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and if you have a high heart rate or other cardiac or electrophysiological abnormalities, it drastically increases your risk
And I do not believe, based on my experience, that doctors would catch it at all.
Your intentions
These are just my opinions, more or less unfiltered. I'm not unbiased, my views are colored by my experiences, I never claimed otherwise.
Either way, I appreciate your input regardless.
Is the dizziness by any chance like a one motion sensation?
Like someone pushed your head forward just once for a moment and then it immediately stops? I've had this on both Amph and various serotonin things on come up and come down. I do have a pretty fast resting heart rate (always had) but no docs bother to explore it no matter how much I ask because no pain/etc. it only drops below 80 while I'm asleep.
I wouldn't describe it as dizziness, at least not continuous, but it's also not quite a brain zap or a brain quake.
How do you have this take towards one of the most important and respected jobs in the entire history of mankind?
Most people in this profession couldn't give a better assessment than an unplugged sega genesis.
Self-researching/medication isn't going to be comparable to a trained professional.
Yeah, but not the way you meant it. It's usually better to research yourself. When it matches I'm actually surprised they got it right. Never been wrong yet.
Especially since they have extra resources specifically for medical research.
Patient-facing doctors and those who do research are two circles that do not overlap. The patient-facing people only do research to see if they can deny you treatment based on race/sex/(insert immutable trait here) or how they can otherwise jerk you off until you die or leave to save on the budget.
but there is a strict vetting process
Universities are privatized degree factories. It don't mean jack or shit.
that only the most competent doctors are allowed to practice medicine.
Makes me wonder what the rest must do to get rejected.
And a process to arrest them for malpractice if they fail afterwards.
Good luck proving any of that shit in court or having the money to against unions that protect them like the cops.
Without context of adhd, it reads like an anti-vaxer justifying the use of oils.
Thats the thing - they are justified to distrust the medical establishment and approach it with extreme skepticism. They're just wrong because they're elderly rightoids who fall for the same pill mill scam but by Alex Jones instead of big pharma.
Medical advice should always be sought for these issues.
That's not true. If you want you can seek it - but I don't think it should be a requirement or even the default recommendation. What you should do depends.
If you didn't trust a specific piece of medical advice? Get further medical advice i.e a second opinion.
Maybe in the US it works differently, but this isn't possible in the UK. You are simply discharged if you disagree and further referrals are blocked. There is only one semi-functional non-provate ADHD service. Doctors will often actively try to sabotage your care for disagreeing with them.
If you need urgent help? Ask your doctor what can be done while waiting for your diagnosis.
Yeah he'll say "have you tried not being sad. Also maybe stop being transgender/black/woman." That is if they respond at all, usually it's just silence, or being told to fuck off and wait.
My life won't pause itself. I'll never get those years of waiting back if I wait. Or I can just do what I know is right and what I know helps and bypass this circus of drug gatekeeping.
There is absolutely no reason to think that the human body (esp. The brain) is simple enough that a layman can do it.
And if a layman can't do it, a doctor is even less likely to.
These are addictive substances with potentially dangerous side effects requiring specific doses and ongoing management.
Nah. Just Google what amfexa doses are there, pick lowest, eyeball napkin math it out to match it's racemic Amph equivalent, wash the amph, put into capsules at desired dose and take it. If it works - great, stay at that dose until you no longer can, then increase or tolerance break.
If it doesn't work - try more, but first make sure you're eating/drinking/sleeping well.
If you increase dose too much you waste money and ruin tolerance, so just don't do that. Amph physical addiction is very weak, you will feel sad for three days, as long as you understand there is no rational reason and it's just a chemical imbalance it's very easy to override the feeling. Mind over matter.
Take 5-HTP (standalone, not Amazon supplement diarrhea suprise shit) and L-Tyrosine to mitigate withdrawal somewhat (this is broscience).
I'm on elvance and I needed to make sure my blood pressure was suitable before starting and then later going to a higher dose
*Elvanse. And yeah this is obvious enough. Before taking a substance you Google what side effects it possibly has. Lisdexamphetamine (Elvanse) raises your BP. So check your BP before starting. My BP was actually out of spec due to a faulty reading (I find those fucking things extremely uncomfy) and the docs didn't even bat an eye before approving me. Now I'm doing my own research. Heart rate also worth checking. Use a pulse oximeter. Cheap and easy/quick to measure. If you want continuous monitoring (to e.g. pick up something that happens briefly) use a Fitbit. It's not accurate but it will give you general trends. E.g. my heart rate goes up during come-down. Something doctors don't do. First gen versa is nice and stylish.
You can take the risk of possible health complications if you're an extreme edge case physically and negative societal consequences of you're unlucky or unskilled, or you can suffer. Same equation as being trans really.
The choice is yours, and we should be free to discuss it openly and honestly because while I feel sorry for those who can't get treatment for whatever reason (I am diagnosed, but never titrated, so I never legally had any treatment or actual medical personnel), I also feel it's kind of pathetic to wait on some distant system that exists to benefit big pharma kkkartels and little else without at least exploring your options.
In my experience - as anecdotal and limited as it may be - most doctors are genuinely the dumbest motherfuckers I've ever met and I know better every. single. time. I don't just trust myself, I trust myself far more than some doctors to work out an Amph dosage.
(Only exception being surgeons, they are great)
I know whatever monitoring they do will be a checkbox exercise done to half-assedly comply with some contractual obligation by nurses who probably give themselves bleach enemas on the reg. Because of survival instinct - I actually give a shit about my own body, which puts me far ahead of them.
Yeah easily could be if someone looked.
Generally it's a safe assumption that your employer machine is fully compromised by them at ring-0 level, meaning they can see anything and everything from your browser history to your RAM, though the features of Crowdstrike specifically are fairly limited in that regard.
Now whether it will trigger an alert by itself or not depends.
Crowdstrike will often fire events for unrecognised scripts that match some heuristics, e.g. on Unix likes a lot of input redirects (pipe or >) or scripts over certain char length seemingly tend to be picked up.
We often get false positives from various IDEs using long tool chains on a CLI under the hood when compiling programs on dev machines for instance. System shells (bash, ksh, zsh, powrshell, cmd.exe) tend to produce more false positives than e.g. something like Python, so I assume they have much more aggressive detection.
In that case AHK is probably better as long as it's possible to install.
I wouldn't worry too much about being caught. Most cybersec teams and IT are so stretched and we're not narcs on average.
Just keep in mind that if you do this you should be able to afford losing the job in extremely unlucky circumstances.
FYI I work in cybersec and if your company uses any sort of EDR like Crowdstrike on the company machine we can easily search for and find AHK running if there's cause. We don't search things unless there's a sec alert, but there are tons of false positives. I wouldn't report it if I saw but YMMV. Policies also vary.
Much better to use a hardware jiggler. I think the Flipper Zero has an app for it that makes it work over Bluetooth.
Forcesoy'd
More hellish complexity