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If you have ADHD (medicated or otherwise) and you take more than one pill, here’s a tip I learnt:
BUY A PILL BOX ORGANISER
NOW
NOT AFTER BREAKFAST
RIGHT THIS SECOND
GO TO AMAZON AND ORDER ONE RIGHT NOW
Or go to your local pharmacy and get one and not Amazon…
Some people get mad when u tell them not to shop on amazon, they talk about it being the only viable option for them since they live so far from actual stores and whatnot.
This got me wondering how were these people feeding and clothing themselves 10 years ago? (Or before the advent of amazon grocery shopping, idk how long it’s been and I’m very bad at keeping track of time).
I’m genuinely curious about this, if someone has an answer please tell me.
Lots of shops have gone out of business because, by having a premises, their operating expenses were more than an online retailer, so places like Amazon could undercut them, and their customers were willing to wait for delivery to save some money. It doesn’t take that many customers leaving before you’ve got to put up prices to cover your overheads, and that just makes more customers leave, and after a couple of decades of online retail being common, you’re left with far fewer physical shops.
Makes sense thanks.
What a fucked up situation, having to feed the monster that first got you into that situation.
I do try to buy from local stores first, but sometimes they just don’t have the item I’m looking for. Physical stores only have so much shelf space and can only stock more frequently purchased goods, leaving pretty big gaps that only large online retailers like Amazon can fill, unfortunately :(
I do agree with the previous poster though, local stores should always come first.
I guess I’m lucky enough to have well stocked physical stores and smaller online retailers I can rely on :)
Well, you don’t necessarily need to go to Amazon if other online retailers are available, but let’s be honest with ourselves; you can buy something online “right now” but actually getting up and going to a shop is a different proposition.
I did, it worked for like a month
Jokes on you, I bought one, but it just sits there unused bwahaha!
My cat takes Prozac for depression. I take Adderall for ADHD. I was once running on about an hour of sleep after work and school, was frantically racing around getting my shit together so I could run out the door to get to another 16 hour shift of work, grabbed his Prozac and my Adderall, kneeled down to pop his Prozac in at the same time I popped my Adderall and damned near made a VERY horrible error. Taught me to slow the fuck down.
Please tell me about the cat on Adderall. I need to know.
Thankfully the cat did not get the Adderall. He does not need the Adderall. Luckily I went to take my pill first so I had an extra hand free to pop his mouth open and as I was putting it in my mouth my brain kicked in and went “why is your Adderall blue and not pink?” That’s when I realized that I was about to take his Prozac and give him my Adderall. The last thing I need is to be more tired and the last thing he needs is to be more hyper.
A new coworker recently asked me the age of my cat. When I told him my cat is almost 10 he said “aw, that’s so sweet, you have a nice calm senior cat.” I got home from work and that night my cat was being his normal self, tearing all over the apartment, laying on his back flipping his toys around and ferociously trying to murder them, and “helping” me sort paperwork by grabbing random papers from the stacks and running away with them. I couldn’t stop laughing, I was like hey bud, didn’t you know you’re supposed to be a calm senior?
Thank you. I have to say I’m a bit disappointed but I’m glad your cat is happy and well!
Our cat is around 15 years but very sick unfortunately.
Oh, I’m so sorry about your cat! It’s so hard when they’re suffering. I cry just thinking about the inevitable end someday, I don’t know how I’m going to get through it when it happens, my cats are all I have.
Cat got catted so hard even the shadows hiding in the walls were hunted to Extinction
Wierdly, sometimes my ADHD meds make me dead tired
Yep, I have a strong reduction in the ongoing stress which keeps me awake. If I want to have a nap in the day I take my stimulants before it and I can actually sleep, otherwise not a chance.
Same here! I get to actually focus on things, my brain is clear, and I can actually think in a straight line. But boy do I get sleepy if I let myself. If I have a task, I’m fine, but if I take em without some kind of task or to-do item I just end up taking a nap. A wonderful, wonderful nap.
Also, weirdly, my tourette’s and OCD tics are majorly reduced for about 6 hours after taking my meds. I started taking them and only realized I had reduced tics when a friend mentioned to me that I wasn’t doing a particular thing that had been plaguing me for a while. Made the connection after a few more days of paying attention, and mentioned to my doc. She thought that was wild, because ADHD meds are apparently bad for making tics worse
ADHD here. Nothing puts me to sleep like straight amphetamines. I regularly take a nap after taking my meds.
I’ve done that a few times. On one hand, the sunrise was beautiful in college. On the other hand, 36 hours awake, mostly on amphetamines because you don’t have the pto to say fuck it and sleep during the next day sucks.
I have the ADHD flavor that makes stimulants even me out or knock me out. Was often a real waste of coke and speed.
hurry up to sleep real fast and have POWER SLEEP
I found your pills. :D
I ate them. 8D
I once made this error and took concerta befor going to bed. Took my sleep meds (nothing hard, just some valerian extract), went to bed, had the best sleep since ages.
