u/CrewFit5702

Heyo fam. I was wondering if there's anyone out here with any experience relating to having done or doing ketamine therapy for treatment resistant depression while also simultaneously enrolled in pain management?

I'm in SoFlo and my PM doc is actually a blessing. I've never had any issues in the almost 8 years I've been a patient with him, no failed UA's, no issues with scripts needing to be filled early or overrode, etc., did any and all injections recommended, repeatedly continued to go to and failed out of PT 8 times before insurance finally said hey, no more bc it's not working and we don't wanna pay for it. He is also one of the more (for lack of a better term) "chill" ones, and is one of the only pain doctors in my area that allows both opioid therapy AND your medical marijuana card.

I also, unfortunately, have an EXTREMELY extensive mental health history and have been on and off meds since I was 13, tried and completed almost every therapy out there, tried and tested almost every medication out there, and it seems as though nothing really works super well. At the most, it keeps my 24/7 suicidal ideation in a more passive phase, rather than being ragingly active and spiced with self-injurious intrusive thoughts every second of the day. I have gotten to the point where both myself and my psychiatrist are at our wits end and very much so creatively thinking of any, and all, potential positive treatments that we can do in order to give me a quality of life where I'm actually living, not just going through the motions bc I don't want to hurt those around me by peacing out.

I don't see my PM doctor for another 2 weeks, am doing some research on my end, but I figured it was worth asking here if anyone personally has done both of these things at the same time or if it's something that, in your personal opinion, isn't even worth asking bc there's not a chance in hell that they approve it?

I'm not worried about bringing this up to them and him or the office assuming "OMG SHES LOOKING FOR MORE DRUGS CUT HER OFF!!!", if anything I'm more worried they ask me questions about how I'm doing and I end up in a Baker Act hold, but yeah. IG that's it. If anyone has any info or suggestions, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Hope you all have as much of a pain tolerating day as you possibly can!!! 🫶🏼

Is it appropriate for an SM to have an ASM, who was working at the store at the same time but has now moved to a different store, to come back and serve as a witness for her to write up her other, still current ASM? For an annoyingly long explained reason, there were two of us that ended up overlapping and belonging at the same store during the same time. She's asking me to come back and be a witness to giving her still current ASM a corrective action. Or should I decline and tell her that's inappropriate due to us being equal peers? I feel uncomfortable by it but idk, is this alright?

I'm currently an ASM and the SM I work for has a very bad habit of retroactively writing partners up for things that happened a full month or more prior. For example, she recently wrote a SSV up last week for missing a temp log back in the second week of July. It was their first and only time missing a temp log too. I'm just curious to know in general if there's a specific time frame that write ups have to be given within as I don't remember seeing one listed anywhere when completing my training. While I fully agree that if things like temp logs are being missed then obviously accountability should take place, but a BIG part of me finds it extremely messed up that she waits as long as she does to the point that once she finally goes to give the write up, 95% of the time the partner can't even remember the specific details so they just sign and accept it, even when they have a strong argument to appeal it, bc at that point they don't remember the specifics of what happened to properly argue it.

What she typically does is have a conversation with the partner the same week it happened, sometimes she tells them that accountability measures will take place, other times she leaves them hanging in a limbo, then about 3-4 weeks later she finally gets around to giving them the official documentation/write up. Idk, to me personally, if we're going to be giving them the write up, we should be doing it ASAP, rather than leaving them to think nothing will actually happen, thinking that the conversation already had WAS the accountability, or waiting so long that by the time we give it to them, everyone has forgotten specifics and now they can't rightfully appeal the documentation. I'm just curious to know if this is just kinda fucked up on principle but still allowed or if there's actually something she's doing wrong through policies by going about it this way?

I live in Florida if that helps at all. I was recently diagnosed with a cardiac affecting illness and my doctor wants me to wear a heart monitor device on my arm (he provided it to me, I'm well aware that they make chest band ones but due to my condition causing me to feel short of breath and as if I'm drowning, paired with the fact that I don't want to have to pay out of pocket for a different one, this is where I'm at rn with it). I am fully aware and understanding that with food safety, we aren't allowed to be wearing anything on our wrist or arms but my question is if I wear it on my upper arm, above my shirt sleeve, would I then be considered food safe? My job is saying that they can't allow that accommodation but from what I'm seeing online, so long as it's a medical device with proper documentation, it should be allowed and considered a non-issue bc of the fact that it's being worn above my elbow AND it's covered by my shirt sleeve.

