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My daughter has been on 100mg of lamictal for 4 years, coupled with prozac. She asked her psych today if another combo could be possible since her anxiety has gotten unmanageable and she says she doesnt remember how she felt pre-meds. Her psych prescribed vraylar and zoloft with no directions to titer down either med before starting the new combo. Has anyone heard of or done this safely?

I got covid in January 2022, it was a mild case but still had me down for a couple weeks. Pretty much immediately after I recovered, my LPR started feeling like a cold, menthol sort of mouthwash. It happened frequently and then kinda went away with time, replaced by our regularly scheduled program of battery acid pain for the next couple years.

Last week, I tweaked a disc in my upper back causing massive neck pain, spasms and extremely limited movement for days. The menthol mouth feeling came right back the same day as the injury. Its been 7 days, my back and neck are 75% better but the menthol feeling is still hanging around.

I know other people have talked about having this post-covid, thankfully bc i felt crazy back in 2022 when it first happened to me. But now i'm curious if the injury was causation or correlation. Any thoughts or commisseration are both appreciated.

I got covid in January 2022, it was a mild case but still had me down for a couple weeks. Pretty much immediately after I recovered, my LPR started feeling like a cold, menthol sort of mouthwash. It happened frequently and then kinda went away with time, replaced by our regularly scheduled program of battery acid pain for the next couple years.

Last week, I tweaked a disc in my upper back causing massive neck pain, spasms and extremely limited movement for days. The menthol mouth feeling came right back the same day as the injury. Its been 7 days, my back and neck are 75% better but the menthol feeling is still hanging around.

I know other people have talked about having this post-covid, thankfully bc i felt crazy back in 2022 when it first happened to me. But now i'm curious if the injury was causation or correlation. Any thoughts or commisseration are both appreciated.

I use the double to make a latte twice a day with the same beans, and for the summer he's been using the luxe on cold brew setting for 16oz. He said the amount of espresso it puts out on those settings isn't much more than ​what I get for a latte, but I don't know how that's possible. The espresso beans we use are pretty strong, he gets headaches without caffeine but he's not affected by "too much" like I would if I had a coffee past 5pm. Is that too much or do other people use those settings also?

I have a 17 and 13yo bored out of their minds. 17yo can drive, she usually takes him to the skate park at Rowan but they need other stuff to alternate before that gets boring. Doesn't have to be free, just not top golf expensive.

My husband uses 322 to get to the bridge for work and passes these at all times of day and night. He says he hasn't seen the majority of them being used, ever. He pointed out a few trucks that never move from the parking lots, otherwise the lots were empty. There's one maybe two he says get a lot of traffic, but that's it. Any ideas why? I would think developers are losing money without companies using them, unless they're being used for longterm storage or something?

Anyone familiar with paying the city for copies of death certificates from the early 1900s? The last time I looked they wanted a check mailed in.

I keep checking back in case ancestry uploads them, but no luck. My 3x great grandmother lost 5 out of 7 kids then died herself before she hit 30, I would like to know what they all died of. I only have her obituary and the death record of her and the kids in ancestry, no photocopy of the certificate with causes of death. I'm thinking water-borne illness since they all happened right before the city developed water treatment, but who knows.

My son had a music rotation in middle school this year and took to the piano. I emailed Main Street Music in Harrison twp but they seemed expensive, is this rate pretty normal? 30 minute lesson = $41, 45 minute lesson = $53, 60 minute lesson = $65

I'm not sure how often lessons should be for piano, is biweekly pretty average? He plays ice hockey so i'm trying to keep him somewhat occupied this summer while not going bankrupt.

Recommendations are appreciated if ya got em

I just need to hear he's not alone.

I think my 13yo son is naive about the people he thinks are his friends, they seem to be well-liked kids and i'm worried he's trying hard to be accepted by them. ​He would come home from the first few days of school in 4th and 5th grade crying and saying no one wanted to be friends with him, kids wouldn't even play fortnite with him and were kinda cruel about it. He has an lgbt sibling who he's so proud of, I don't know if that factors into this because we moved here when he was 9yo and its a little conservative.

I've watched him in groups because I'm not around a lot of kids either, and kids his age seem similar to him in behavior and interests. He recognizes other kids' off-putting behavior and how it makes him feel, so he has some sort of social awareness. But maybe theres a nuanced thing you only see when you're a kid that age, i just wish i knew what it was (advice on that please if anyone has it).

He just finished his 7th grade year, and he talked a lot about his friends. A few went to the mall with him twice when he asked, but he never gets invited to anything. He seems to be in group chats, but he notices when those kids make plans without him while in class.

I'm worried that in the years he would express his sadness to me, maybe I reacted with empathy in a way that made him feel worse about himself (like taking my empathy as pity). And maybe he became a little naive about his friendships when they're not really friends, as a way to protect himself from the feelings of shame.

There was a very big end of year party that he wasn't invited to, and he's confused because why would all the kids he's friends with get invited but not him. He does have one kid he hangs out with the past few years, but he got invited too.

We tried therapy a couple years ago and it wasn't for him, it was really uncomfortable and only seemed to make things worse. I'm worried theres something i *should* be doing to make sure things don't get worse for him, i'm also worried that if i do too much that'll guarantee they get worse. He just started playing ice hockey and made a higher travel team that starts soon, and i think the kids are nice to him. I just wish school wasn't so hard for him.

Can anyone relate, its my biggest worry and i just need to hear that he's not alone.

I say no, it says "okay, are you calling for technical support?" Over and over. Same thing happened to me with Verizon last month, and i'm speaking clearly so i'm not sure what the issue is. I'm calling to cancel but I said yes just to get through to someone, and it said I might be experiencing issues with service and they'll let me know when it's been restored, wouldnt let me talk to someone. I can't cancel online because they have to do the whole pitch to offer me a lower price I guess.

We bought the house in 2021, it has a 4ft high fence in the backyard that we lined with chicken fencing to keep our dog from getting thru the metal bars, but the bunnies chew thru it all the time. The next door neighbor had 2 dogs when we moved in, a large greyhound and a medium sized long haired something.

My 9yo son left for school one morning, and the medium sized dog was off a leash and charged him, then started jumping on him and snapping at his face on our own porch. My dog got in between them just in time for the neighbor to come running over, picked up his dog angrily and left without saying anything.

That dog would sometimes come into our yard and bark at us, but our dog would chase it back. Our dog passed away in December, and I haven't seen theirs, but a new dog from their yard has been crossing the fence again. It snarls and chases us back to the house if we calmly approach it. It'll just stand in the middle of my yard barking aggressively, kicking dirt up with its back legs. I'm afraid it'll snap at my kids if it crosses without us knowing, because we're often in that space of the yard gardening.

No one answers when we knock, so I called animal control because i'm just tired of not being able to use my own yard and being nervous that my kids are gonna get bitten. They sent 4 cops and they all literally laughed at me. I keep blocking the spaces i think its getting in, but it just keeps getting thru somehow and they don't have a fence. Any advice?

For the past few years I pay down our SJ gas bill over a year because they only auto draft a maximum of $282. I'm about to give the fuck up, idk how i'm supposed to afford this. Our home is 1900 square ft, 2 story, no basement. As of right now I owe $1000, just in time for the Atlantic city electric bills to go thru the roof.​ Any advice at all before I lose my mind, are these normal bills?

These are new charges, not counting what's carried over from the previous bill:

January - $538

February - $521

March - $487

April - $299