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This was way back of course, but she told us you don't need to use the accent for the word "él" if it's the beginning of a sentence- as in, capitalized. I did that for the whole year.

Anyway, a decade later and I'm a spanish minor now. So I know that's just... not true? I've never heard anyone say anything even similar to that. Is there somewhere this came from that she maybe misinterpreted? I just don't know where this came from and I've always been curious why she told us this. I genuinely believed this until like freshman year high school when I got marked off for it.

She wasn't referring to the word "the," by the way, she specifically was talking about "Él" as in "he."

[Also, I don't need anyone to comment just to tell me this isn't true. I am very well-aware, as stated.]

I have no clue how long I've had hypothyroidism as I went a few years without a doctor but I'm guessing about two years. Found out/started treatment 6 months ago. I was never told anything from my doctor about it, what causes it, etc. I actually only found out I had it because I got a new prescription notification and googled what the med was for. I've never been told what symptoms this can cause or anything. I wasn't told not to eat for a bit after my med or any of that, nothing about anything. Of course I know I can read the instructions and google it, so that's not a big deal.

This is going to sound really stupid but I didn't know I'd have to take this med for the rest of my life until someone taking my blood mentioned how 'I'll need regular blood draws forever'. Then she said "since (I) have a thyroid disorder." I didn't know I had a thyroid disorder. I didn't know hypothyroidism was a disorder. I guess I thought once my TSH went back down I'd be fine? I sound really uninformed and unintelligent typing this but I genuinely didn't know. I know I can google these things so maybe I'm in the wrong but I wish my doctor said any of this to me. I'm looking for a new one right now due to that and other reasons

Anyway, my mom has Hashimoto's disease. So she pretty much tells me I have it too, because I have a parent with it and it's the most common cause of hypothyroidism. But I haven't been told anything about that by a doctor and I know not everyone with hypothyroidism has Hashimoto's. I had a thyroid ultrasound but I wasn't given the results or pictures in my portal and really was never told anything about it. Neither my hypothyroidism or the medication has ever been mentioned verbally to me except by that person doing my blood draw.

They probably would've seen the typical signs of Hashimoto's in the ultrasound, I think? But I don't know if they would've told me. When my mom got diagnosed her doctor had her come in in-person and like sat her down and told her, like it was a big deal and she even said "I'm sorry". So I assume I definitely don't have it, at least as of right now, as I would've been told?

I don't know if it even matters, if the treatment's the exact same. Sorry if this is a dumb question, thanks!

Been on bupropion 150mg since march.

Had been on strattera for ADHD for 3 months and it made me so depressed I couldn't leave my bed until I was too depressed to refill my prescription and felt better two days into not taking it. Anyway, immediately got off it when I realized and got put on bupropion.

I'd previously tried lexapro at multiple doses as a teen which did nothing, literally could've been a sugar pill. Nothing bad, nothing good, nothing. Got moved to zoloft- same thing. Nothing bad, nothing good, nothing. I was only ~13 when I was told I "maxxed out" and couldn't go up on the zoloft pill (complete lie. I was only on 50mg. I have no idea why my doctor told me this.) So being a depressed teen I thought all antidepressants were SSRIs and since I'd tried two none would do anything anyway. Was prescribed it through high school but took it very sporadically, to again no effect.

Eventually just stopped taking it, no withdrawal or anything because again, it had no effect on me. When I got a psychiatrist for the first time I only went in for ADHD meds, having decided that antidepressants don't work for me.

So after the strattera sent me so far down, I started bupropion. My doc said it was good for people with ADHD in particular, and that it wasn't an SSRI. I am uneducated I know, but that was the first time I'd ever heard of an antidepressant that wasn't an SSRI.

Long story short, worked in the first 1-2 weeks. That was major for me. As a teen on zoloft/lexapro my doctors would always tell me that it would be 4-6 weeks for it to even work. To a kid that feels no hope at all, that is an indescribably long time.

