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focalin...
umm i hav been snorting focalin and i think im addicted...it just makes me feel soooo much better!!! does anyone know how to overcome this??? i could really use some help.
I tried focalin a few times when I was younger, stealing it from my brother who has a prescription and very bad ADHD. I first crushed up a 30 mg pill and snorted it. I waited an hour and didn't feel a thing. I snorted another one about an hour or less after the first and still didnt feel a thing. Ive had a few other experiences in the past with focalin, alderal, and a few other pills that I frankly don't even know what they were and I never felt the slightest buzz but I'm also used to a drunk or thc high. I began to think that I must be immune to pills, but then I snorted some hydros and I was very messed up. I've heard that the ADHD medication may not give you a high if you have ADHD. I think there is a possibility that I could have ADHD but I'm not sure how to diagnose myself, and I'm not even sure I would want to take that medication everyday but it could help with concentrating(I tried focalin when I was probably 13-14 for the first few times and i'm 17 now). Although, just recently, tonight I did probably close to 90-100 mg of focalin over a few hours and I felt pretty good, I actually wrote a six page lab report completely explaining cellular respiration in like 2 hours, which I did not even understand before I started the lab report, and I completed what would've been probably 3 hours of homework in about half an hour after the lab report was finished. Afterwards I snuck out of my house and did more focalin with a few friends(the 90-100mg was overall what I took throughout the night). Its a school night at 5 o'clock in the morning and I can't sleep at all. I really enjoy the feeling of focalin, kind of like a cocaine high which I have only had slightly once. But on the other hand I know I'm playing a dangerous game and have always been warned not to mess with pills but I'm most likely going to do another 75 mg or so before school to get me through the day and then I'll be out of the focalins and broke so I'll have no way of getting more anyway. I am not experienced with pills, and have always done tons of research before trying something new, but this time someone put a line in front of me and I just did it. I would really like to have, and value the input of somebody who is familiar with focalin and other pharmaceuticals, and is responsible enough to let me know if its going to turn out badly for me if I continue to use these like I am. I plan to stop using them completely for the rest of the week after today and its a Thursday. I know I have an addictive personality because I'm mentally addicted to weed(I know it is impossible to be physically addicted, but my friends and I have come to the conclusion that we aren't going to stop smoking pot until high school is over, at the least, despite trying to many times to be clean for random drug testing as i'm on the football team and the tests aren't really that random bc I've been tested 5 times in 3 years of high school, and I'm known to hang with the "stoners", I've passed these tests with the help of fake ****, or a good, clean, friend that was there at a perfect timing) and I dont mind that because I know that the effects of weed on your mind and body arent too bad but I would hate to realize that Im addicted to these pills one day because I do realize the danger in them bc I've seen a few friends get pretty far into pills and watched one of them seizing out because of withdrawals before. I know its just not a good idea to do pills in the first place but I guess I wouldn't be on this forum if I wasn't. Please reply with some help, I'm not really too sure of what I got myself into here...
Well said! I'm gonna take what you said about the feeling not being real and that it won't last because it's so true. Without the pills I sit around and never get anything done but when I am on the pills it makes me feel like I could be the president if I really tried which is 100% not possible lol. I wish I never started Focalin because it's really hard to forget how effective it is at helping you break boundaries and handle your **** but it never last. Anyway, thanks for your insight
I'm just starting to kick what was a budding Focalin (not XR) addiction (snorting). Ultimately, what did it is I was in a fight with my girlfriend and I blurted it out. This was two days ago. I really was ashamed to and didn't want to tell anyone, but I think it would be very difficult to stop and get rid of the dirty, scummy feeling (I know just what you mean) without doing so.
To even out the tolerance (it builds super fast with snorting), I planned to not take it at all for about 6 weeks, when I knew I would be away from the people I usually see day to day, and then enjoy a night or so of snorting it, then get back to therapeutic use. Instead, I gave my girlfriend all my pills to dispose of, and am extremely glad I did. It's a relieving feeling knowing the temptation's not there. Part of that is telling your prescriber, as my girlfriend did for me.
Yeah, I think I'll miss it some, and because of certain mental health issues, stimulants have exactly the effect I want, but it's definitely better in the long run. This last Monday through Friday, the height of my addiction, I was doing 100-150 mg+ every day, as high as 225 mg. The good part of the high becomes much shorter and milder, while the anxious, agitated, tweaky physical symptoms, the sleep deprivation, those pick up in duration and intensity. The first time I had a real snorting session, I probably did 20-25 mgs over maybe 3 doses (you can never dose just once, no matter what you tell yourself), and that was the best high I ever had on it. When I was doing hundreds of mgs, the euphoria was nowhere near what it was those first few times -- the anxiety, tweakiness, comedown depression were much worse -- and I was starting off binges (or, you might say, starting the next sub-binge, of an extended, indefinitely long binge) snorting doses as high as 50 mg.
