Off my meds and I can't keep a thought in my head for two goddamn seconds
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Maybe find a strategy that works without stimulants. You made yourself dependant to the failing healthcare and the greedy pharma industry. Now you feel it, they let you down.
I can't speak for op but I tried that for 40 years
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I'm really fighting the urge for some very unkind comments in response to this.
Best to just down vote and move on.
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I open a comm to post, and I forget what fucking comm I'm in and have to double check so I know what to look for - sometimes two or three times. Immensely irritating. This is how I've operated most of my life, but it's especially frustrating now that I know it's not how it has to fucking be. Flowers for Algernon over here.
Fucking American healthcare. "At least we're not Canada, you might have to wait for important care!" The fuck am I doing right now, then?
May I ask what happened that you are off your meds? Perhaps we can band together and find a solution.
(Example, on the menopause forums when doctors refuse or withdraw hrt, there can sometimes be help: online resources, or suggestions on what to ask and how to ask it, or suggestions on alternatives when certain dosages or therapies don't work)
There's a lot of overlap with adhd and meno brain (peri and meno also often uncover previously undiagnosed adhd)
Having outside help is invaluable when your own brain is scattered.
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Maybe find a strategy that works without stimulants. You made yourself dependant to the failing healthcare and the greedy pharma industry. Now you feel it, they let you down.
wrote last edited by [email protected]This is what it looks like when you feel like being a condesending person who has no clue whatsoever about what you're talking about.
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Maybe find a strategy that works without stimulants. You made yourself dependant to the failing healthcare and the greedy pharma industry. Now you feel it, they let you down.
You made yourself dependant to the failing healthcare and the greedy pharma industry.
Are advocating for NOT using healthcare for a healthcare need?
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Maybe find a strategy that works without stimulants. You made yourself dependant to the failing healthcare and the greedy pharma industry. Now you feel it, they let you down.
Victim blame much?
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I open a comm to post, and I forget what fucking comm I'm in and have to double check so I know what to look for - sometimes two or three times. Immensely irritating. This is how I've operated most of my life, but it's especially frustrating now that I know it's not how it has to fucking be. Flowers for Algernon over here.
Fucking American healthcare. "At least we're not Canada, you might have to wait for important care!" The fuck am I doing right now, then?
Then how fast did you write your post, OP?
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Then how fast did you write your post, OP?
Pretty fast. As long as I can keep the thought going, things are mostly okay. When I have to stop to sort through something or search through unrelated material, like my image folders, I lose what I was doing fast.
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Maybe find a strategy that works without stimulants. You made yourself dependant to the failing healthcare and the greedy pharma industry. Now you feel it, they let you down.
You strike me as real piece of shit.
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I open a comm to post, and I forget what fucking comm I'm in and have to double check so I know what to look for - sometimes two or three times. Immensely irritating. This is how I've operated most of my life, but it's especially frustrating now that I know it's not how it has to fucking be. Flowers for Algernon over here.
Fucking American healthcare. "At least we're not Canada, you might have to wait for important care!" The fuck am I doing right now, then?
I survived pre-diagnosis by heavy amounts of caffeine (which never did much for me) and judicious journalling, externalising thoughts does totally work for some people and at the least you'll have a reference as to what you're doing to come back to. I keep up the habit even on meds, helps on the days I accidentally forget a pill or late calling in a renewal (it's really irritating I have to call every 60 days BTW, no refills for stims apparently)
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This is what it looks like when you feel like being a condesending person who has no clue whatsoever about what you're talking about.
Condescending"
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Pretty fast. As long as I can keep the thought going, things are mostly okay. When I have to stop to sort through something or search through unrelated material, like my image folders, I lose what I was doing fast.
@adhd Hmm.. Don’t you hate when you are working on something, someone calls you over to do something with them then you go about your day. Then the original thing you where doing somebody reminds you and your like OMG! or just leaving stuff that you where doing and hitting your head like Doh!
