Posted by Chairman_MAO on March 9, 2006, at 21:32:16
In reply to Re: NYTIMES- Attention Surplus?Re-examining a Diso » Chairman_MAO, posted by mike99 on March 8, 2006, at 18:48:57
I had a very similar experience on Dexedrine while taking an Amtrak train from Syracuse--where I was going to school--to New York City, where I was going to party (in those days that meant enough drugs for a shattering yet soothing ontological confrontation with myself for no less than 36 hours) for New Year's Eve. I was so utterly ebullient, so "in my element", so FREE for a change it felt as if I had gained some kind of enlightenment. Now, I knew that I hadn't of course, but it was great to get but a glimpse into something more sober than my default state. Yeah, I'm sure I was high, but I was much closer to who I actually am at heart than I was drug-free.
The depression and other mental issues have gotten so much more recalcitant since then that I could take 90mg+ of d-amphetamine and not experience anything remotely resembling that. I fell of the euthymia wagon when I dropped the Nardil and I'm trying to get back on.
Can you not tolerate d-amphetamine? How about methamphetamine? That is usually MORE tolerable because lower doses can be used. If not, have you ever tried MAOIs? That sounds out in left field, I know, but they are MUCH better than nothing for ADHD. Tranylcypromine 0.7mg/kg in divided doses, then increasing to 1.5mg/kg if no response is where I'd start first.
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