I’m past age 40 and never used to check my blood pressure when doing tons of stims, prescribed or research chems. Was on high doses for years.
Well now that I’m older I’m more aware of health and been checking my BP. It goes up way too high on dextroamphetamine, Adderall, methamp, etc. So I finally tried dosing one 10mg pill of Lisinopril which is super common med to lower blood pressure.
It works GREAT! No side effects. BP was sometimes 150/92 on stims near the end of a day, maybe 125/82 without stims.
Now it’s 110/72 off stims and 117/81 on stims no matter what part of the day. I feel the same, don’t notice anything except I used to get weird brain sensations after stimming that made me uncomfortable. That’s gone.
I think people can extend their lives being aware of this which is why I’m posting for harm reduction. I’m sure lots of y’all are out there with crazy high BP and don’t even know it. BP is a silent killer, does damage over a long time span and I think drug users often just assume they are fine if they feel fine but check it on/off stims.. might be surprised.
I hope I didn’t damage too much not paying attention all those years. I don’t even think doctors typically care to pay attention to that so good idea to be proactive.
Anything over 120/80 now is considered bad. Also cholesterol meds like statins are great.
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Ohhh also, weight lifting at the gym has gotten rid of 75% of stim side effects. They used to make my heart pound and just felt off but after a month of pushing some weight machines it feels as if my body has more blood or something, everything works better especially stims.
Well now that I’m older I’m more aware of health and been checking my BP. It goes up way too high on dextroamphetamine, Adderall, methamp, etc. So I finally tried dosing one 10mg pill of Lisinopril which is super common med to lower blood pressure.
It works GREAT! No side effects. BP was sometimes 150/92 on stims near the end of a day, maybe 125/82 without stims.
Now it’s 110/72 off stims and 117/81 on stims no matter what part of the day. I feel the same, don’t notice anything except I used to get weird brain sensations after stimming that made me uncomfortable. That’s gone.
I think people can extend their lives being aware of this which is why I’m posting for harm reduction. I’m sure lots of y’all are out there with crazy high BP and don’t even know it. BP is a silent killer, does damage over a long time span and I think drug users often just assume they are fine if they feel fine but check it on/off stims.. might be surprised.
I hope I didn’t damage too much not paying attention all those years. I don’t even think doctors typically care to pay attention to that so good idea to be proactive.
Anything over 120/80 now is considered bad. Also cholesterol meds like statins are great.
———
Ohhh also, weight lifting at the gym has gotten rid of 75% of stim side effects. They used to make my heart pound and just felt off but after a month of pushing some weight machines it feels as if my body has more blood or something, everything works better especially stims.
