Posted by Peter on August 23, 2002, at 22:12:49
Hi Wendy:
Thanks so much for the encouragement. I'll tell you what's happened since that day (monday) that I snorted the adderall and felt so rotten. I decided to stop my normal 10mg adderall XR capsules and take 25mg immediate-release daily. I haven't snorted it since that one time, but I have been feeling that the positive effects (focus/motivation/elevated mood) are not as pronounced as at the beginning of the week and that each day the effects seem to be much shorter in duration. Today I took 5mg at noon, 10mg at 3p.m, and 10mg at 6 p.m. But by 10p.m, I felt low and took another 10mg, thus upping my total daily dose to 35mg! I'm quite concerned that I'm getting addicted and building a tolerance rapidly and I feel guilty for increasing the dose in the first place at the beginning of the week without doctor's orders. I've already emailed my pdoc, hoping he'll check his email while on vacation and tell me what to do. Maybe I'll do what you suggested and back off the zoloft, since maybe it has been exacerbating my cravings since I increased it from 75mg to 87.5mg last Saturday. Maybe I'll go down to 75mg. Oh, and BTW I was prescribed adderall initially because my pdoc suspected ADD, and also because he supports using it for mood. On the other hand, another doctor I went to for a second opinion on my diagnosis said he didn't believe I have ADD. Both of them said it's not worth my taking a diagnostic test. My BP is very mild, and is combined with some social phobia and, as my current pdoc says, probable ADD. So I'm on depakote and klonopin also. I just feel like I've messed up and I don't know how to get back on my feet. Forgive me for my venting/self-pity. Thanks.
Peter
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