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Day 3 on concerta 18mg for me.

Admittedly I've been drinking way too much for years. Last October I did sober October and was just horribly miserable while my wife who was in the same boat quit a and never looked back insisting life was better without alcohol as many people do.

That's actually what lead me to getting rediagnosed with ADHD as an adult (I was diagnosed as a child but never treated) I was completely miserable without alcohol and even after a full month and a half I still missed it. Physical addiction was entirely gone by that point.

I did however gone down significantly since sober October to one cocktail a day. Probably equal to 2-3 standard drinks. It was out of hand before, admittedly.

Anyway I just finally got on Concerta 18mg. I've been taking it a few days. Usually I've kept with my nightly cocktail but I also don't drink every day anymore and the day I didn't was the first time I actually had trouble sleeping.

Now the reason they say not to mix concerta and alcohol is that alcohol will cause it to rapidly release the rest of the drug that's in your system, and the stimulant would cause less effect from the alcohol and cause overconsumption.

The latter isn't an issue for me since I know my tolerance and measure my my drinks.

But I'm thinking the overriding the extended release at least currently while on the low dose may be a good thing and improving my sleep by dumping the last of it a few hours before I am ready to go to sleep.

When the dose increases I'm hoping I'll be ready to quit drinking on a regular basis as I do realize I've just been self medicating my ADHD this whole time, and the medication should take its place. I'm just slowly running through the last of my liquor cabinet currently and not buying any more.

Any thoughts on this in terms of using alcohol to burn off the last of the dose? I know at higher doses this could be iffy, but people are certainly taking methylphenidate at much higher doses in immediate release preparations without issue, so this should theoretically be safe on my current dose even if I were drinking right after taking it, but I am not doing that. It's only 10-12 hours after that I have a drink to hopefully go through the very end of what's in my system still.

I have noticed no side effects from the medication in the 3 days I've been on it whatsoever aside from not sleeping well the day I avoided alcohol, but that isn't a conclusive link.

I just got my first prescription for it a few days ago, it's a starter dose of 18mg.

I don't feel like it does a whole lot, I've had no effects from it for the most part positive or negative.

One thing I have noticed though is it seems to effect my VS.

About half an hour to an hour after taking it the static gets noticeably worse than usual and my vision is slightly wobbly, like a very subtle heat wave effect. It's not terrible, but noticeable.

Then later in the day when it should be in full effect my VS is much lighter than normal. I almost can't even see it at all in good lighting, even when I look for it. Usually it's quite noticeable in shadows.

And then later in the day when it's wearing off the static gets worse than usual again for a little while but seems to go back to baseline.

Anyone have similar experiences?

I just took Concerta 18mg for the first time this morning. Even had a coffee right after which I found out after is probably not a good idea and likely to increase side effects.

I don't feel anything. No more focused than usual, still zero motivation. Not that quiet brain that people describe the first time taking adhd medication. Not jittery or tired or euphoric.

No loss of appetite, no headache, I even checked my BP this morning before taking it and again later. It's a little higher, but no more the coffee would explain. Heart rate is actually lower now than before taking it, but not far off enough to think it's not just natural variation.

I literally feel nothing. I've never used any stimulants in my life before this aside from caffeine, and my intake is pretty low, usually just 1 cup of coffee per day and tea, so I don't think I'd already have tolerance for stims.

Is this a common experience for the first time? I've read that going on stimulants for the first time can be kind of rough for a lot of people with side effects, but can be a great experience for others with a kind of honeymoon phase, or a mixed bag, but I wasn't expecting just nothing.

Should I be concerned?

I stopped there today after work because I got off at 7am and I didn't want to wait in town until another store opened at 8.

Plus today is when I know they have the most stuff on clearance.

I ended up getting 3 marked down packages of beef stew meat best by tomorrow and still looked fine.

When I got home i decided to vacuum seal them and freeze them and figured I'd seperate the 3 into 2 vacuum packs becuase they were on the small side.

To get them even I calculated the weight listed per package to divide by 2. Total weight was 1222 grams.

So I sealed up my first package at 610 grams and thew the remaining meat on the scale just to see how accurately I'd gotten it in half. 590g. It should have been 612g.

It was 22g off from the listed weight.

Then I put the empty packages on the scale and guess what, exactly 22g.

This shows they're charging you meat weight for the packaging, AND there were 2 soaker pads in each which added most of that weight. Really unnecessary since stew meat isn't terribly juicy.

I'd be a lot more pissed if these weren't on clearance.

I have a parking brake that sticks sometimes and I think the whole caliper probably needs to be replaced as hard as it is to get the cylinder back in, even though the actual issue is just a spring. Anyway I'm too cheap to do it, so my solution is to just work the grime out of the lever thing the wire attaches to and put a little brake lube on it. But that's not super relevant I guess (or maybe it is, I'm putting some back pressure into the brake system in the process)

Anyway in the process I jack it up from the back and put it on two jack stands.

