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thevirgodoll · 2 years

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I was recently diagnosed with ADHD as a black women in college and have been prescribed medicine. However, I am scared of taking stimulants and having this “crash” I keep reading about. I also got the generic instead of the brand and IDK, it feels like it’s this big scary medicine that is going to make me feel bad. Any advice?

Hey doll,

Which stimulant were you prescribed? I have experience of course if you’d like to talk in depth in PMs.

ADHD Advice From Me to You

Energy & Behavior:

•When first taking them, you’ll have an energy burst the first week. This will wear off and you’ll feel back at a regular state. I’d say two weeks or so.

•You may also find you are more sociable and you retain interest longer no matter what task it is. Time management issues start to subside as well!

Food/Diet:

•Hydration is everything. Your mouth will be DRY! It’s an annoying side effect. Please drink water, and lots of it!!! Your meds work better when you’re hydrated.

•Avoid consuming sugary drinks and sugary foods in excess. Orange juice isn’t your friend on ADHD meds…nor is junk.

•Do not drink energy drinks like Red Bull or coffee, your medication will do the job for you. No reason to fire up a V8 engine even more lol!!!

•Make sure you eat well and eat enough. Eat something with protein for breakfast before taking meds.

•Sometimes, your stimulant may impact your appetite as they are also used for those who suffer with eating disorders... This is normal and will pass. If it does not, your dose may be too high.

•If loss of appetite occurs, consume something that’s simple like a protein shake, meal prep, snack box, or smoothie etc. Develop a routine and get ahead of your appetite. Document this. It will overwhelm and curb your appetite for real.

Overall Changes:

You will know it’s working when you feel calmer or more in control of your brain. This is not to say you won’t have racing thoughts or ideas if that is a symptom of yours, but it IS to say you will find it easier to manage.

•The biggest thing about the mid day “crash” is that your medicine dosage will show you the difference. If you experience a “crash” on your meds, you may have to up the dose or add a smaller one mid day(that is what I do, one in the morning one in afternoon!)

•Keep in mind this medication is for your benefit, not detriment, so any changes consult your doctor immediately.

•If your mind is normally busy, it will quiet down some. If your mood is all over the place, you’ll start to see some regulation but probably still need some intervention. If you have memory problems, you will now find it easier to remember things but there still may be some brain fog at times. You have to learn what works best for your brain plasticity now.

Be Advised:

•Try not to disclose this to other people unless you trust them.. People believe stimulants are “cheating”. Remember this isn’t true for us…our brains have no neurotransmitters communicating. The last thing you want is to have someone steal your medication in order to function or make you feel like an imposter.

•Do away with the stigma regarding the kinds of stimulants. It’s not wrong to need help, or use medication. People often forget we implement medicine WITH lifestyle changes, not just take them and stare at a textbook or whatever. We cannot do basic tasks like clean. So go easy on yourself. I say this because you may have to switch stimulants in case you have side effects. So again remember the different kinds are based on the severity of your specific ADHD symptoms and how your brain is responding.

•Do not overdo it, just because you have the energy, because again, this will subside.

This medication is all about developing a routine and switching tasks, which is relatively impossible with this disorder without action and persistence.

Meds are a tool, not a solution.

You have to be dedicated to working with yourself not against yourself. Honestly, you’ll find it gives you the motivation to do what you need to do, but you have to do the work. ADHD is still a frustrating thing to deal with. But at the same time it’s a part of who we are.

