Stimulants Adderall Tolerance Questions

[PsychonautRyan]

Hi, so I'm just starting a fall semester at community college, and my course load is Calculus I, Intermediate Algebra and Comp II, with the first one probably going to be the most difficult, and a part-time job at a movie theater. My daily dosage of Adderall is 30 mg, 20 mg XR in the morning with an instant-release booster in the afternoon. I've already built a relatively low tolerance to Adderall: at work when I first started, I would take 20 mg and have an overwhelming, driven euphoria, desire to clean and feeling more talkative and energetic for well over eight hours, but now I have to take 30 or 40 mg to achieve that, with an additional 10 mg later sometimes, and even then the euphoria is less satisfying.

More than likely, by the end of this semester, my tolerance will be even higher, so how frequently and what should the length be of scheduled breaks to prevent it from rising?

And if it's at all possible to get my tolerance back down to zero, how long of a break, roughly, since there are no definitive answers, would I have to take then?

 

[BlueHues]

I'll throw a guess at you based on personal experience...

First I'll say, I initially used to get Dexedrine which contains only D-amp...Adderall contains the L enantiomer, which is significantly less active and affects you differently...I'm not a chemist, I don't pretend to be. I'm a right-brain guy all the way.

Anyway, Adderall contains D-amp like Dexedrine and is very similar up to a point, but one thing I've noticed is that Adderall seems to have kind of a ceiling effect, where after a certain point you no longer "get high" with higher doses and redosing seems to stop working somewhere around the 36 hour mark, at least for me. If you use it everyday at the same dose, the stimulation and therapeutic aspect of it remains, but the euphoria becomes very fleeting. D-amp on it's own isn't like this IME...You can take increasingly higher doses for 48 hours in a row and continue to "feel high", tolerance builds slower, and you can overcome any accrued tolerance by slightly going up on your dose.

At one point, I was basically binging and using 80-100 mgs a day for 3 days a week for about 2 consecutive years. I always took an initial dose of 40-50 mgs and always felt high from that amount, I'd redose another 40-50 mgs 12 hours later and pretty much be high for 24 hours...I've used quite a bit of meth in my day too, but it never ruined Adderall and D-amp for me.

Anyway, to answer the question....I'd guess that as long as you average using it only 12 days out of thirty, and make sure to have some 72 hour breaks in there, it should continue to do what you want it to for awhile. With other drugs, even other amphetamines, I've developed a permanent baseline tolerance but with these drugs, I've always got the "magic" back after some time off. D-amp is one of the best recreational/functional drugs out there in my opinion. Relatively low side-effect profile, not as bad crash wise as methylphenidate and amazing for writing, studying, music, drawing etc.

someone will give you a better answer I'm sure...