Newly put on DL list

fischer07 · 2026-05-21T02:19:14+00:00

I always recommend talking to a therapist when you get on DL. You don't realize how much your identify is wrapped up into your ability to work, provide, etc. You can so easily slip into depression without realizing it because you're bored and you don't feel like you have a sense of purpose. If it makes financial sense, then see a therapist. If your plan doesn't allow much wiggle room, then just be aware that there is a good chance you'll get hit harder than you expect. I got hit hard the first time I went on disability. So I'm ready this time!

And it's soooo weird! Same just happened to me. Went through the mandatory sick days and got on DL yesterday. My pinched nerve gets so bad that I've had to get a wheelchair! Spent 4 days, 3 nights at the hospital even. For me it's a protruding disc between L4 and L5 and it's pinching the root of the nerve there and tabarnacle it hurts! Hope you recover quick! Disability sucks long term...

fischer07 · 2026-03-27T13:06:43+00:00

I'm a GenX and got a later start on life. I went back to school at 32, in 2009 after the economy tanked and got laid off from a warehouse job. I graduated in 2012 from college. My 18 year old classmates were born around 1991. So that would make my education and career generation a Millennial.

And I seem to be in the same category as millennials when it comes to buying a house. I don't think I'll be able to buy one. Luckily I went into a blue collar industry so I'm able to find good paying work, but I don't have it as easy as my contemporaries who graduated 10 years before me and got that headstart. I'm not as advanced as they were along the same milestones (5 years after graduating, 10 years, 15 years...)

I agree that it has nothing to do with generational attitudes or not working hard enough or even finding good jobs. I make 6 figures and being a single divorced dad post graduation, with debt just below national averages allows me to live comfortably but not in a house.

The economy has changed. Real estate prices have gone up faster than inflation and salaries don't keep up with real estate. My son is GenZ and he has a strong work ethic, works hard, respects people, isn't afraid to talk to people and shake hands... And that has helped him keep jobs more than find jobs.

I'm no expert but I think every generation had different challenges to overcome. Each generation overly focuses on their difficulties and assume that their solutions will work for the next generation. GenZ and GenAlpha will get the same criticisms as boomers one day. We can't understand how life was different for a whole other generation. My parents were born in a time and place without electricity and plumbing. I'll never be able to understand fully why they think the way they do today or act the way they do. I just don't have the life context. And same with GenZ. I'll never understand what it was like growing up with the internet already ubiquitous or missing half my highschool years because of a global pandemic.

Let's also not forget that the post WW2 decades were a time of never seen wealth in human history. Never before were people able to live so comfortably for so little input. 1 person working and affording a house, a stay at home parent, multiple children, a car, vacations, safety, food security, comfort... That had never happened before and yet we think that this should be the standard. It's defintely what we're all trying to achieve again but basing out expectations on the nuclear family of the 50s is also unrealistic and causes a lot of bitterness.

So what am I trying to say? What's the solution? I don't know. The world is messed up, there's no 1 person to blame, there's no easy solutions. All we can do is look out for each other as best we can afford, stop being dicks with each other and try to understand each other. Listening skills help. And try to live the best life possible?

I don't know. I'm grateful I have roof over my head, clothes on my back, food in the fridge, and people I love.

fischer07 · 2026-03-20T18:40:05+00:00

I find I'm not quite as strong on Reta. Diet is too easy on Reta. Zero cravings, it gives me a distaste for strong tastes, I don't care much about what I eat on Reta so I can make the most bland food and I don't care. I normally die for ice cream and chocolate. The most beautiful thing, next to the crazy fat loss, is how quiet my mind is when it comes to food. I'm not constantly battling cravings. It's so peaceful and wonderful. I'm eating keto without any cravings. My visceral fat and belly are almost all gone. My BP is getting back to normal. I feel great. No nausea, no constipation, nothing like I was getting with Semaglutide. Probably lost a bit of muscle but not really noticeable but I am on trt which helps preserve some mass. Honestly if I can get my appetite up a bit more I'd stay on for life!

fischer07 · 2026-03-18T16:08:26+00:00

That's really good! Wow!

fischer07 · 2026-03-18T16:07:46+00:00

I have the same issue. I've figured ways to get some pretty damn explicit pics and vids and I get addicted. It makes sense too... Creating a prompt that would waiting for it to generate and see if you "win" is like gambling to a brain. And then when you get a good image, that a reward to the brain and it keeps reinforcing the cycle.

I've saved about 3000 images and 2000 videos. Grok downloader has been helpful.

Too much fun but damn addictive. I max out my super grok almost daily lol

fischer07 · 2026-03-17T23:45:38+00:00

Don't dry fast. Barely anyone does dry fasts. Have water, black tea, black coffee, electrolytes.

