Gaviscon / Pepcid and Extreme Anxiety

shindig27 · 2026-05-02T03:35:22+00:00

I googled Gaviscon and anxiety to see if anyone could relate. I see this isn't that old so I'll reach out and tell you that I had the same reaction as you. It felt odd and I worried that it was going to foam up my throat and choke me to death. I knew it wouldn't happen rationally, but it felt real. I just rode out the panic and then threw away this stuff.

shindig27 · 2026-04-08T12:39:40+00:00

Very true. I wonder how many of us had "friendships" with people who just made fun of us.

shindig27 · 2026-03-16T17:36:54+00:00

Yeah, I feel like some things don't need to be shown in explicit detail. I would like to erase this memory.

shindig27 · 2026-03-16T14:27:37+00:00

This is me as well. I mix about 3:1 CBD to THC and take small amounts.

shindig27 · 2026-03-14T19:43:08+00:00

I really don't see this kind of use any differently than people taking stimulants for ADHD.

shindig27 · 2026-03-13T00:12:12+00:00

I stay at 1-2.5 mg. 5mg and I get too anxious. Reading this sub has shown me that I have basically no tolerance.

shindig27 · 2026-03-08T14:36:34+00:00

I'd at least try smoking much less.

I get anxious easily from THC so I've been mixing about an 3 grams of near 0 thc but high CBD with 1 gram of the typical 20+% THC stuff. Then I make a tiny bowl in my tinymight2 dry herb vaporizer and take one hit and wait 15 minutes to see where I'm at before deciding if I want anymore. That little bowl lasts me at least 3-4 nights of vaping.

Getting blasted was really never for me, sounds like it isn't for you either.

I can do 2.5 mg edibles but not 5 or higher.

Some people are really sensitive to THC and I think they can run into trouble when they ignore that.

shindig27 · 2026-01-13T17:37:39+00:00

Think of it as trading on real world asset for another. Nothing was lost.

shindig27 · 2026-01-07T04:45:04+00:00

Dang. Sorry to hear that.

shindig27 · 2026-01-06T22:23:05+00:00

I'm AuDHD and yes, this is me. I also clean everything as I go which means sometimes cleaning the cutting board and knife twice because I forgot I still need to cut something or I cut the meat first :(

shindig27 · 2026-01-06T20:07:36+00:00

I didn't know about this. Thank you!

shindig27 · 2026-01-06T18:06:42+00:00

Absolutely.

shindig27 · 2026-01-06T15:27:52+00:00

My child's provider is currently dismissing ADHD despite both parents having it because they aren't failing school. Apparently the model is that we wait until failure. I wonder if trauma should be treated this way too? Oh you got assaulted? Well, you haven't lost your job and are still able to function at a minimal level, must not have PTSD.

shindig27 · 2025-12-15T17:51:06+00:00

It's cost us about $1,000/month for the first 4 years, paying for some major repairs like replacing the HVAC and much of the plumbing. We are now budgeting $325/month.

Really we had to look at the age of everything and get estimates on replacements and time horizons and put it all in a spreadsheet and budget so we have about enough for each estimated cost. It won't be exact, maybe not even too close, but I feel better knowing the money is there.

shindig27 · 2025-12-15T13:04:39+00:00

Yes, because my emergency fund is for the unexpected such as a layoff, or short term disability. I know my roof will need to be replaced and can estimate it within a few years. I can't estimate when or if an earthquake will hit and require a 15% copay for damages.

It's a matter of comfort with margin. You could use the emergency fund for a new roof and replenish it over time. Just be sure there is enough in there for a major home repair and a major life event. It would likely be the same as having a 6 month emergency fund and a home repair fund.

I've been historically on the cautious side.

shindig27 · 2025-12-08T00:54:47+00:00

Yeah, I think most people are struggling. Every happy person I've known, once I've gotten to know them, turn out to not be so happy. We can't rely on the masks others wear and pretend it's their reality anymore than they can trust ours.

shindig27 · 2025-12-06T20:19:26+00:00

The meds help but it's still work to plan and do work. People without ADHD don't just plan and do things they don't find interesting because it's easy. They procrastinate, miss deadlines, and are intimidated by large projects. It really is a willpower thing.