About a week and a half into taking it, I was driving home (I left my house!) and literally missed my turn because I was mouth-agape smiling and waving at a flock of cows in a field by the road. Not joking.

It's been 4.5 months now and I have had a few days in the last bit where I felt depressed. Nothing like before. Honestly, if I went from 10/10 levels of depression to 0 completely I would be kind of worried. My doc offered to go up to 300mg and I think I might in the fall/winter, as I get really bad seasonal in the early months of the year.

I was worried about getting tolerant to it and that's why I didn't want to go up, as this is the only thing that's ever worked for me. But my doc said there's still a ways to go before that, and there are even folks who take their dose as two pills a day. She also said that apparently there's another antidepressant that's kind of meant for people who got to the highest dose of bupropion and couldn't go higher. I have no idea. But what I got was, it'll be fine.

Anyway, peace and love to everyone else on this and to anyone who's starting or considering it!

[Should mention, I'm also on Concerta 36mg for ADHD since april. Works great but the concerta/bupropion mix gives me the worst dry mouth ever. Totally worth it.]

My most noticeable change now that I've been on it for a few months and the initial "wow" has worn off a bit: I can do ONE thing at once.

I used to need at two to three things. If I was watching TV, I'd also need to be reading something on my laptop, doing something on my phone, or knitting/crocheting/etc. with my hands. I would get up to go switch out laundry (after days of it sitting in the wash and having to rewash it of course) and need a youtube video playing. I sound like an adult iPad kid, but hopefully y'all get it.

About a month ago I got really into editing Genius lyrics and one day I spent the entire day, literally the entire day, reading through wikipedia articles and even finding unique sources to do research for annotations so I could explain the historically accurate references in a musical song. With nothing else. It was silent. Silent.

I'm writing this post right now in silence! I actually had to PAUSE my TV show because I devote all my focus into one thing now. I cannot wait for fall semester to start so I can see what it's like to be able to pay attention in class.

[ADHD-C, started on 27mg in March, been on 36mg since April. I take it every day with no breaks. Also taking bupropion 150mg]

I tried to get a contacts prescription years ago as a teenager but I literally couldn't fit them into my eyes. They told me that to send me home with contacts they needed to watch me put them in and take them out twice. Which makes sense to me.

I have small eyes. I tried for about 20 minutes and even used eyedrops many times, many ways, to get one into my eye and couldn't do it. I'm not squeamish about touching my eyes at all- I would get the bottom in but couldn't get the bottom and top in at the same time since I had to stretch the eye open so much either up or down and couldn't do both at once. I couldn't just put the whole contact in at once flat because my eyelids literally had to be pried open to get even half of it in. I tried it with the little plastic tool, without it, tried the thing where you put the bottom part in and flip the rest into your eye: Nope. Nada.

For reference if I held up the contact next to my eye it's bigger than the eye by a lot- like if I held the bottom of the contact to the bottom of my eye, the top would go up to my eyebrow.

The optician who was supposed to be showing me how told me that she couldn't put them in her eyes either. Then she told me to watch a tik tok, and when I said I didn't have tik tok she had no further advice :')

Then she told me to go home and order costume contacts on the internet until I could get them in and come back but make sure to ask for her (...so she could get the commission...) Meanwhile the eye doctor had just told me never to order contacts online, even actual legit ones with the prescription I was supposed to get.

Needless to say I've never tried again. Actually, I just remembered that I did try the costume contacts thing a year later. I figured if I got an infection/disease/injury or something at least I could point at the optician who told me to do it lmao. Of course now as an adult I'd never stick a random online contact in my eye. Anyway, I couldn't even fit them in without the pressure of anyone watching. I've never seen my face clearly without glasses on! I know for a fact people with way smaller eyes wear contacts fine.

Is there any way to solve this? I kind of figured they made contacts in different sizes, because some people have HUGE eyes and some have very small, but that optician told me they're all the same. I guess thinking about it everyone's pupils are probably the same size. I don't know. I just want to see.

