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Tolerance to dexedrine...please help?

I got put on dexedrine a year ago. I was up to 50mg daily by the end of the school year, and that was not enough to give me any effect. (my body gets used to any drug very very fast it seems).

Dexedrine is a stimulant, and the pharmacist told me that people will sometimes go off of it for a couple weeks to renew the receptors or something like that.

I have been off of it for two months (May and June). I am still really struggling without it. I was going to start taking it again the beginning of August, so it would have been a three month break. But like I said, struggling. So I currently have 20 mg in my system that I took two hours ago.. and feel nothing. After a two month break.. it's just like teachers who stop drinking coffee in the summer right? So it will wake them up when they go back to work.

Now what?? Should I see what my normal dose of 50mg will do? Should I wait another month, but would one more month even change this? I don't think so.Or should I wait two more months? But I just have this feeling that it just wont help.

Update:

Thanks for the answer. Finally someone is helping me. So I actually looked up some things that help reduce tolerance to Dexedrine (chelated magnesium), and how to increase the absorption of it (reducing acidity in stomach - calcium carbonate),, and then today when I took the 20 mg I feel its effect! All of the effects: euphoria, fast heart... except for the one that I am on it for which is to help with hunger drives. (recovered from anorexia nervosa, hard to explain but basically the body is put in some kind of survival mode and the extreme hunger won't go away sometimes for a long time after you get better).

Thanks, yeah I really don't think another month would make a difference. I guess I will try my normal dose and see if that helps with the excess hunger.

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  • 8 years ago
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    Waiting another month shouldn't make much differences so I would try your regular dose and see how you react. Was 20mg the initial dose that worked for you? And do you take the immediate release pills or the extended release ones?

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