u/BruhStop_26

Trusted a fart like a damned, damned fool.

Second day of class, first day on this campus, I’m sitting in the perfect spot after class, charging my laptop and phone, snacking on my lunch while I review and try to get ahead.

I’ve had gas more frequently and some mild loose 💩 on occation since starting sertraline, and even more since adding Vyvanse. I trusted that it was just a fart. I was betrayed. Warmth. Spreading. Dispair.

Packed up in less than 10 seconds and quickly made my way to the nearby (jfc thank GOD) bathroom and changed into the spare pair of undies I keep in a ziplock in my bag in case it ever happened to me.

I’m so glad I was overly cautious, and that I was wearing cotton boxer briefs that absorbed the overwhelming majority of it.

“Well that’ll never happen to ME”

Heed my words, don’t be a fool. Don’t have to hobble to your car to leave whatever establishment your folly has cost you.

You GOTTA be packin. (Extra underwear and wet wipes)

My favorite honey mustard since o’Charlie’s stopped selling their refridgerated jars, GONE.

It’s more sweet, thicker, and less vinager, kinda gross ngl.

I started taking 25mg quetiapine for emergency insomnia help (anxiety induced spiral that left me unable to sleep for like 4 nights, also started sertraline) for like 3 months, and when I had to start Vyvanse for my adhd, I went from poor sleep to NO sleep.

I’m stopping the quetiapine (and Vyvanse) cold turkey, and WOW. Currently just taking 50 mg of strains, no quetiapine or Vyvanse.

Got maybe 2 hours of sleep last night, which is an improvment from 0, but still.

Anyone know how long this will last?

I REALLY want to start taking the Vyvanse again, but after 2 weeks of 0 to 2 hours of sleep, I’m desperate.

Again I was only on quetiapine for a little under 3 months

I have an old hp specter, and I’m tired of having to break out a brick of blueice and a kitchen towel anytime I want to play phasmophobia on the lowest settings possible. Also yes I already use a laptop pad with a bunch of fans on it, and no it doesn’t really do the trick.

Anyone know a laptop pad with a refridgerating type of cold pad on it? I see a few on amazon, but I wanted to know if yall got any specific recs since the reviews are few and polarizing.

Just went up from 50 to 100 mg of generic Zoloft, and started generic Vyvanse 30 mg. Went 4 days and only slept 2 hours one of the nights, 1 hour on another, and 0 hours the other two nights. I’m already someone whose felt with insomnia for as long as I can remember.

I tried talking to my dr (got the Assistant’s assistant) and they told me to start taking the Zoloft in the morning together with the Vyvanse, as I had previously been taking the Zoloft (50 mg) and a low dose of quitiapine at night as recommended.

I’m now taking the generic Zoloft and Vyvanse first thing in the morning (8-10, but aiming for 8) and the low dose of quitiapine at night 30-50 minutes before I try to sleep.

I skipped taking the Vyvanse two days in a row and lowered my Zoloft to 50 for one day, and was finally able to sleep, and knocked out for like 11 hours. Tried my correct dose fresh the next day at 9 am, and 0 sleep again.

Is there anything yall know that I need to try diet or supplement wise to help my body process the Vyvanse better? It’s the only adhd meds that actually work for me, and besides the insomnia, it works great at eliminating my executive dysfunction and anxiety. It doesn’t feel like I’m jittery or have racing thought late at night, I just canNOT fall asleep.

I’ve heard taking melatonin (which has never worked for me before as a life long insomniac), and a high protein diet with a magnesium supplement helps??

Idk if I just need time to adjust to the new dosage of Zoloft, or if I should have transitioned from 50, to 75, then to 100mg of it first instead of just jumping from 50 to 100 before starting the Vyvanse. I’m restarting school as a returning student (31) in a month, and idk if I have the time to even out. Regardless I need to sleep, and I hate the idea of not being able to take the Vyvanse until 4-8 weeks have passed for the Zoloft to even out.

Went from 50 to 100 mg, made the mistake of starting my adhd meds (gen vyvanse) two days into the new 100 mg dose, stopped taking it after two days no sleep. I’ve drifted a few times the past few tossing and turning nights, but no real actual sleep. it’s almost 1 am and it’s feeling like another sleepless night.

Like I’m grateful that these meds are helping but GOOD GOD.

Just restarted my prescription since I’m going back to school (though I need it for general)

Currently have blue cross blue shield silver insurance ($538 a month, $4 with advance premium tax credits), and the best deal I or the pharmacist manager can find is just my insurance at $108 for 30 caps for generic vyvance.

Both GoodRx and Singlecare are like $117-$120

Is there any way for me to lower this? Calling my insurance? Some help program?

Edit:

It’s the generic, and I’m in Georgia, US, and my pharmacy is a Publix.

Also at Costco it’s about $175/30caps.

I’m getting mixed results online for whether or not it’s even covered in Georgia for Medicaid, which I’m about to switch to in about 1.5 months for school.