Recently diagnosed and I've gotta take beta blockers 2-3 times a day. I work 40+ hours a week on my feet so i gotta bring them with me to work but I don't want to have to carry around this big ass bottle everywhere I go but I also don't need issues if I ever get pulled over or something. Anyone have any ideas or know of things to help get around this? I know technically if it's outside of the bottle then technically it's illegal right?

I was recently diagnosed and it honestly felt like I went from working fine on Sunday to suddenly passing out at work on Monday, triggering emergency doctor and ER visits all week until they settled on POTS. I'm having further cardiac testing done but starting the beta blockers and increasing salt has helped, cardio I saw that specializes in it said 90% chance I have it, 10% chance for a random cardio anomaly to be causing this. Is this genuinely something that develops like that? Looking back over the last few months I am recognizing more patterns now that I fully know the symptoms but I'm just so confused on how I developed something this life altering seemingly overnight. Anyone else feel like one day they were absolutely normal and fine then the next it's like their body flipped a switch? Tbh thinking about getting a therapist bc it's honestly a lot rn.

I was recently diagnosed with POTS and started on emergency beta blockers. I have a restaurant/fast food style full time job and was wondering if any of y'all here have a similar background that could tell me the average BPM range I would be in while at work? The ER doc and my primary said to keep track of it and sit down if it gets too high but idek what too high of a heart rate is while on betas. Without them, my resting went from it's usual 74 pre-diagnosis to now being lucky if it's below 95, standing spikes it to 120+, moving around doing anything physical like walking around my kitchen is spiking it over 180. The betas are keeping it below a 125 while walking around my kitchen now but I have to go back to work later today for the first time and idek what range or rate should be the "hey the floor seems like a good idea rn, let's take a second," threshold. Any and all help and advice is appreciated!!

I'm still very new and confused to all of this and trying to come to terms with seemingly overnight developing a very debilitating disorder.

I've been in pain management with the same doc for close to a decade. I was just diagnosed with POTS and put on beta blockers. I see my doctor Monday. Is this one of the conditions I tell him about or is this one of the "they don't need to know what they don't need to know?"

One of my friends works at a different store and her SM is a kinda one of those more strict, all hail the siren, this is the standard/policy 24/7, will always point out the single second you make a small mistake but never tell you that you're going anything correctly, etc., managers. Idk why but for some reason the SM seems to not like my friend along with a couple other partners and there hasn't been a clear, exact reason for it. Recently she tried to request time off for a weeknight sometime in November and the manager denied the request stating she "doesn't know what the business will look like that far out in advance but they can revisit the issue for sure closer to the time frame. The request is too far in advance right now."

The plot twist though is that multiple other people have already gotten time off requests for that far in advance or even later dates already, and no one else has requested this date yet. Just her request was denied and told it's too far out. I've never heard of an SM saying that the request is too far in advance and also, to her point of saying no, wouldn't it be easier to plan in advance

What the ACTUAL fuck happened to "simplifying/streamlining the menu," and to wanting to go back to "being about coffee," so much so that we rebranded as THE Starbucks coffee company?? Instead you're adding new drinks and ingredients every few weeks, making drinks have 10 steps but meanwhile expecting me to defy the laws of physics and still have it made in sub 45 seconds but you're still spouting bullshit about "oh it's a 4 minute expectation from time of placing the order." I miss my job being about coffee. About making coffee. And I'm fucking sick of being lied to by bout you and full off Bullshit Burrito Boy Brian. And now I just saw they're test launching yogurt milk matcha drinks to add onto the menu next. WHWRE TF IS THE COFFEE????

I am so fucking sick of every goddamn day cold bar getting three times the amount of tickets than anywhere else, none of them even fucking contain coffee. Also customers, I hope you know how much they're laughing about scamming you with every launch. You guys do realize that Burrito Boy took all your kids fraps off the menu, saying we need to simplify the menu only to turn around and complicate it worse than it already was? And that we can still make every single one of those drinks, meaning he got rid of the button to be able to charge you for every modifier to make those fraps bc he knows your crying, screaming upset kids won't understand why they can't get their usual drink bc suddenly overnight it's $8+, so chances are you'll just spend the money anyways?

