How do people stay up over 36 hours on amphetamines?

[CrimpJiggler]

I've heard plenty of people claim that they've stayed awake for up to a week straight on amphetamines. I'm very skeptical. After around 20 hours I get so drowsy that I fall asleep while standing up sometimes. I'm not exaggerating, thats happened before. If I take more amphetamines at that point, they just make me sleepier. I've noticed that when I don't redose and wait until the amphetamines leave my system, then I usually end up bursting with energy and this generally lasts up until the 36 hour mark but when that happens, I'll need at least 12 hours sleep and I'll wake up the next morning feeling like complete crap. I really do have ADHD, amphetamines tranquilize me, instead of stimulate me. Does this ability to stay up for multiple days on amphetamines only apply to people that don't have ADHD?

EDIT: This is a good thing though so I'm not complaining. The body needs sleep so its good that I can't easily deprive my body of sleep like that.

 

[xstayfadedx]

I stayed up almost 5 days without drugs. I don't know how and I never want to do that again. It was a mix of work and huge ass anxiety. So it is possible, I did it without amps. With amps I could of been up for probably a week.

 

[laCster]

think aboutabout people in a war zone i.e. soldiers in combat. take the vietname war, they stayed up for months on end in a foreign country. at any given moment, they could be ambushed and killed. some used amps, some stay up from sheer survival instincts. adrenaline baby...

 

[Albion]

Once I stayed awake for three solid days (ie 72 hours) through stimulant use. If your desire to remain high is greater than your desire to sleep, then it almost happens accidentally. I wouldn't exactly call myself a hardcore tweaker either. Staying awake for 36 hours doesn't even seem that bad compared to the week long meth binges some people have.

 

[ColtDan]

i stayed up for around 2/3 days on alcohol and mephedrone a few times during the summer, started seeing stuff move out the corners of my eyes and things towards the end. never doing that again, was unhealthy to say the least. felt fucked for awhile after

 

[nAON]

You're not doing enough amphetamines then. You keep snorting until its 4 days later, your dick is bruised and there are shadow people whispering through the walls.

 

[J.Wallace]

I end up staying awake for 42 hours easily when I can't sleep. As of right now, I'm on 32 hours of no sleep, with zero substances. In fact I took 10mg melatonin about 16 hours ago, didn't put me to sleep so I just stayed awake. Gonna try another 10mg in a few hours maybe I'll fall asleep tonight.

I can't even imagine what I'd be like if I used stimulants. Kinda scared to find out, honestly...my mind is already wired as it is, lol.

 

[Doug2113]

I've stayed up for 5 days straight once while smoking meth...(my usual binge was 2-4 days) I was fucking nuts by this point...thought every car on the road was an undercover cop following me wherever I went and all that jazz lol...

Usually you have to take/snort/smoke/shoot a higher dose than the time before to continue to feel stimulated...you at least have to take the same dose or it's just a waste...

 

[debaser]

These days with my 2-FA consumption, I can stay up night and day, 10 days, I just micro sleep (3 hours here, 2 hours here) when need be.

 

[xstayfadedx]

I can't even imagine what I'd be like if I used stimulants. Kinda scared to find out, honestly...my mind is already wired as it is, lol.

I say the same things sometimes even though I do happen to enjoy my occasional stims but if I used them too much oh I would be so in for it.... My brain is wired without the stims and I hate that.

 

[Allein]

MDPV was the worse for me 48 hrs straight on MDMA and phet was the norm in my '90's ravin days but MDPV 4-5 days wasn't unknown with 2-3 being a normal run usually with a few grams of meph thrown in. When I had money 3 days straight on coke was fairly regular as-well. All fairly normal IMO I ain't dicksizing about it people here have gone a week or more in th old MDPV thread and Mr Lou just cat map as far as I'm aware

Your just not doing enough drugs, I challenge anyone to sleep after vaping 20mg of MDPV!