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Maybe find a strategy that works without stimulants. You made yourself dependant to the failing healthcare and the greedy pharma industry. Now you feel it, they let you down.
This kind of opinion isn't welcome in here
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I open a comm to post, and I forget what fucking comm I'm in and have to double check so I know what to look for - sometimes two or three times. Immensely irritating. This is how I've operated most of my life, but it's especially frustrating now that I know it's not how it has to fucking be. Flowers for Algernon over here.
Fucking American healthcare. "At least we're not Canada, you might have to wait for important care!" The fuck am I doing right now, then?
Got to make a stash over time. But I get it; it's not exactly the kind of thing we excel at.
Germany here, and I just learned that for the past month, my kid did actually not do so great at school, after his meds (Medikinet removed) were unavailable and he got a generic one with a completely different extended-release profile. Decided by pharmacist against doctor's orders. Can't believe it! Health insurance is EUR/USD 1100 per month here, and you're not allowed to quit. Least I can expect is that he gets the 40 cents / day meds that help, after waiting a year to get diagnosed and treated!
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Got to make a stash over time. But I get it; it's not exactly the kind of thing we excel at.
Germany here, and I just learned that for the past month, my kid did actually not do so great at school, after his meds (Medikinet removed) were unavailable and he got a generic one with a completely different extended-release profile. Decided by pharmacist against doctor's orders. Can't believe it! Health insurance is EUR/USD 1100 per month here, and you're not allowed to quit. Least I can expect is that he gets the 40 cents / day meds that help, after waiting a year to get diagnosed and treated!
If you don't mind me asking: How did you manage to be required to pay that much for your health insurance? That seems unreasonable (unless you're pretty well off).
Also, if Medikinet isn't available where you are, what's your pharmacist to do? They didn't just decide on a whim to give your son some other med and they'll have told you the reasons.
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I open a comm to post, and I forget what fucking comm I'm in and have to double check so I know what to look for - sometimes two or three times. Immensely irritating. This is how I've operated most of my life, but it's especially frustrating now that I know it's not how it has to fucking be. Flowers for Algernon over here.
Fucking American healthcare. "At least we're not Canada, you might have to wait for important care!" The fuck am I doing right now, then?
wrote last edited by [email protected]The first few days after stopping meds will be the worst as your body adjusts. Things will get better gradually.
It won't be as good as when you're taking the medication, but things won't stay this bad forever.
Coffee and other similar stimulants can help make the wait a little more bearable.
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The first few days after stopping meds will be the worst as your body adjusts. Things will get better gradually.
It won't be as good as when you're taking the medication, but things won't stay this bad forever.
Coffee and other similar stimulants can help make the wait a little more bearable.
I'm running on three weeks now.
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I'm running on three weeks now.
I feel your pain. I hope you find some relief soon.
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Maybe find a strategy that works without stimulants. You made yourself dependant to the failing healthcare and the greedy pharma industry. Now you feel it, they let you down.
you sound like a coworker of mine that said he doesn't go to the ophthalmologist bc glasses are a scam
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If you don't mind me asking: How did you manage to be required to pay that much for your health insurance? That seems unreasonable (unless you're pretty well off).
Also, if Medikinet isn't available where you are, what's your pharmacist to do? They didn't just decide on a whim to give your son some other med and they'll have told you the reasons.
It's 17% of income, capped at 1.1k, including nursing care insurance. So it sounds like you need to make good money, before you even reach the 1.1k. But the problem is that you can't write off a lot here. E. g. I pay for my own meds, doctor and therapy entirely out of pocked, since I can't get appointments in my insurance network, which is an additional 600 per month. And that is not a write-off, so it doesn't reduce taxes or the 1.1k insurance. Also, you can get unlucky with other things. I have a child, but they said there was a formal error with the city-run daycare receipt, so they counted daycare costs at 0 for calculating taxes.
So what I expect is that they move heaven and hell to make the 40 cent pill for my son available, even on a health ministry level.
