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Heart Arythmia On Adderall??

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Hey guys so i wanna know if anyone else has experienced anything like I have been experiencing lately. I recently took Adderall recreationaly for about 4 days straight. I probably took a good 30-40 mg per day. needless to say I really didn't have any kind of tolerance. other than that I am a 24 year old relatively healthy male. So this is what is happening to me:

I have not taken any adderall for about 24 hours now and I am getting this weird sensation in my chest almost like an electric SHOCK right where my heart is. :! it doesnt hurt actually it almost feels like my heart is skipping a beat or something and it happens all in a split second out of nowhere! This never happens when I take a dose only when the dose completely wears off. It also feels like a damn bubble or something stuck at the very bottom of my throat.

Has anyone ever had this experience b4 after taking this shit!!?? This has never happened to me b4 until I took this adderall I am just hoping I didnt do any permenant damage 2 my heart! I didnt think my doses were very high and I did sleep in between taking them. Ive heard of others taking like 100mg+ first time and shit maybe I am just to worried. Will my heart beat normal again after the addy is fully out of my body do u think?? I hope someone can shed some light on this 4 me thanks guys!:o
 
It doesn't sound like you took too much, I would be surprised if you got an arythmia on that low a daily dose especially if you get sleep between. Can you listen to your heartbeat and monitor to see if it's actually skipping? If you can check that first otherwise it might just be the shakes and jitters that typically follow a few days on. If you have anything to calm yourself down, you should use it now. If you do actually have an arythmia you should get that looked at right away.
 
Ya i sat there a few times and tried to feel my pulse waiting for it to come on but it never would. it only happens when I least expect it but yes I have tried to monitor to see if it skips a beat or something. It just feels like an instant shock. The best way I could describe it is like my heart is beating normal and then BAM like it didnt skip a beat but it just did one really hard beat like hey bitch down here im your heart do I got ur attention now?? Lol. im thinking that after taking the amp that many days straight my heart is just trying to readjust to its normal rhythm. At least I hope thats what it is. My BP is perfect 111/70 and my pulse is 65bpm resting. Like I said it never happens when I am on the med only the next day when it wears off.
 
Well your BP is fine and your heart-rate seems pretty normal too, so I don't think there'd be anything wrong with you, but if those weird beats & stuff keep going on I'd at least see a doctor for a check up. I used to be prescribed adderall during my 1st year of college and took it for about a year, it was great @ first. After a while my tolerance built up and I went from 20 to 40mg a day for a while. Eventually I got to the point where I was having some chest pains, and having heart palpitations so frequently that were so noticeable that I just quit it for good. That's been a few years now & I still to this day have skipped beats and weird chest sensations, and I know it's because of the adderall, because for 18 or 19+ years I never had those feelings and that discomfort, then all of a sudden when I got on addy & even years after it now, I do. A lot of people may never have these symptoms @ all on it, and it may be a very good medicine for a lot of people. In my case though adderall ended up doing that to me and I wish I'd never gotten on it. Your heart is definitely nothing to play around with, that's why I just quit it.
 
This is why I haven't touched in Adderall, or other amphetamines, in 8 years. I was 14 when I first tried it and it was amazing, but then I started to get weird heart side effects. I wasn't dependent, so it was easy enough to stop using it. I did miss it for awhile, though. But then I discovered tramadol and it hasn't let me down in the past 7 years.
 
I've experienced what you're experiencing to the tee. I think that most people do. Adderall is comparatively hard on the heart I believe due to the L-amphetamine than say dex or even meth. Addys can really make my heart do crazy shit. Sometimes it feels like an alien's just gonna burst through my ribcage. The adderall is definitely worse than plain dexedrine (d-amphetamine) for these effects you're describing.

