any other reason why adderall didn't really work, besides possible ADD?

so i tried adderall for the first time today (a few days ago i had a bump, but not enough to do anything).

i'm pretty small (5' 6" and about 120 lbs), and my drug tolerance for everything i've tried is insanely low. so naturally, i figured about 10-15mg of adderall would be enough to get a good idea of the drug.

well, i ended up taking about 40mg in all (Adderall XR, well crushed), maybe 30-35mg snorted and 5-10mg in a shot glass with water, orally. this was over about an hour, because i just wasn't feeling like i thought speed should. i definitely wasn't the same, but i felt calmer. i wasn't rushing around doing anything, just sitting peacefully on my friends couch, but if i had to do something i didn't mind doing it. my thoughts kind of slowed down, to the point where i felt i could actually think clearly for a change. i could have conversations and keep track of everything. i felt much more "in control" than i do normally, and i actually stopped to make sure i was saying what i wanted to say. my whole system, mind and body, calmed down to the point of perfect serenity, but left me willing to do things should i be asked/have to. it was actually quite relieving, despite the fact that i was expecting a speedy high, this was even better. i felt like what i imagine "normal" to be.

is there another reason why 40mg would effect me this way, besides possible ADD?

or maybe i've completely misunderstood the term "speed", and this is what it's like for everyone. but my friend seemed pretty tweaked off of less adderall (and he's a lot bigger), he was fidgeting around and talking a ton. he seemed much more "up" than i was. i was more parallel- the same, but "better" in a sense.

sorry for the long post, just wanted to include everything... anyone know about this? if you need clarification just ask, i'm not great at describing this kind of stuff.

 

40mg is a lot, even if you have ADD, you still should have felt SOMETHING.

Maybe not, maybe you just have severe ADD, and a tolerance for the medication somehow. Everybody reacts to drugs differently.

My only other guess is that since it was the XR with the little balls (I am guessing?) then you probably did not defeat the time release. Those balls are next to impossible to actually crush and defeat the time release, so that might be the problem.

 

hmm yeah, i thought i crushed them up decently... i used a mortar and pestle and it was definitely powder, but maybe the beads didn't get crushed totally. but the weird part is that i DID feel something, and it was reasonably intense, just in the way i described- almost like a mentally clearing sedative, but still very pleasant, and undeniably effective. I lost that "block" that i normally have when talking to people/doing stuff.

i never really thought of ADD, because i'm not hyper at all, in fact i'm pretty spacy/forgetful and zone out a lot. but after looking it up, i guess there actually is a subtype of ADD that's characterized by that spaciness, without hyperactivity.

i'm planning on eating the beads (25mg) to see if that has a different effect, but if it's the same as today, what should i do? would talking to a psychiatrist be a good idea?

 

I have ADD, and it's a sensory overload problem sort of thing, so you will be spacy and off into things and getting into trouble and irritable. It's hard to concentrate unless its something you really want, ADHD is where the hyper comes in

 

yup u have add thats what it is supposed to do to u

 

Yeah, personally I would try to get straight Adderall, no time release.

 

i'd like to get IR, but finding this stuff was hard enough.

as much as i hear about adderall being widely available, i've been looking for it for about a year, and this XR that i got came to me by chance.

but like i said i'm going to try swallowing it straight tomorrow, and if it effects me the same way, i'll be interested.

if i were to ever go to a psychiatrist about possible ADD, would mentioning adderall be a bad idea (because i did take it without a script, and i don't want to be marked as someone with a drug problem) but if i explain that it helped tremendously with certain things that bother me from time to time, would it be helpful?

 

My doctor recently took me off the XR,s and im now on the ir's they are so much better, but you do gotta take more of em.

 

I agree with everyone who said that you prolly have ADD... therefore the drug had the affect it is ment to have on patients who have the disease to calm them down, unlike your friend, who got the speedy affects.