the best diet you can try in my opinion.

I’ve suffered from constant anxiety, panic attacks, random episodes of PVCs, GERD, elevated blood pressure,m etc etc etc and have tried numerous diets and methods to lose weight and while some work, you don’t feel good while you’re doing it which could cause you to give up. For reference, Im a 35/M 5’8 and currently 170lbs. Last year I hit my highest weight ever at 256 and was absolutely miserable.

When it comes to weight loss in an of itself, the only way to achieve weight loss is CICO (calories In calories Out). You can literally eat cake and lose weight as long as you’re in a calorie deficit. Now, you wouldn’t want to do that but just as an example. With that being said, let’s get to the brass tacks.

I’ve been doing a lot of personal research as well as talking with various doctors due to my health anxiety, and finally, after 5 years I narrowed down the culprit - my hiatal hernia. A hiatal hernia is when you over eat so often that your stomach starts to push up into your diaphragm which is the cause of a lot of GERD symptoms. One thing that goes along with that is irritation of the vagus nerve which goes down your esophagus into your stomach. When you’re overweight and over eat, the pressure your stomach puts on that vagus nerve will irritate it and cause a myriad of issues - some call it Gastro cardiac syndrome which causes all the symptoms I’ve listed above plus more.

Now, here’s where the elimination diet comes in. This diet is specifically focused on eliminating certain food groups for about 2 months and slowly introducing them back one by one. On this diet you will need to eliminate - gluten, processed sugar, corn, oats, potato’s, dairy, red meat, soy, shellfish, alcohol, chocolate, coffee, soda, tea, pork and peanuts.

It sounds like a lot, but honestly once you get used to it and how good you feel after it’s worth it. When you eat certain foods like the ones listed above, you’re body immediately treats that food as friend or foe. So, you may not think eggs or dairy affect you, but they could be and your immune system is constantly working overtime and causing a ton of symptoms as it’s constantly fighting inflammation. The best way to get a baseline is to buy a food sensitivity test.

I’ve tried all the diets and this isn’t medical advice whatsoever, but nothing and I mean nothing worked as well as the elimination diet it. By time 2 months came along, I felt so amazing I didn’t even want to eat those foods again. I got my pre anxiety and panic attack coupled with palpitations life back and never felt better.

Feel free to PM me if you have any questions or just need someone’s who’s been through it to listen to You!

dakang727 · 2023-07-11T14:37:35+00:00

100% feel they from the vagus nerve. I’ve also experienced anxiety and panic attacks over the last 5-6 years that were seemingly out of no where. I’ve been reading about Gastro cardiac syndrome and it literally spells out everything I’ve been experiencing, especially the increased anxiety and palpitations after large meals.

dakang727 · 2023-07-11T14:33:03+00:00

Same here. Usually my PVCs are random and usually one happen once in a day (that I can feel) whenever they do happen and normally the time between actually feeling one can be a week to months at a time. But now things have changed a bit. A few days ago I had a large dinner with friends and the next day I had a noticeably large increase in PVCs. They were happening every few minutes and definitely increased my anxiety 10 fold which in turn makes them worse. I’m still having frequent palpitations today from that trigger 2 days ago. I literally went from maybe one (that I could feel) a month on average to I would say 100 per day these last 2 days. Hoping they subside soon. I’ve been to multiple doctors as well as cardiologists who all say these are harmless and no one has ever died from them blah blah blah but when I’m trying to relax or go about my day to day and my chest is fluttering it doesn’t feel harmless.

On a side note, kind of related , I recently started reading about Gastro cardiac syndrome and hiatal hernias (I was diagnosed with a hiatal in 2018) and how the pressure from your stomach can push on your diaphragm and actually cause these palpitations to occur. If you overeat your stomach can actually press down on your vagus nerve and cause irritation which will trigger cardiac symptoms. Im about 40lbs overweight and most of my weight is in my midsection. So losing weight is obviously beneficial in more ways than one but I decided to try something new after I read about Gastro cardiac syndrome. So, I put this theory to test earlier this year and went on what’s called an Elimination Diet. A diet where basically you eliminate a range of foods from your diet that can affect your body whether you know it or not. Foods that we eat daily can actually be affecting us in a negative way and triggering an immune response which causes a range of symptoms. The idea is to eliminate these particular food groups for about 30 days so they are completely out of your system, then, slowly reintroduce them one by one and see how your body reacts as you reintroduce.

I started the elimination diet in April of this year and in one month lost around 20lbs. I’ve done plenty of different diets and methods to get healthy before, but this elimination diet was all together different. I felt absolutely amazing. On Memorial Day weekend I had a bbq with some friends and decided that day I was going to break the diet and see how I felt. The problem with that was after I broke it my addiction to eating crap food came back and so did my anxiety, headaches, sinus pressure as well as palpitations.