The only people he abuses and cares less about than his employees are his customers. That's for damn sure.

I recently completed my interview with my (hopefully) new SM and he said now we just have to wait for the background check to clear and then I can be fully onboarded and scheduled to start working. I applied, interviewed, and am being hired as an insider but when I got there to do the interview, he gave me a paper than asked for my name, address, social, and license number for the background check but the paper had also asked for my car insurance.

Currently everything on my insurance and license is all taken care of, active, and shouldn't cause a problem in those sense of things but I do have a couple speeding tickets on my record, plus my license did get suspended for all of 3 days bc I didn't realize for one of my tickets I had to also pay a clerk of county fee, not just the ticket fee, which I obviously very quickly rectified and had everything reinstated. I know realistically since I'm not driving for them, this really shouldn't come into play but my anxiety would really just appreciate a confirmation of that. Thanks in advance!!

Nothing crazy complicated, I'm just wondering which exact resource to look up to find what the standard is when an inside cafe customer asks the bar partner who is pretty hands full bc they're soloing for a cup sleeve? I could've sworn a while back when we put them back out on the condiment bar, we were told either to say or that we could say that [paraphrase] "they are located on the condiment bar for easy grabbing" and direct them that way (at least I know we were told to do this in my district especially during peak/soloing both bars). I could also be entirely wrong AF.

***Disclaimer: yes I understand it's not that deep, me nor anyone at my store has an issue just handing the sleeve out, we were just debating about hypotheticals and got on this topic and couldn't figure out where to look to find it***

Hello all 👋🏼👋🏼 I'm debating signing up for ASU summer semester but just had a couple quick questions for those of y'all that have/are doing it.

1. around how much on average did you spend out of pocket per semester for the fees and books? I'm probably going to find used books/rent from Amazon for anything I can't already find online for free to try to keep costs down but I'm worried about it

2. Did any of you guys actually get any sort of grants/scholarships through FAFSA?

3. I'm assuming it's the same as how it was a decade ago when I graduated high school where I can just go online and fill out any and all scholarship applications that I might qualify for to put towards these costs?

4. If any of you guys did take the route of question 3, does anyone have any good sources for scholarships nowadays? I'm ngl, it's been a freaking minute since I was last in school.

5. How many classes are you required/allowed to take a semester and does anyone have recommendations on what I should start out with? I was in college for a while but then had to withdraw in the middle of the spring semester and take the summer off too bc of a severe flare up in a chronic medical condition I have. When I got back, they said that bc I withdrew after the drop date, despite having medical documentation and letters from physicians, I lost my full bright futures scholarship which made it extremely hard to afford school which then contributed to stress and my medical issues getting worse and I ended up dropping out altogether. I really want my degree, even if it's just to have it, but also to have more job security for when I want to leave this hellscape.

Thanks for any and all help/advice!!

I'm a patient, not employee. The other day I got a call and they were asking if I had somehow hopefully been accidentally dispensed 60 instead of 30 of a controlled medication bc they were doing inventory, were 30 short, only two people take this med and dosage and based off the filling dates, I'm the one it would be with if it happened. I count my controlled meds as soon as I get to the car or my partner gets home from picking them up bc I've been shorted before. Once I even caught 5 extra pills and had to get out and go back inside and give it back so there wouldn't be any potential issues on my end.

I actually like the main pharmacist and techs here and have been coming here for years. They had issues finding second pharmacist for her off days, had floaters for a while which is when all those inventory problems happened, but now finally have a solid second pharmacist, who was the one who dispensed my last fill. Im just worried about them and wanted to know how screwed they'd be over this bc I don't know anything about working in a pharmacy.

Is it just me, or does this application process/portal have more glitches than our actual technology at work? I swear EVERY dang time I try to go on there to continue my application, it glitches and bugs out like crazy, the page is always timing out and having to refresh, therefore making me start over, and half the time the damn thing doesn't load altogether, and I get stuck on a completely blank white page (cue Mumford and Sons). It's almost as if you'd think they'd wish we would get so frustrated about it altogether that we would just say "Fuck it, I'll apply next semester or just apply elsewhere entirely," which, with the way they've been acting lately, wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to find out it's true SMFH

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