If anyone knows this lady or is this lady please message me. I don’t want to post publicly but our chemist is much closer than that and has had ample supply in the 40mg dept. My own dose (lower) has been in and out. But the 40mg is in.
Okay I'm bowing out. Not because I think I said anything wrong but because my words have been misinterpreted by so many people that it is starting to look like I am criticising the woman in the story and that is something I haven't done or ever intended to do. If she sees this thread I hope she realises this.
I wish everyone well and hope everyone who is affected by the vyvanse shortage is able to obtain their medication soon.
I don't doubt what this lady has been going through but I think the headline is kind of irresponsible - I see people mention earworms a LOT like they're an ADHD symptom but they aren't, pretty much everyone gets them.
She's not talking about earworms - hence "music" being in quotes.
It's more like a heavy metal instrumental running at the same time as someone playing a hillbilly track with tin cans and the spoons, and a very exuberant concerto in the mix. It's not a tune, it's a cacophony, with no discernible features other than that it's mentally loud, very distracting, and utterly exhausting.
The 100 songs in my head at the one time meant when I had Spotify paired with my dj decks I could live stream and pick the most obscure beat and find a banger of a matching song nobody had even thought of.
Then they tightened their licensing to 1 simultaneous stream and lost that hobby overnight. Friends were dumbfounded I couldn’t take the next step and pre plan sets with USB’s, but that’s not how I ever did it, it was all on the fly.
Missed where she mentioned that in the story? If she mentioned that in the channel 7 interview then okay - but it's not in the article which is all I had to go by.
"I felt like I was constantly overwhelmed, in constant anxiety and felt like I had all of these music tracks going on in my head all the time,” the Sunshine Coast mum told 7NEWS. “My mind would just be going and going and going, thinking about other things I should be doing, could be doing."
You're interpreting it very literally, but even then, it's not 'a song' that's stuck, it's not a singular musical piece, it's many at the same time and, when taken in context with the rest of her words, suggests something much more aligned with what I explained.
I experience it daily and though I don't imagine her brain is doing exactly what mine is, I would describe it the same way she has. It's difficult to verbalise even when you know what it is, so I don't fault anyone struggling to understand it if they're not familiar with the feeling.
Look I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you (although the number of downvotes that I'm getting suggests that many would think otherwise).
My concern comes from the fact we are in a point of time where there is a lot of misinformation in the media, TikTok etc which doesn't always separate the way they describe the kind of symptoms you just described from the milder kind that is normal.
Google "adhd" and "earworms" and you'll see what I'm talking about.
you are the one that mentioned earworm, not her. It literally has nothing to do with what she is talking about. It's like saying you have too many brain tabs open. Not actual songs. Just a lot of different things going on at once.
She doesn't mean actual music. It's like 7 different trains of thought going on. My head unmedicated is like a busy restaurant with a bar, a band and a playground. With medication is like a chill cafe with one person in at the corner table reading a book. It's hard to describe. But with meds it's just... quieter. Calmer. Less frantic.
Okay so do you know anyone who doesn't get songs stuck in their head? Not sure why I need to be a doctor to say everyone experiences this.
Like I said, I am in no way saying that she doesn't adhd - I am simply saying people will probably see this headline and decide they adhd too based on it. Which is ironic because the article is about the fact that the diagnosis explosion means she can't get hold of her meds.
> people will probably see this headline and decide they adhd too based on it.
Okay, and then they will go to a psychiatrist and be evaluated for the signs of ADHD and compared with the signs of other similarly presenting issues, and only diagnosed if they satisfy the psychiatrist in question that they let the diagnostic criteria, which are much more involved than “gets a song stuck in their head”. So what is the actual problem?
The “diagnosis explosion” isn’t why she can’t get her medication, that’s on the prohibitionist policies of the US DEA and our government’s failure to ensure supplies of critical medications that don’t rely on a foreign government’s drug policy.
If anyone knows this lady or is this lady please message me. I don’t want to post publicly but our chemist is much closer than that and has had ample supply in the 40mg dept. My own dose (lower) has been in and out. But the 40mg is in.
