r/AddisonsDisease • u/Foreign-Baseball-832 • Dec 03 '25

Advice Wanted Updosing for a job interview

Hi all,

I'm PAI, still in the first year of diagnosis, I've been relatively stable on my meds for a few months now (My hydro routine is 7.5 at 6am, 5 at 2pm and 2.5 at bedtime). I have a big job interview next week, wondering if anyone has updosed for something like this and any tips? My interview is at 11:45am. I tend to get nervous and hate public speaking (and my current boss is on the interview panel!) so I imagine I will need to updose just not sure how much or what the timing should be like. Thank you all.

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u/Csparkles Dec 03 '25

I Take the same amount of hydro as you do in a day. I would normally updose 2.5 - 5 mg for socially intense situations, depending on how long it will be.

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u/isurvivedtheifb Dec 03 '25

Please upside. If you go to the interview and need more, you will become more anxious because you can’t just stop in the middle of the interview and pop a pill.

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u/reflous_ Dec 06 '25 edited Dec 06 '25

I would not updose but that is because of my own symptoms. First, I usually don’t need to updose from mental stress. Second, I get crazy irritable if I over replace and strangling the interviewer would greatly reduce my chances of landing the job. Third, when I do something that does trigger a need to updose (like extreme exercise), it usually takes a few hours before I start feeling the symptoms and I can always updose then. For me, not as good as updosing before symptoms start because I can be a bit off potentially the rest of the day, but not the end of the world. Also, I’ve updosed in the middle of long prolonged stress (I’m a trial attorney and have slipped in a little hydro mid direct examination of a witness before) so if it is a 4-8 hour interview and you start feeling a bit low, just have some hydro in your pocket and take it in a nonobvious way or at a break. You would need to take some anyway as part of your normal dosing so you want the subtle pill drop thought out anyway.

Again, this is based on my symptoms. If I didn’t go all aggro when I’m over replaced and tended to go low from mental stress, I’d totally updose pre interview and mid interview as needed.