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Heart palpitations and stimulant abuse

fakeplastictrees4

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Hey all, just want some advice here.

I have been sensitive to drugs all my life, particularly stimulants. Daily coffee drinker, even though I have been drinking coffee for a few years every day I still get jittery and that anxious feeling in the pit of my stomach when I drink more than 2 cups.

I abused dexedrine this past spring and during that time my heart would be racing when I first dose in the morning, then I would redose around lunch time and again it would race for about an hour and then at the end of the day when I was coming off the dexedrine it would begin to race again. After a couple weeks I began to experience frequent heart palpitations and dizzyness. Along with a shooting pain up and down my right arm occasionally.

Once I stopped using dex those side ffects went away. I also got bad paranoia from the stim abuse and I got a panic attack or two when I would smoke weed. (daily smoker) so I cut my use down for a bit and now.. about 7 months post abusing the stimulant I feel back to normal. As in no paranoia, or demotivation.

Would it be wise for me to stay away from stimulants? Or are these symptoms normal?


The reason I ask is becase once again I have the chance to start using again but I don't know if I want to go down that road. I suppose you could say I had a minor addiction to dexedrine and couldn't do anything without it for a while. (I do not have ADD)

The reason I put up with all the crap from it is because of how well the good side effects affected me, small doses gave me a lot of euphoria. I felt like I did things in that time..... Even with a tolerance I only took aproximately 30mg at once in the morning (it was by accident I had to eyeball it) and was very obviously tweeked out when I got to school.
 
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