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The last few months felt like pure hell.
Everything felt so real.
The weakness, the atrophy.
Crying every day, nightmares every night.
Painful twitches and spontaneous cramping.
Every movement causing twitches.

Pinpricks all over my body, and myoclonus even in the day.

Everything felt so wrong.
Every time I remembered I had an EMG coming up, I would have severe panic attacks.

Over the past month, I slowly de-escalated and now enjoy life. I completely forget I even twitch sometimes. It still happens, but it's less intense. Even though my EMG is tomorrow, I am surprised at how chill I am. I do not think this is ALS is whatsoever, especially at 21.

Currently a college student, I buy things with credit and it's becoming a problem. I keep telling myself "one more thing can't hurt, and it's just a drop in the bucket because I owe a lot in student loans anyway."

I recently found out I had OCD; was diagnosed. One thing I do is buy duplicates of things I am fixated on. The things I usually buy are stuff I expect to turn into "valuable assets." This is one reason why I buy duplicates of the same thing. One so I can keep for myself, and another so I can "eventually resell" once the value increases.

It's mostly collectible memorabilia, or other random sought after items.

Wondering if this is related, but I get jumpy fingers. I'm not entirely sure if they are twitches, because they happen once and stop sporadically. I would be using my mouse on my PC, and sometimes my finger would involuntarily click the mouse. It's almost like a myoclonic jerk in my fingers.

Anti reflective + Blue light for $60

Or

Anti reflective alone for $40

If you already have needohs, and see them in stock somewhere from time to time, avoid impulse buying. Especially if they’re duplicates. It will save your wallet.

I had been living in denial, struggling with OCD for the longest time (recently diagnosed). My first bout occurred when I was 12 and was fixated on worries about having cancer, then heart failure. In high school, I struggled with intrusive thoughts and was barely able to do normal tasks.

Growing up, I was always told I was lazy. My teacher even called me out in the middle of the class while I was slumped on my chair struggling with intrusive thoughts, staring at my blank paper. He told the class "[me] believes the world revolves around him."

I took this to heart, and I worked my ass off in community college and eventually transferred into a "prestigious" university. For reference, the acceptance rate was roughly 8% to get in straight from high school. It was a grind and I was so locked in.

Unfortunately, once I began my first semester at that university I was so overwhelmed. I couldn't focus when I wanted to. Sitting in the front of class was not helpful at all. Attending academic coaching sessions had no effect. I was also just blindly taking notes. I will say that I had been pretty burnt out at that time.

I was paying 46k a year, and the thought of failing out with so much debt frightened me. I also ended up getting sick during finals and was heavily medicated. I was crying every single day before and after finals waiting to see if I passed. I managed to pass the semester, but barely. My whole winter break was spent worrying about loans. When my next semester began, I was so overwhelmed and made the rash decision to drop all my classes. I am now transferring to a lower stakes, cheaper university but don't want to derail myself again. I let my parents down and felt like a loser for several months. Meanwhile, some of my friends transferred into prestigious universities and I had to cut the cord. At this stage, I had enough of being compared and content with wherever I land next. I just don't want struggle with studying.

I tried to bring this up with my GP/PCP a few times, but I was always told I was just being lazy and not fixing my habits and ways. I would be lying if I didn't say it could be both. What criteria did you have to meet to be referred to a psychiatrist?

My ENT told me I had LPR and put me on PPIs. They never worked, so I went back again and told me to see a GI doctor. The GI doctor did a whole run up (endoscopy and pH monitoring) with no acid reflux found at all surprisingly. He just told me it was allergies and to use OTC allergy medication. Didn’t want to test for SIBO because he said it was a waste of time and money. H. Pylori came back negative twice.

For about a year, I was dealing with excruciating burning/pain/swelling in my throat. But I was also burping persistently, and having bad taste in my mouth.

I still deal with LPR, but I don’t think it’s nearly as bad and I can go long periods with minimal symptoms. Sometimes it can come back and last for a while.

Just wondering what the heck is going on and if anyone can relate.

Wondering if anyone has dealt with this, along with BFS. Hard to say if it's associated, but this all began after the onset of my wild twitching.

For the past few weeks, I have been dealing with nerve irritation or superficial pain in one of my finger joints. Whenever I lightly brush or rub it, there's a stinging pain. I dread washing my hands sometimes because it's quite painful. So far it has not spread.

If anyone has dealt with this in the past, is it permanent?

The only probable reason I can think of this happening is from squeezing stress balls and needohs a lot when I was anxious about grip strength. I've since stopped, but the pain is still there.

So, I recently placed an order for a pair of glasses (a few days ago). In my initial order, I didn't add the AR coating upgrade. I didn't think much of it, until I started reading posts here on how important they are.

I already have a hard time driving at night with glare, and it's scary so I didn't want to mess with it.

I called the optical store again today, and they told me I still had time to upgrade to AR coating and they asked for additional payment. Literally a few minutes after, I saw the order status update to "Your prescription lenses were produced and installed in the lab." This seemed way quicker than normal.

Once I receive the glasses, how could I check for AR coating? From what I understand, there's variances and it's almost like a spectrum? It doesn't completely block out reflections, but it minimizes glares. How would I know compared to default (without AR)?

A driver was honking at my car because there was space in front of me, but it was clearly train tracks and I did not want to risk being stuck when the crossing arm came down. When there was enough room for me, I moved up and the driver behind me proceeded to move up and stop on the tracks. After a short while, they noticed they were stuck on the tracks with nowhere to go and started honking at me like a maniac and I was at fault. I could not move up any closer, or out the way.

Wondering what the different between astigmatism vs anti reflection is. Is astigmatism a prescription or an upgrade for a lens?

Driving at night is scary for me, and it always feels like I'm gambling by switching lanes.

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I have a stubborn condition called LPR, not sure if anyone else has it. I still want to be able to enjoy Buldak. Lately, I've been on a kick eating it once a week. I used to be able to tank through lots of spicy food, but I guess doing it uncontrollably took a toll on my body.

Like super groovy glob but color change

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