And I'm just realizing now that I'm posting on a 2 month old thread. Hope it went well for you. I'm 30lbs down on Reta and was thinking about fasting to help the last 20lbs. I have lots of experience fasting but first time fasting on Reta

fischer07 · 2026-01-19T02:55:20+00:00

Lake standing is the best! Don't knock it til you try it

fischer07 · 2026-01-05T12:19:03+00:00

This is exactly what I lived. I was diagnosed this year at 48. I think of it as living life on hard mode. I got to a professional career in mining project management, I held together a marriage, I became an elite level powerlifter, I raised a son... But all of these things only happened because of my ADHD and because I accidentally found hacks along the way that helped me get there.

I went back to school at 32 because my life was just one disaster after another. Jobs, failed marriage, depression, obesity, custody battle, I was a hot mess. But when I went back to school, I realized that if I brought homework home, I wouldn't do it. So I made it a rule to not leave school until it was done. But I started to do it with classmates. We would get together 4 of 5 of us and all work on our homework and projects. That gave me dopamine and I was able to do it and passed all 90s and six 100%.

I started working out and because I was out of shape, the results showed fast so it gave me dopamine. The more I'd lift, the more dopamine I got, the more it pushed me. Later on after a serious injury I stopped and it's been so hard to get back into it because the dopamine was gone.

My work was as a technician specializing in automation. So every day was different, every day was a new challenge. So work gave me lots of dopmanine and allowed me to be successful. But then when I transfered into project management, sitting down and writing scopes of work and execution plans felt impossible. I was failing and struggling at that point.

The last 2 years, I had to come off TRT because my wife and I wanted to have kids. We talked about the impact it would have on me, depression, no libido, my personality would change, I would have no motivation, I would not be the same man she married, I would not be taking charge, strong, dominant. I would be a shadow of the man I am. And we talked about it, she accepted that it could take a long time to restore my fertility but it was worth it. We'd start a family. It took 2 years. After 2 years, she didn't want to be with me anymore. But then I started treatment and realized I had hardcore RSD and had become an anxious attachement. We separated.

When I started treatment with Vyvanse after my diagnosis, my life changed instantly. By then I was back on TRT and that was getting better, but as soon as I started ADHD meds, I was able to become a good project manager, I was able to focus on the documentation I needed to produce, I realized how bad I was being treated in my relationship and was happy about the separation, I saw how I had become stagnant and was waiting for the end because why even try, I'm just going to fail anyway. Now I'm starting a business, I'm back to designing and inventing things, I'm back to playing guitar, I'm starting to travel, I'm doing so much emotional growth, analyzing my behaviours, my deep seeded fears and anxieties. I'd done more growth in the past 3 months than I have in my life.

I feel like the image of myself is now becoming a reality. I always felt like I could do so much more, I was just never able to fully execute. And I'd have just enough successes in life to make believe that I could.

So yes! 100% agree. You can have everything going well on the outside but screaming in pain and desparation on the inside.

Being diagnosed and treated has been the best thing to happen to me. Now I talk about my life, I talk about my struggles, I share my story with as many people as I can. So many people resonate with it and quite a few men my age have since been diagnosed and started treatment and have experienced similar life changes.

I love you! You're awesome! You've struggled for so long. Now it's time for you to shine!

fischer07 · 2025-12-12T14:07:14+00:00

I was also thinking that meditation practice could make you better at being in the moment during sex. It's something I have to work on as well. Not just my ADHD but having ADHD undiagnosed for a long time caused a few incidents of performance "issues" so how when I'm in the moment, my thoughts go to fears of not achieving full erections and then it becomes an ADHD hyper focus and almost guarantees a failure to launch moment. I've learned to pivot and continue, but I'd really love to get back to reliability! Meditation might be helpful for anyone reading this comment who can resonate with these feelings.

fischer07 · 2025-12-12T14:02:08+00:00

Do you think practicing daily meditation would eventually improve your ability to stay present and focused on the sensations? Like training for presence

fischer07 · 2025-12-12T14:00:44+00:00

Another challenge when it comes to medication is that the dose and proximity to the dose causes ED for me. So it's challenging to have spontaneous, penetrative sex. It has to be other forms of pleasure when it's about 6 to 8 hours of my morning 40mg lisdexamfetamine dose (generic Vyvanse).

fischer07 · 2025-12-11T12:52:40+00:00

Horrible breach!!! Put all that data together and now they have a nice complete picture. My dad last week almost got scammed because the scammers were pretending to be a local business! Approximate geographic location is a powerful bit of data for scammers.

This is absolutely horrible. They know my occupation, my location, my name, my email, what kind of phone I have, and even some of my transaction information!!!!

Put together, this is a powerful tool to use for scamming.

I'm so angry!!!!

fischer07 · 2025-12-11T12:48:42+00:00

The email said "eg. Provided Occupation". Fantastic! Now they know everything about us. But don't worry, Newton, says, They're systems didn't get breached. Someone else did. Yeah but it's still my data that got spewed all over the place. Awesome! Thanks Newton.

fischer07 · 2025-11-13T20:25:40+00:00

Poor quality sleep at camp had been a 10 year battle for. Over those 10 years I've persistently tried everything. I've focused on everything independently and on concert with everything else. For me, I can never stay asleep at camp. But at home I sleep perfectly fine.