Anyone in GA on Medicaid got this covered/know the deal?

I just cracked open the package on my 2.4mm pilot parallel pen, and would really love to learn some gothic style calligraphy.

Did some freehanding looking at the examples in the pen’s pamphlet, but I’m having a hard time getting the shape right from the example to my sheet. I learn better by practical means/tracing a bit first, then getting the motion down, but I spent like 30 minutes looking up online, and everywhere is charging $15-25 for a pdf or actual pages.

If anyone knows where to find some practice tracing sheet pdf’s for this style I’d be eternally grateful.

Both of my ibs cats are on hills biome dry food, about 200kcals a day, and are stuck at about 22 and 16 lbs respectively.

The wet reccomended switching them to the less carb dense wet food version, but for 2 cats eating 200-180 kcals a day for 1 month, it would total around $500.

Are there any ibd friendly wet cat foods you guys have found?

I love these cats so much, I’m terrified of them getting so constipated/backed up they get mega colon (one is borderline) and die. We had a close call with the 22 (formerly 24) lbs cat, who was so backed up he was puking, and his intestines where blocked/paralyzed.

I have three cats with ibd (a mother and her two kids), and after finding this out with a healthy +$2k of vet bills, we put them on hills biome, with instructions to get them to lose weight.

The problem is that the kids are still respectively 22 and 16 lbs, even though we’re feeding them the equivalent of 200kcals a day (about 1 oz of kibble twice a day)

It was reccomended today to switch them to the less carb dense wet food version of hills biome, but the problem is that the dry was already exorbitantly expensive. The wet would put us out of house and home.

For 190kcals a day, for one cat, it would be about 3 cans a day, so 8 days from one 24 can pack, with one 24 pack costing $63, so likely $244 per cat/per month.

Does ANYONE know any cheaper alternatives?

I’m at my whits end if I’m being honest. I love these cats so much, but almost $500 of cat food for one month for 2 cats is out of my price range.

My ibd cat was drinking dirty water for a few days (busted filter on the fountain that I didn’t catch) and eating another cats food, when she’s supposed to be on a prescription diet, and now her abdomen is bloated up.

I had been giving her some lactulose to make sure she was still pooping, but while she pooped, it seemed to make her feel a little worse, so I stopped the lactulose and I’m going to switch to miralax tomorrow, but I’m concerned over her bloating.

Is this normal in a flare up? She had been lethargic before, but she’s doing better now, energetic and playing and jumping from tall heights with no visible discomfort, but still with a bloated middle section.

Those are my dream positions I’m going to college for, I have no ambition for programming, engineering, or computer sciences, just a BAS in information technology. I know there’s more money in security positions, but that’s not my goal.

I want a 9-5(around thereabouts) where I clock in/out, have a 401k, pto, and enough money to live/have some savings on.

No chance of dual income (asexual), so I really need a solid +$25/hr job, and this is my last chance at college (31yrs old w Pell grant for an undergrad)

I had a realization checking my pay that I didn’t get the raise I thought I did a year ago, and was making $15.05/hr, not 15.55/hr. Had a panic spiral where I did t eat or sleep for days. I realised I was coasting on below living wage since Covid (when I originally left school for high family risk reasons), still living at home and miserable.

My college attempts where absolutely agonizing, failed half of what I took over 6 years (off and on), and I never settled on a major/couldn’t figure out the “thing I was MEANT to do”.

Long story short, got a buddy who does IT tech work for the local county offices, and he’s going to try to get me in on recommendation, but I’ll need some schooling first. He reccomended getting certifications, but he also has a few associates, and I don’t have ANY degree behind me, and god forbid the job falls through, either through rejection or lay offs, I’ll have nothing to fall back on than experience. So I’m going back to school for a bachelors of science in information technology (an IT degree), and it’s SO INTIMIDATING.

Capstone senior project with a business or non-profit requirement, internships, discrete math. I’m utterly terrified I’m going to be wasting my time just to continue failing classes like I usually do.

I know I’m older now, and more motivated, and know myself better, but success was the unlikely outcome, not the default, and I just feel so utterly defeated. If I’m LUCKY, take 4 classes a semester MAX, I can get this done in 3 years(have most core done). By then I’ll be close to or at 35, just starting an IT career, 15 years behind everyone else, at starter pay until I’m like 40.

I know the alternative is continuing as I am, and there’s no turning back the clock, “the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is today” etc etc etc

I’m just so utterly terrified of continued failure and being this miserable for the rest of my life living at home, working a physically demanding job that leaves my h-eds exacerbated and me in pain, all for unlivable wages.

My (31) goal is a local government IT technition job, which I could probably score with a few certs and my buddies who works there’s mark of approval, but the risk of potentially being let go due to budget cuts and not having a degree to fall back on one day has me going back to school instead of just doing the certs.

