Hi, I have been told over and over by the doc, No drugs, alcohol with my conerta. Well I have drank a couple times never had a single problem, and am planning on going to Canada with a buddy over the summer, and most likely get drunk off our feet. Is it dangerous to have alcohol with concerta? I take 3x18mg (I think)

Also... how long does it take for concerta to be out of my stomach so I can drink with it.


Thanks! And oh yeah, I'm over 21. (No illegal activit-ays)

I took my Concerta on Saturday at 9 AM.
That night I was drinking. The stims boost your alcohol tolerance. Concerta, Ritalin, Red Bull, Ephedrine etc... All that stuff makes you tolerate alcohol better than you would, untill it wears off obviously. I had had 7 Molson XXX beers which contain twice the alcohol of a regular beer over three hours, so 14 drinks worth of alcohol. I drink infrequently and have no native tolerance for alcohol. But I had a solid buzz and felt great. At 11:30 my Concerta dropped out and I went from buzzed to hammered in about three minutes. Imagine, if you will, that you are on the railroad tracks over a bridge over a canyon with a diesel locomotive coming at you full speed. You can see the train and feel it getting closer but there is nothing you can do. I was more drunk each second than the one before. It was honestly like getting hit by a freight train. I knew I was in trouble and headed straight to the bathroom. I stumbled into my bedroom, fell into my bed and passed out. What my friends saw was: Me having a good time, telling a joke. A sudden unhappy expression, mad dash to the bathroom, stumbling into my bedroom and suddenly I was unconcious.
Thats the trouble with alcohol. You dont feel it when you are on the meds, so you drink more and when they wear off its been too much. So the blanket statement of no drinking. I believe that concerta is supposed to give you all day coverage so it will probably take 14 hours to drop out leaving 2 hours for you to get tired and get a healthy 8 hours of sleep.

Well, my doc did not explicitly warn me not to drink with Concerta, although I did mention I only drink infrequently. I also didn't find anything in the prescribing information other than the standard "inform your doctor if you are a substance abuser" disclaimer.

For me it works the opposite. Can't tolerate more than two pints of bear and then I have to sleep. Usually I can drink four without medication.
I am on Ritalin.

Unless you get completely plastered as your Concerta is peaking, you will be fine. There are some interactions between methylphenidate and alcohol, but they generally are significant only at rather high doses.

has anyone ever not been able to sleep for 2 days straight after drinking on concerta?

i think you did some damage to ur body there

i know someone who is not on any meds

but he drank a lot and slept for a long long time

............... i wanna say mild coma, but i dunno

I take dexedrine now and rarely have a beer or two (it's a waste of alcohol) but in my teen years when I was on ritalin I never drank but used to use pot and it was a waste of pot, didn't notice anything but the meds so I guess the fact of using more to get the effect is unhealthier while on the drug it seems pointless to me to bother... Caffiene is odd in the sense that on amphetamines i notice the effect boost but with ritalin I don't notice Caffiene or even want it

This is why I never drink. I'm not old enough yet but I know people who use alchoholic beverages to get to sleep at night, drink caffene to get up in the morning, take 2-3 meds and are a wreck and don't even realize that they are wrecks. I don't even need drinks to be a wreck, I know that for sure. lolz. Seriously though, I'm not sure if you can drink while on concerta. Since they say everything in moderation I guess a very little wouldn't be too harmful but I could be seriously wrong...