Taking adderall to start the day

[olab7]

I've recently started taking my adderall at low doses everyday instead of abusing the heck out of them every 4 days lol. Today is day two. I took 15mgs yesterday morning then 20mgs around 12pm. Today i took roughly 22mgs (a 15mg tablet and half of a 15mg) when i woke up and then the same dose in the after noon. The desired effects i'm wanting are to wake me up in the morning in a kind of 'peppy' good mood while not giving me a harsh comedown through the rest of the day and being able to sleep at night. I'm normally a 'peppy' person but usually it takes me a little while to get out of bed and out of my groggy, unmotivted state of mind in the morning


So far its working pretty good, but i know tolerance is quick to build which is why i upped my doses today. So I was wondering if anyone has found a good regime to taking their amphetamines for reasons similar to mine and also keeping it effective. Do you take it everyday as perscribed with success, take it a fews days in a row then take a tolerance break, do you up doses or don't up doses,ect?. Ha I probably made this question more complicated than it needed to be but any experiences or thoughts would be great

 

[laCster]

you are still in the honeymoon phase my friend, tolerance will soon kick in and you will no longer get the same effects you usually get. if you take adderall every day, your body will grow dependent. instead of taking speed to get high, you will be forced to continue amphetamines unless you face the consequences. stop while your ahead, or atleast increase the time between you use.

 

[olab7]

well im not sure you read my full post or maybe didnt understand it totally. im perscribed it 15mg twice a day for add. im just wanting to take it for a different reason, not neccesarily to get high just to get a boost in the morning.

 

[laCster]

a drug is a drug, and i don't think it should be necessarily sugar-coated by bottles and labels.
however, who am i to judge? i use drug(s) daily and i'm doing fine. i try to keep it habitual in nature, rather than a full-blown dependence (if that makes sense)...

 

[olab7]

yeah i agree. im just wondering of some ways people make their amphetamines work for them thereputically. it wouldnt be an everyday thing though. im trying to use amphetamines for the medicinal benefits it can give not for a euphoric fun time.

 

[opiatekrzy]

being dependent on amphetamines is a bitch, yeah physically it may not be shit, but the depression alone and relying on it to open them chambers in ur mind is enuf to make u go crazy to make sure u got it everyday for work, etc..

 

[Renz Envy]

I'd say my 30mg Adderall XR is a bit like a cup of coffee in the morning.

My honeymoon phase is long and gone, but I still enjoy the current effects of alertness and focus.

Vyvanse, strangely, gives me incredible euphoria and bruxism still in 60mg.

Funny how your body metabolizes things.

 

[olab7]

Thanks for the answer Renz I guess thats what i was kind of wondering if it can be used like people use a cup of coffee to start the day =p

So even if you stay at the same dose you still get alertness and focus?

 

[Legerity]

I've usually been starting the day with 5mg of dexedrine and a cup of coffee, then another 5mg in the afternoon. One a day week I don't take any. Lately the effects have decreased but I think it has to do with another medication that I recently started (Wellbutrin). A low dose is surprisingly therapeutic, even though I was bingeing on huge amounts of speed before getting my prescription.

Don't keep raising your doses all the time though. To continue long-term you have to be able to appreciate more subtle effects rather than being completely euphoric. Nobody can really do that everyday forever.

 

[olab7]

Thanks Legerity for the reply thats my goal to take it in smaller doses to get the more subtle but still helpful effects. Ok so maybe I'll try not upping the dose but take a few days off then resume on the same dosage then so on so forth

 

[NeighborhoodThreat]

I'm with pretty much every other poster when it comes to this. If you can keep your doses lower, it is quite effective as a daily medication, either in XR form in the morning or in IR form spread throughout the day. I know some people who use a hybrid of this dosing schedule, they take a XR amphetamine in the morning, and then an IR in the late afternoon/early evening if needed. Their doctors don't prescribe them nearly as much IRs as XRs, so the IRs are really only taken as needed.

It is important to take breaks though, even if you only do it every once in a while (a day or two during the weekend, for example). Taking amphetamines constantly is asking for trouble.

Keep your doses low, and follow HR procedures such as using magnesium and fish oil supplements and things will work out for you, good luck!

 

[Empty8787]

Honestly, I never found a good regime when I was getting Addies. I would always tell myself, "This next script I'm going to take them like they are prescribed to take" but every time I got them filled I'd go back to my old ways of taking 4 at a time.

I had to tell my doctor to stop writing my scripts for Addies because it was getting to the point where I would be staying up for 3-4 days straight, my eyes would be so red and dry, my mouth dry, lips chapped, and for some reason it got to the point where my nose would bleed like crazy when I was abusing them. I guess thats because of my blood pressure?

 

[olab7]

I'm with pretty much every other poster when it comes to this. If you can keep your doses lower, it is quite effective as a daily medication, either in XR form in the morning or in IR form spread throughout the day. I know some people who use a hybrid of this dosing schedule, they take a XR amphetamine in the morning, and then an IR in the late afternoon/early evening if needed. Their doctors don't prescribe them nearly as much IRs as XRs, so the IRs are really only taken as needed.


It is important to take breaks though, even if you only do it every once in a while (a day or two during the weekend, for example). Taking amphetamines constantly is asking for trouble.

Keep your doses low, and follow HR procedures such as using magnesium and fish oil supplements and things will work out for you, good luck!

Thanks NT! I was hopeful that I can make this happen and not just wishful thinking. Although The hard part for me is i took adderall 5 days this week so now i feel if I wanted to start over with lower doses I'd have to take a long break first which is hard for me.

