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in a bind. or a pickle. or a quandary. whatever

mkhughes

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Hey guys. Only my third post or so. I've lurked for a while, knowing way too much about my DOC's than I ever wanted to. Well, i have developed a little problem. Well, not exactly little. Big and shitty. I went to rehab last spring basically because my family wanted to. Strung out on adderall. I was, at my worst, ingesting, snorting and injecting around 240mg/day. So, okay I went to rehab. The whole thirty days I kne what i was going to do when I get home.....get pills. Of course. Well, I went to jail for some weeks I owed on driving on suspended charges. Before I left I had started taking adderall again with a prescription and was not abusing it. WHen i was in that awful jail, something happened like some kind of transcendence from my life problems or something. I came out thinking "man I really have changed I can feel it" THen, within two weeks, I was worse off depression and nerve wise than before. I believe I know the reason, it's a bastard husband who abused me in so many ways for 12 years from whom I'm separated but he won't stay completely away. I found out some really pointless shit he did while I was carrying around our two babies and finishing my grad degree. He was screwing our nextdoor neighbor.

Well, to the point. I see one dr. every two weeks, the other dr. the other two weeks. One gives me vyvanse 70 mg and 90 1mg xanax. The other gives me 2 30mg IR adderall and 90 10 mg valium. SO, after all these years of taking these meds, albeit not successfully, I'e never got myself in a pickle like this. I am popping 8 30's a day at least, along with 4 valiums or 2 xanax over the day as well. I'm sick with nerves. I cannot drink or eat. it's nto the meds, I have never lost my appetite no matter how much i took. what the f is going on. How am i going to get off of this shit.????

addendum: I do understand perfectly that my husbandn revealing a secret that's a moot point is no excuse to hiting it hard again . But i also under stand fully the mechanism of both of these drugs. I also had an off again, on again coke/crack and train habit for years and just one day got tired of it. Don't see that happening. With this. I don't know even wjy I'm asking this, it's not like I'm going to try something noble and toss my bottles out riight now. grrrr
 
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Well, to the point. I see one dr. every two weeks, the other dr. the other two weeks. One gives me vyvanse 70 mg and 90 1mg xanax. The other gives me 2 30mg IR adderall and 90 10 mg valium. SO, after all these years of taking these meds, albeit not successfully, I'e never got myself in a pickle like this. I am popping 8 30's a day at least, along with 4 valiums or 2 xanax over the day as well. I'm sick with nerves. I cannot drink or eat. it's nto the meds, I have never lost my appetite no matter how much i took. what the f is going on. How am i going to get off of this shit.????

I would stop Dr shopping, and stick with one good doctor. Your issue with eating may or may not be attributed to the drugs, so I suggest going to your pcp to get some blood work done. Don't be too quick to dismiss the meds causing the appetite problem. Many people can take meds for years, and then suddenly experience negative side effects from a drug.

Do you run out of your meds, and if so, which ones, and for how long? The figures you gave make it seem like you run out, but I don't know if you have other sources for these drugs.
 
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Accepting the Xanax and Valium while on adderall was a bad idea.

The issue here is difficult to explain, but you will essentially need to pick your poison. Either taper off the benzos (recommended) and cold turkey on adderall, or

continue using xanax and valium and quit taking adderall, then taper off the benzos after the grogginess fades away after a while.

Either way the adderall is going to serve as a major road block. Cold turkeying on the benzos could cause horrible anxiety, and using adderall during benzo withdrawal will likely cause a panic.

None of this will be comfortable, but I imagine with food, sleep and exercise you will feel much better in the end.

I would stop Dr shopping, and stick with one good doctor.

I agree. Any 'doctor' that willingly lets a patient have that many medications clearly does not care about the actual problem.
 
it's nto the meds, I have never lost my appetite no matter how much i took.

With habituation to drugs, particularly stimulants, there are sometimes long-term changes in physiology with consequences that don't resemble changes that manifest earlier on. Changes with appetite are particularly common with stimulants and opioids.

This doesn't fit our forum's guidelines. I'mma float this to OD, to see if they deem it fit.

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