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Stimulants Amphetamine addiction vs Methamphetamine addiction

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I apologize in advance if this topic has been initiated before, but all I could find were discussions comparing the chemistry and effects between Methamphetamine and regular Amphetamine. The answer I'm looking for is the extent of personality and brain chemistry changes resulting from the abuse of either chemical. Is it the same?

I really hate to admit this, but even after reading memoirs and watching documentaries emphasizing the destructive nature of meth, I still decided to pursue a script for Vyvanse. I'd been in college with no real direction, so I believed the Vyvanse would make a difference. It did, I could study for hours on end, and got B's in classes I flunked before. But now after a year, it's starting to get a out of control. Here's an example: After 3-4 days of abstinence, I feel like my normal self. I could go to the gym, eat well, have no cigarette cravings and no impulsive behavior. The only problem is I cannot for the life of me get my school work done. However, when I dose again, school work is not a problem. The problem is every part of my life that doesn't revolve around academics. I chain-smoke a pack a day, feel like death if I attempt my normal work-out routine, and the thing causing the most problems is compulsive gambling. Normally, I HATE doing these activities, but it seems as though the amphetamine is developing a new person in me. On top of all this, I sometimes re-dose multiple times in a day (I'm currently prescribed 40mg)

I just wanna know if this is typical in Meth Addiction as well, and if I'm doing permanent brain damage or predisposing myself for future psychiatric conditions(parkinsons, stroke, etc.) I tried to quit b4, but the school work always leads me back to it. I've tried Piracetam as an alternative, but it gave me nothing but drowsiness and bad headaches. If anyone has any recommendations for study-aids, any advice would be greatly appreciated.
 
I don't think so, and don't quote me or even think I'm correct but I think it's purely based on the method of delivery and certain other factors. I've been on Concerta 54mg for like, 3-4 months odd now, which has pretty much done everything you stated. I'm more patient, efficient, and I actually have motivation coming from inside me. Which never happened when I was like, 15.

But since I've gotten on the gear, I can feel myself stepping two steps backward for every step I take forward.

Anyway, the ADHD prescribed stimulants all tend to be somehow designed to lower abuse. Either way, they're worlds apart, I've never seen Ice do anything but detriment to anybody.
 
this is just my opinion from personally being on vyvanse myself. but you should stay on your vyvanse and not use it in a different way than the way it is prescribed. It sounds like it is working how it is suppose to, also vyvanse is a newer type of ADD medicine that teaches your brain to do what the drug vyvanse is doing on it's own without the vyvanse eventually! so keep taking the vyvanse, it doesn't have to be something you have to take forever and eventually your brain can learn to do what the vyvanse is doing on its own :) also as you get older ADD tends to go away and become less severe so you still won't need it as badly after a few years.
 
You should try increasing your vyvanse does.

I started at 30mg and ended at 60mg when increasing. I found 40mg only made me feel the effects for a few hours then it wore off, but when I got up to 60mg I felt normal and concentrated for the entire day and it wore off right before midnight and I was able to sleep.

talk to your doctor and maybe increase your dose and then the pill will last your entire day, and then eventually after a few years you will probably be able to stop taking the vyvanse.
 
lol hardly the case. From personal experience, I've ingested a meth pill a while back like last summer (crushed up and put into a jug of juice). Don't know how many pills were thrown in and I wasn't wary of the dosage b/c couldn't give a damn at the time, because 1.) a methhead was preparing it (he smokes daily) and I didn't wanna question his authority 2.) the posse i was with (including me) were all on drug crazed binge. We decided to give these speed pills a try after a night of rolling at a all night rave and coming home next morning while blazing and railing K.

All I have to say is it was BAD idea. I developed mental psychosis/delirium for a span of the next 48 hours after ingesting the meth, was having visual and auditory hallucinations and immersed with great confusion. By the 2nd night, I took several benzos (valium, xanax, kpin) as I couldn't sleep for shite. This lingered until the 3rd day and I was still having trouble getting to sleep. I finally hit the hay when it was the 4th day early in the morning after I took some zoplicone and zolpidem. In addition, I was blazing throughout, hoping this insanity would stop, wasn't a good idea either, more paranoia and anxiety. And my PUPILS WERE HUGE for the whole time!!

So the point of my story is, no....vy is nothing like ice........lmao
 
Vyvanse and Ice have very different effects on me too...

Meth made me very concentrated and calm and feeling great for about an hour, then really anxious for an hour and then I would get extremely sleepy.

Vyvanse makes me energetic for about 16 hours and feel a drive to do stuff and not tweaky.
 
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