Stimulants How long till tolerance resetts

[Robomarley1]

Over tje past three months I have worked my way up to 140 ritalin. I was recently perscribed 20 vyvanse, how long till tolerance resets. She knows about my past abuse btw

 

[Keif' Richards]

It's probably gonna be close to your base level of tolerance following 2 weeks of abstinence. People often discuss resetting their tolerance to different drugs as if that is the solution to their problem. In my opinion, this is a fallacy. It's one of the more common issues that I end up discussing with people here on Bluelight. It's almost one of my well-defined "phases of addiction" (patent pending).

The honeymoon phase where everything is perfect -> the first hints of apprehension as a person realizes they need more for the same effect -> the realization that they are on a runaway train, though it's too late to get off as they can no longer imagine not being on the drug -> the bargaining phase in which a person decides exactly what must be changed in their life to allow them to keep using their drug -> the despair of realizing the drug no longer does anything other than make them feel "normal" as in how they felt on a normal day before they ever began using the drug -> finally, the quest to restart everything and return to the honeymoon phase.

On a logical/theoretical level, it makes perfect sense. On a practical/human level, it is nonsense. This is a scenario that everyone talks about, but in reality, nobody ever actually does. Sure, people go to jail, the hospital, rehab; they dry out and have their tolerance "reset". This has never been a solution to anything for any addict in history. Even if you were to successfully reset your tolerance, the fact that you do not have control over your intake means you will inevitably return to this same point again. If you have changed nothing about yourself, it is only rational to assume the exact same thing will happen again.

It's not hopeless though.

What I'm saying is that you need to get a handle on why you lost control over your medication in the first place. Whatever that thing(s) is that made you lose control, if you can figure that out, then you could reset your tolerance and also potentially continue receiving positive benefit from the medication.

I don't want to label you, so I won't. I will say, when people compulsively use drugs to their detriment, we call that addiction. You need to develop ways within yourself to resist the temptation to misuse your medication. There are all kinds of programs out there. If you are able to make some progress and develop self-control, you could make this whole thing work.

To close with an extra thought: if a person in control was trying to get their usage to an acceptable level, the responsible/least risky choice would be to simply start reducing the medication on a schedule until they reached the right place. If a person had self-control, they wouldn't be making black and white decisions like either binging or taking nothing.

I would work on some of the psychological stuff prior to attempting this resetting of your tolerance. You can make this work if you give it a serious effort.

 

[TheFunkeeJunkee]

Generally speaking tolerance returns to baseline after two weeks.

However if you have had significant tolerance to a certain drug class, then allow your tolerance to return to baseline, it will rapidly increase after even just two or three doses.

 

[Robomarley1]

It's probably gonna be close to your base level of tolerance following 2 weeks of abstinence. People often discuss resetting their tolerance to different drugs as if that is the solution to their problem. In my opinion, this is a fallacy. It's one of the more common issues that I end up discussing with people here on Bluelight. It's almost one of my well-defined "phases of addiction" (patent pending).

The honeymoon phase where everything is perfect -> the first hints of apprehension as a person realizes they need more for the same effect -> the realization that they are on a runaway train, though it's too late to get off as they can no longer imagine not being on the drug -> the bargaining phase in which a person decides exactly what must be changed in their life to allow them to keep using their drug -> the despair of realizing the drug no longer does anything other than make them feel "normal" as in how they felt on a normal day before they ever began using the drug -> finally, the quest to restart everything and return to the honeymoon phase.

On a logical/theoretical level, it makes perfect sense. On a practical/human level, it is nonsense. This is a scenario that everyone talks about, but in reality, nobody ever actually does. Sure, people go to jail, the hospital, rehab; they dry out and have their tolerance "reset". This has never been a solution to anything for any addict in history. Even if you were to successfully reset your tolerance, the fact that you do not have control over your intake means you will inevitably return to this same point again. If you have changed nothing about yourself, it is only rational to assume the exact same thing will happen again.

It's not hopeless though.

What I'm saying is that you need to get a handle on why you lost control over your medication in the first place. Whatever that thing(s) is that made you lose control, if you can figure that out, then you could reset your tolerance and also potentially continue receiving positive benefit from the medication.

I don't want to label you, so I won't. I will say, when people compulsively use drugs to their detriment, we call that addiction. You need to develop ways within yourself to resist the temptation to misuse your medication. There are all kinds of programs out there. If you are able to make some progress and develop self-control, you could make this whole thing work.

To close with an extra thought: if a person in control was trying to get their usage to an acceptable level, the responsible/least risky choice would be to simply start reducing the medication on a schedule until they reached the right place. If a person had self-control, they wouldn't be making black and white decisions like either binging or taking nothing.

I would work on some of the psychological stuff prior to attempting this resetting of your tolerance. You can make this work if you give it a serious effort.

Oh I know what set it off, I have epilepsy and until I tried benzodiazepines nothing was working, so brain surgery was brought up and that scared me