 

[Jabberwocky]

You're not doing enough amphetamines then. You keep snorting until its 4 days later, your dick is bruised and there are shadow people whispering through the walls.

pahahahaha so true

 

[hightimes223]

Yeah I have ADHD and it takes me higher doses to get amped up and it doesn't last as long. So just sleep if you feel like it. Sucks for us but that's how it goes.. I did stay up for 2 nights during a heavy binge and low tolerance.

 

[Alex000]

I really do have ADHD, amphetamines tranquilize me, instead of stimulate me.

No, I am afraid it doesn't quite work that way. Amphetamines stimulate everyone. The reason they can be effective in the treatment of the symptoms of "ADHD" is because they promote concentration, attention, reward for succeeding etc. I am not going to say they don't calm you down, because I can very much believe that, but they are still stimulants, not any sort of tranquilizer for anyone. As to why you can't achieve long periods without sleep using amphetamines, I would guess it is because you have been using amphetamines for your "ADHD" on a daily basis (or even less frequently) for some time now, and you have quite the tolerance, such tolerance that warding off sleep with a normal dose of amphetamines may not be possible.

 

[LSDMDMA&AMP]

every time i've done meth i've stayed up at least 36 hours, and most of the time i do pharms i do 2 days on too, its easy as shit.
keep dosin/smokin.

 

[Ralt]

I know I personally can get incredibly tires from doing stimulants, of any kind. I've taken hits of crack, meth, or MDPV and gone right the fuck to bed. Some of the times literally right after, I'll exhale, lay down, and just pass the fuck out. Stimulants have always done this to me, they induce lethargy and sleepiness. I know OP is telling the truth cause it happens to me, quite often. Stimulants use all their user/power right around when I've been up for ~18 hours. I can usually stay up longer without stimulants. They do make me focus and all that, but they do not give me energy past a point, and I've abused quite a few of them, it feels like only the first few doses do anything, if I want another line, hit, pill, whatever and I've already used it's basically worthless. I have no tolerance whatsoever either, I've never been on a daily regiment doctor prescribed or otherwise, just binges and abuse with lots of time in between. Except of course when I first found amphetamine, I did think what it did to my thoughts was the bees fucking knees for like two months.

I now only use stimulants as they're typically prescribed, one dose, preferably XR (anything, just XR) in the morning. Using at nights, I've tried to keep using, and I've literally fallen asleep with my arms around a girl, trying to stay up and keep going, but my body just doesn't allow it. I highly sympathize with OP, so many times I can remember everyone around me partying on while I just laid down and slept

 

[Darksidesam]

i ate approx 3rd gram of Base, this was really good base and also the only time ive ever done it, i was awake for 38 hours, Comedown from hell... So empty lol

 

[Renz Envy]

I'm not sure how people do it either. Usually at about 5am, I'll tell myself I need sleep and no matter how many stimulants are going through my system at the time, my body will find a way to rest.

The only time I've ever had trouble sleeping was through alcohol withdrawals. Paranoia. Hallucinations. Insomnia. Not fun.

 

[Wesley_pipes_27]

I've stayed up for 5 days straight once while smoking meth...(my usual binge was 2-4 days) I was fucking nuts by this point...thought every car on the road was an undercover cop following me wherever I went and all that jazz lol...

^^^ This is almost word for word what I was going to have said. After about day 4 I begin to wonder what has me more fucked up, the ice I'm smoking or the lack of sleep. Never made it past day 5 though, my body would just give out regardless of how much meth I was smoking. I woke up more than once with the pipe in one hand and the lighter in the other. I'm glad (usually) that those days are far behind me, the paranoia & "whispering walls" were really making me bat shit crazy.

WP

 

[FlippingTop]

while addicted to MDPV I was staying up for 5-7 days with 1 nights sleep for 1-2months...

I was also taking 1/4g valium (or so i thought, turned out to be some other cut benzo with a similar action).

The wierd thing was the total lack of paranoia at any point...