BG Medical Random Question Thread

[Gredival]

I believe it was shown that people who don't have ADHD using it to study didn't really benefit from it, but it's great for like esports abuse.

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[kuronosan]

Adderall activates parts of your brain that make normal folks focus more easily but honestly is more effective in folks with ADHD because it enhances activity in areas that aren't working right. It's like bringing water pressure up to normal levels in plumbing. There's a ceiling that isn't exceeded but it's more easily reached when you have ADHD.

[Salodin]

You ever cleaned your house on Adderall? I recommend it for spring cleaning

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[Outlaw]

So Adderall is legal cocaine?

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[kuronosan]

Legal meth. Less toxic.

[Meresgi]

Legal meth. Less toxic.

If enough of us use it we can Blitzkrieg France and Belgium like nothing!

[Outlaw]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eAhMeswQdg

I just remembered this scene.

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[Gredival]

Adderall activates parts of your brain that make normal folks focus more easily but honestly is more effective in folks with ADHD because it enhances activity in areas that aren't working right. It's like bringing water pressure up to normal levels in plumbing. There's a ceiling that isn't exceeded but it's more easily reached when you have ADHD.

The way it has been related to me is that it helps for tuning out distraction, but it doesn't make you better at doing those things if you already sucked at them without distraction.

So like it's good for esports because it makes you focus actively instead of playing passively (like watching your mini map, your cool downs, etc). However, it isn't helpful with studying for people who don't have ADHD because most people just suck at the actual retention or comprehension not the getting off your ass to do it portion.

Adderall is a stimulant, so for people with ADHD it's like turning on the traffic lights. Yes the stimulation makes everything go faster, but by turning on the parts of the brain that aren't active, you are doing something net good by imposing order onto the unorganized chaos.

[Meresgi]

Yeah adderall for me lets me suddenly slip into "Hey I can manage time". I tend to let things pile up and procrastinate a ton with shit time management skills. I have to set up specific routines (Like going to the gym at a time each day) and also trying to mark everything in a calendar because i'll forget very quickly. Taking a 4hr adderall dosage lets me suddenly just knock out a ton of work that was just waiting to be done, but leading up to it was getting stressed and unable to just sit down and do the tasks at hand.

[kuronosan]

No way

[mallister]

Just received info, region seems to have taken a dim view of my care team blowing me off. Referral letter is incoming.

Things really shouldn't be this difficult.

[Salodin]

Yeah adderall for me lets me suddenly slip into "Hey I can manage time".

God so much this. I'm not diagnosed cause I grew up poor with no insurance but I'm gonna talk with my doc cause those times I was on one was just incredible. Suddenly the day was long enough to finish what I needed to get done

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[RalphTheDwarf]

I had cataract surgery last year, and the artificial lenses basically obliterated my close range vision. I now need some sort of reading glasses to see the screen, but normal reading glasses have such short focal length that I have to shrimp the heck over to read text. I need some kind of specialized reading glasses for computers but they all seem to focus on scammy blue light filtering and not increased focal length. I need something with a 3-4 foot viewing range for best for gaming (most reading glasses are about half that range). Maybe someone here has had similar issues and knows the actual name of what I'm looking for so I can stop going in circles with search engines.

[kuronosan]

Go to an optometrist.

[Meresgi]

Mom saw cardiologist today and they said her blockage is more around 80% and recommending CEA. Looked some studies up on CEA vs CAS like CREST study from 2011 and another from 2019 that compared age ranges to the risk associated. Mom is only 63 this year so thankfully her age range for both procedures is about same risk, they are suggesting more towards CEA despite it being more invasive given she doesn't feel comfortable with a stent in her neck, she has esophageal spasms that happen frequently and scar tissue on the side of her neck there too.

Looking at the studies, of over 3,000 participants they are all showing about .6-1.2 having had a stroke and/or death after 30days of surgery. She's pretty worried because she has a lot of neurological issues and things wrong with her body but been sending her data to both ease my mind and hers.

[kuronosan]

Stents can also migrate or clot over time, even if they're drug eluting. It's amazing you're even doing the research. Good on your mom for having you.

[Meresgi]

Stents can also migrate or clot over time, even if they're drug eluting. It's amazing you're even doing the research. Good on your mom for having you.

Ahh didn't know that, i'll relay that to her too but I think the CEA is the path they'll end up taking, even though it's more invasive and requires general anesthesia. She did mention that when she had a colonoscopy done, there was nerve damage from the mask they put over her face which caused her numbness for a few months and is still partial in spots (Been over a year). Family has a history of, and mom def has, condition where myelin sheath is much more brittle and erodes, so concern about that when it comes to CEA and 2019 study references CAS eliminating cranial nerve injury.

Doc that will be doing surgery has good reputation: https://communitycare.com/doctors/manish-mehta/ so that ups my confidence.

It's amazing you're even doing the research

Haha find it the easiest way of easing my stress, same for flying. Just getting a lot of the facts and statistics while it doesn't remove the stress when the plane bounces around, at least there's info there i can tell myself to calm down a bit instead of not knowing!

[Tyche]

Don't get hurt in America.

[Meresgi]

I don't see any $100 gauze charges on there! When my dad died the hospital had the balls to send me the bill and it had 3 charges of $100 each for gauze (my dad's heart ruptured and he died instantly at a friends house...not sure what the gauze was for). They also had it racked up to around $7-10k which isn't really that bad but I laughed at them for trying to get me to pay it.

[Outlaw]

Jesus.. You have some damn good insurance man.

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