Let me know if you have any questions! Welcome to the ND community!❤️

#actuallyadhd #mental health #living with adhd

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queengeekrose · 5 years

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Setbacks and Mental Health

As some of you know, I started streaming on Twitch last summer, in July, as a way to help me manage my mental health and deal with some of my issues that I have because I'm almost completely housebound. Being housebound like I am means I have very little interaction with other people, except online, and what I do have tends to be limited to doctors and other people who are also ill, or to people who are seeing me in a very limited set of circumstances, most of which are not positive, and people tend to judge me rather harshly for, for a variety of reasons. It makes my introverted nature and extreme shyness and social anxiety a lot harder to deal with, especially since I hear a lot of very rude comments whenever I go out, because I have very good hearing, and sadly, I am far too used to hearing this type of thing. I've been hearing abusive comments thrown at me since I was old enough to understand words, from one person or another. Most of them I can just let roll off my back, but some bother me, a lot. I get triggered, in the true meaning of the word, by some of the comments and I start to backslide into mental health issues that are scary and it can take days, week, or even longer to pull myself back out of those pits. I haven't really talked about it with anyone online, honestly, but maybe I should. Maybe I should bare my soul and be honest about what happened to me over time, instead of just hinting at things and letting people draw their own conclusions. It might help me deal with things too. I'm not really sure.

Some of the things I've taked about in my writing, extensively, happened to me. Others I drew from experiences I helped others get through. All of them however do have more than a large helping of truth to them, when I was describing the hardships of abuse, mental torture, rape, violence, kidnapping (someone I knew in college was grabbed by an ex and held against her will for about six days, she was extremely traumatized and had to leave school because of it by the end of the semester and ended up moving in with me for a few weeks before that, because she felt safer around me than anyone else), eating disorders, anxiety and panic attacks, and painful shyness. I have even talked a bit about PTSD in my stories, and ADHD. All of these things I'm pulling from my own experience, to make my writing as real and human as possible, even though I'm trying to write a character other people can relate to as well. What I'm trying to do is flesh out enough realism to give 'you' a backstory without taking over whatever headcannon you are creating for yourself in the story, when I do that, so I borrow very heavily from my own experiences to keep the experience geniune and grounded. I want thing to be so real you can picture them vividly in your head and immerse yourself, not get lost because something seems inauthentic or wrong, so I tend to pour myself into the writing, more and more, as time goes on. And it's somewhat cathartic too, to a degree, to write about some of the issues I've been through. Don't misunderstand me in anyway please. It's still extremely hard to think about to talk about with anyone and still feels like an open and bleeding stab wound most days, but maybe now it feels like the knife has been removed and the bleeding has slowed a bit, to the point it's not so dangerous anymore. I can cope with things a lot better, most of the time. My writing gave me a lot of my mental piece of mind back.

And then I found streaming and the online communities on Discord and Twitch. This really turned around a lot more then. I had suffered a major mental setback when my father died, even though we were estranged, for a variety of reasons, and mental health had reached an all time low. I went to a doctor and started some new medicines, which helped, slowly, and after about four months on them, I was able to function somewhat normally again a bit. That's when I found Twitch and really threw myself into streaming, modding, and Discord, communicating with people that way. It helped me pull myself back out a lot faster and basically reset my mental health meter to normal much more quickly and stay balanced, with fewer slips. I still had a few day to day struggles with things, like remembering to eat, something I had gotten out of the habit of doing much of, or really at all, when my mood swung started to slip. It had been nearly a year, really, since I had eaten normally, if I'm being honest. That means, as of writing this, in February of 2019, it's been over two years of me having little to no appetite, often skipping meals or forcing myself to eat just one meal a day. I had a lot of medical treatments in there too that made me nauseated and I threw up anything I did eat. Sadly, I never lost a large amount of weight and I am still rather overweight. I did lose some, not that I was really trying to at any point, I just haven't had the appetite or desire to eat anything and facing for often seems like too much for me.

Twitch helped me find people with similar interests and helped me find new areas I was able to absolutely shine in. It didn't matter that my legs didn't work normally, I had a natural talent for keeping communities in line as a moderator on streams for other people. So what if I was a bit overweight? I could make badges and emotes that people liked. Who cared if I struggled with shyness in person? The internet was a great buffer and it meant I never actually saw who I was talking to directly in my streams. I was just talking to names. And yes, sadly I did get trolls. But not that many really, compared to a lot of women I've talked to. I figured it was just soemthing I'd have to live with. Mostly I got them early in my streaming career and they came in and heckled me about my weight, I kicked them out and it was over, I moved on, no harm no foul. I mostly even forgot about them pretty immediately. They didn't leave any lasting impact on me because as I said, I've been hearing that kind of comment, or ones like it all my life.

