Quitting Adderal / Withdrawal / Help

[foliocb]

Hey bluelighters,

I am now 2 weeks clean following a two year habit which involved taking 30mg 3x per week, I at least had the fortitude to keep a day break in between uses, but don't let that fool you- I feel like utter shit right now. I have zero desire to dose again, which is great. But that's mainly because I am disgusted with the drug now and at least have the willpower to not want to dose.

But man, I have zero energy throughout the entire day and end up taking 2-3 naps every day in conjunction with my 8 hours of sleep daily.

Lots of caffeine usually just makes me uneasy and a feeling of having too much energy and not knowing what to do with it. Unlike the energy compared to Adderal which compartmentalized the energy oh so perfectly for me...

Anyone been through this before and have tips? How long should I expect the lack of energy to last? I have a great diet right now and want to exercise so badly, but can't find the vitality to do so. Any help is appreciated!

 

[neversickanymore]

Hey foliocb.. Nice work on making that decision, and congratulations on two weeks.. way to go! give yourself the credit you deserve.. It sounds like it will just take a little bit of time, you will have to catch up on you sleep this is normal.. ecerscise (arobic for at least 15-30 minutes can have an imidiate impact on this.. I know your thinking i can hardly function and the sugestion is exerscise.. no but really you will feel LOADS better after the exerscise.. as it stimulates the production and release of dopamine and endoiphans.. the need to sleep allot is normal, your brain does allot of the nuerol regulation buring sleep and it is definettly reconfiguring base line to get you back up.. the best sleep is unaided, by anything, including benadril (actually an antipsycotic med) as the best way to get something back to base line is to not manipulate it with anything. Some supliments you may want to consider would be amino acid phenylalanine the precursor to L-tyrosine witch is a non-essential amino acid that serves as substrate precursor for the synthesis of catecholamine neurotransmitters, which include dopamine, epinephrine and norepinephrine.

also you wil want to do as many things as you can to facilitate neuro chemical stabilization and dopmine production.. here are some things

and here is anther thread you may want to look at.. for more ideas on supplements and vitamins.

congratulations, give it a little time to adjust back but do everything you can to facilitate a better state of mind as well as encourage the healing needed. way to go!!!

ps stay on the caffeine, maybe just a little less, and possibly combine taurine IMO, *drinks off second monster today*

 

[foliocb]

i want to exercise so badly but i lack energy / motivation when it comes down to it

fucking dopamine!! lol

 

[herbavore]

^ I know that feeling so well. Want to help inspire each other? I'll go do it if you will.

 

[neversickanymore]

The thing is in the beginning you will have more energy after you exercise than you had just minutes before ( ok after you get your damn breath back and are able to get up off the ground where you have collapsed, but ten minutes later you will feel amazing and life will just seem good).. and you will be HIGH.. i promise you.. one of the best highs out there!! the hardest part of anything is starting or stopping.. just start easy and keep at it for two weeks.. GO.

 

[jsbach7]

Hey, I went through the withdrawal as well. I was taking 60m a day + 3 Dexedrine (can't remember their strength, they were orange). I stopped doing anything useful for awhile after I quit, I could basically only read books or play Tetris. I started to get my energy back about a month or two later, but I had a poor diet and I wasn't exercising. It's definately hard to work up the motivation to do those things but it'll speed up recovery greatly.

In my opinion, the best thing to do is just work through it. Develop good work habits when you feel like dirt and it will be a cake walk after a few weeks. I can study organ music / play it for 8+ hours now, a year later. I'm sure I was fine LONG before that, I just slacked off.

Also, smoking cigarettes had a bigger impact on my system than now or before I quit. I found that they would drain my energy completely. Quitting smoking is a pain and probably unnecessary but it helps a lot, even if you cut back a bit.