My issue is I’m a bit math dumb to begin with, let alone 6 years out of classes since Covid(family health issues, why I left), and the degree track requires intro discrete math. I’m already having to retake college algebra because when I was unmedicated for adhd(which I’m working on with my dr), I didn’t do any of the homework and couldn’t study right, and got a D.

I need the refresher anyway, so I’m not mad about having to retake algebra, but I’m very concerned I’m too dumb to pass discrete math.

I’ve heard other people say Boolean math ain’t too bad, but again, the best part to me (previously) to not going to classes anymore was not having to do math, and now I’m seeing discrete math in the distance and it’s terrifying.

Including savings, retiring, and 401k?

I’m living at home for free, going back to school in my early 30s, for a bachelors degree that will cop me a job around $21-25/hr (IT) with benefits. And I probably won’t be able to get a job until late 34/early 35.

I’m single probably for life, unless I can find a platonic life partner to share expenses but not a bedroom with, so I don’t expect a dual income dispute my dearest wishes.

I’m lucky that my parents have a 50k I inheritance set aside for me for a down payment on a house (obviously going to be a >100k rancher)

Is this doable? Is anyone else making similar and having a comfortable life?

Have all my main generic core classes done, but Covid knocked me out of school for a few years (it was slow going anyway with unmedicated adhd/anxiety) and I’m now in my early 30s trying to land a 401k in a non-trade.

Looking to get a regular 9-5 or help desk role at my local government and trying to decide which degree to get; general ba of science in Information Technology OR ba of science in Information Technology with a minor in business.

I’m concerned the general it ba would be too rigorous for me programming wise, since I have previously 0 experience in programming/any coding language. The business minor seems like a good middle ground balance between actually indepth computer work, verses someone making sure the network is up at the local county offices.

Basically I wanna ask if a business minor would be an incentive or totally irrelevant to help desk work, especially later in life if I wanted to get a higher team lead/assisstant manager type role.

(I’m going on two weeks no sleep/little food from the stress of it all, I beg of you)

Edit; there’s also a “Bachelor of Business Administration with a major in management information systems” option???

I’m not stupid, but I feel so overwhelmed and brain foggy from the lack of sleep/malnutrition and want to figure out what’s going to give me my best shot.

Long story short; I’m in my early 30s, audhd, live at home, had a spiral/breakdown about working $15/hr retail till I die. So I reapplied to go back to my old college and actually finish a degree (for IT help desk work). I already had horrible insomnia, and bad BAD anxiety, to the point of the stress of just contemplating this life change has had me unable to sleep or eat for almost a week, with heart palpitations.

The only reason I’m not hospitalized from lack of food/sleep is ensure protein shakes, and because my mother is newly on a cpap machine and had me take one of her generic lunesta’s she’s prescribed every other night.

I was actually able to sleep those nights, and the nights I didn’t take it I either only got 1-2 hours collectively of bad sleep a night, or the one night I had a bad anxiety attack that left me doing breathing exercises laying flat on my back on the floor, my sister gave me one of her panic attack meds, so I was able to sleep and not have heart palpitations from stress the next day. And before this I’ve tried all of the usual; melatonin, otc sleep aids, no screens before bed, breathing exercises, trying “mindfulness”, not associating my bed with stress/hanging out in it during the day/waking hours, to little to no effect on a USUAL schedule, let alone when I’m freaking out over life major changes and terrified challenges.

TLDR; BAD ANXIETY, REAL BAD, on top of regular life long insomnia since I was a child. I usually just waited myself out until 4-7 am, then got some sleep from exhaustion. But also I need to get back on adhd meds to improve my life and be able to actually focus on and pass my future classes. How can I approach this topic with my dr in this upcoming appointment without sounding like “lazy person” who just wants a quick fix? ADHD, anxiety, sleep, and maybe appetite meds? That’s a LOT! And classes start mid August, so there’s only 3 months to start to figure it out in a functional way.

I don’t want to be labeled “drug seeking”, but I am very specifically seeking drugs to help me with my life long insomnia, which only gets worse with adhd meds, and my very bad anxiety (which I should also be on medication for)

Also how bad would my mother potentially get for sharing her generic lunesta in these emergencies? At home ofc it’s no big deal sharing meds in an emergency, but to a professional like my cpc, I’m concerned this could get people in trouble and lead her to not want to help me? The only way I can think of to start the convo is “my anxiety around this major life change has left me with constant anxiety that leaves me completely unable to sleep or eat, and the only thing that helped was my mothers prescribed sleep aid, and it actually WORKED. I’m also concerned that with a return to adhd medication, which I will absolutely need to function in class, will only exacerbate my insomnia”

Im currently living at home and trying to go back to school as an adult for the next two years, but looking towards the future in general terms.

Long story short, I have 50k inheritance saved by my parents in a cd account for a house down payment (of which I’ll only ever bother with a >&100,000 1-2 bed/bath as I’m single), and I’ll inherit a 2015 Volvo.

I’m eligible for usaa through my father, and am heavily considering bundling my car/home insurance in a few years, does anyone have experience with this? How affordable is it?