Usual Suspect
Greenlighter
- Joined
- Aug 20, 2019
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Hi,
I understand you are looking for an easy and direct answer to your question and have no time or patience for parental advice. However I think I have enough direct experience with stimulants to tell you what you are trying to do is at best not a very good idea and at worst unsustainable / impossible.
First of all, your body and brain develop tolerance for ANY stimulant quickly enough to partially cancel its effects within the first few hours. This means you will always need to redose several times and use larger amounts every time if you want to make it to 3 days, much less 5 days. During this time your mental performance will keep deteriorating no matter what you do because of the lack of sleep. Skipping ONE night of sleep is already more than enough to cancel any benefits you may THINK you are getting from the stimulant use. TWO nights without sleep is usually enough to induce paranoia and minor hallucinations on top of any drug effects.
Once you finally crash, you will need to repay your "sleep debt" one way or the other, usually by sleeping up to 24 hours in a row or splitting it across a couple days. Also, by this point, your tolerance to the stimulant will be so high you will get very little, if any, effects from it unless you take massive doses, which usually increase the side effects in proportion. It is not unusual for amphetamine heavy users to take up to 1 gram to get any effects, which is anywhere between 25x to 100x the recommended dose, and enough to kill a first time user.
What I am trying to say is not that it can't be done once in a while, but that it's definitely not great for your body or your brain and you need extensive physical recovery and some time off stimulants (>1/2 week) for the tolerance to wear off. Definitely not something you can do every week, and absolutely off the menu if you are expecting to LEARN anything from your classes. Sleeping is not just necessary to repair your body & brain, but absolutely ESSENTIAL for memory consolidation.
You will be MUCH better off if you find time to sleep every now and then, even if it's only 4 hours a night or a full sleep every other night.
That being said, and since I am not your mother, the single best available options are either a pure stimulant like ephedrine / pseudoephedrine or amphetamine (ritalin, adderall) because of the long duration and smaller addiction and toxicity potential than meth. Cocaine is far too expensive most of the time (perhaps not in your country) but in any case cardiotoxic and too short-acting to be of any use. Methylphenidate is also too short acting to be useful in your case. If modafinil doesn't work for you at normal doses, it won't work no matter how much you take.
Also, as a final word of advice, don't mix caffeine with other stimulants. It only amps up the nervousness and jiterness as well as dehydrating you, which is probably THE main concern when using heavier stimulants. A multivitamin and a magnesium supplement can do wonders counteracting some of the worst physical effects, too.
Good luck with your work and studies and I hope you learn something from this post and other users. My final thought is, don't destroy your mind & body over a f*ckin' job.
I understand you are looking for an easy and direct answer to your question and have no time or patience for parental advice. However I think I have enough direct experience with stimulants to tell you what you are trying to do is at best not a very good idea and at worst unsustainable / impossible.
First of all, your body and brain develop tolerance for ANY stimulant quickly enough to partially cancel its effects within the first few hours. This means you will always need to redose several times and use larger amounts every time if you want to make it to 3 days, much less 5 days. During this time your mental performance will keep deteriorating no matter what you do because of the lack of sleep. Skipping ONE night of sleep is already more than enough to cancel any benefits you may THINK you are getting from the stimulant use. TWO nights without sleep is usually enough to induce paranoia and minor hallucinations on top of any drug effects.
Once you finally crash, you will need to repay your "sleep debt" one way or the other, usually by sleeping up to 24 hours in a row or splitting it across a couple days. Also, by this point, your tolerance to the stimulant will be so high you will get very little, if any, effects from it unless you take massive doses, which usually increase the side effects in proportion. It is not unusual for amphetamine heavy users to take up to 1 gram to get any effects, which is anywhere between 25x to 100x the recommended dose, and enough to kill a first time user.
What I am trying to say is not that it can't be done once in a while, but that it's definitely not great for your body or your brain and you need extensive physical recovery and some time off stimulants (>1/2 week) for the tolerance to wear off. Definitely not something you can do every week, and absolutely off the menu if you are expecting to LEARN anything from your classes. Sleeping is not just necessary to repair your body & brain, but absolutely ESSENTIAL for memory consolidation.
You will be MUCH better off if you find time to sleep every now and then, even if it's only 4 hours a night or a full sleep every other night.
That being said, and since I am not your mother, the single best available options are either a pure stimulant like ephedrine / pseudoephedrine or amphetamine (ritalin, adderall) because of the long duration and smaller addiction and toxicity potential than meth. Cocaine is far too expensive most of the time (perhaps not in your country) but in any case cardiotoxic and too short-acting to be of any use. Methylphenidate is also too short acting to be useful in your case. If modafinil doesn't work for you at normal doses, it won't work no matter how much you take.
Also, as a final word of advice, don't mix caffeine with other stimulants. It only amps up the nervousness and jiterness as well as dehydrating you, which is probably THE main concern when using heavier stimulants. A multivitamin and a magnesium supplement can do wonders counteracting some of the worst physical effects, too.
Good luck with your work and studies and I hope you learn something from this post and other users. My final thought is, don't destroy your mind & body over a f*ckin' job.
