Misc Will a tiny dose of adderall while on xanax act like a "cup of coffee"?

[xdimsumx]

Backstory; I have prescribed xanax that i take on a regular basis to relieve anxiety, and i had some adderall cram for exam week on top of pledging a fraternity (its towards the end so its hell as fuck). well this weekend is "special" which means no sleep for me. and I took 80mg of addy between wed evening to thursday afternoon, i slept 7 hours last night and I'm still a little faded out from it.

given that i wont be having quality sleep anytime soon, I was thinking of splitting 20mg adderall into quarters and take them for "5 hour energy" throughout the weekend (my regular study dose with mild side effects is 10mg) while i'll be steadily taking 1mg of xanax per day (my prescribed dose). would this work? will the addy side effect show up? I will be taking xanax anyways to not "lose it" during pledging events, which is what i was advised to do by my doc. but im scared since im already tired its going to knock me out and i'll be running around like a narcoleptic with no short term memory. (my weekend welfare depends on my ability to remember shit). tiny hits of addy would help right?

 

[fullbird]

It could help. Remember to eat from time to time so your body has fuel to operate. On a side note, Adderall on its own can cause anxiety.

Edit: for some people

 

[Alex000]

This is questionable, the whole thing could lead to an unfortunate amphetamine-induced psychosis. If you have experience with staying up for a couple of a days at time while using amphetamines, well then you have your answer. Otherwise you might start to get anxious, possibly paranoid, with shadow people and such, however, the Xanax would help with that. I don't know to what degree considering you are tolerant to it, though. But, no amphetamines and caffeine, at whatever dose, are not the same thing. If you hadn't just binged on amphetamine, I'd be less concerned, but you have. I don't know, really. I am not experienced personally with amphetamines, but I know that they are drugs to be careful with. If you do this, keep very well hydrated with water, lots. Make sure you are regularly dosing your Xanax, too, and there are no lapses where inter-dose wd's might occur.

 

[easy as]

If you are drinking a lot. which I assume you will be during pledging, I would be careful of your xanax intake more than your adderol. I think if you suffer from anxiety I would avoid a fraternity, but to each his own. If this is your choice, hell week will be hell and please be careful with the xanax and crazy drinking. The adderol shouldn't do much so I wouldn't take it at all. In fact I would try to get more sleep and have more B12 and Vit C and zinc to stabalize. if you are tired, i would have coffee not adderol. IMO that's a recipe for disaster.

 

[gluteus_maximus]

This whole idea seems like it'd work a lot better in theory than if you actually did this.

Here's the problem I see:
1) Your body is drained. Adderall doesn't work that well on a hungry and tired body. I also notice that tolerance to Adderall develops relatively quickly, especially if you keep re-dosing. If you just used 80 mg on Thursday, then without sleep or food, you aren't going to feel shit from 5 mgs.
2) You're denying your body it's biologic needs (sleep, food) and no amount of drugs can make up for that after a certain point.
3) You're trying to take care of a "drug-induced" problem by taking more drugs.

Man, if I were you, I would like save the Adderall for another exam week or a last resort. I really think the addy's might wreck the weekend all together You might not get the "alert, happy, wide-awake" effects you're expecting from a meager 5 mg, and worse still, is that you'll just feel tired, unable to sleep, cranky, paranoid, all that shit. I'd say fuck that.

Try to find a few hours of sleep, and if possible, get a nap in the day. Eat healthy and full meals. Go out, take the xanax and get drunk, have a blast. If you actually can not sleep at all this weekend, then start taking the 5 mg's but brace yourself for some sides and understand that you'll probably end up taking more than you initially planned.

 

[OTGee]

Try and get a few naps or something in dude, also as people have said. You might just make your problems worse by using all these drugs.

 

[xdimsumx]

If you are drinking a lot. which I assume you will be during pledging, I would be careful of your xanax intake more than your adderol. I think if you suffer from anxiety I would avoid a fraternity, but to each his own. If this is your choice, hell week will be hell and please be careful with the xanax and crazy drinking. The adderol shouldn't do much so I wouldn't take it at all. In fact I would try to get more sleep and have more B12 and Vit C and zinc to stabalize. if you are tired, i would have coffee not adderol. IMO that's a recipe for disaster.

thanks for the replies guys

i forgot to mention; its one of the "dry" processes, so no alcohol involved, just tons of exercising i was only concerned with the sleeping part. turns out, i ended up leaving the addies behind because i was in a hurry and had to live the weekend without. It wasn't that bad at all, i was just really tired, but caught up on some sleep last night. over the weekend i dosed 2MGs of xanax and im doing my regular sunday/monday taper with .25 mg each day, just enough to relieve the w/d anxieties.

 

[laCster]

i love taking amphetamine and xanax together

 

[ErgicMergic]

^For fun or for productivity? Seems like Xanax would blunt the motivation and cognitive sharpness you get from amps.

 

[xdimsumx]

^For fun or for productivity? Seems like Xanax would blunt the motivation and cognitive sharpness you get from amps.

no kidding, xanax makes you procrastinate like crazy. also I dont find these drugs very "fun". I'm actually trying to stay off of these if i can. but it sucks going to a decent school that half the campus is on this bullshit just to be competitive. my girlfriend goes to a better school and coke and adderall are huge there, so many "perfect model students" are on that shit. I'm sure my doc here would give me as much xanax i'd ask for as long as i gradually ask him more, but after a while I can see how it really sucks the life out of you (im terribly irritated on wednesday because i force myself to go without til friday) what i go through now is a sunny day in the park compared to what i went through after a different doc had me on 1.5mg a day for a month, and then i ran out for a week.

personally some good quality medicinal herb takes care of me nicely. and I can be perfectly productive by myself while blazed out of my mind.

someone mentioned earlier why im pledging into a fraternity with anxiety problems, well, there are plenty of personal reasons. but overall the pledging process has been really beneficial to me i feel like (even though my school is a little lacking this semester but its not one of those "drink till you die to show us how much you want it" pledging. im not gona say what frat but its an ethnic one, we go through some pretty fucked up physical shit but it really does bond people together in the end like a family. now instead of xanax i have pledge brothers to help me out with anxiety and such. its great but sucks at the same time.

 

[ErgicMergic]

Hey man, it's your life, live it the way you want to live it, not the way others want you to. If you want to haze to join a frat, by all means.

Btw, I realize now that not every successful student uses adderall like I thought they did. How you study is far more important than how long you study for.

SQR3:
S - Survey the text. Look at headings and sub-headings
Q - Question it. What do I want from this text
R1 - Review (Skim)
R2 - Read
R3 - Recall

 

[xdimsumx]

Hey man, it's your life, live it the way you want to live it, not the way others want you to. If you want to haze to join a frat, by all means.

Btw, I realize now that not every successful student uses adderall like I thought they did. How you study is far more important than how long you study for.

SQR3:
S - Survey the text. Look at headings and sub-headings
Q - Question it. What do I want from this text
R1 - Review (Skim)
R2 - Read
R3 - Recall

some things just take a lot of time really, our computer science program here is among the nation's highest. so some teachers really want you to "think", and when you're stuck, an assignment can take hours and hours and get nowhere. though i feel bad for my gf, suposedly her professors are a lot bigger pricks than mine.