Dexedrine withdrawal

[ampakine]

I've been taking on average 50mg of dexedrine a day for 2 years. I usually took breaks of at least a week every month but for the past few months I've been taking lower dosage but no breaks. I stopped taking the stuff altogether and I feel fairly normal but I'm having trouble sleeping and sitting still cuz my ADHD symptoms seem to have came back with a vengeance. Dexedrine tranquilises me like nothing else, I get so tranquil on it I happily sit in one spot without moving a muscle for 5 hours straight. Now that I've abruptly stopped taking it I have trouble sitting still. I've only been getting 6 hours sleep. Anyone here experience this? If so how long did it last for?

MODS: I forgot there was a forum for addiction/withdrawal, can you move this thread to the dark side please.

 

[effie]

BDD > TDS at OP's request...

 

[Legerity]

If you've just stopped then give yourself a bit of time to see how your body adjusts. Most people will tend to feel fatigue when quitting amphetamines but if they have primarily a calming effect for your ADHD symptoms then it makes sense that you would feel the opposite and have disturbed sleep.

Are you being followed by a psychiatrist, and if so, why did you decide to stop your meds if they were working? Side-effects? If ADHD symptoms are typically present for you then you may have to find other ways of dealing with them.

 

[ampakine]

Last night I tried taking a small swig of robitussin and took some magnesium supplements and it worked. Got rid of the restless feeling so I slept fine. I'm pretty much back to normal.

Legerity: My psychiatrist doesn't know that I'm stopping yet. Next time I see him I'm gonna ask him to prescribe me provigil so I can try it. Hes pretty open minded (for an psychiatrist in his sixties) so I think he'll do it. I stopped taking dexedrine because amphetamines aren't good for the health in the long run. My blood pressure and pulse are always high when I'm on it which isn't good. Also they had side effects such as anhedonia and making my social skills 1000 times worse. That was while I was on them, I usually got a temporary polar opposite to those side effects when it wore off which I liked a lot.

 

[Legerity]

Alright well I hope your session with the psychiatrist is helpful. There are some good ones despite all the lousy ones that I hear about

 

[Snarky91]

I used to have a bad habit with amphetamine, involving 100 mg dexedrine daily, at my peak. The first two weeks you'll be hard pressed to do anything but sleep, eat, and shit. Weeks 3-4 involve a sick restless feeling and overall lethargy/depression. You may have trouble achieving sleep and, in my case, giving up benzos at the same time as amps made the experience much much tougher, but also more rewarding in the end. After a month you're at a stage where you have had noticeable improvement, but that pace begins to slow. You're left at a crossroads where you've got past the worst, yet there's not much in the short term future to get excited about. The user is liable to relapse. I turned to soft drugs to get sleep, including dxm, melatonin, otc sleep drugs, 5-htp, and weed. Weed really enabled me to turn the corner mentally. At the two month point, I began a 10 week regimen of test. cypionate at 250 mg a week. I used to be an amateur bodybuilder so it really irked me how much muscle I had lost over 18 months of stimulant abuse. At the end of the ten week cycle, I was nowhere near as strong as I was naturally before, but I was much stronger than I was at the point where I decided to stop using dexedrine and benzos. I began a routine of working all day, working out intensely in the gym, and going home to smoke ganja. It worked swell, as I was tired physically and mentally, so there was no energy for anxious dwelling. Six months later and 45 lbs heavier, I am WAY better off than I was before.

 

[ampakine]

I began a routine of working all day, working out intensely in the gym, and going home to smoke ganja. It worked swell, as I was tired physically and mentally, so there was no energy for anxious dwelling. Six months later and 45 lbs heavier, I am WAY better off than I was before.

Better off than you were before you started taking dexedrine? If so thats pretty good to hear. I'm sleeping fine now but my ADHD is pretty extreme now. More of a blessing though, I've started swimming, joined a Muay Thai club and am playing sports whenever I get the chance so I'm way more physically active now than I've ever been in my life. It only becomes a problem when I need to sit still and read or do other tasks that don't involve physical activity.