u/RampantAppleSnake

As other ADHDers have noticed, Ozempic can impact stimulants.

Currently I take FoQuest that releases methylphenidate based on changing pH as it travels through. I sense that Ozempic causes it not to release properly.

Brand Concerta instead is a OROS system; it absorbs water gradually which pushes out medication. I wondered if it might work better.

Anyone on brand Concerta and find it works ok with Ozempic?

In Judaism we don't really have hell, it's not a thing in the Torah (the Old Testament). Sometimes people point to Sheol (grave / soul's waiting room) and Gehinnom/Gehenna (purification); but these are not places, they are processes within the afterlife (common misunderstandings).

How did Christianity come to have the concept of a hell? Was it revealed through Jesus? Wouldn't the idea of hell be contrary to an all loving G-d?

Anyone in OA found a way to create "red" behaviour without restriction?

(Main conclusion is below in bold, feel free to skip thought dump)

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Thought dump:

I did OA for 1.5 years, with major success for 6 months and then rocky success for 1 year. Ironically the main reasons for relapse were a series of sponsors who I found overbearing (it was easier to relapse than to tell them I quit them).

Eventually I gave in and binged an insane amount. It's as if my brain had been denied sugar for so long, it just went crazy. I began to think that OA actually worsened my binge eating issue long term. A load of BED therapy and Ozempic, and my eating has calmed down a bit, but still a problem.

OA gave me a lot of good things: A new found G-d, a community who understood, etc. It unblocked me for a while. Unlike alcohol it's hard to 100% avoid everything sweet, I never really felt neutrality around sugar.

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Conclusion:

Anyway, I'm tempted to come back but treat my binge eating behaviour similar to how a bulimic would approach OA: My problem perhaps is not the food itself, but my binging behaviour.

After all a bulimic doesn't make a promise never to ever vomit again, that would be impossible - we get sick. But they should never deliberately make themselves sick. The analogy for me would be that I will never deliberately overeat chocolate or sugar again - every triggering food must be planned out (amount, time), cannot be eaten when actively restless or discontent, etc. It's the extreme opposite end of bulimia, they purge, I overfill.

Currently I'm trying Ozempic - the nausea is definitely there if I eat the wrongs things (high sugar, high fat), however I can't seem to control my behaviour, and I still find myself drawn to chocolate (high in both!). Spent last eve with explosive poops and trying not to vomit.

I had stopped due to nausea and restarted with a slower ramp using click-counting (doctor approved): 0.125mg x 2 --> 0.25mg x 2 --> 0.333mg x2 (currently here).

Previously I had had some success, but perhaps only due to beginner's excitement and nausea preventing my binging. Honestly not sure if it's just not working or if it's early days (not high enough dose?). The food noise is not gone, but maybe is a tiny bit less loud.

Anyone else here have binge eating / sugar addiction? Have GLP-1's help you?

Stimulants (Concerta) seem to make me more impatient and irritable.

Often I know convo outcomes before people even finish speaking, then listening to them literally feel like torture. Especially if they're verbose!

Stimulants help me a bit but not much. I always drink caffeine on top... = worse mood?

Anyone else feel stimulants help but feel more high strung?

I turned out ADHD and gay - my entire youth I was depressed. I struggled to fit in and growing up gay and neurodiverse in a small 1990's town absolutely sucked.

My family took years to accept my sexuality, and later fought against me over my ADHD diagnosis. I was the freak child!

Eventually my family came around. Now they've decided they all have autism (no diagnosis), and have adopted queer identities - the ones where people have never wanted to kill you (e.g. being asexual).

They never would have even touched these identities a few years ago, treating being queer or neurodiverse as icky. I have been absolutely fucking alone in navigating being different, having to justify my existence to everyone, and without my family's support.

And well, because I have ADHD and occasionally forget things or mess up, they still treat me as if I'm incompetent and stupid.

How nice they get to play pick n' mix labels whilst still making mine cost me, for which I have no choice because to me they're not even identities, these are fundamental parts of me that I cannot change.

Listening to people hmm and har over a restaurant menu is one of the most excruciatingly painful experience I go through in life. Likewise being repeatedly interrupted by someone to be asked about which of the 200 shop items looks good.

Or a story that has way too much detail in it about specific people I don't know or for irrelevant side details.

Likewise I don't need to hear a step by step list on your backup plan for X hypothetical bad situations.

Make your choices fast, keep your stories concise, no hypotheticals.