I just took 40 mg of Adderall yesterday. It was great and euphoric, but later in the night physically and mentally I felt like shit. Now my mind just feels weird and I feel depressed. I take Lexapro (SSRI) daily. Would that have anything to do with it? any help would be appreciated
Might just be the "amphetamine crash". If you have trouble sleeping tonight, then yeah, it's nothing more. You'll feel crappy come tomorrow morning.
Yeah skeetastic is probably right. Just the "amph crash" most likely. But just to let you know taking SSRIs with amphetamine boosts the amphetamine. SSRIs inhibit the enzyme that is used to the break down amphetamines. So if you weren't on lexapro, you wouldn't of felt the amph as strongly.
The doc put me on an anti-depressant a couple weeks ago (Cymbalta) due to some family problems recently that I won't get into...but I was only on it for a couple days, then started to come off of it gradually over the course of like 2 days..the crash followed severe body aches and manic depression, and I was unable to sleep for 2 days afterwards... not good at all. It's too bad because the drug helps me a lot when I'm on it, but the side-effects are just too severe to continue on it. The first day I took it I noticed my pupils were dilated to the size of marbles...and I was tweekin pretty hard. I'm surprised this shit is prescribed, to be honest.
All amphetamines come with crashes. I take concerta or vyvanse daily for ADD and if i ever take more than a 3 day break and lower my tolerance, at the end of the day I'll just get a terrible depressing crash. Happens to most people.
I'm not guaranteeing anything but that sounds like really good advice from what I know. But, if you are heavily affected by the amp crash I would stay away from uppers in general. I went through some harsh times with ritalin goddamnit I'm glad that's over... I was so stupid, always crashing and feeling like shit.
It might help some, since amphetamine affects serotonin--but its primary method of action is through dopamine, which is probably where most of the crash comes from. It's unlike MDMA in that way, which (we all know) opens the fucking floodgates on your serotonin synapses. Some people take 5-HTP daily for help sleeping, though, so who knows.
