Posted by revaaron on July 1, 2007, at 22:52:39
In reply to Re: dextroamphetamine causing depression?, posted by rjlockhart on July 1, 2007, at 21:33:33
R said:
> I was a skinny thing, but felt witty and
> confident with this drug.I'm a fat thing (though very muscular, exercise 6x/week) and I don't particularily feel witty and confident with dextroamphetamine. For the first two weeks I felt exactly like I hoped- I was remembering the many things I didn't before and I would take care of the little things I often forgot to do when walking by them (e.g. litter box, small messes around the house, taking care of less signifigant work tasks). I didn't feel confident but I did feel much more action oriented rather than daydreaming.
Opiates, now they make me feel witty and confident. Or rather, they did, once. I've no affinity for stimulants of any kind, though the idea of being able to work in a consistent matter and concentrate in my classes is definately appealing.
> Im glad im over it. Now i do warn that this
> drug can promote euphoria. But through your
> post you sound this is causing more emotion
> problems which i had.I'm pretty convinced it was a lack of seretonin- 5-HTP never did anything before but make me vaguely sleepy (felt like melatonin), but once I had sunk to this depressive state it put me right in minutes. I wasn't using any other medication that would change the amount of serotonin available before this, including 5-HTP, SSRIs, MDMA, etc. It was a sort of depressive and frustrated feeling I've never felt before, and it lasted for almost a week. Being on or off the dextroamphetamine made no difference good or bad, so I don't think it was a WD symptom.
> L-tyrosine will increase some effects of it.
> This all i will tell you, its a amino acid that
> you can get GNC.Let me reiterate that I'm not interested in getting off- I just want this med to work like it did for the first two weeks. I don't have social anxiety or confidence problems, I just would like some help to make my brain remember the things I need to do.
Have you had any experience with DLPA? Ideas of DLPA vs L-tyrosine? I purchased some DLPA recently to see if it helped. I'm pretty much consigned to the fact that if I stick with the dextroamphetamine that I'll have to take 100mg of 5-HTP once a week, but I'm curious/concerned about the possibility of dextroamphetamine permanently damaging serotonin regulation, something I've never had a problem with before. If taking another supplement on a regular basis is what it takes to make this work I've got no issue with that- for the first two weeks it was pretty much a miracle for me- no side effects, no high, but the therapeutic aspects were there in force.
Hell, if anything, a few weeks after starting it, I now feel something closer to recreational euphoria than I did at first. I'm even feeling more motivated to get things done during the crash.
I'm very curious if any other ADHD med has worked better for anyone here esp in regards to the two problems I've described (not causing depression and working therapeutically for more than two weeks).
revaaron
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