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Focalin (dexmethylphenidate) + Marijuana - Unexperienced - A Hellish Ride

I am shpongled

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I was prescribed Focalin for moderate ADD. I found Focalin to be very mild after my second use (taking as prescribed,) but I was feeling uncomfortable after the dose should have worn off. This may have to do with a short hydrocodone experiment that ended the day before. I took 10mg of Focalin at 6:00am, went to school and developed a slight migraine. This went away but I was still feeling very tense and fidgety.

At 11pm I had a joint ready. I wanted to relax and planned on going to sleep about an hour after smoking. I could still feel that Focalin had once been in my system, though it probably was only there in trace amounts - like an afterglow, but not a happy one.

I am an experienced and frequent weed smoker. Halfway through the joint I definitely felt a different high than what I'm used to. I became relaxed and then very, very tense again. Getting back inside was difficult. I thought, I'd better just brush my teeth and hit the sack.

Walking to the bathroom, my brain started looping. This is common for me with weed; I almost never enjoy it and I just have to brace myself and wait for it to get better.

The looping became worse and worse, and then it completely changed. Time would unfold in a different order, completely lacking causality. I walked through seconds into the future, and then I would jump back to the past, and then back to the future again before I could peice together what I saw. It was like watching a movie by jumping to random but almost consecutive blurbs. It took me a couple minutes to realize that, for all intents and purposes, I was traveling through time.

I got in bed. At first, it was a scary feeling. As I gradually took control over it, hoping to learn something, the fear wore off. Closed eye visuals were very prominent: rich two dimensional fractals (mostly green) gave way to three dimensional rings, vortexes, explosions.

As I watched TV I convinced myself that I could move my soul from one side of my brain to the other. The more I played with this idea, the more I felt like two people - a left side, and a right side - and that the two people deposited their memories to the same place.

This was about when I fell asleep. The next morning I felt pretty crappy, having only slept for four hours, but I was able to pull myself through without Focalin. I don't think it would be wise to combine these drugs, or even take them in the same day.
 
it sounds like the sketchyness of the focalin comedown combined with the (sometimes) anxiety producing effects of the weed gave you a mini-panick attack.

a lot of people avoid weed on stimulant comdowns for this very reason.
 
Thats a panic attack

I used to love it when shit like that happened (wayback when i first smoked)
 
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