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Tips for blow drying my hair without wanting to die? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I either do these two things:

I usually go to the gym at middle of the day, and do not dry my hair. Just let it dry while walking to work
When I shower at home I fully dry my hair but use this time to read an article on the phone, or watch a video, listen to a podcast. In this way, drying my hair is not a nuisance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You could also take L-Tyrosine on days off to replenish your dopamine levels

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Does the drowsiness and lowered sex drive persist during the whole day ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I'm sorry for your experience! Will keep an eye for my BP, thanks for the heads up

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Thank you so much, that's exactly what I wanted to know ! I feel exactly that way with stimulants, either on or off

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing! Do you notice any other effects related to shrinkage ? Similar to vasoconstriction?

When I take stimulant meds this is very common, plus the obvious repulsion to any thoughts of sex.

Does it affect your sexual appetite during and/or after the 8h window of taking ?

Last question would be, could you put an alarm 2h before waking up and take it so that instead of 8h of side effects you would only get 6h (waking) ? Or does the drug has any stimulant or other noticle effect that would prevent you from falling asleep

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. I'm sorry about your side effects.

After you stopped medicating did they go away completely? If your conformable sharing, did the sexual side effects include ED and/or reduced sexual appetite?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for sharing!

Do you feel the drug effects after taking in a period of like 12h or do you feel them constantly?

Does it affect your sleep? At what time you take it ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for sharing! That's very interesting info. I'm a bit curious on how it affects you in your non-work days. Can you still be yourself, what about drug interactions (alcohol, weed), any experience?

The thing with stimulant medication for me is that it turns me into a completely different self, so I'm afraid that with Strattera having to take it everyday this happens permanently

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry for your bad experience. Could you share how long you tried to take it (I assume everyday also?) and what side effects you experienced?

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Doctor recommended trying Strattera, looking for other users experiences (discuss.tchncs.de)

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Hi !

Just to go straight to the point, my doctor is thinking of trying Strattera in me, since it was recently made available as a generic and I tend to have prevailing side effects with stimulant medication (ritalin, Rubifen, elvanse).

I have some questions that would like to hear from people that are/were on this medication to share:

I understand this is non-stimulating and seems to work akin to an antidepressant. Therefore, do I have to take it every day? Even on days I do not need ? With stimulant medication I only take it when doing theoretical work, and skip it when on the laboratory or other minor tasks and would never take it in days I'm not working, because I can't just interact with people and gives me a baseline anxiety the whole day.
What benefits did it gave you ?
Any prevailing side effects?
How does it compare with stimulant medication (after taking it for some weeks)?

For a bit of context:

I've been diagnosed for about 6 years now, and started with Ritalin XR. However, I could only keep using it for some months since it gave seriously side effects that persisted 3-5 months after stopping it. I later switched to Ritalin IR, which worked for some time and gave me less side effects. But it started to be ineffective after some months.

Then my doctor tried Elvanse (Vyvanse), it worked on keeping me focused, but the anxiety and the huge time frame of action of the drug led to me only taking it once or twice a week.

I'm now back on Ritalin IR, but always feel the anxiety and aversion to interact with people that I always feel with these 3 stimulants.

What does your todo list / project management / productivity setup look like? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I selfhost Vikunja and have some colleagues and family on my instance. It's a very complete task and project manager, specially useful to create teams and collaborate in tasks (either work or house related). In mobile I use Tasks.org, which syncs with Vikunja over the Caldav provided by Vikunja.

My goal is to lean typescript so I can program a sync add-on between Logseq and Vikunja

Open-source workout tracker? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've been using Liftosaur for more than an year now and it is perfect.

The app has many programs you can find on fitness forums and subreddits. But the developer is open to port more to the app if requested. You can build your own program with an easy interface or use a scripting language develop for the app to have total control