The trolling I got last week on Wednesday night was different though. For the first time ever it was very sexual in nature. It made me extremely uncomfortable. There were three trolls involved as well. The first was fairly harmless, just egging the second on, who I warned several times, then timed out and eventually banned. The third crossed several lines and has caused me so much emotional and mental distress I have been struggling with severe relapses of my major depressive disorder, PTSD, and even dissociating, which my family doesn't know about. I don't know how to tell them about it. They think it's just me spacing out or my mind wandering, not that I'm literally unable to answer and I lose chunks of time, even if I've answered. I didn't even realize I had been dissociating again until a friend told me he had said things to me and I couldn't recall any of those conversations, nor most of the evening really. I realized I had large gaps in my memory of what had been going on with small breaks in the fog that were clear, what usually happend when I'm having my episodes, and I knew I had to do something. I had to take a step back. I don't dissociate unless something is seriously wrong, obviously.

Now, I'm sure all of you are wondering just what happpened that triggered me so badly that night. I'll explain. First, those two trolls shook me up pretty badly. Like I said, I'm extremely introverted and streaming is already a struggle for me a lot of the time, even if I put on a good front and can act like it's no big deal. Inside, I'm terrified. It wears be down and wears me out. Dealing with trolls in my own stream is hard on me. (On other people's channels, I have no problems, when I'm the mod. I know it's my job and they trust me to handle things.) Secondly, there was a later troll who came into the stream who sent me a direct message, without ever addressing the stream, asking me personal questions like what I was wearing, then trying to buy my panties for insanely large amounts of money. That triggered my PTSD very badly. In college, I had had a guy attempt to sexually assulat me and call me a whore, offering me increasing large amounts of money, much the same way. I only got away because I kicked him off me and screamed for campus security, who heard me and hauled him off. I never told my family about it, mainy because I hate talking about it and don't want to bring it up. I will say though, I don't think he was getting up quickly from my kick at the time. It was before I was in a wheelchair and I had a very powerful set of legs and actively practiced kickboxing. But regardless of that, it triggered me very, very badly the other night, and I'm still suffering occassion episodes. I have a doctor's appointment scheduled very soon, and I intend on talking to her about what to do then, if things haven't gotten back to normal by then, but in the mean time, I'm immersing myself in my usually stress relieving activities and taking a short break from Twitch and twitter to get my mental health back in order.

Sadly one of the side effects of all the mental health issues I struggle with is terrible insomnia. It means many nights I'm unable to sleep, or sleep only a few hours. I know it makes my friends and family worry, but I can't help it. It's all my brain is letting me get. I nap when I can. If I try to sleep more, I have horrible, terrifying nightmares and sleep paralysis. I also just can't sleep. I'm really trying to do my best here everyone. Please know that. I appreciate the worry. Just know I'm still here, struggling on, one day at a time. That's the real meaning behind #PMA (Positive Mental Attitude) after all. Just doing my best, moving forward a day at time and not giving up. It's also why I try to pay it forward as much as I can and make sure everyone else is happy and taken care of too. Stay safe and happy everyone. I love you all!

QueenGeekRose

#pma #real life struggles #dissociation #ptsd #mental health #major depressive disorder #coping #handling setbacks

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metronomeihear · 7 years

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Please Listen

I’m not sure how many of you know this, and I’m not sure how many of you care, but I’m sick.

I have a genetic disorder called CIRS that makes me sensitive to things in my environment, things like mold. A few years ago, I was exposed to black mold growing in my bedroom, mold that got there as a result of the bathroom above my room having a leak. My illness causes all sorts of havoc on my body, including swelling in my brain, inflammation in my joints and ribs, and imbalances in my hormones. As a result, I have days where I’m in so much pain where I can’t breathe (though those are thankfully far and few between), issues with long term and short term memory, and what has been dubbed “brain fog.” (Essentially it’s making really stupid and strange decisions that seem logical at the time, but in reality aren’t. Things like putting your cell phone in the fridge instead of the milk. You know you’re supposed to put something in the fridge, it just doesn’t quite click that it’s supposed to be the milk and not your phone).