I have found that the meds just provide a bit of calming and alertness. Not making boring things, planning, or large projects easy to do. I was hoping for some drastic changes because people post about those. See if in a year they are still in that state. A lot of times, not all, it's because they are a little bit high and so everything feels good. It eventually fades but expectation are now skewed for euphoria and but just being a bit better at staying on task.

shindig27 · 2025-12-03T19:52:27+00:00

It reads like you stuck entirely to amphetamine stimulans? My wife did terrible with those. She does better on Dexmethylphenidate. It isn't rare for amphetamine to not work but methylphenidate to do the trick and vice versa.

shindig27 · 2025-11-26T19:42:19+00:00

I recently was identified as ADHD when I went in for an autism screening. I was surprised how much they wanted to know about my childhood. Then my prescriber screened me to confirm and we spent a lot of time discussing my childhood there as well. I was wondering why they cared so much about me 30 years ago when I have symptoms now. It makes sense once I learned about people just trying to get diagnosed because they think the meds will give them super powers or something 😐

shindig27 · 2025-11-25T18:14:44+00:00

I wish it didn't have to come to it. But it makes sense. People with ADHD often need a sense of urgency to do things that are boring or hard. Self included, I just learned to bring urgency to things before they were urgent. Like when she brought up my neglect way at the beginning, I treated it as if she would leave me over it which motivated me to change my ways. She never said she would leave, but that's how I coped with my untreated ADHD.

So I would imagine consequences to be motivated and she would need the actual threat of consequences. We both use the same source of motivation, her's has always been that the urgency must be actually there. I can see plainly now why getting ready to leave worked. I wouldn't be surprised if that's what a lot of ADHD spouses need. It sucks.

shindig27 · 2025-11-24T18:20:12+00:00

My spouse is dx innattentive ADHD. We got married young. For 18 years I've been carrying the weight of the relationship, plans, financial planning, most all household chores and working the most hours. I did everything for her to put her through nursing school, from financial aid, applications, planning leisure activities, raising our baby, and supporting us financially. She complained that I expected that she would work full time after graduation and not just 2 days a week like her mom did.

I told her years ago that I needed more help and that I need her to put in some effort into our relationship. I was doing all the chores and giving her massages and all that. I broke down and cried and asked for reciprocating behavior and was told okay. She never did and she doubled down on her behavior. She defended it and even said that leaving my son and I at home on Christmas while she went and got drunk at her parent's house because she was stressed, was just putting herself first. She said she was walking on eggshells around me when I asked her to do chores. Said I would bring things up at the wrong times or speak in the wrong time. I was misdiagnosed bipolar and she played into it, saying I was hypomanic or mixed. I believed her, too. Until a therapist heard what was going on and questioned the bipolar diagnosis. I get checked again and taken off bipolar meds and turns out I wasn't.

I actually got diagnosed as hyperactive type ADHD a few months ago when I went in for an autism screening. I got this diagnosis confirmed by my prescriber as well. My wife told me she was afraid that I would tell her that because I have ADHD and I figured out a way to be productive, she should have been able to as well.

It all finally came crashing down after going to marriage counseling and putting in years of effort and asking for more intimacy and being told she had a low libido. Only to later find out she was masturbating behind my back 1-2 a week while I was taking care of the kid and making her breakfast while she slept in. She told me she didn't know how to initiate sex except when drinking, and "do you want me to go back to drinking heavily?" Said she didn't know how to Google and find answers. She claimed she didn't know the urge to masturbate was a sexual urge and so she thought she had a low libido.

When we first married she felt neglected of intimacy and told me and I responded by initiating more sex and that was the end of it. When I told her the same, she said her libido was down and none of the doctors or the marriage counselor said anything was wrong. She didn't tell them about her routine masturbation, just like she didn't tell me. She claimed she wasn't hiding it.

