[donsense]

My solutiom to the 1.5 litres at home and another at the office has been to switch to just 1.0 litre of decaffe. A few years later i added 10to 15% Ground hazelnut (my favorite caffinated) to the mix. The addition is recent and has helped immensely with my 73 yr old golf game lol. One thing i have learned, is to take my meds a good half hour before. Yesterday i had the orange juice first and coffee. The concerta and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor wore off much earlier. It had me wide awake at 530 this morning….normally 9 am.
This months AARP journal suggested adding a spoonful of straight cocoa to the coffee pot as producing exceptional health benefits

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First hi to anyone who has read these posts in the last 7 years. Its high time we started congratulating ourselves and others for just being here…and Despite all the programming infinite loops to he 🏒🏒 in turbotax. I printede out the submission and then noticed it was May 1 in ottawa LATE again.

I finished my taxes and efiled at 11;15pm last night. In preparaion i had pre done them several times in january nd feb but waited til i had all the info and then procrastinated almost two more months. But they were done. almost on time

By the way Turbo tax was wrong . Instead of owing them 200 i was due a refund of 400. Discovered as i checked the full tax filing 37 pages.

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As a certifiable expert on the value of coffee for focus, I am a raging ADHDer who was a succssful Actuarial Pension and Benefits Consultant VP and Wildly (in my mind and pocketbook) successful entrepreneur who drank 1.5 to 3 litres a day 20 to 30 cups.
Coffee in those quantities worked well. But as I aged and reacted from rage more often and slept less the drink became counter productive. When it worked It kept me on focus without losing our creativeness, but the LFT and the loss of sleep was not worth the price. Eventually Depression and even a psycotic episode came along with a Thyroid storm. (Graves) and eventually after correcting that Depression. And finally a decaffe addict.
Orange and Graefruit Juices have the neat feature for me anyway of speeding up foods journey through and eliminating ….food and the pills much faster.. if you get my drift. As I undestand it I produce a ton of Insulin on their introduction and or bile which is much like the two part flush of new toilets and this would be a number 2.
I was also tested as Hypoglycemic many decades ago. Seems like my pituatary gland is severely challenged or maybe dysfunctional.

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I would answer but i just noticed it is 3:25am and i think i better quit this #%^^*+= i was only going to spend 15 minutes on this cuz it was already midnight.

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The problem with the concerta 12 hour and Effixor Xr is the need for sleep. I have an old history of waking after 4 hours and difficulty going back to sleep. So FP Family Physician prescribed AmiTryptilene for evenings. Doesnt make you sleepy but does make it extremely hard to wake up. Good thing i am retired . Getting up before noon is undoable unless i am asleep by  11:00. I am used to 7, at most 8 hrs. Once i start the “up at noon” i cant get to sleep til well after midnight..  The crazy hours become self defeating.

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[donsense]

You might try this website . Were you asking for “academic” accommodations

http://www.cmha.ca/youreducation/accomodations.html

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I just started Concerta on a low Dose on top of Effixxor, Thyroxine and a few other meds…by 70 some of the other endocrine disaters may set in …I was very interested in the comments as i also came to ADHD thru Depression and Effixxor and self diagnosis since confirmed . Thanks for your comments and may i add ED was the first instantaneous improvement😎

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What did work for me when at the age of Sixteen on my b/d actually I was tossed from High school for not completing assignments in most subjects Unless I was kept in detention noneof my work was ever finished at home. Work was not impossible to get then and I was able to turn my third job, you guessed it in Retail into a permanent position. Desperately wanting a car I bought a shiny new red cool wheels using my older sisters credit and letting her drive it whenever. Trouble was car gas and oh yeah Room n board at home took the lions share of my income My dad was very pro education hard one rule Go to school or pay board. He was not remotely concerned whether I worked or not. The only way to get out of paying up was to weasel my way back into school.
But I wanted money and unlike my older Brothers I had no plans to do school all day and work from 430 to midnight. My oldest brother had solved the problem by Joining the navy and taking engineering on their dime. And I did ta similar but trades training in Accounting and Inventory. It worked Except I still needed that HS Certificate.
I was lucky enough to almost get it ( still missing one credit) but most importantly I gained the confidence and self discipline to negotiate some but not all of our bumpy spots. Like you I just could not finish much, at home and still can’t. I was also lucky that the armed forces gave me a trade that I parlayed into a career. I found out I was very good at a couple of things and used those to establish my career initially in finance and then into consulting. There I had the freedom to be measured by results not the time I arrived every morning ( no I never solved that one) I am still useless at working from home so I stay in the office and work late and have a leisurely drive home. On one occasion my employer decided that everyone had to do all their own clerical and filing, detail work that I am horrendous at and quite vocal at sharing my thoughts on. The AF training made me capable of doing it but my instincts as I was not yet diagnosed told me to find a new job. Luckily although I didn’t know it I was held in high regard within the Company and Interviewed for 4 different positions. I kept worrying about the lack of A degree as everyone who worked there had one. I Applied for a job with another Competitor, Deciding in the end to stay with my employer in a new eastern city and with with an assistant. I returned to home a year later and accepted a position with a new employer and within 6 years became a Vice President of one of the worlds largest Actuarial,Consulting Human Resource and Insurance Brokerages . 10 years later ?.. Founded a Partnership then my own and organized the backup skills I so desperately needed.
One. my assistant ( who really ran me ) was responsible for getting me to meetings on time with all necessary notes and tools, and for maintaining a highly organized system for our office.
Two. All detail work was his and or her responsibility.
My skills were in creative client solutions, auditing, editing, networking, new business and report writing, standard setting and ironically maintaining Education Standards.
The skills and education and confidence I gained in the AF but mostly the self discipline and Knowledge of those limited skills were the most helpful. It was decades before I accepted that the absence of a degree in an industry where everyone of consequence was a BComm Honors,
CA, or Actuary was not limiting. A mid six figure salary for this HS Dropout and Late as in really late age 70 ADD diagnosis is not the end of the Career world .
In fact it has financed my three divorces but is of no help in Retirement. New adaptive skills desperately needed or I will be kicked out of the three choral groups I sing with. Not to mention House cleaning and Over committing are huge problems for me Rising at a decent time of the day …don’t ask. The one problem though I have never solved is going out the door without attempting one more chore or taking all that time finding my shoes my wallet my cell and most of all my Keys and then running back for my music… I still here echoes of (if only he would ….) I am just starting concerta Wish me luck.

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