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TLDR: how much does hydro dosing and timing impact sleep? my fellow insomniacs, especially those who tend to wake up too early rather than have difficulty getting to sleep, have you been able to hack your insomnia at all with changing dosage timing?

Idk if this is the right flare but whatever.

I get pretty significant insomnia when stressed, and I’m currently in my final year of grad school while also doing a practicum. it got so bad last year that I was sleeping 4-5 hours a night, waking up at 3AM-4AM, and immediately stressing about my clients and school.

Im a month into my final year and I’ve noticed I’m sleeping less. I go to therapy for my anxiety disorder and I’ll be talking about this in session on Wednesday.

I want to dot my i’s and cross my t’s before I throw up the white flag and blame it all on mental health. Is there anything I can do with my hydro dosing to help this? I am on 7.5mg ~7:30AM, 2.5mg ~12PM (usually closer to 1 or 2PM but aim for 12), 2.5mg ~6PM. I’ve read about some people taking a small hydro dose early in the AM and then going back to sleep, but I can’t remember why and I’m having a hard time finding any info on that by searching the sub.

am I imagining it? tastes like water that’s been left sitting at room temp for 12+ hours even when it’s cold… almost dusty

All I ever see are discussions of insurance reimbursing at a low rate. I live in Canada and I'm still a student (second year and have been in practicum/internship since first year), so I've never been paid via insurance. However, I have sought care from a variety of healthcare-adjacent practitioners, including therapists, and my understanding has always been that the practitioner will receive their posted rate, and insurance covers a certain % up to a certain dollar amount (for my current plan through school, for example, I get 80% coverage for practitioner services up to $500, and I'm on the hook for the remaining 20% each visit + any $ amount that goes above $500 by the end of the calendar year).

So my RMT, my physio, and my therapist are getting 80% of their fee from my insurance and 20% of it cash directly from me. How does it differ in the states? Why does it seem like all the practitioners in the states are getting ripped off by insurance? Have I been living in a fantasy land where I believe my practitioners are getting 80% from insurance, but really, my insurance isn't actually paying them that? Insight from both Canadian and US practitioners welcome!

I have been diagnosed with hEDS. I’m fortunate that I don’t have regular subluxations/dislocations or significant chronic pain unless I have inflammation in my body (usually due to stress, PMS, etc). However, my stabilizers are really lazy. I find it really uncomfortable to sit “properly” (tall spine, shoulders back, feet planted on the ground with legs uncrossed) not due to pain but due to the effort needed to hold myself up. I wouldn’t worry about it except I also get uncomfortable sitting for long periods with my legs crossed, and the compression in my legs results in my feet and calves cramping a lot at night.

Has anyone trained themselves to sit properly, or gotten advice for strength training to do so? Is there anything that makes it easier? I want to focus on strengthening the areas that are needed to support my body to do this, so i want to stay away from braces etc.

Going on my first trip and it’s gonna be a long(er) one - 5 days and 4 nights, with a night of frontcountry camping before we head out into the bush. I want to leave a small bag in the car for a little reward when we get back.

We will be hiking in the PNW, emphasis on the N and W. Weather should be fair but of course that can change, so I might bring some comfy clean clothes to change into for the 5.5 hour drive back. I’m already bringing my current favourite snacks and food I know I love on the trail, but I’ll definitely want a diff snack when I return… just not sure what I can leave in a warm car that long that would be a welcome change from my favourites lol.

Already on my list: hairbrush, blue Gatorade, change of clothes (?), an edible gummy (I’m getting dropped off at home & i can’t pack a nap so I’m doing the next best thing), washcloth

Any other suggestions? Things you’ve wanted when you got back to the car, but didn’t think to pack?

Hi all!

I’m going on my first multi-day hike (edit: 5 days 4 nights) at the end of the week. I have extra hydro packed in case I need to updose and lots of salty snacks. Im going with 9 other people and we have our emergency preparedness down to a T. I’m also an experienced hiker and I do not typically updose with any amount of exercise - I just find that I don’t need it.

I’m curious if others have done multi day hikes and whether they increased their fludro for something like this. I’m pretty stable in general, never been in crisis since diagnosis over ten years ago, but my sodium is always just slightly below the normal range. I’m currently on 0.1 in the AM, but considering bringing another 0.1 to take in the PM to help with sodium loss.

