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  • BDD Moderators: Keif’ Richards | negrogesic

Tipping point hypothesis regarding amphetamine tolerance

hexagon

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Since tolerance to amphetamines is described in term of diminishing returns, it seems intuitive that the effect of the same dose administered repeatedly would diminish gradually. In my experience, though, this is not the case.

For example, tonight I was working with the remainder of some 3-FA. Not great stuff, but it does in a pinch. I snorted three 30 mg bumps in the space of about three or four hours, feeling equally shitty throughout. Around midnight, I was like "fuck it", and I booty bumped 100mg. It gave me a small rush, but I returned to that exact same shitty baseline within a few minutes.

Perhaps 20 minutes later, I liquidated the rest of it (~125mg) and plugged again. My outer intestine protested loudly, and in no more than 30 seconds I was running to the toilet. My sphincter was on fire, but otherwise, my state of mind had completely flipped, and I felt fine for as long as I could have expected.

That was the first time I had experimented with taking what I thought might be an irresponsibly high dose at once. I've unintentionally overdosed before, so I know there's definitely a ceiling. But is there also a floor? In other words, is there a certain threshold that individual doses must meet for them to even be effective at all?
 
With the halogenated amphetamines like 3-FA, there does seem to be a 'sweet spot', meaning the user needs a certain dosage range to achieve the desired effects.
 
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