OK. I took 5 mg Dex tonight.

I was feeling really depressed tonite.

My agitation has not gone. I still move around in my chair.

I am feeling a boost, more energetic, more active. I am feel something tingling in my brain, something working, a certain high. I'm listening to Daft Punk and the music sounds a better: I am experiencing some euphoria. My depression is lifted.

I don't think I'm necessarily able to have a longer attention span.

Honestly I feel more like I'm high than anything. It's a pretty good experience so far.

I am worried if I like this medication, I may become dependent. It seems to behave much like a recreational drug. I'll have to make sure I don't use it that often.

Will I become more dependent on it if I use it once every so many weeks to have a boost like this?

I'd love to hear experiences and comments from other people.

Sonja

At first I was trying to find my own level of doasage and I was starting with 2 - 5mg in the morning alone with my coffee and cigerette

It was very recreational to say the least but also very mind clearing

I found I liked that state to much so I backed off to 1 - 5 mg in the morning and that works well

Now I just take it when I feel foggy brained

12 -13 minutes for it to clear my brain and it lasts for 5-6 hours


I just noticed that your a fellow Canuck

where do you hail from

province and city or close proxcimity if you dont mind

Well, 5mg is not a large dose at all, but Dexedrine can certainly make you feel 'good,' especially if you take enough of it. I've found that for most people with ADD they get a lot less euphoria from stimulants than 'normal people,' but it can certainly still be there.

I take 15mg spansules myself, but only when I need them, since I get a very irritable disposition when they wear off (among other side effects like complete loss of appetite and greasy skin). I'd take them all the time if I didn't have people (read: fiancée) to deal with who couldn't stand me to be like that all the time. I also have 5mg tablets for if I need to stretch out the time I have better focus. And it certainly does give me better focus. Interestingly, I'm now taking Effexor as well, and it seems to be making the irritability of Dexedrine much less intense.

As for dependence, the likelihood of amphetamine addiction is highly exaggerated. At the doses taken for ADD, the most that will happen is that you'll feel a little lethargic for a couple weeks if you stop after daily use. And, hey, if you really did get addicted, and needed your dose every day, well, if it does for you what you want, what does it matter if you're addicted or not? It's no different from people and their coffee. Anyway, you don't usually feel that you 'need more' when you take Dexedrine, although sometimes it may get that way... there have certainly been times when I really needed to study/write essays so badly that I took quite a few times my regular dose in one day... but amphetamines are pretty safe if you know what you're doing with them. Just don't use them to stay up for days on end or you'll start to hallucinate! :D

the worst part about being on dex is all the damn druggies that try to get it off you. The next person who asks me for my medication is going to get a damn good flogging.

I don't let very many people know I'm taking it. Or that I have ADD at all. I don't want people to think there's something 'wrong' with me. Maybe I shouldn't care, but I still do.

Anyway, if I can deal with it myself, who needs to know but the people I love?

Sonya wrote...
OK. I took 5 mg Dex tonight.

I was feeling really depressed tonite.

My agitation has not gone. I still move around in my chair.

I am feeling a boost, more energetic, more active. I am feel something tingling in my brain, something working, a certain high. I'm listening to Daft Punk and the music sounds a better: I am experiencing some euphoria. My depression is lifted.

I don't think I'm necessarily able to have a longer attention span.

Honestly I feel more like I'm high than anything. It's a pretty good experience so far.

I am worried if I like this medication, I may become dependent. It seems to behave much like a recreational drug. I'll have to make sure I don't use it that often.

Will I become more dependent on it if I use it once every so many weeks to have a boost like this?

I'd love to hear experiences and comments from other people.

Sonja


Sonja, my experience when it comes to medication is to trust yourself and give it some time before you draw conclusions. You've taken your first dosage and you are already anxious about addiction. That's normal but I think you're getting ahead of yourself a bit. The apprehension from taking your first dose alone will be enough to affect the way you feel.

I take 10 mg three times a day and find it helps me with focus and to become more aware when I am in a non-productive state. Dex is not a cure for anything, just a tool. To my knowledge and from my experience, it does not help prevent depression in any way.

If you want to be cautious, try taking it once a day each morning for a couple of weeks. Your body may adjust and you could find the results very beneficial. In time, you may want to try another 5 mg later in the day if you feel the effects wearing off. Just don't take any after 8 pm or you may have trouble sleeping.

Then again, you may find you don't like what you feel after a week or two in which case, you simply stop. I don't think you'll have much trouble breaking out of a 5 mg a day habit.

Also keep in mind that whatever effects you are feeling have to be balanced with stress going on in your daily life. If everything is relatively stable in your life (school/job/relationships/health) then you are better able to determine the effects of the meds. If you are in a state of emotional turmoil, however, it makes it much tougher to evaluate what the meds are doing to you.

Hey Lexicon finally someone else on this med, ha I'm from Ontario too. Yea I take the same dose as you, I guess it comes out to about the same anyways.

I take 15 mg twice a day, I've been thinking about upping it, though it seems to work well and works for a good long time.

The stuff is a bit addictive. After about 2 hours since I take a dose, I get in a really nice, sedated spot. I had to go a couple days without it and by the second day I was really starting to go postal. Dex screwed my sleep up too quite a bit, it doesn't wear off as fast as the Ritalin did, and I don't get a super rebound effect when it wears off like I had with Ritalin, but at night I feel really buzzed awake. If I wake up late and only take one dose, I have an even harder time getting to sleep at night. And it takes 3 alarms to wake me up in the morning.

It does work better, though, and I don't want to change the medication. I dropped 10 pounds or so since I've been on it, I don't eat much anymore, still trying to eat 3 balanced meals a day and stuff. I'm scared that if I tell the doctor I'm having trouble sleeping and if she sees that I've lost some weight, she'll want me off the drug. But the stuff works so well.

Anyone who's taken Dex found a drop in their desire for sex?