Stimulants question on D-receptor recovery

[Lopez]

okay well today i used speed (adderall xr - d/l amphetamine) for the very first time, and when i decided to begin using amphetamines i decided that i would use safely/responsibly and that i would make the best out of every high. it was AMAZING, and i do believe it to be worth the crash, but as i was at my house looking for more information on amphetamines i saw a video on youtube talking about the dopamine releasing action of methamphetamine, and it was rather shocking.

so this is how an anti-meth video said meth worked: it passes the blood brain barrier, enters the dopaminergic receptors and increases the flow of dopamine (up to 8x from what i've heard), and to make things better it blocks dopamine's re-uptake, causing profound feelings of euphoria/well-being. by the end of the stimulation you've exhausted your brains natural supply of dopamine (which is why the crash i'm feeling right now is so horrible). the thing that was rather unsettling for me was the claim that it takes a 10 days MINIMUM for the brain to fully recover from such a strong stimulation.

i know amphetamines are not the same as MDMA with which you have to wait a few days between rolls to feel the effects again. i was planning on speeding next time with my girlfriend who can only see me this saturday (she's from out of town), but since this only gives me 3 days to recover will this mean that i won't be able to fully speed?

lastly, i suffer from clinical depression and ocd, so i take effexor 75 mg daily, and i know that it has effects on serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine, is there any known interaction between these two?

well i hope to hear some good news, any and all answers are greatly appreciated. thanks, fellow bluelighters.

 

[JamtasticX]

Personally I wouldn't trust any videos that have an agenda too much.

I doubt it's going to take you 10 days for your brain to "recover". Regardless, you will still be able to feel the adderall if you take it again 3 days after you first took it, you'd most likely still feel it the next day if you wanted to. People are scripted adderall to be used everyday, it would be ineffective if you could only use it once ever few days.

Effexor isn't going to interfere much at all because it's a SNRI. Anti-psychotics are what would cause problems as they reduce your levels of dopamine. Personally I would suggest seeing if you can manage your life w/o the use of effexor, and believe snri's/ssri's are nasty classes of drugs, but thats beside the point.

 

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