Stimulants What's best for an amphetamine comedown?

[ComedownsSuck]

So today I took 60 mg of Vyavnse and have done it many times in the past along with other amphetamines. I never can figure out the best way to fight the comedown and get some sleep and often find myself tossing and turning all night feeling like crap. I have access to some Fioricet (butabital/acetaminophen/caffeine) (50/325/40) pills, Some 5mg Cyclobenzaprine (Flexeril) pills, mary j, nyquil, and Benedryl. Would any of these help me get to sleep? I've tried Nyquil and Benedryl to get to sleep on amps before, but has never had much luck. THANKS

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[sekio]

Take the amphetamine earlier in the day.

The most reliable sleeping meds are high power sedatives like seroquel. Avoid taking caffeine if you want to sleep (duh). Cannabis can be a real helper too.

 

[dankplantgrower]

Pot always helped me make meth crashes bearable, while booze usually was the thing to actually knock me out most of the time... Then again, I avoided comedowns like the plague, Id stay up a week running from those bitches. Seems to me that Nyquil would put you in a weird place during a comedown and benadryl wouldnt quite do it either. Im unfamiliar with the other 2substances, but Id see how ol Mary Jane takes care of you before I tried anything else. Lay down and try to slow down your breathing a bit, it used to help me.

 

[verso]

We don't 'SWIM' here. But anyway, uh... to fight the comedown, I've found that benzos (xanax, klonopin, ativan...) and muscle relaxants (soma, flexeril...) are pretty good and a little bit of ambien might not hurt. In other words, downers to fight the uppers. I'm not sure that I would take any benadryl, as, for me, benadryl can sometimes have a stimulating effect despite making me drowsy/sleepy-feeling.

 

[Mr.Scagnattie]

For any heavy stimulant comedown, opiates have always been my go to, followed by benzos.

 

[TakeCareAndControl]

Benzos & a sleepy strain pot to stop the freaky panicky feeling, and if that doesn't work for sleep, trazodone. Of course, this is just based on what I personally have access to.

 

[.:Holy::Toast:.]

Benzos help alot, same with seroquel or trazodone.

 

[tricomb]

Every person is different and will react differently, so there's no universal cure-all (or any safe one's anyway) for assisting an amphetamine come-down. The best method is to prevent one from occurring to begin with. This means you must learn how to dose responsibly in a way that does not leave you feeling unable to calm yourself down on your own, not knowing what to do.

Most people use CNS depressants of some flavor or another, but depending on your usage of stimulants AND depressants, you may end up feeling worse than you did to begin with once you become addicted or dependent on the CNS depressant to allow you to attempt "brute force" mass-dosing of speed thinking that your actions will not have consequences because you have _________ (insert any CNS depressant that you think works best for you).

I'd recommend trying to eat a healthy meal even if your not hungry, be sure to rehydrate all those vital fluids that you lost during your amphetamine binge, and get yourself in a completely dark room where you can try to sleep it off. I don't condone self-medicating for this since everyone is and should be handled differently on a case by case basis, but the following medications are or have been known to me to be effective:
-benzodiazepines
-high potency cannabis extracts
-antihistamines (Hydroxyzine has the least affinity for the antichollinergic / "drying" receptors, so I tend to favor it above all other antihistamines but diphenhydramine (Benedryl) is just as powerful, probably way more powerful when it comes to chemically counteracting some of the amphetamine's systemic effects.

 

[Scottadone]

Benzos number 1, opiates number 2 (IMO for this purpose) are for still feeling good during a comedown. While still very effctive for sleep it is a waste of god drugs. I'd use a cocktail of as many downers as you can get depending on how serious the situation: I found Benedryl even better than Zoplicone (Zopiclone? lol), dimenhydrinate a worthy addition, the CPM from Nyquil, marijuana, alcohol....any downer really.

 

[danharper01]

Ketamine worked REALLY well for bringing me down from amphetamines during the comedown.

Benzos are my fav tho.

 

[Corazon]

floricet may help a little, but pay close attention to the APAP. Each pill has 325mg so more than 3 or 4 is really bad for the liver. It also may not make you sleep, and just end up making you drowsy/spacey for another day.
Benadryl could bee a nightmare if it gives you restless legs on top of the comedown. Nyquil would likely just be a dirty addition to your system.

Not sure adding more toxins and side effects is really the solution. As other's have suggested be more moderate in your dosage of Vyavnse and take early in the day/morning.

 

[shreddedlettuce]

ComedownsSuck

I answered your other thread before seeing this one, and was correct in my assumptions.
All the best harm reduction advice ( from decades of personal "experience", and disregard thereof) is posted in my response to that thread.

Therefore I am closing this one.
Please PM me if you need any further advice.

Click here to go to that thread

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