My entire family has this illness. It’s a strange twist of fate that both my parents have the genes, and thus all my siblings and I have it too. Of the five of us, my mother easily has it the worst. She got ill before I was born, and got worse when I was very young, and I can remember a period of my life where I was lucky if I saw her outside of her room more than once every few weeks. She is better now that she’s getting proper treatment, but she’s still the most ill.

After her, I am probably the most sick person in my family. I have issues with my hands when I try to type for long periods of time, or if I try to do things like hold a game controller for more than a few hours. My ribs have flare ups, usually minor flare ups that aren’t much more than an annoyance (though they have gotten bad enough that I couldn’t do much more than lay there and hope the pain meds would kick in soon). I get headaches often and I’m prone to migraines. I am physically incapable of standing for more than 10 minutes at a time without having to sit down. I have issues with remembering names, places, things that have been asked of me, and things that I have done before. I can’t remember what I had for dinner yesterday, and I once couldn’t remembering the name of my first boyfriend, not even three months after we broke up. I am incapable of telling how much time has passed since an incident occurred, prone to dizzy spells, and often make poor decisions due to brain fog. Despite all of this, I have been told that I do not look sick.

I am not asking for pity. I am not asking you do donate to a fund, or to message a politician, or start a war.

I have a story to tell and I am asking for you to listen.

My mother once told me a story about the time she had gall stones. I don’t remember the specifics of the story, and the specifics don’t truly matter in this case, but the story went something like this:

My mother woke one night from a bout of really intense pain. This was before I was born, back when it was just my mother and my father living just across the street from my grandparents. She woke up next to my father, who was still sleeping, and she just breathed. She breathed through the pain until it went away, and then went back to sleep. That was the end of it. Only the pain kept coming back. It would always fade after a short while, so whenever it happened, by mother would just breathe through it until it did. My father was worried, however, and insisted my mother go to a doctor. They described the incidents to the doctor, and the doctor prescribed some pain meds and sent my mother home. “It’s just gas,” he said, “It will pass.” Only it didn’t. Eventually, my mother was hit by a bout of pain so intense my father drove her to the emergency room, where they found out that the pain was a result of my mother passing gall stones.

Gall stones have been described as one of the most painful things a person can ever experience. There have been people who, when they pass them, cannot do much more than scream. My mother, on the other hand, simply got up and continued with her day. This was because she was already used to pain.

It’s not because my father is abusive or anything like that--that couldn’t be farther from the truth. It’s that genetic illness I mentioned earlier. That was the cause of her pain, though at the time everyone thought it was the result of Arthritis, rather than CIRS. She was used enough to pain that passing gall stones simply didn’t bother her until she tried to pass one that was too large for her to do so.

It’s truly ridiculous what a person can get used to. I saw a study once that tested how long it would take for a person to get used to seeing the entire world upside down. It took them only three days before they were functioning normally. It was the same after the glasses they were wearing to flip their view was taken off. Only three days to get used to your vision being flipped.

Because my mother was as used to pain as she was, the doctor she visited misdiagnosed her. Because I am as used to pain as I am, and because my illness does not affect my appearance, people do not believe I am sick. Not unless I’m having a really bad day, where everything hurts, and even then I might not be believed.

I'm in college. At the college I attend, there is an office for the disabled and I went there to get forms to fill out to help me make it through the semester. I was feeling fairly good that day, so I left my cane at home, and as a result the people working in that office did not believe I was sick. They didn’t say anything, but I could see the disbelief in their faces, and when I looked back after leaving, I saw them shooting glances at me and whispering. Other than that, I have been told, to my face, that I do not look sick.

And why would I? I have good days and bad days. I rarely leave my home anymore, mostly because I can’t walk very far and there isn’t much for me to do that doesn't involve a lot of walking or being in a building that potentially has mold in it. When I’m out and about and I don’t have my cane with me, there’s no sign that I’m ill. No sign. But I am. And if you looked at my home, you’d see that.

