Onset of psychosis?..

[kaossalami]

Two days ago i took 140MG of adderall because i needed to cram for some exams.. well that didnt go well. I'm perscribed this medication by my psychatrist for my ADD.

Anyways, I slept the night before last, on seroquel..managed to get a nap today for about 20 minutes.. But im still really screwed up. It feels like someone is watching me. I swear i heard doors shutting and closing..cars going by. In my peripheals i keep seeing these "black" dots that kind of turn into holes and look like spiders.. All my extremeties are also numb but i have this odd warm headache feeling inside of me... with tons of anxiety. Smoking pot just makes my head hurt and makes me feel distant from everything... But i still cant tell whats real or not.....

Should i wait it out for another 6 hours and see if i can get any sleep tonight? or should i just pop down some of my seroquel and leave for a bit.

All in all idk if i should go to the hospital..if i need to i will..but shouldnt seroquel help with the mild hallucinations?

 

[lazydullard]

i'd say pop the seroquel. its designed against paranoia and hallucinations. seroquel can cause hallucanations -- i get giant spiders a lot. but you should be so sedated you shouldn't panic.

after proper sleep for 2 or 3 days, you should be okay. but if you keep feeling troubled, try going to the hospital.

amphetamine abuse ended up making me psychotic long-term; seriously, i got diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. if you don't get enough sleep, you could be stuck taking seroquel forever like me (although speficically, I've switched to geodon)

good luck. you can get through this. just don't believe what you see.

 

[34-dihydroxyphen]

I have been through about a dozen amphetamine psychoses and can honestly say, the best thing to do, is stop taking more no matter how much you want to and get some sleep. You will be fine in the morning. Learn to cram without staying up to long. Stop as soon as you see the bugs on your arms, after that nothing good can happen.

 

[A_Speedball]

First off don't smoke weed for a while at least until you feel normal again. Some benzos might help you get through this, id recommend k-pins short term.

 

[SKL]

Two days ago i took 140MG of adderall

This is the heart of the problem right there.

Just get some rest and you will be right as rain.

Of course if you feel in danger of harming yourself/others, your symptoms get worse, you start to have chest pains,etc., you must go to the hospital, but all of that is relatively unlikely.

Really you just need to get some rest.

 

[brandy42]

I hope the orignial thread starter is ok.

That is a huge amount of adderall. I suggest you do not do that again.

I used to get very paranoid the day after using methamph*tamine.

If you want to pass anything - I suggest that you don't do anything (including weed)

Sorry to sound patronising.

 

[kaossalami]

I took about 10MG ambien last night because i didnt want to take any seroquel.. Ended up in the hospital for accidently drug overdose and they said i went into a coma..woke up there last night around 5am and then woke up again and im at my house..

 

[ferrita]

Damn you got lucky. Glad someone found you and got you to the hospital. lay off the drugs for a while

 

[Fresprints]

Ambien can be a really dangerous drug even in small prescribed doses.
I took 10mg Ambien, 1mg Xanax and a couple Benadryl because of allergies then went to bed. I woke up in the Hospital attached to a EKG, with a breathing tube down my throat and had no idea how I got there. Last thing I remember I was laying in bed. I later found out what happened, long story short, this all was because of the Ambien.

But you feeling all paranoid and starting to see stuff is partly due to such a high dose of Adderall and mainly due to the lack of sleep. IT WILL GO AWAY. I know this because I also take Adderall, prescribed 40-mg a day, and I routinely pull all nighters once or twice a week. I always decide to call it quits when I start to have strange thoughts and start seeing stuff. I always feel just fine when I wake up.

 

[FiatFlux]

welcome to the lovely and virtuous world of the amphetamine binge. what you are describing is pretty consistent with my experiences of brain shorting out - almost as if the volume and frequency of everything is turned up and extremely agitating.

try to get as much natural sleep as you can (hah!) because it will make you feel better faster. you need to replenish your serotonin. stay away from pot as well, it will only make things worse until you feel more yourself again.

 

[kaossalami]

yeah i understand that now. I've never had a crash that bad, or an OD like that before. I think i'll be studying the sober state of mind for a bit

 

[dramatica]

Goddamn I feel you dude... I will work on my stuff for a few days sober style, feelin good.. Then decide to start popping some addys. My focus and motivation go through the roof, and shit is great, even though I'm easily distracted by fun things on the side.

After a few days I'm still taking addy... taking more and more throughout the day. Gradually my dosage getting higher and I feel shittier. What's worse, my focus goes to shit, in fact it is worse than I would be sober. I keep reading the same lines over and over and over. My solution is to take more addy.

Pretty soon I'm just a fucking mess and my work efficiency is terrible... and I'm like, how did this happen? Sober up for a few shitty days... Feel good for awhile... then start it over again!

I take comfort in the fact that I really would only take adderall for academic work. It makes me so weird and withdrawn that I couldn't possibly use it elsewhere. So soon I will kick it for good.

 

[prayersfor.rain]

i'd say pop the seroquel. its designed against paranoia and hallucinations.

yes. take the seroquel. it's like the risperdal i take, they're both "antipsychotics". I used to get really really really paranoid (and I'd hear and see things) but risperdal really helps with this.

And get some rest.