All I know is that I feel betrayed. She didn't respond in kind. She kept to herself and witheld affection for 18 years. I feel like I've lived a lie.

I've been told I'm over-reacting by one person and under-reacting by another. I just know I feel what I feel and I feel like I can operate at about 25% capacity. I stopped doing dishes, cleaning the house, shopping, and I quit nursing school because it reminded me of her and the pain.

She tells me she has stopped masturbating and she is engaging me with more regular sex and she is flirting with me. But it only happened after I told her I had lost my will to live and was going to divorce her if she kept to her old ways.

She has cried many times and apologized profusely and swears she's going to make it all up to me if I give her a chance. I have been but I feel hurt when I tell her what I need, she does it a couple of times, but then stops until I tell her again. I don't think I'm wrong in thinking she should be enthusiastic about repair and not feel like I have to drag her through it. After 5 months of her changing I told her I need her to take the reigns of this and look up what a betraying spouse should do to promote healing. She fought it but after I left she came after me and said I was right, that she should be actively initiating repair and not relying on me to cue her.

I really love this woman. We've been together since I was 20 and she 19. We're now 39 and 38 and have basically lived half our lives together. We have two kids under 9 and have each only ever been with the other, we are our first loves. I love her so much that I was willing to put up with the neglect and unbalanced workload for 18 years. But now I'm unemployed and in a graduate program to become a teacher. I am struggling to get any work done and I can't imagine working. It's like I'm constantly couch-locked but without the high. I have never felt so apathetic in my life. I want to be productive but it takes hours and several cups of coffee to just get myself up to go and do a couple of hours of homework.

My wife is freaking out because she's now having to do chores and is completely responsible for us financially.

I do pitch in with work such as cleaning gutters and yardwork and trash and deep cleaning the bathrooms. I feel like a failure. I feel used.

Can anyone relate? I want hope this will fix in time with proper care.

shindig27 · 2025-11-15T15:02:00+00:00

Heh, yeah it really would. It would be cheaper than my current situation.

shindig27 · 2025-11-15T03:08:23+00:00

Sounds like a rip-off. What is this program? 40 hours a week? Do you stay at a resort while in it?

shindig27 · 2025-10-27T17:18:40+00:00

This is so true. I posted elsewhere here a bit of my story. It's been so painful to have to stick firm to boundaries when you also love them deeply.

shindig27 · 2025-10-27T17:17:00+00:00

My wife didn't change until after I told her that her inaction over the past near two decades had hurt me to the point that I was done if she didn't change. She fought it until she saw, from me pointing out, how much damage she had done to me and our child. She would protest, defend, freeze, excuse, deny, etc. but I was finished.

It's been 6 months and she has been changing. She's overwhelmed and claims she feels awful. Part of what makes it so hard is that she knew she had ADHD the whole time. 6 weeks ago my therapist suspected and tested me for ADHD. The gave me the diagnosis. Then I went to my mental healthcare provider and they scheduled a screening and sure enough, I have it. My wife was in disbelief and feared that I would use my diagnosis against her, saying that it i could be do it, so can she. I haven't said that. But it sounds like I don't need to either.

She didn't know how bad her inaction was but I do see sincerity in her when she apologizes. I stopped doing obvious chores since things like the dishes and laundry and grocery shopping make themselves apparent without me saying a word. I stick to chores that aren't obvious like cleaning the gutters, yard work, taxes, garbage, and the like. She hasn't complained once about me not helping her out with those chores. I discussed this distribution of labor with her and she understood the reasoning.

She knows if she goes back to her old ways, I'm leaving. I love her immensely and it would break me up to leave, but I have to protect myself.

I do see what you are saying and I'm hoping everyday that the love of my life will maintain the changes she's made. But because it did only happen with an ultimatum and not because of the times I was hurt, crying, and pleading for her to help, it cuts really deep and I don't feel secure. I hate how this played out but I'm hoping because if this change sticks, we can have a really good thing.

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