With Methyphenidate , do negative side effects decrease over time like with AMP?

[lenses]

I've read (and have a little experience firsthand) that with long term AMP use (daily, somewhat low, prescribed doses) negative side effects tend to diminish .

Is this the same with Methyphenidate? I've been dosing between 50-150 mgs daily and have been able to tolerate the dose more I guess...

Anyone have experience with this?

I couldn't find much info when I tried to research it.

-lenses

 

[Lt. Dan]

I used to take ritalin/concerta back in high school but I barely remember anything about the diminishing side effects with regular use. All I remember is that you don't build a tolerance nearly as bad as you do with amphetamines. I'm still surprised that I haven't seen more people on ritalin in college because of adderall's tolerance/addiction issues.

But to answer your question I think I did see some relief with the negative side effects after regular/daily use.

 

[leiphos]

Taken in high doses with frequency, the negative side effects (agitation, anxiety, restlessness, insomnia, dependence, etc.) increase with time. That has been my experience.

 

[jackie jones]

The side effects decrease once your system adapts to the medicine, unless you are misusing it.

I enjoyed methylphenidate for some time. I dug the enhanced concentration and light euphoria. Unfortuantely, the junkie in me wanted to do more until I was insufflating ~100mg in a session and experimenting with IV administration. I could not handle the comedown from such doses, nor could I abstain on my own, so I told my physician to not write me any more scripts.

It is a good study aid, but overall it is not a good recreational drug.

 

[lenses]

Yeah , it's like coke without any of the added serotogenic fun...

It's getting to be not worth it now. Ugh.

-lenses

 

[Lt. Dan]

Taken in high doses with frequency, the negative side effects (agitation, anxiety, restlessness, insomnia, dependence, etc.) increase with time. That has been my experience.

Well that blows. I posted somewhere else that I was thinking about getting back on the ritalin train but with a combination of some sort of benzo. I was hoping this would fix the anxiety, nervousness and insomnia I get taking that stuff. I've heard good and bad stories from many people doing the mix but for long-term use, haven't heard much.

 

[jackie jones]

A benzodiazepine helps with the comedown, but not to mix at once.

 

[leiphos]

^agreed. Mixing them decreases the positive effects of both, at least for me. But benzos are tailor-made for stimulant comedowns it seems.

 

[lenses]

I'm a pretty experienced and former HEAVY user of prescription stims , and I must say, MPH is VERY much like coke , with a little longer duration , and pretty bad comedown. One of the worst stims i've ever dealt with , it's mostly a last resort , i-hate-myself sorta thing.

MPH seems to make kids very fucking weird if they've been taking it since they've been young (gradeschool). I know a few "ritalin tragedys" and these kids ,even after being off the MPH for a while, are still big sketchballs, with a lot of social problems. Seems like they're in a constant suttle comedown, and they can't fully integrate socially.

IV MPH is not as bad as other forms of admin. , seems to not do as many negative things. I think it has to do with MPH's somewhat strange pharmacokinectics, as the liver metabolism breakdown products are just plain nasty, and IV gets past that...

Ugh, i need some better stims. IV concerta is gross , and the extraction about a half hour to do. Not very safe either, I know that. Even the IR ritalin pills IV'd left weird precipiate marks far up my arm where it seems like binders just kinda got stuck at and turned red...

-lenses