We have a counter in the kitchen that’s dedicated solely to supplements and medicine. We have boxes upon boxes of syringes and saline and needles and medicine. We have an oxygen machine because sometimes our brains don’t get enough so we need the extra help. We take pills at every meal, pills after we wake up, and pills to go to sleep. We eat special diets because our stomachs can’t handle regular, commercial food. We attend online schools because the last time that I attended a normal school, there was an issue with the air vents in my math classroom that triggered my illness so bad that I was down for two days after entering that room. I was pulled from school after that incident.

I compare it to mental illnesses in my head sometimes. To things like depression. I know a lot about mental illnesses, too, because that’s something my family suffers from as well. My brother is autistic. My sister has ADHD. Both my mother and I suffer from chronic depression. We look perfectly fine, and so often people just don’t believe us when we say that we feel these things, when in reality it’s all very real.

I live in fear that one day our insurance won’t be enough to cover the medicine we need. Already it’s approaching that point. We have to focus on what we can treat and what we can’t for no other reason than the insurance can’t cover everything and we can’t afford to pay out of pocket. I live in America, and I really hate the American medical pricing, because everything is ridiculously over priced and it’s literately something that’s killing my family slowly. I live in fear that one day one of my siblings will be exposed to something really bad and get just as sick as I am, or worse, just as sick as my mother is. I live in fear that my father will go to work in a building that’s mold infested, and come home every day sicker than the last because he doesn’t have a choice. He’s been out of the job for months now, and tonight we celebrated because he finally found one again, just as we were starting to wonder if we were going to lose our house. It doesn’t matter if the building he’s going to work in now might be mold infested, because we don’t have a choice. This is the only job he can have. The only job in months of searching that would accept him. And if he raises a fuss, they can drop him just like that. That’s what the last place he worked at did, after all.

(Fuck you, Intel. Seriously, fuck you.)

I’m not sure why I’m writing this out. Maybe it’s because that’s how I deal with things. I write. I write poetry dedicated to sunsets that sound like suicide notes. I write stories were the main character burned to death in her last life, and suffers from PTSD as a result. I write stories were boys walk to their deaths and nothing can stop them. I write stories were people suffer and hurt and struggle and fail. I write long rants that I never post anywhere because I’m afraid of what people would say if they read them. I write and I write and I write until it doesn’t hurt anymore.

I write stories were those people pick themselves back up. I write stories were the outcasts find family and friends. I write stories where the nightmares that haunt them become easier to bare because a friend is there when they wake up. I write stories where the suicidal boy finds someone to catch them. I write stories were people, normal people just like me, find home and happiness and safety. I write long rants to give to my parents to say the things I can’t bring myself to physically open my moth and say out loud. Things like how sometimes I feel like I’m falling apart trying to keep everything together when it seems like everything is crashing down around me. Things like how frustrating it is to not know how to help my brother with his homework because he thinks differently than I do. Things like how much it hurts to hear that my sister can’t force herself to say “I love you,” and “Good night,” when I go to greet her before bed.

I love my life. I love my family more than I can say and I have never been more grateful for anything than how loving and supportive they are of me and my interests. I love the friends I have made on this website, as few and far between as they are, and I love that I’m finding people to talk to on Discord who share my interests. I love that the people I meet are so supportive of me, who call me strong for being able to talk and write about when I was suicidal when there are days when I feel like the weakest person on the planet. I have been to Yosemite and seen a deer walk right up to my table, so close I could almost touch it. I have seen water falls and sunrises on mountains and the ocean from high up in a plane. I have visited my grandparents in another country half way across the world to celebrate their 80th birthday, and walked a beach in Hawaii at night, my feet in water that felt so warm. I never get hateful reviews on my stories, the worst review I’ve ever gotten on a story I’ve written being a short comment about hating yaoi. I’ve been thanked for the things I’ve written, been told I brought them hope with what I’ve written. “Writing this chapter was an act of bravery I’ll never forget.” A reviewer once wrote that in a chapter I wrote about a suicidal character, and I remember just staring at that review and smiling so hard my cheeks hurt. I remember getting a review once, only two words long, that read “Thank you,” and bursting out crying because I’d had a really shitty day up to that point and that review--I’m not sure how to describe it. It made my day, made me think that everything I am doing, all the things I am struggling with, are worth it, and that feeling is something priceless, something precious.