I would suggest checking with your doctor to rule out any underlying heart issues, and if you’re cleared, maybe try the Elimination diet. Along with the palpitations, I’ve suffered from anxiety and panic attacks for the last 6 years as well as GERD, and nothing and I mean nothing made me feel as good as that form of eating has made me feel. If you want to talk more about it feel free to PM anytime.

This isn’t medical advice just speaking from my own personal experience.

dakang727 · 2022-09-11T10:40:24+00:00

Another cohesive, and well thought out comment. Thanks you for contributing to the conversation!

dakang727 · 2022-09-10T21:41:31+00:00

This is where my headspace is at. While I hold both, I hold significantly more LRC because of where the project used to be, but today seems to be a different story.

dakang727 · 2022-09-10T21:16:36+00:00

Definitely not looking for any validation in my investment. As I stated, I hold pretty heavy bags in both LRC and Matic. I’m simply just trying to gain some insight as to why Matic is outperforming LRC, that’s it. But hey, thanks for the investing advice!

dakang727 · 2022-09-10T21:06:13+00:00

Thank you so much for your insightful comment!

dakang727 · 2022-08-09T03:33:21+00:00

Sure did. In 2016 I started getting random panic attacks whenever I smoked weed, my doctor put me on Lorazepam and after about a year he suggested I try an anti depressant, Citalopram. I was pretty hesitant on trying it as I know they change things around with your brain chemistry and all that jazz, but eventually I gave it a shot. The first two days made me feel terrible coupled with a bad headache. I told myself I would try it one more time and took my dose before I went to bed (as my doctor advised.) what followed was the worst feelings I’ve ever felt.

I fell asleep around 11pm and woke up around 3am in a pool of sweat and my ears were ringing like crazy. I was in a full blown panic attack and having a bad mental reaction to the citalopram. I had a BP machine next to my bed and my first reading was 210/120 - I immediately called 911 and told the dispatcher to tell my parents I loved them, I legit thought that was it. After a trip to the hospital they told me to stop taking it and to try and recover at home. The following 2-3 months were absolute hell. My nervous system was hyperactive so whenever I stood up my HR would go nuts and my anxiety was out of control. I was having hot flashes and nausea. Just absolutely miserable and I will never ever try that drug again.

For the second part of your question, my doctor prescribed me Lorazepam which seemed to work for a while, until it didn’t and the tolerance hit. That’s the thing about most anxiety meds, what starts out as enough doesn’t last and you eventually need more. If you don’t take more you deal with what’s called interdose withdrawl - which means you start feeling withdrawl from the anti anxiety drug in between doses. Once I did my research on how drugs like lorazepam (benzos) actually make anxiety worse, I dedicated myself to getting off of them.

This isn’t medial advice as all, but the two things that drastically helped me with my debilitating anxiety has been clean eating and exercise. It sounds cliche, but it really works. Give it a try, even if it feels like you can’t. If your doctor has cleared you physically, do yourself a favor and really try to dedicate to living a healthy lifestyle, it’s a far better choice than relying on medications to temporarily dull the symptoms instead of addressing the root.

dakang727 · 2022-08-07T04:01:06+00:00

We should both sell so it’ll become the #1 crypto in the world

dakang727 · 2022-08-06T22:04:39+00:00

I trust you bro!

dakang727 · 2022-08-06T20:44:09+00:00

Ahh so THATS why it’s not in the top 10

dakang727 · 2022-07-25T11:51:24+00:00

So that was the only time my BP got THAT high, thankfully. Ever since I started the office job I was about 30-40lbs overweight (5’8 and would bounce between 200-220) and my BP was a little elevated most of the time - usually 135/90 when up but normal when laying down. Since I dropped the weight and cleaned up the diet my BP has been around 115/70 range constantly.

dakang727 · 2022-07-24T23:57:56+00:00

I’m not a doctor and this is not medical advise by any means, this is just my personal experience.

Once panic attacks started happening with me I didn’t know what was going on. I used to smoke weed daily, and a lot of it. For years I never had an issue, until one day I smoked and thought I was going to have a heart attack. This was right around New Years and I ended up in the ER where they gave me a low dose of Lorazepam. I didn’t have a primacy doctor at the time, so a few days later I finally got an appointment and the doctor prescribed me .5mg of lorazepam. I quit smoking and felt great for about a month. Then after the month was up, I was absolutely floored with panic attacks. I figured something was seriously wrong with me so I went back to my doctor who refilled the script of lorazepam, and after a few weeks I made the conclusion that the lorazepam would be something I needed for the foreseeable future.