I do a lot of my own med adjustments without my doctor monitoring me & I am very in tune with how I’m feeling when I’m doing that, but I obviously don’t wanna have a day-ruining reaction to increasing my fludro while I’m supposed to be hiking 10+ km per day. So I guess my questions are whether it is safe/reasonable to increase my fludro for this, and if there are any day-ruining side effects of increasing my fludro unnecessarily short term.

A: a class include more challenge poses, but have poorer fluency and flow between postures & feel less like a “true” flow

OR

B: a class include primarily more basic poses with one main challenge pose, but have it feel more natural to flow between each posture

I went to a class at a different studio in a different town than my usual one today and the instructor was fine, but the flow felt very nonsensical and disjointed compared to the classes at my home studio. However, there were a number of new-to-me poses that I got to try out, which was kind of nice and challenging! I found it kinda hard to stay in the moment with the weird transitions but the challenge made up for it somewhat. I feel like I would still prefer a class to be more simple but with better transitions and flow.

Not sure if this is the right flair.

I’m about to start my internship working with youths. I know a risk with youths is that journaling activities can be hard because parents may read their diaries without their knowledge. In the past, I have used the voice recording feature in my phone’s pre-installed journal app to “journal” because I hate writing by hand. This might tackle the issue of privacy as well as possibly some avoidance framed as a lack of time/energy to put into journaling.

Is it reasonable to suggest this as an alternative to youths who are concerned about privacy, or who also find the effort of writing by hand is a barrier to journaling the old-fashioned way?

An immediate con I can think of is that it doesn’t provide the same opportunity to slow down and really notice one’s thoughts in the same way that old-fashioned journaling does. However, I’m not sure if this disqualifies it from being a useful/viable alternative.

I just woke up, so apologies in advance if anything I wrote here is confusing at all.

Went out with a friend on Thursday & we had a feast. Normally I’m pretty relaxed about the occasional feast, especially for special occasions and when I’m seeing someone I haven’t seen in a while. We shared a poutine (it’s something I’ve been craving) and a bunch of other food. I overate and felt extremely full and a bit gross after just because of how full I was, but had no regrets because we had a great time.

Yesterday I was still craving poutine so I ordered another one delivered to my apartment, but then I got hit with the food guilt. Stepped on the scale this morning (a mistake) and I was very… shocked. Even though I’m well aware that it’s water weight & the weight of all the fries, gravy, and cheese curds that have not yet passed through my body.

TLDR: went out with a friend, had fun, ate a lot, still wasn’t satisfied the next day, ate more of my favourite guilty pleasure food, felt like crap, trying to avoid restricting and further increasing the risk of wanting to overeat taking over again.

Anyways, I’m curious how others get back on track after an “oops” like this. I’m planning on going for a hike today and doing a heavy leg/core workout (all those carbs will make for great fuel!). Tomorrow I have one of my favourite yoga classes. I have tasty meal prep waiting for me in the fridge and I’m looking forward to the scale going down again.

I run in the mornings. Can’t run well without fuel, also can’t eat a good carby meal that early in the morning. My friend and I were discussing gels and unhinged alternatives to gels a while back. I’ve seen people eat dates before running (healthful, applaudable, nutritious) but I’ve also seen long distance runners eat nerds gummy clusters, gummy bears, etc for fuel.

Saw an ad for the sour patch kids ice pop flavour and absolutely had to have them. I decided I would try one of each flavour and then try a serving of them before my run the next morning to see how i felt about candy in the AM. Well, I learned two things:

I’m very effectively fuelled by sour patch kids.

The experience of forcing myself to eat 16 sour patch kids at 6am is enough to make the idea of eating them when I’m not going for a run extremely disgusting. Now I can keep candy on hand (my kryptonite), get my fill of it, and not eat the entire bag in one sitting. Plus the calories are burned off during my run, I don’t get injured as frequently because I have enough fuel before my runs, and I run faster and longer.

I’m a bisexual woman and historically have had a preference for men. I tend to be strongly oriented to whatever gender my partner identifies as when I’m in a relationship, to the point where I will question my sexuality in either direction.

last time i dated a woman, I was on prozac. I took a few years off meds and now I’m on duloxetine and I’m starting to notice complete apathy towards men (romantically and sexually). i can’t help but notice a pattern here, but im not mad about it. has anyone else noticed a shift in their sexual orientation on meds vs off meds? I only had other sexual side effects when I first started meds, and 8 weeks in now i have a higher libido than before.