And then there’s today. Today has not been one of my good days. I woke up with minor aches and pains, pain that was worse than what I usually feel on a day to day basis, but nothing too bad. I posted another chapter of a drabble series I’m working on, a funny series that’s something like 90% crack with how ridiculous it is. I went on with my day, browsed through tumblr and rebloged everything that caught my eye. I worked on school work, got distracted, and worked on it some more. My pain got worse however, and it hurts to type right now. I’ve taken my pain meds, and they’ve taken the edge off of things, but it still hurts. My family noticed this.

Today we were celebrating. My dad finally got a job, so we were having ribs and freshly dug up sweet potato and red wine. It was delicious, but it hurt for me to get up and out of the chair, and I couldn’t cut the meat properly without a steak knife because my hands hurt too much. After we were finished eating, and I put my plate on the counter to be washed, my father opened his arms for a hug, and he told me he was sorry.

He said to me, “I’m sorry you’re in so much pain.” I told him it wasn’t his fault. And he said to me, “Yes it is. And I’m sorry.”

And I wanted to take him by the shoulders and shake him until he understood that it wasn’t his fault, that it wasn’t anyone's fault, and that the only reason this family was still going was because he has been working so hard for all of us, when anyone else would have left a long, long time ago.

I am frustrated. I am so, so frustrated.

I don’t know why I’m writing this. I don’t know why I’m posting this. It’s not going to change the fact that I’m sick. It’s not going to change the fact that our insurance sucks and the leader of the country I live in wants to take away even that. It’s not going to change the fact that my father feels guilty for something that’s not his fault, and it’s not going to change any of the problems my family faces.

But I want to. I want people to know that there are people like me out there, who suffer for reasons beyond their control. I want people to know that not every person you speak to has a perfect life, and someone who looks healthy could be dying right in front of you. I want people to consider people like me when they vote, to not throw us under the bus just because we’re a minority, or because our voices aren’t loud enough, or because our issues aren’t as public and well known as other issues are.

I want people to listen to me when I say I’m sick.

#depression #illness #Healthcare #CIRS #Mold #Personal #Metronome speaks

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easyweight101 · 7 years

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The Price and Quality of BrainQuicken

BrainQuicken is available on the official website for $49.95 for a bottle containing 60 capsules, or $39.95 is you opt to subscribe and save. A larger container of 120 capsules is also available with a subscription, for $69.95.

BrainQuicken was also available through Amazon at one point, but is currently out of stock of this product. The listing and reviews are still in place, but its unclear if it will return to the major e-commerce platform.

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Business of BrainQuicken

BrainQuicken is made and sold by a company known as Spring of Life, a company that specializes in selling supplements. Their contact information is listed below:

Phone: 888-659-4228

Email: [email protected]

Address: PO Box 29502 #94699 Las Vegas NV 89126

The Spring of Life webpage is clean, and easy to navigate. They’ve set up a traditional e-commerce buying structure, making it easy for people to read BrainQuicken, and their other products, and make a purchase from there.

While there are a few spelling errors here and there, there aren’t any major red flags. The company has made it easy to get into contact with customer service, and offers a 60-day money-back guarantee to users, no questions asked.

The website is, however, somewhat difficult to use. The home page doesn’t make clear what ingredients are used to deliver the results promised. It’s also potentially hard for consumers to figure out how to purchase this product.

We were unable to find any accounts of people who have had a bad experience in dealing with this company, or the product itself, so users can at least expect a smooth customer service experience.

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Customer Opinions of BrainQuicken

Reviews we found for BrainQuicken were mixed, though most reviews for this product leaned toward the positive end of the spectrum. Here’s a look at what some previous users had to say:

“This is the rare product that actually delivers meaningful results. I bought this to improve my athletic performance, but the benefits have carried over through other aspects of my life.”

“I found out about this product through The Four Hour Body, and have been able to stop taking my ADHD meds since I started taking this. I’m not getting the side effects or dependency you’ll get ADHD meds.”