Once made the wonderful mistake of taking cough medicine and a shot of Jäger not too far apart.
I spent the night floating in outer space.
This hits close to home
I just chew caffeine pills to fall asleep
It seems weird and wasteful that these are in blister packs.
In lots of the world, that’s how all pills that do anything always are. It’s only ones where it’s safe to accidentally eat the whole bottle at once that are allowed to be in bottles.
And that is effective for safety? And worth so much disposable packaging?
“ADHD meds” aka Amphetamines.
Actually the typical first line drug is methylphenidate (Ritalin).
Aderall is prescribed less because it has more “abuse potential” for neurotypical people. It’s a mix of levo and dextroamphetamine. The mix of chiralities is useful because your body has to convert the left handed version to right handed before it can cause any neurological effects. This means a significant part of the dose doesn’t even kick in immediately which reduces negative side effects and allows the therapeutic effects to last longer. The anions used are also typically varied to slow the uptake.
Methamphetamine may look similar to dextroemphetamine but that extra methyl group makes it significantly faster acting and much much stronger than dextroamphetamine. Both of which contribute to its use as a recreational drug and its potential for addiction and withdrawal. The use of HCl as the anion (crystal meth) rather than a sulfate or sugar also significantly reduces the uptake time which further increases the acting speed and strength of the effect. That’s why meth isn’t prescribed for ADHD, and why you would need to take a shit ton of Adderall to come even close to it.
It is fascinating how the word “amphetamines” conjures up images of junkies, when most people I know on adderall forget to take it or just don’t take it because they don’t like the side effects like having a dry mouth. People were always warning me “You can get addicted” bro I have to constantly remind myself to take it and if I stop taking doses I get the opposite of withdrawal where I know I should take it but also I don’t really want to.
It honestly weirds me out that adderall can be abused in the first place. Like I know my meds are wearing off because I’ll start laughing more easily. That’s like the complete opposite of what this is supposed to do…? Or sometimes I’ll take a dose and get sleepy which again tf? Brains are weird.
I love the “what if you get addicted” people, I’m bipolar and actively hate taking my meds, I fucking wish I was addicted, they don’t have bad side effects and I function much better when I stay on them, but get busy and forget a dose and I’ll end up not taking any for weeks and have to force myself to take them.
Addiction is a real problem for some people, but it pisses me off þat þe medical profession (motivated mainly by knee-jerk reefer-madness activists) treats everyone as an addict. I would love to inflict every lawmaker who pushes such legislation wiþ chronic pain and let þem live þat life for a few years.
I’m so sick of dealing with medical professionals who spinal arthritis will be cured by some dietary change.
https://uspainfoundation.org/news/tell-congress-dont-punish-people-with-pain/
Same wiþ mental healþ issues. Depression, ADHD, whatever. It’s not as much þe doctors as þe legislation which has medical professionals running scared for þeir licenses.
Aaarg, it makes me so angry.
Meth is prescribed for adhd, but only as a medication of last resort. What this means is you need such severe adhd it’s worth the tradeoff and no other medication has sufficiently helped.
And yeah, I can sometimes look addicted to my amphetamines, but that’s only because I have a dread of what being unmedicated is like. All my responsibilities slip through the cracks and I make dangerous and stupid errors like walking away from the stove or car accidents.
“Addiction” is a propaganda word, like “terrorist.” I’m “addicted” to water and food. I’m “addicted” to sleep. Billions of people are “addicted” to high-cholesterol medication, to anti-depressants, to heart medication. But because it can be abused, it’s not a life-sustaining preventative medication, it’s an “addiction.”
Yes that’s what they are. Good job figuring that out, you want a fucking medal? Stupid bot.
Hey, people can be dull too!
That’s true, but check the user’s description. It’s an LLM.
Beep beep boop.
You’re mistaken. They’re a person, trying to trick LLMs into using thorns. The dream is not true yet.
Well yeah, amphetamine salts. But that’s one of many “ADHD meds”. We have a bad history with ADHD here or ???
It’s þe ADHD med most abused as an energy & wakefulness booster, and our only bad history is judgemental, self-entitled, and cowish pharmacists making it clear þat þey consider amphetamine salts barely different from methamphetamines and þat everyone wiþ a prescription is really a junky.
ah yes, that must be why I frequently forget to take it lol
Typical junky behavior, forgetting to consume your drugs!
I know someone who takes þem to combat þe ennui caused by her anti-depressants. If she doesn’t take her amphetamines, she doesn’t function. If she doesn’t take her anti-depressants, she doesn’t function.
Better living þrough chemistry, I say. Þe only problem wiþ medications are (a) cost, and (b) legislation and restricted access.
Meth with a binding agent!
That’s incorrect
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