This is mostly a vent, I guess. If this isn't allowed, I'll post somewhere else, and apologies if it isn't.

I went back to my hometown and visited the restaurant I worked at in high school/after graduating. I had no idea what I was feeling the whole time; I was happy to see one of my old coworkers, anxious about how they'd perceive me now. But I didn't know how I felt about visiting my hometown or the restaurant after 2/3 years away.

I was saying a quick goodbye to my old boss that I have very mixed feelings for. He used to put his hands on my waist when I was 16/17, gossiped about me being in relationships or having sex with other coworkers when I didn't, asked me if I knew what specific slang for having sex was (I was at least 18 for that one), knew/possibly engaged when other coworkers were saying bad things about me when I was 16 and didn't know, often passed out drunk, used an inappropriate nickname for 16 year old employee referencing her boobs, and more. He once sent a photo of the real dead body (In the casket) of his relative at his funeral on the work chat without warning. He let my 17-year-old coworker give him money from her tips when the register was short once, even though it wasn't her fault.

But he was also kind to me, made sure I didn't leave without food for dinner, made sure none of the female employees left without someone watching when there were bad men outside, and worked over 75 hours a week basically holding the place together while the owner worked maybe 5-15. He lit ground fireworks outside on 4th of Julys when we had to work and couldn't watch the real ones. He made me laugh; he helped me sometimes when I got overwhelmed and messed up.

People are really morally grey, you know? I wish I could say he's a bad person, or a good one. All the bad stuff sounds horrible when listed like that, and it is. But that was over 3+ years. Most days were okay, or even good. I'm thinking about it now, and honestly.. I think he served kind of a father figure role for me between 16-19, not that he knew. I have a dad and even lived with him at the time but my parents were going through a divorce, and he was shouting a lot and we never really spoke to each other ever anyway. This is all very TMI, I'm sorry. I don't really have anyone to tell this to.

When I went to say, "(Name)? Just- I'm heading out now, so wanted to say goodbye," he looked at me and said something like okay but it seemed like he wanted to say more, just didn't know what to say. He asked how I was doing, if I was working anywhere. I told him that no, I'm just in college now. And my voice broke on "college," I teared up. I told him to tell another coworker who wasn't there that I said hi; he said he would. When I left I had to make myself stop crying before seeing other people.

I think what frustrated me is I don't know why I cried. I wasn't feeling anything during this interaction, besides maybe anxiety about if I was interrupting him. I had no idea I was upset, if I was. I don't know if I was sad because I missed working there, or because I missed him. Because I missed my other coworker, or I missed the town itself. Because my teens are over, because life moves on? I didn't even know I was sad at all.

I don't know if anyone can relate to this; I hope so. In most cases, I'll start crying and I can pretty easily guess why; if I'd just heard a friend passed away, or a bunch of things had gone wrong in a day and it was too much; or I heard really good news. But this situation was just too complex, and it's frustrating to me that I will never know how I felt/feel about it. It's hard going through life not knowing what exactly makes you happy (although that one is much easier for me, thankfully) and what exactly pains you-- or that you're even feeling pain. Thank you for reading.

Sorry for the phrasing, I don't like how it sounds but don't know how to phrase it. Sorry if this post sounds ignorant or disrespectful, I feel very unwell and am waiting for my western blot test so I am not a good proofreader right now.

I've deleted most of my post as I think I broke a rule. So I'll just say my question, because I genuinely do not understand. And this is not me being negative about these specialists, I know they can really help people. My question is, why are the only doctors (in my entire state, personally) that treat/specialize in Lyme alternative/homeopathic/natural medicine doctors? Usually you're able to choose between traditional medicine and alternative for most conditions/diseases, no? I don't have a choice, it seems? I'm struggling to understand why Lyme is different from other diseases. Thanks

edit: I found the post about Lyme controversies linked in the FAQ, currently reading!