“I loved these at first, but after a few days, I started to feel lethargic, like my thinking actually slowed while I was on them. May give this another try, but I’m not sure I want to feel these effects again.”

“Have yet to experience any noticeable change in mental or physical ability. The two tablet dose did nothing, I tried 4, and only felt dizzy and lightheaded. Tested for about a week before calling it quits.”

Clearly a number of people were pleased with the results they got while taking BrainQuicken, but a lot of people mentioned the physical effects over the mental, and many of the complaints we came across mentioned that this product didn’t quite deliver on the promised advertised in the marketing language.

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Conclusion – Does BrainQuicken Work?

Overall, it’s hard to say whether or not we’d recommend BrainQuicken to others looking for a way to beat brain fog or any other issue associated with the brain’s function. Based on the reviews, it seems users can expect mixed results, from no changes at all, to a really improved mental state.

The blend of ingredients looks pretty good, featuring a strong lineup of nootropics that provide protection and energy to the brain, as well as a number of herbs and vitamins that support its overall health and wellbeing.

Our concern with this extensive list of ingredients isn’t so much that there’s a risk to users trying this product, but that BrainQuicken could be trying to do too much at once. Since we don’t know how much of each ingredient is included in the proprietary blend, it’s hard to know if there’s a high enough dose of say, vinpocetine, or bacopa monnieri, to make good on the benefits those ingredients are known to provide.

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TruCDP Review: Don’t Buy Before You Read This!

What is it?

TruCDP is a cognitive enhancement supplement that helps improve attention, memory and focus. TruCDP is also used to help increase learning potential and protect against damage caused by aging or exposure to environmental stressors.

TruCDP works by increasing choline levels in the brain, which helps minimize the effects of aging on memory and cognitive function. TruCDP the choline increase also helps prevent other health concerns like heart disease and high cholesterol.

In looking at countless cognitive supplements, we’ve found Memotenz most effectively improves users’ capacity to learn an retain information, as well as provides a boost in mental energy to help you get through the day without feeling fatigued. Learn more about how Memotenz can improve your work performance and memory.

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TruCDP Ingredients and Side Effects

TruCDP label is easily found online, and comes along with a warning label for potential consumers. This product only contains one active ingredient, CDP-Choline. Below we’ll take a look at what users can expect with use:

CDP-Choline

CDP-Choline: A nootropic compound that also goes by the name, citicholine, this ingredient is used to increase levels of choline in the body, which promotes improved cognitive function in the brain. CDP-Choline is thought to improve focus and is generally taken by users looking for improved productivity, as well as a more dependable memory. This ingredient may also help repair damaged brain cells, treat ADHD, and symptoms of progressive diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

While CDP-Choline is thought to be safe for most people, its long term effects remain to be seen. Side effects may include high blood pressure, diarrhea, nausea, headaches and trouble sleeping.

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TruCDP Quality of Ingredients

While reviewing the formula of TruCDP, it seems this product could potentially be a good solution for people looking to enhance their thinking, learning and memory, as well as feel more energized and productive throughout the day.

Additionally, this product comes along with a hefty warning label, advising those under 18 to avoid this supplement, as well as people with diabetes, heart conditions or those who have suffered a stroke in the recent past. We appreciate the responsibility taken here, but it does raise some concerns that there may be some significant risks in taking this supplement.

Because there may be some risks involved, it’s a good idea to check with your doctor before trying TruCDP or something similar.

Unfortunately, this product is currently out of stock, and it’s unclear if the company that makes TruCDP is waiting on a supplier, reworking the formula or if its been discontinued altogether.

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The Price and Quality of TruCDP

TruCDP is not for sale on the manufacturer’s website (it appears to have been removed), but this product can be found through other e-commerce platforms like Amazon and Walmart, as well as a handful of stores that specialize in supplements.

TruCDP is currently available on Amazon for $22.23 per each bottle containing 30 capsules, which should last most people 30 days.

It’s not clear whether the company that makes this product, PEScience, is phasing this product out, or if it will come back in stock shortly.

