It was definitely stimulating for... but in all the wrong ways. Head tics, slurred speech, high body temperature, insomnia, akathisia, etc..
but not in the "motivation/energy" sense of "stimulating". Or the concentration sense. In fact I've been typing worse and having to fix every other word.
Pretty sure this was thrown at me because I had been saying I wanted to try a stimulant (although I have decades of experience with m-amp, amp, ritalin, concerta, cocaine & various other stims). And probably because I mentioned that I was paranoid about current political climate (who wouldn't be though?)
I had to take 3mg of clonazepam to go to sleep the first night on it when normally i'm fine with .5mg once or twice a day.
I also noticed it completely ruined my thc. Rather than get a nice pain free buzz, I instead get really high temp, dizziness & nausea and extreme sweats. Including after eating when sober even.
I also completely lost the energy boost I use to get when taking my buprenorphine daily. I feel absolutely nothing from my ephedrine. And gabapentin feels like it does nothing anymore. I shouldn't say nothing, cause i'm sure they're doing something, but the perception of them working to me is gone because the feeling of the AP is so overwhelming.
I also feel like I've been given a chemical lobotomy. Very monotonous, don't feel like my normal self (not necessarily a positive) and have no idea what to do with myself or my time because I feel too strange. Definitely a very foggy, forgetful feeling. I already forgot to do something this morning that I do every morning. Kinda feels like I'm in some kind of alternate place & I don't like it at all. I'm not even sure I'm fit to drive feeling this way honestly.
Yesterday it felt like my skin was on fire and my temp wouldn't go down. So I had to go lay by a fan until I passed out, which I barely remember doing.
Also an emergence of headaches has come on, which I haven't had in awhile. No clue if related but I wouldn't be surprised at this point.
I'm also dependent on like 10 other meds. All of it prescribe it to me except the thc & ephedrine obviously. Everything from blood pressure meds, to SSNRIs, a tetracyclic antidepressant, etc... which I wasn't before I started here years ago.
And this shit has a half life of 5 days, meaning it will take 21 days for me to stop feeling this way.
I'm pretty pissed.