Honestly, I never found a good regime when I was getting Addies. I would always tell myself, "This next script I'm going to take them like they are prescribed to take" but every time I got them filled I'd go back to my old ways of taking 4 at a time.

I had to tell my doctor to stop writing my scripts for Addies because it was getting to the point where I would be staying up for 3-4 days straight, my eyes would be so red and dry, my mouth dry, lips chapped, and for some reason it got to the point where my nose would bleed like crazy when I was abusing them. I guess thats because of my blood pressure?

Well I havn't had the nose bleed problems I too find myself taking more than i'm suppose to sometimes for a couple days in a row. A habit I need to get out of :/

 

[jammy_wankz]

How long does it take for adderall tolerance to fade?

I'm prescribed 90x 10mg per month but I absolutely don't have ADD (I may have misled my doctor "just" a bit). I only take adderall on the weekends, as my workload is atrocious and it's hard to get motivated to put in 20hrs of work each weekend for months of a time on top of my 10-12hr Monday-Friday schedule.

So I don't take adderall every day. Only on the weekends, and only if I have to work. But I usually go for months at a time working 7 days a week. I'm taking 10-20mg 2-3 days each week (think Friday, Saturday, Sunday). And I already notice a huge bump in tolerance. I use to be super focused after only 5mg. In fact, a 10mg pill, broken up into thirds and taken every 4 hours, could get me sped up for a 12 hour day. But now I need at least 10 to feel anything. And like today, I'll probably put in 12 hours of work, and will take 30 mg (10mg x 3 times/day)

How long of a break would I need to get back to an non-esistance tolerance level. I would love to get back to the point where 5mg kicks me to the ceiling and gets me that laser focus!

Its gonna take a long ass time dude. I used to get pretty wired off 5mg, everyone starts off at 5. It only takes like a couple weeks to feel the need to bump up to 10mg's. I buy my adderall from a friend who gets a script, but I only pick up like 6 to 8 10mg blue's every... 3 to 4 weeks man. At that rate, I would use adderall for a week straight, then take 3 to 4 weeks off. Even with those extended breaks, I still have to take 10mg... sometimes 15mg. Don't get me wrong, when I first took adderall I was kinda stupid w/ it, getting mad high and taking 30 to 40mg over 4 hours, almost giving myself a heart attack and shit. Those mistakes can fuck up your tolerance big time.
Amp tolerance doesn't go down as fast as opiates... I even take the time to clean my self out... and it takes a lot of patience. I do notice that after I finish my adderalls, I don't feel like doing SHIT for several days. I can't focus on a damn thing except manual labor.

Put it this way, they make addrall in 10mg tablets for a reason.

 

[K'd-OUT-in-AZ]

I take 30mg in the morning and another 30mg about 5 hours later. I don't get any sort of mood lift just a wakening effect. I've been on amphetamines or methylphenidate for 16 years now so there is no way for me to get "high" unless I take a single dose of 150mg and even then I don't really get high, I'll just feel an increase in energy/motivation and a lift in mood. I'm way past the honeymoon period.

 

[effie]

It amazes me the doses compared to UK street speed (which is obviously cut to fck) - speed doses here are on a par with MDMA doses. Always concerns me that someone from the UK will get access to some pharmaceutical amphetamines and hugely overestimate the dose they need...

 

[olab7]

I take 30mg in the morning and another 30mg about 5 hours later. I don't get any sort of mood lift just a wakening effect. I've been on amphetamines or methylphenidate for 16 years now so there is no way for me to get "high" unless I take a single dose of 150mg and even then I don't really get high, I'll just feel an increase in energy/motivation and a lift in mood. I'm way past the honeymoon period.

thanks for the answer. Havn't seen you on the forums in awhile Wow 16 years and you still still get an awakening effect? Thats part of what i want if im going to stop abusing my amphetamines, a slight mood lift would be nice but I know thats asking for a bit much if im going to start taking them more therapeutically. How long did it take you to reach 30mg twice a day?

It amazes me the doses compared to UK street speed (which is obviously cut to fck) - speed doses here are on a par with MDMA doses. Always concerns me that someone from the UK will get access to some pharmaceutical amphetamines and hugely overestimate the dose they need...

Oh wow yeah that would be a horrible mistake easily made

 

[opiatekrzy]

LOL the good old days of the honeymoon period. one dose of adderall keeping ya high for 12+hrs, talking non stop with somebody so in depth spilling your life story to every detail, one topic of a convo stretching it out to a 5hr convo. being in school having grades of 90's+, actually thinking of school, homework as a "hobby", music sounding great, mood lift of 100x....inxreased sensation to smell, color, sound...yeah that honeymoon period only lasts so long. here i am 12 years later. I take 60mg of adderall only to get a duration of 3 hours, and the only benefits i get is a slight mood lift, motivation to clean, get more tasks done, and a harsh crash, ill admit that after the adderall wears off my sex drive increases to the point of absolut ecstacy when me and my girl are both tweaked on amphetamines having passionate sex...the sex is great...i wish i can go back where 5mg of adderall had me sky high for 12 hours...i took a 3 year break and i still lost the honeymood period, only to have the normal old effects which has me clean, mood lift, slightly, harsh crash..ENJOY THE MAGIC OF AMPHETAMINES WHILE IT LASTS!!!

 

[StonedCold]

You should look into low dose DXM regimen for combatting tolerance. I've never done it, but i've read it can be effective.