In comparing the cost of this product to the benefits it provides, it seems that there may be some potential for improved brain capacity with use, but users may be more successful using something with more key ingredients than TruCDP has in its formula.

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Business of TruCDP

TruCDP is made by a supplement company known as PEScience. Their information is listed below:

Phone: 888-885-0195

Address: 3665 East Bay Drive

Suite 155

Largo, FL 33771

The PEScience website looks fairly clean and provides straightforward information about their various products, as well as contact information for consumers who wish to get in touch with someone.

The company doesn’t show up on the Better Business Bureau website, nor are there any complaints easily accessed through a quick Google search, suggesting there are no major red flags associated with billing or general customer service issues.

Overall, the website contains a lot of engaging content related to their products like whey protein and supplements, such as recipes and best practices, as well as videos and more.

While we didn’t see any issues with the website, it’s hard to know whether or not TruCDP is a good product based on the fact that it has been removed from the website, and as a result, we don’t know if there were case studies, clinical trials or anything else suggesting this product went through the proper channels of proving safety and efficacy.

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Customer Opinions of TruCDP

Despite being included on a number of e-commerce platforms, there are virtually no consumer reviews for this product available online. It’s not clear why people were not compelled to share their experience with this product, but it was removed from the official PEScience website, so there is the chance it just never got the consumer uptake needed to continue production.

Luckily we were able to find a few reviews of people documenting their experience with the supplement. Here’s a look at what users found when they tried TruCDP:

“My friend told me this product would help me feel more alert and focused, but I only felt minimal effects, to the point where I’m not sure this was a placebo or if it was working, but I’ll keep using this a bit longer.”

“I’ve been taking some form of choline for years now, as I have ADHD. I think TruCDP was pretty good. I didn’t experience any side effects and it’s better than becoming dependent on prescription drugs.”

“This product does work for me, but I’ve also noticed that it sometimes gives me a slight brain fog if I take too much, so clearly, getting the dosage right is important.”

“I take this with piracetam and have seen some major gains in cognitive function. Not sure how good it is on its own, but this combo has been working pretty well.”

Unfortunately, because there aren’t many reviews out there, we were left with some rather vague accounts of peoples’ experiences with TruCDP. It does seem like it has a small following of people pleased with the results, citing improved brain function and clarity with use.

But, because we’re working with a very small sample size, it’s hard to gauge what the actual risk for side effects are. One person mentioned feeling the opposite effects when taking this in higher dosages, but we’re not sure how often that happens.

It does seem like this product carries some serious potential, so we’re not sure what happened with the marketing, or if there was some other factor preventing people from using this product. Aside from TruCDP, there are other products made purely from this single key ingredient, CDP-choline.

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Conclusion – Does TruCDP Work?

After evaluating TruCDP we simply don’t have enough information at our disposal to know if this product is effective or if there are simply better options out there.

While the cost of this product is relatively low, it also is kind of a one-note product, only featuring the ingredient CDP-Choline, which could very well be useful in improving brain function. It seems users may be looking for something with a broader range of benefits, taking on cognition from a number of different angles.

But, CDP-Choline does have a solid history in helping people with brain injuries and progressive diseases, as well as lack of focus or ADHD.

Another issue is, it seems that TruCDP is no longer widely available. The manufacturer’s website has taken the product down, but it is still available for sale through a number of e-commerce stores. We’re not sure if PEScience is still distributing this product, or if Amazon and others are selling this until stock runs out.

Overall, it seems that TruCDP may not be available for much longer, and based on the lack of feedback surrounding the product, there’s likely better solutions out there. In general, it seems that users are better off looking for a supplement with documented success stories and a more comprehensive formula.

We’ve reviewed a wide range of supplements before discovering Memotenz is the best solution for helping users increase their focus, memory and overall cognition. Herbs like St. John’s Wort and bacopa, along with others, work together to bring users a range of benefits that can help them succeed in their daily lives.

The makers of Memotenz manfufacture this product under strict FDA guidelines, and have tested this product time and time again to ensure a high level of consumer confidence in every bottle. Click here to learn more about how Memotenz can help improve your memory and capacity for learning.

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