40mgs a day is hardly a dose I would worry about. I wouldn't even remotely call that a "binge" but hey... Always keep in mind that the anxiety that going on multi-day binges of amphetamines will cause, doesn't help your situation. I've freaked out many times when tweaking; thinking that I'm have some sort of heart episode or what not. But yea, think about how much speed freaks do on the reg and it might make you feel better about it. But to answer your questions I experience accelerated hr (tachycardia) without fail every time I take any type of speed, and the arrythmias fairly regularly. Like I said your dose ain't too extreme so I wouldn't worry about it.
 
ok this is sounding familiar to me now, once when I was doing meth I got this, it's like a hot flash that you can actually feel in your chest followed instantly by a wave of panic that your heart is giving out. THat was one of the worst nights of my life. I was entire convinced I was having a heart attack, I was at work vallet parking, and I had to tell somebody I was having a heart attack aand it was humiliating whent he friggin ambulance came and took my sorry sorry ass away. It was truly an scary feeling if you had the same thing happen to you. It turns out to be an adreneline-powered panic wave response from your brain. Not a heart attack but it really stresses out your ticker nonetheless. That was the last time I touched meth for many years.
 
I hear what you're saying Keif' and you're right about most of that. About the 'speed freaks' you mentioned though, I wouldn't just say "well if theyre doing that much then this 40mg of addy can't be bad." Some of those speed junkies end up dead. Also, one person might be able to tweek on a lot of speed and be okay, while another person could have an underlying heart condition and doing adderall could f'k them up in a bad way. I guess I've just experienced the bad side of this drug, and that's why even though I was prescribed it I quit it for good when I could tell it was messing with my heart. I just don't trust this drug or think it's safe and I think adderall is way over-prescribed to a large # of people who don't need it. There's has a Black Box Warning on this drug for a reason.

I realize any controlled substance or any drug for that matter can be dangerous when abused and all, but I specifically don't trust adderall or any amphetamines like it at all.
 
Ok I feel a bit better now that I am not the only one who has gone throught this experience. Whene I woke up today my heart feels much more calm and even though it happened once today it seems much less frequent. I have gone on many of coke binges and never even had a problem with a speeding heart but just taking a tiny bit of this garbage cranked my heart into overdrive! it also seemed like the good pcychological effects only last for like an hour followed the rest of the time feelin like ur hearts gonna blow. Now I have tried Ritalin b4 also and that seems to be much more recreational!
 
Yeah thats how it was for me too, I had one or 2 the next day and then they were gone. It's a strange feeling indeed, it feels like your whole chest and heart got a flash of hot electric and then turned over inside your chest. You're sitting there expecting to die because your heart stopped but that's not actually what happened.
 
I just don't understand why a psyche would even prescribe something like adderall when things like dexedrine would obviously be a better choice because all it has is the D-amp which is what stimulates the mind. I would think it would be a much more comfortable stimulant for someone whom has ADD or something. All those mixed amps gives too many damn signals to the body and causes all kinds of wierd shit to happen. I mean what a nasty fuckin drug addy's are I really cannot understand why or how someone would want to take those things every day. I know many people have been helped by this drug but it is definately 1 of those things that it is either 4 u or it's not. Just thinking about those coupe of days taking it you gotta wonder how can something like this not screw up something in your body when taken over a long period of time. Well thanks for all the help folks cheer's and everyone b safe on your adventures!!
 
I used to take it for a while and built up a tolerance to it like I said, so I started taking more (not a ton but still more than prescribed, like 40-60mg a day). Eventually I think it really did f'k me up. I started having bad anxiety & panic attacks. I still to this day don't ever feel the same or nearly as good anymore & still have anxiety, and I've been off the addy for almost 2 yrs now. I agree, I think it's nasty drug that can be dangerous for some people. I began to look @ it as coke in a pill form and wondered why I even kept taking it. I'm sure it helps some people a lot and for those people I'm sure it's perfectly fine, but it really did a number on me. The only positive I have now is knowing I wont ever touch that sh$t again. I still wonder if the bad effects it left me with will be permanent though, who knows.
 
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