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Re: Does anyone here actually take their Adderall like prescribed? [Re: stimpson]
#19313066 - 12/22/13 06:33 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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stimpson said: jesus fucking christ, adderall knocks me on my ass. i could just be a baby, but damn...
my friend in college would sell us his pills sometimes. i tried to take it to bang out research papers in a single night and, the stuff basically made me want to sit still on the floor and just zone out. i couldn't concentrate enough to read articles, take notes, organize them, and then write. no way... i couldn't do anything but just sit there.
it WAS good for playing halo though. if a bunch of us would all take adderall and then fire up halo... whooooooooooooooooooooo
but it didn't help me with coursework.
I have a former friend like this. He has been prescribed ADD meds for since he was six (he is now 23), but the only thing it makes him focus on is video games. He is really good at video games. You'd think his parents would've caught on after a while but nope. He finally graduated from college but hasn't gotten a job since, all he does is play video games living on his parents' dime. He still takes the damn medications, I wonder what the hell they think he needs them for. He is also obese from having fucked up his natural metabolic rhythms, and has scars all over his skin from where he has been picking at his skin for years just like tweakers do. Part of that is all the diet soda he drinks and processed sugar he eats, though.
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Re: Does anyone here actually take their Adderall like prescribed? [Re: morrowasted]
#19313204 - 12/22/13 07:00 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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morrowasted said:
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stimpson said: jesus fucking christ, adderall knocks me on my ass. i could just be a baby, but damn...
my friend in college would sell us his pills sometimes. i tried to take it to bang out research papers in a single night and, the stuff basically made me want to sit still on the floor and just zone out. i couldn't concentrate enough to read articles, take notes, organize them, and then write. no way... i couldn't do anything but just sit there.
it WAS good for playing halo though. if a bunch of us would all take adderall and then fire up halo... whooooooooooooooooooooo
but it didn't help me with coursework.
I have a former friend like this. He has been prescribed ADD meds for since he was six (he is now 23), but the only thing it makes him focus on is video games. He is really good at video games. You'd think his parents would've caught on after a while but nope. He finally graduated from college but hasn't gotten a job since, all he does is play video games living on his parents' dime. He still takes the damn medications, I wonder what the hell they think he needs them for. He is also obese from having fucked up his natural metabolic rhythms, and has scars all over his skin from where he has been picking at his skin for years just like tweakers do. Part of that is all the diet soda he drinks and processed sugar he eats, though.
sounds like an unhealthy guy.
why diet soda? diet soda should not even exist. just drink fucking water
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Re: Does anyone here actually take their Adderall like prescribed? [Re: Psilosopherr]
#19313215 - 12/22/13 07:02 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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dude is honestly probably going to die by the time he is 40 if he doesnt make some serious changes to his lifestyle. at least he quit smoking cigarettes and spice and drinking alcohol, all of which he used to do daily in large quantities
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Re: Does anyone here actually take their Adderall like prescribed? [Re: morrowasted]
#19313412 - 12/22/13 07:38 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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maybe he is just a low form of life?
no but seriously, the guy has tweaker pockmarks from regular doses of amphetamine
How does he not go get a job? Is he really that much obsessed with video games?
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Re: Does anyone here actually take their Adderall like prescribed? [Re: morrowasted]
#19313428 - 12/22/13 07:44 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yes. But only recently. I've binged on it to the point of psychosis in the past.
Now I'm getting to the point where I really am not sure I even like the way stimulants make me feel. It's just very exhausting. Adderall helped me a ton..with both "ADD" and depression, and I am able to keep up with my thoughts on it and sort them out in a more organized manner. Before that I was literally ending up in the opposite lane, crashing into medians, parked cars, pretty much a whole shitload of inanimate objects because it was so hard for me to just look straight ahead and drive in a straight line. Obviously that has improved with time and age, I think adderall helped but I do think that I grew out of the more severe symptons.
I'm done abusing it. It exhausts me and makes me feel sick. I've also asked my doctor for an rx for wellbutrin(which is used off label to help with cocaine addiction, you may or may not know). I am still prescribed 20mg adderall a day, but the wellbutrin is the first drug that has been able to make me feel..normal..I guess, and happy(because it does stimulate dopamine) or at least happy enough to get out and do things that make me happy. Now I take 20mg of adderall a day 5mg at a time, as I don't have the XR anymore. Occasionally I use it recreationally and usually end up around 50-60mg a day, but if I do that then I always skip the next 2-3 days to keep my tolerance in check. I'm not saying I don't slip up and re-dose and pull allnighters occasionally, but even though I'm only 21...my body seems to be very exhausted with the lack of sleep..even before the adderall. I used to spend 3 or 4 days strung out on multiple drugs...but my body just can't handle more than 24 hours without sleep anymore, and I'm not gonna try and fight that.
The only drawback to the wellbutrin is that I have to abstain from it(last time I tripped..which was early december, I abstained for a week) when I wanna trip. But I don't feel like I need to do that more than every few months, at most, right now. It also is technically a phenlythamine(i did not spell that right, I know) and has mildly stimulating effects..but it seems a lot more subtle and you don't feel like you're on something.
It seems like it's really helping moderate my impulsive behavior, and really makes me feel like I don't need the adderall, so maybe just consider talking to your doctor about it?
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Re: Does anyone here actually take their Adderall like prescribed? [Re: Cannabischarlie]
#19313429 - 12/22/13 07:44 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I get 90 15mg mixed amphetamine salts, and only use it prescribed for maybe a week. I ended up not refilling my script the past two months because I couldn't control my usage.
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Re: Does anyone here actually take their Adderall like prescribed? [Re: Legend]
#19313448 - 12/22/13 07:51 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Good on you for making that decision 
How have you been feeling since you've stopped taking it?
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Re: Does anyone here actually take their Adderall like prescribed? [Re: pirate-blues]
#19359841 - 01/02/14 05:37 PM (10 years, 28 days ago) |
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The only drawback to the wellbutrin is that I have to abstain from it(last time I tripped..which was early december, I abstained for a week) when I wanna trip. But I don't feel like I need to do that more than every few months, at most, right now. It also is technically a phenlythamine(i did not spell that right, I know) and has mildly stimulating effects..but it seems a lot more subtle and you don't feel like you're on something.
It seems like it's really helping moderate my impulsive behavior, and really makes me feel like I don't need the adderall, so maybe just consider talking to your doctor about it?
Is Wellbutrin's effect on tripping a known known? Or does this vary from person to person because the last two times I tripped (on 3.5 grams no less)I barely experienced anything while my husband was pretty much gone.
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Re: Does anyone here actually take their Adderall like prescribed? [Re: dionysiandame]
#19359931 - 01/02/14 05:54 PM (10 years, 28 days ago) |
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When I was precribed Adderall in high school I took it as prescribed (because my mom held it) and it gave me terrible anxiety, made me lose a ton of weight from not eating, made me a zombie, and on my final day of taking it I went to the doctors office for a checkup and had an INTENSE panic attack. Everything started getting really bright and my ears were ringing and all I saw was white and I puked and passed the out. After that I was like FUCK ADDERALL. Haven't taken Adderall or any amphetamines since. Not my cup of tea. That's why I became a dope head Now I'm clean.
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