do stimulants work for you?

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I've had a 5-hour energy shot, a cherry pepsi and two red bulls and I'm still sleepy. There must be something medically wrong with me or they just don't work for me the way they work for the "normal" people.

I go to bed at what I think is a reasonable hour. I get up when Olivia gets up. She's my alarm clock. I feel I could use another two or three hours in the morning of shut-eye.

Again, I'm reluctant to talk to my doc about this because all he's gonna suggest is more exercise. I really can't because we don't have a stroller for Olivia. Sure she's walking but if she wanders off into the street or something or falls into the river, I promise you, I'll shoot myself in the head.

I've been taking a B supplement without any help.

could be my digestion...I'm not absorbing stuff the way I should be. I suppose I shouldn't be self-diagnosing.

No. Stimulants don't work for me. 50% of drs who have seen me say I have ADD and 50% say it's just part of my AS. I've been on provigil, adderal, ritalin and dexadrine. Nothing works well, although the adderal improved organization slightly.

Coffee, tea, diet coke.. put me to sleep after a while. Initially, they keep me going when I have side effects of sleepiness from psych meds.

Cigarettes really help my alertness. I need to give them up though.

I have to get another assessment for ADD in two weeks. My psychiatrist has insisted upon it.

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Last edited by ZEGH8578 on 17 Mar 2009, 2:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.

who's doing drugs?

I'm not talking about meth here. I'm talking about red bull.

"do stimulants work for you?"

i replied.
im not talking about meth either. it doesnt exist here, and i would never ever try it.

should i delete it?

I drank a pomegranate-flavored energy drink once when taking the bus across the country and it helped me concentrate on loooking out the window at the scenery and made me feel energetic but helped me sit still at the same time. It prevented me from falling asleep and missing my stop. And sometimes I had to wake up or be awake already at like 4 in the morning to change buses. I hardly had to sleep at all on that trip, and it was partially due to the can of stimulant juice I had.


I took a stimulant my boyfriend ordered online once, with coffee and something else and I smoked some pot as well, and it was a disaster. Parts of my soul died that night. Half my brain and half my mind felt so good and the other half of my brain and mind felt so bad, but since I was losing parts of my soul I felt so bad. I thought I was going to die. I laughed, vomited, cried, vomited, prayed to the light bulbs on the ceiling fan, vomited, screamed, vomited, yelled, vomited, promised God and Jesus I'd never do drugs again, vomited, told my boyfriend I was dying and vomited. My boyfriend apologized for overdosing me and tried to reassure me that I wasn't dying (but the sensation in my brain told me that I was and that pieces of my soul were dying and that if I didn't stop looking into the light I would fall into a black hole in my head and go catatonic or die) and he asked me what I believed in because I was crying about how I wanted to show Jesus I loved him and hadn't really done so, and he was supportive, trying to talk philosophically with me, and he asked if I wanted some l-theanine and I said okay and he gave me some, and then I went to sleep.


So anyway, the stimulants didn't stimulate me at all but had the OPPOSITE effect! Which was the last thing I needed, the very thing that was bad for me, because I was understimulated as it was, so understimulated I was ready to fall into a black hole and become catatonic.

Last edited by Ana54 on 17 Mar 2009, 6:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I took a sleeping pill and couldn't fall asleep, does that count?

Now listen here! Ur a crybaby, crybaby.

j/k! (hug)

PFFFF, i never cry. except to "extreme makeover, home edition"

Extreme business makeover, AIG edition

Dexadrine puts me to sleep. Caffeine puts me to sleep sometimes, but other times works normally (but I can't figure the pattern). Whatever is in Red Bull also puts me to sleep, unfortunately. OTOH xanax and ambien give me insomnia.

I think it's just 'standard' paradoxical reactions; I think those are more typical in kids, but not unheard of in adults. It is a pain, not having anything (that's realistically usable) that's energizing. I found kava extract helped a little, but not much.

I've also been on a slew of stimulants for cognitive dysfunction/EF stuff, and none really helped. Some were very energizing but it was like racing the engine to overcome a stuck emergency brake; not a 'real' solution.

Coke, crack, and meth used to work pretty good for me. Caffeine, etc....not so much.






EDIT: Ephedra works OK at higher doses, but makes me sort of ill.

Last edited by jawbrodt on 17 Mar 2009, 7:43 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I'm kind of addicted to caffeine and sugar, but they don't make me hyper or anything. If I don't have caffeine though I'm always tired, I just need caffeine to function at a normal speed.

No they just make me nervous.

Whatever happen to the good old days when ephedra was in everything..

Stimulants works on me, a little too good,
i stay away from things like coffee and
redbull, i get so jittery and too awake,
and its very hard to concentrate and
remember what i`m doing. Haven`t
had coffee in a long time now, if i had
a cup or two i would have no chance
of sleeping tonight at all - i would be
a stressed wreck

I'm the same way. I drink a lot of diet coke (more than i should :S), but i don't find it gives me energy. Perhaps it is a metabolism thing?