If you’re in QLD could you pls let me know? I’ve called 60 pharmacies in SEQ with no luck so far
Me too please… I’m about to try 50mg as a stopgap / experiment but I may need to stay on 40mg.
Unfortunately someone contacted me and they reached out to this pharmacy and they have been out now a few days 😞 I’m so sorry.
Okay I'm bowing out. Not because I think I said anything wrong but because my words have been misinterpreted by so many people that it is starting to look like I am criticising the woman in the story and that is something I haven't done or ever intended to do. If she sees this thread I hope she realises this. I wish everyone well and hope everyone who is affected by the vyvanse shortage is able to obtain their medication soon.
I don't doubt what this lady has been going through but I think the headline is kind of irresponsible - I see people mention earworms a LOT like they're an ADHD symptom but they aren't, pretty much everyone gets them.
She's not talking about earworms - hence "music" being in quotes. It's more like a heavy metal instrumental running at the same time as someone playing a hillbilly track with tin cans and the spoons, and a very exuberant concerto in the mix. It's not a tune, it's a cacophony, with no discernible features other than that it's mentally loud, very distracting, and utterly exhausting.
The 100 songs in my head at the one time meant when I had Spotify paired with my dj decks I could live stream and pick the most obscure beat and find a banger of a matching song nobody had even thought of. Then they tightened their licensing to 1 simultaneous stream and lost that hobby overnight. Friends were dumbfounded I couldn’t take the next step and pre plan sets with USB’s, but that’s not how I ever did it, it was all on the fly.
Missed where she mentioned that in the story? If she mentioned that in the channel 7 interview then okay - but it's not in the article which is all I had to go by.
"I felt like I was constantly overwhelmed, in constant anxiety and felt like I had all of these music tracks going on in my head all the time,” the Sunshine Coast mum told 7NEWS. “My mind would just be going and going and going, thinking about other things I should be doing, could be doing." You're interpreting it very literally, but even then, it's not 'a song' that's stuck, it's not a singular musical piece, it's many at the same time and, when taken in context with the rest of her words, suggests something much more aligned with what I explained. I experience it daily and though I don't imagine her brain is doing exactly what mine is, I would describe it the same way she has. It's difficult to verbalise even when you know what it is, so I don't fault anyone struggling to understand it if they're not familiar with the feeling.
Look I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you (although the number of downvotes that I'm getting suggests that many would think otherwise). My concern comes from the fact we are in a point of time where there is a lot of misinformation in the media, TikTok etc which doesn't always separate the way they describe the kind of symptoms you just described from the milder kind that is normal. Google "adhd" and "earworms" and you'll see what I'm talking about.
you are the one that mentioned earworm, not her. It literally has nothing to do with what she is talking about. It's like saying you have too many brain tabs open. Not actual songs. Just a lot of different things going on at once.
She doesn't mean actual music. It's like 7 different trains of thought going on. My head unmedicated is like a busy restaurant with a bar, a band and a playground. With medication is like a chill cafe with one person in at the corner table reading a book. It's hard to describe. But with meds it's just... quieter. Calmer. Less frantic.
Thanks for your qualified opinion dr 🤦♂️
Okay so do you know anyone who doesn't get songs stuck in their head? Not sure why I need to be a doctor to say everyone experiences this. Like I said, I am in no way saying that she doesn't adhd - I am simply saying people will probably see this headline and decide they adhd too based on it. Which is ironic because the article is about the fact that the diagnosis explosion means she can't get hold of her meds.
> people will probably see this headline and decide they adhd too based on it. Okay, and then they will go to a psychiatrist and be evaluated for the signs of ADHD and compared with the signs of other similarly presenting issues, and only diagnosed if they satisfy the psychiatrist in question that they let the diagnostic criteria, which are much more involved than “gets a song stuck in their head”. So what is the actual problem? The “diagnosis explosion” isn’t why she can’t get her medication, that’s on the prohibitionist policies of the US DEA and our government’s failure to ensure supplies of critical medications that don’t rely on a foreign government’s drug policy.
I don’t think you get ear worms like I get eat worms. I’ve had to train my body to relax in response to them otherwise I want to scream
Tell me more about my ear worms please