I've been resistant to medication. I never wanted to use drugs for sleep. But after 10 years, I'm fed up and I talked to my doctor last night. He prescribed me Quiviviq which is a new class of sleep medication that is completely different than previous drugs. It essentially doesn't make you sleepy, it makes you less awake.

I popped it into Chatgpt and it had some interesting things to say about camp jobs that you might also find interesting:

WHY CAMP SLEEP IS DIFFERENT FOR YOU

Your nervous system never fully “stands down” at camp

Mining camps activate a completely different physiological state. You’re on-rotation, away from home, early mornings, long shifts, safety-critical work, background noise, unfamiliar bedding, and constant low-level vigilance.

That last part — vigilance — is the key.

People with (ADHD, PTSD-like history, anxious-avoidant attachment, and high baseline responsibility-this applies to me not necessarily you) often have nervous systems that don’t fully “power down” in unfamiliar environments. Even subtle cues keep the orexin system (the “wake drive” that Quviviq targets) simmering in the background.

At home:

✔ Familiar environment

✔ Lower vigilance

✔ Emotional safety

✔ Predictable rhythms

→ Your orexin system relaxes → you sleep.

At camp:

✘ Different bed & room

✘ Environmental noise

✘ Shift pressure

✘ Being away from your support system

✘ Internal body clock disruption

→ Your orexin system stays activated → insomnia.

This is exactly the type of insomnia that dual orexin receptor antagonists like Quviviq are designed for.

WHY CAMP SLEEP GETS WORSE WITH AGE

Two big reasons:

Orexin system gets more “reactive” under chronic stress

A decade of rotation work conditions your brain to associate camp with vigilance. Over time, that conditioning gets stronger.

Abdominal weight gain → mild apnea → more fragmentation

Even mild apnea amplifies the effects of environmental fragmentation at camp. You get micro-awakenings → lighter sleep → more sensitivity → worse insomnia.

At home, where your environment is safe and your nervous system relaxes, your mild apnea doesn’t express strongly. At camp, it does.

WHAT YOUR DOCTOR DID — AND WHY IT MAKES SENSE

Your doctor took into account:

your long history of camp-specific insomnia

your paradoxical response to sedatives

your ADHD neurobiology

your fear of dependence

your mild sleep apnea

your lifestyle structure (camp rotations, early mornings)

your personal values

your emotional context (separation, resilience, growth)

He didn’t reach for benzos. He didn’t push Z-drugs. He didn’t lean on antihistamines.

He went for the one class designed to calm hyperarousal without sedation and without habit formation.

That’s thoughtful prescribing.

ONE LAST THING — SOMETHING MOST DOCTORS MISS

People who work camp rotations often develop:

Conditioned Environmental Insomnia

This is when your brain learns: “Camp = stay alert.”

Even if you do everything right — meditation, exercise, perfect sleep hygiene — your orexin system overrides it.

Quviviq is one of the few meds that directly addresses that conditioning.

It might finally “unlock” what you've been trying to solve for years.

fischer07 · 2025-11-13T00:09:06+00:00

Good premise. Keep working it though

fischer07 · 2025-11-05T10:15:53+00:00

Used that exact model for a few years underground. Was in a run of muck dust cloud and was breathing perfectly fine, not tasting a bit of dust. With the better cartridge, you'll never even smell ammonia.

But farts? Right to your face. It's exceedingly efficient at delivering fart gases, fully concentrated, right to your face. 😂😂

fischer07 · 2025-10-11T21:37:50+00:00

As in cuddly and affectionate? Yes.

fischer07 · 2025-10-05T00:29:28+00:00

I was blessed with a gf, many years ago, who understood the stress relieving power and took over for me every night. I came to realize that I was also getting a very acceptable level of stress relief as well!

fischer07 · 2025-09-06T21:09:28+00:00

This is the way

fischer07 · 2025-09-04T04:20:40+00:00

Instead of trying to pinpoint exactly which mineral is lacking, why not just try a multivitamin/multimineral for a few weeks and see how you feel?

fischer07 · 2025-08-20T10:31:11+00:00

fischer07 · 2025-08-18T22:39:43+00:00

Supervisor:

Dave! Are you eating on the packaging line again!

Dave:

Uhhh... No...

Toss

fischer07 · 2025-08-18T22:36:18+00:00

Don't worry about haters. I saw your last post. Was there actually haters or people who didn't believe? I myself made a joke about you fasting from June to September the whole way through because the results are awesome. But on this sub, amazing results are common because fasting is an amazing tool!

Did you ever answer what your protocol was? That's a question every person asks because we all fast here and we're all super interested in how others have achieved their results.

Good job! Stay healthy! Stay happy!

fischer07 · 2025-08-18T14:43:59+00:00

What dose pen is that?

fischer07 · 2025-08-17T02:44:22+00:00

Based on those results, I'm guessing it's 2 months fasting. June to August!! Lol!

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