The first time I start the car after doing this, it will always sputter for a few seconds while trying to start almost like there's a vacuum leak.

On typical days driving this never happens and it starts fine. No symptoms of a vacuum leak in general.

After I have it jacked up it always starts like this but only the very first time. I can turn it off and next start will be fine so it correlates with the work I've done to it.

Any idea what's going on?

I've tried using a few inches of oil in a cast iron skillet, but what always happens is while the bottom side is cooking, the batter melts off the top side that's out of the oil and the hotdog comes out.

My wife is always asking me to make corn dogs, but I pretty much never do becuase it costs me about $15 in oil alone just to fill a large enough pot deep enough to submerge them. I don't deep fry things often enough to clean/reuse the oil without the particulate in it causing it to go bad. Maybe once every 2-3 months, and even if it's been filtered and refrigerated in that time it will smell rancid, despite the original bottle of oil it came out of smelling fine.

Any tips? If there's a way to airfry them while still making them from scratch I'd be interested, but I can't imagine how it would work and still come out fluffy.

In my area these things come in excessively, probably twice a week whenever police are looking for someone anywhere in the province and want people to call them if they see someone, or amber alerts. They're usually coming from a large city a couple hours away from me so it's not really relevant where I am.

The problem is they come when I'm sleeping, or when I'm driving and startle me. They'd be fine if it wasn't a sudden siren noise at full volume.

I've gone to settings > notifications > wireless emergency alerts.

I can disable them completely. There's an option to make all alerts full volume that's unchecked by default, but they still always come in at full volume. There's a footnote that "extreme threats" will still be full volume, and I suspect every alert sent out in my area must be for some reason in that category, even the tests.

From the options in the settings I can either disable these completely, or just let them keep going off at full volume.

Obviously I'd prefer to know what's going on in case it's actually anything nearby and important, but it almost never is and they're quite disruptive.

Is there any way outside of this setting to limit this to maybe vibration only or at least half volume or below?

I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid but never had medication for it even though it was prescribed because my mom was against it when I was a kid.

I'm in my 30s now and have become completely useless from what I think is burnout from work making my ADHD worse than it's ever been.

I drink too much admittedly and after quitting for a month I realized I was miserable because it actually calms my mind for a little while. I've cut down since that intermission but did go back to it at a lower rate. I'm really hoping this will actually do what alcohol does for me in a healthier way so I can actually just quit completely without ending up miserable and stuck in my own head.

Just wondering if anyone is familiar with this medication and has any insights, or has similar experiences to share. I've never tried any adhd medication before and am apprehensive about what to expect.

I live in an old house and kitchen ventilation is a huge problem. The kitchen windows don't open, and while there is a vent hood above the stove it isn't vented outside, it just sucks up the smoke and blows it out the top which is pretty much useless.

Getting it to vent outside doesn't really seem possible. The stove is up against an interior wall, and there's really no way to relocate it to an exterior wall in order to put a vent hole for the smoke hood. Can't go up becuase there's a second floor, can't go inside the walls as they're lath and plaster and full of old pellet insulation.

I believe the smoke/steam from cooking is the cause of the mold growth I've been cleaning constantly so I need a way to mitigate it. Any advice?

This is a weird phenomenon and hard to describe, just wondering if it could be an ADHD related thing. I also have visual snow if you're familiar with that.

Anyway I do shift work, and it's probably 80% days and early evening/night shifts, but there's the occasional overnight shift that goes into the mid morning and completely requires me to reverse my sleep schedule.

It messes with my head, as it does everyone. All of my coworkers struggle with this and feel horrible day of and in the days following until they recover. That's normal. No one else seems to experience this particular thing.

I feel like I can't see properly, but in a really odd way. I can read just fine and walk around just fine, those things aren't affected. I can even drive and that feels normal.

But it's other stuff. I can't play video games for example, nothing on the screen really makes sense. Navigating text menus on screens is okay, but i can't process the graphics. This time of year I do a lot of gardening, I can't really visually find the right seed packets which isn't a problem usually. I can be trying to thin seedlings but can't really process it visually to cut all except one, they all kind of blend into one plant. I can't prune plants becuase I can't visualize where the nodes are.

It's as though my eyes work fine but my brain is failing to process certain aspects of vision. Anyone else get that?

I haven't been to Fremont since the early 2000s but I grew up there. The tigpaw restaurant was I think on peralta bvld and maybe closed in the late 90s. I think it was owned by a lady called Norma? I remember going to this place lot as a small kid and remember it having a very eccentric style, but I don't know how much of what I remember is accurate, and how much is hallucinated childhood nonsense.

I distinctly remember a fancy embossed plaster ceiling covered in sea creature shapes, and a taxidermy wild boar on a stage posed next to a microphone stand. Also a Santa Claus style sleigh out front. No idea how accurate this memory is, I was maybe 7 or 8 last time I saw it.

Anyone have any pictures of this place?