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Anyone been successful at finding bands that have airholes in them for more breathability? I don’t want a cloth one like elastic or anything. I want a silicone one with airholes. Find the band that came with it uncomfortable. I’ll use it for a while of course but I’d like to get some better bands.

I have taken 150mg XL daily for 6 years. So lately I’ve been feeling like too much dopamine has been effecting my life in various ways and I’ve posted about that here before. In the past month I’ve also been feeling this really weird achy feeling in my legs that makes them feel like I need to stretch them uncontrollably. It doesn’t really feel like Restless Leg Syndrome to me like I had years ago because it’s way more intense to me. It’s weird. Honestly I’ve been sober for years but when I used to do stimulants my legs felt the exact same way. It can happen any time of day but it’s this uncontrollable need to stretch my legs because they are so achy. It gets better when I do like calf raises while standing still or walking really fast. Very similar to my stimulant days. So I went to the doctor today and the first thing he said was it’s rarer but he believes it’s RLS augmentation from the bupropion because my body is becoming sensitive to the dopamine. Idk. 🤷‍♂️ I didn’t even know what augmentation was. Now I do. Going to try to get off bupropion soon after 6 years to see if it gets better.

For those of you using Mi Band 10 for awhile, do you think I should just buy the mi band 10 now or wait for the 11 to drop. Will the improvements on the 11 just be small upgrades over 10 or substantial? Just wondering what mi band users have to say. Thanks. 🙏

So I started taking gabapentin about a month ago for sleep. I do have GAD as well. I also have a permanent leg injury with extremely mild chronic venous insufficiency. For my sleep and anxiety, gabapentin has been amazing!!! I’m sleeping better than I ever have. My deep sleep is even improving. The only side effects I have are I’m a little groggy in the morning but it wears off in an hour, I pee a lot, way more than I used to, and this is why I’m posting: weird itchy legs by my ankles. This weird feeling I can’t describe it. Like the hairs on my legs are blowing in the wind. Hahaha. It’s so bad I thought I had bugs or some crap. 😆 I don’t. The leg feeling is so weird. Like a ghost is rubbing their fingers through my leg hairs. Lol. I was freaking out. I really thought I had like fleas or something that I couldn’t see. I don’t haha. Anyone else have weird leg sensations. It’s like itchy legs. It gets better with lotion and the occasional antihistamine to block the sensation that gabapentin gives me but it’s still there. Never felt this before this medication. I have no cognitive decline, memory problems, or irritability etc. In fact this is the best medicine I’ve ever tried for sleep and it tremendously helps my anxiety and depression. Here’s some background info. I also take bupropion for the last 6 years but in the morning, and losartan for high blood pressure, and I take 200mg gabapentin at night for sleep. So that’s enough out of me. Am I the only one with strange leg sensations? I’m definitely going to continue this gabapentin. It’s helping me. Just don’t like the itchy legs feeling.

I quit smoking about 12 years ago and quit dip about 10 years ago, which I only used the dip for 2 years after quitting smoking, and I have switched between gum, lozenges, and patches ever since. Now I’m no longer ever going to use gum or lozenges because just like tobacco I have zero control over those. It’s not uncommon for me to chew like 40 pieces of gum in a day or like 30 lozenges. Plus only the gum and lozenges give me really bad sleep problems and my mouth and teeth were so jacked up. That being said if you are strong enough to use the gum or lozenges as directed they will completely work to stop smoking. I don’t think I am. I abuse them. Anyways, So I stopped those about a year ago. I never used one form of NRT regardless. I would use one for 3 to 6 months and then go to another one. So basically I switched smoking for NRT. For years. Then I came back to the patch now and for about 9 months I would put one patch on for about 4 to 6 hours, rip it off, and then put on another one and repeat. The fact of the matter is, in all reality, I’m not wanting a steady dose of nicotine. I’m wanting the hit of Nicotine when I need it and that’s why I was overusing even the patches. Now I finally have gotten down to one patch a day for the last 3 months but I haven’t tapered down yet. I’m still at 21mg. Finally ready to stop the NRT after about 12 years and I’m not BSing myself anymore. Going to taper down to step 2 tomorrow and be rid of this addiction soon. I’m sober from all other alcohol and drugs for many many years. I can finally get rid of this nicotine. How long have you all used NRT? Do you plan on using it long term? Honestly. Of course it’s better than smoking but can be just as addictive, at least in my case. I’m just curious is all.

I left when I owned a charge 5 for Apple Watch. Honestly, I think steps are much more accurate on an Apple Watch and maybe sleep stages as well but the one thing I can’t stand is the charging it everyday. It’s becoming a real problem for me. I really miss going a week or longer on a single charge. Came back to the sub hoping the charge 6 would not massively over count steps but I see that hasn’t changed. 😂 My Fitbit charge 5 would be at my goal by 2pm doing really nothing at all. By the end of the day my Fitbit would be about 2,000 to 4,000 steps higher than my Apple Watch. The only way I fixed this was by raising my daily goal to 15 or 16k everyday. Still, I’m really missing that battery life on Fitbit and may come back soon. Been checking the deals on Amazon. There’s nothing wrong with my Apple Watch though and it still has a lot of battery health so I’m torn on whether it would be wasteful to buy a Fitbit too. Idk. Just miss Fitbit all around. The most important health tracking measures for me are my step count and sleep stages. I can adjust my daily step goals on Fitbit to be higher that’s not a problem.

Some things I’ve been noticing about bupropion use after 6 years and also a recovering addict for longer than that. This will be hard to put into words but I’m wondering if anyone else feels this way. There are some things that this drug does, that are EXTREMELY similar to methamphetamine. Maybe it’s the dopaminergic medicines that all do this. So this will get personal. Does anyone want to masturbate but then spends like 2 hours deciding what to masturbate to and has a really hard time making that decision before finally doing it? Like you waste an hour or two each time and you never quite find the right thing? That’s extremely, and I mean extremely similar to
methamphetamine. Also, the desire for sex is constant like many bupropion users share, but then you feel distracted during it and after your done with your partner you could go again and again after awhile. Also methamphetamine like. The other thing is my pleasure reward center in my brain being extremely screwed up. Like I don’t just want one cup of coffee, I want like 5 in a day, and I want to eat but I could eat forever (that one isn’t like meth lol). Also I crave like unhealthy foods and sweets. Idk. These meth-like effects were not there for me as much in the first few years as they are now after years and years of using it. The over-dopamine like effects are becoming more and more like a drug the more years I take this medicine. It’s like nothing is quite right and I want more and more of whatever I focus on. It’s strange. I think after years of this med I may try to get off of it and see how that goes for awhile. I’m just kind of sick of my dopamine being messed with. Idk. 🤷‍♂️ anyone else feel anything similar? EDIT: And don’t get me wrong, bupropion has significantly improved my life and balanced me out and has so many positives I can’t list them all. Maybe it’s just that it’s no longer what I need like I needed it before all these years I’ve taken it. It has been the best med I’ve taken for depression and anxiety. But I am getting tired of my dopamine being messed with. Idk. 🤷‍♂️ This is just my experience in this post yall. It could be different for everyone.