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Greenlighter
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Is there a cross-tolerance, as they're both dopaminergic? See this study, it's got me worried: http://news.sciencemag.org/brain-be...t-smoking-could-damage-brains-pleasure-center
I'm on an emergency two week tolerance break and break from work, from long-term medical use of methylphenidate for ADHD. It just stopped working almost at all. I think my dose was higher than it really needed to be. However, I haven't had any withdrawal symptoms at all.
Because methylphenidate is also fantastic at treating my OCD, now the OCD is driving me crazier than before. On the sixth day with no medication, I used cannabis for the first time for relief for my OCD, which I'm hoping will become long-term relief due to its anti-inflammatory effects, as mental illnesses seem to be exacerbated by chronic inflammation.
The distress caused by the OCD is so bad I don't know if I can hold out another six days without using cannabis before the end of the break. Obviously this isn't an issue of dependence because I've just used cannabis once, but I'm desperate to do it again because often I'm feeling desperate for any kind of relief at all. If it's not cannabis it will be alcohol, which again I've never had a dependence on, it's just desperate grasping for anything. Alcohol is also dopaminergic so again, even using it once might increase my tolerance (would it?). I don't want to use my 5-HTP either, because I'd been using it for a few months and probably need a break from that too. It's not hugely effective and there might be cross-tolerance between that and cannabis, so I might ruin my hope of cannabis helping me if I use it.
So if I use enough cannabis to get stoned one more time before I go back to work (and 5 days per week twice per day use of methylphenidate), how likely is it to ruin my attempt to greatly reduce my methylphenidate tolerance? I might not be able to help myself at this rate anyway, but just so I know.
I'm on an emergency two week tolerance break and break from work, from long-term medical use of methylphenidate for ADHD. It just stopped working almost at all. I think my dose was higher than it really needed to be. However, I haven't had any withdrawal symptoms at all.
Because methylphenidate is also fantastic at treating my OCD, now the OCD is driving me crazier than before. On the sixth day with no medication, I used cannabis for the first time for relief for my OCD, which I'm hoping will become long-term relief due to its anti-inflammatory effects, as mental illnesses seem to be exacerbated by chronic inflammation.
The distress caused by the OCD is so bad I don't know if I can hold out another six days without using cannabis before the end of the break. Obviously this isn't an issue of dependence because I've just used cannabis once, but I'm desperate to do it again because often I'm feeling desperate for any kind of relief at all. If it's not cannabis it will be alcohol, which again I've never had a dependence on, it's just desperate grasping for anything. Alcohol is also dopaminergic so again, even using it once might increase my tolerance (would it?). I don't want to use my 5-HTP either, because I'd been using it for a few months and probably need a break from that too. It's not hugely effective and there might be cross-tolerance between that and cannabis, so I might ruin my hope of cannabis helping me if I use it.
So if I use enough cannabis to get stoned one more time before I go back to work (and 5 days per week twice per day use of methylphenidate), how likely is it to ruin my attempt to greatly reduce my methylphenidate tolerance? I might not be able to help myself at this rate anyway, but just so I know.
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