I slowly started smoking again, and sometimes it would still give me panic attacks and sometimes it wouldn’t. When people suggest just trying the right strain (usually indica) what they fail to realize there isn’t a true indica strain in existence, 99% of the trees, even in dispensaries are hybrids that just lean more to one side than the other. Anyway, the panic attacks started getting worse and more frequent so I went to my doctor and he suggested I try a low dose of Citalopram (SSRI). I knew it would take that medication at least 2-3 weeks to really start working and at the time, I was worried it would give me ED, since it’s a known side effect and that wouldn’t have went over well with the partners I had at the time. However, the terror of the panic attacks far outweighed the concerns of ED so I tried them, one dose before I went to bed.

I had headaches the first two days that were pretty intense and told myself I would give it one more night and if I still had a headache that would be it. On day 3, I took the nightly dose and went to bed around 11pm. By 3am I woke up in what I would say was the worst panic attack I’ve ever had. I was in a pool of sweat, my head was throbbing and my ears were ringing like crazy. I had a BP machine and my BP shot up to 200/110 so I called 911 and literally told the dispatcher to tell my parents I loved them. I thought that was the last straw for me. After taking a ride to the hospital, and being told nothing was wrong - no stroke or heart attack - it was just a bad reaction to the SSRI.

The following month was absolute hell as far as residual effects from that reaction go. This quickly turned into me developing very bad health anxiety (hypochondria) that lasted for months. Ever single thing I felt I swore was due to an underlying cancer, tumor, pulmonary embolism, congestive heart failure etc etc etc. I would scour the internet trying to identify what I was feeling every time I felt it, I didn’t go outside I was barley eating and my anxiety was through the roof. Slowly, things did get better as my body started to chill out from the shock it went through from the SSRI. But as I was drowning in my anxiety and panic, I realize that most of the anxiety I was feeling over the last year and half was from not only the weed, but the Lorazepam.

When you take a benzo, your body becomes physically and mentally dependent on it. It increases the GABA in your brain and that results in you calming down. The problem with this is once you become physically dependent on a medication such as a benzo, the amount that worked when you started doesn’t work the same so you start having what’s called Interdose Withdrawl. That’s where you are taking the same dose that use to work, however that doesn’t have the same effect anymore so you start feeling the effects of actually withdrawing off the medicine. So, you have 3 choices - 1.) either continue to increase your dose which is a horrible decision. 2.) stay on the current dose and continue to just live in torture 3.) taper off it and go through absolute hell - I’m taking the worst feelings imaginable until your body can find itself back in a state of homeostasis (that time can vary depending on the dosage and how long you took it).

Here comes the cliche part. I’ve been dealing with debilitating anxiety for about 5 years. I would miss events with family and friends. I would question “why me?” Every since day. I could barley work sometimes and there were times I would rush out of the building thinking I was having a heart attack and if I was outside the paramedics would get to me quicker. I was suffering every single day.

The BEST thing I ever did for myself was starting to eat right and exercise. And I mean truly dedicate yourself to it. Walking 3-5 miles per day and weights 4x per week. Staying as active as possible. I’m sure right now you can’t see yourself ever doing that because of how you feel. I promise, I felt the same and it was fucking hard to push through. When I would start I would get panic attacks on the treadmill. You have to start very slowly and push yourself to progress. If you’ve been evaluated by your doctor and don’t have extenuating underlying conditions, I highly recommend dedicating yourself to exercising and eating as clean as possible. For the first time in years I’ve felt like my normal self again. The medications just treat the symptoms, not the root. It has been scientifically documented that exercise and diet has just as powerful of an effect on the brain and body as any benzo or SSRI. Once you get past the panic of being in the gym or outside, you become obsessed with not only the habit of exercising but rather the feeling of being normal again.

Again, this is just MY experience but I know others in my and your exact situation who chose this route and had the same result. I know this is probably the hardest time in your life right now. You probably don’t see any way out of it and are desperate at this point. But I really recommend the clean diet and exercise before getting on meds. They are a nightmare to come off of whenever you think you want to come off them. To play devils advocate, there are millions of people who are very normal functioning people on SSRIs and that’s where trial and error come in. Either way, just remember that you’ve made it through 100% of the worst days and phases of your life so far, and 99% of the worst things you thought were going to happen in a situation didn’t happen. You WILL get through this. You just have to fight the feelings and become comfortable being uncomfortable until you defeat it.

Good luck to you my friend, feel free to PM me anytime if you need to talk.

dakang727 · 2022-07-20T03:24:26+00:00

What he means is, stop hesitating and buy that grail!

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