I found that snorting it even once in a day was a guarantee that you'd be doing it for the rest of the day because you crash and become incapable of functioning otherwise. Then you can't sleep at night, so you snort to get yourself through the rest of the day. You can see how this cycle intensifies. Toward the end, after nearly 72 hours without sleep, I was definitely starting to flirt with psychosis, extreme edginess and anxiety, having to scan everything in my environment that seemed remotely unusual or uncertain, fleeting visual hallucinations where objects looked like faces. Because you're so freaked out, you can't sleep even though you're exhausted, and that makes it worse. I also had mood swings and road rage.
I know it's hard to tell someone because of the shame and, especially if you have depression, as I do, it's hard to imagine living a life where you'll never get to have that great but artificial feeling of hope and vitality. But you know it's not real and can't last, and need some better longterm solution. I haven't found one yet, but that's where I am now.
To even out the tolerance (it builds super fast with snorting), I planned to not take it at all for about 6 weeks, when I knew I would be away from the people I usually see day to day, and then enjoy a night or so of snorting it, then get back to therapeutic use. Instead, I gave my girlfriend all my pills to dispose of, and am extremely glad I did. It's a relieving feeling knowing the temptation's not there. Part of that is telling your prescriber, as my girlfriend did for me.
Yeah, I think I'll miss it some, and because of certain mental health issues, stimulants have exactly the effect I want, but it's definitely better in the long run. This last Monday through Friday, the height of my addiction, I was doing 100-150 mg+ every day, as high as 225 mg. The good part of the high becomes much shorter and milder, while the anxious, agitated, tweaky physical symptoms, the sleep deprivation, those pick up in duration and intensity. The first time I had a real snorting session, I probably did 20-25 mgs over maybe 3 doses (you can never dose just once, no matter what you tell yourself), and that was the best high I ever had on it. When I was doing hundreds of mgs, the euphoria was nowhere near what it was those first few times -- the anxiety, tweakiness, comedown depression were much worse -- and I was starting off binges (or, you might say, starting the next sub-binge, of an extended, indefinitely long binge) snorting doses as high as 50 mg.
I found that snorting it even once in a day was a guarantee that you'd be doing it for the rest of the day because you crash and become incapable of functioning otherwise. Then you can't sleep at night, so you snort to get yourself through the rest of the day. You can see how this cycle intensifies. Toward the end, after nearly 72 hours without sleep, I was definitely starting to flirt with psychosis, extreme edginess and anxiety, having to scan everything in my environment that seemed remotely unusual or uncertain, fleeting visual hallucinations where objects looked like faces. Because you're so freaked out, you can't sleep even though you're exhausted, and that makes it worse. I also had mood swings and road rage.
I know it's hard to tell someone because of the shame and, especially if you have depression, as I do, it's hard to imagine living a life where you'll never get to have that great but artificial feeling of hope and vitality. But you know it's not real and can't last, and need some better longterm solution. I haven't found one yet, but that's where I am now.
hi im not sure what i am? I recently started talking focalin yesterday, and i took 80 mg of it total yesterday! And it was given to me from a friend and i have more but im having what i believe is withdrawls. But i havent slept in a full 24 hours because i was on it all night and all yesterday. But when it finally wore off i started feeling weird, like i got tired but when i closed my eyes to sleep, they started twitching, and they continue twitching and dont stop until i open my eyes. And my eyes have been watering ever since this morning when i tried going to sleep. So im debating on whether to fight the withdrawls or to take a 10 mg focalin to settle my nerves, stop the withdrawals, and to focus me better so i can go to sleep! What do yall think i should do? Should i stop taking them all at once or take a lower prescription mg and slowly get off of them?
def. stop sjorting,.i used to have a fixation on snrting every pill i could, and that wsa one of the hardest things to get over in treatment, but i enver tried snorting focalin or ritalin, it always worked well orally...but a good way to stop is to slowly taper your dose till your real low like 2.5 mgs and then you willhave very little cravings and mental problems, theres really no other bad physical effects, you may get anxious, so if absolutely necessary take a benzo a couple of times, but mild stimulant wd' is nothing, its easily done...-christos
yes it an adhd med I am not sure what would be the best way to come off it .First things first you are going to have to stop snorting it .I would talk this over with a doctor and see what is the best way to come off it would be .we are here to help hanf in there you can do it
too simply answer these questions- focalin is the name brand for dexmethylphenidate, which is similar to the adhd and mild stimulant drug methylphenidate commonly known as ritalin, except for that ritalin has two isomers one thats inactive, and focalin only has the active isomer, overall its an easy way for pharmaceutical companies to make money, it is more potent than ritalin most doctors will tell you too cut your ritalin dose in half when starting focalin, meaning its twice as potent....there is focalin xr which alst around 12 hrs, where as focalin last around 6 hrs. its not an amphetamine, similar, but def. a stimulant drug
hey there ive been a very active member of this forum for about a year and originally came on hear because of a very nasty and severe opiate addiction(snorting Heroin and Oxycontin) i now go to a methadone clinic after trying suboxone treatment and a few other things, but in therapy i was diagnosed with adhd, and was prescribed quite a number of drugs, but eventually landed on focalin...i dont reallly think i have adhd bad cause i still get all the positive recreational effects from amphetamines and other adhd drugs. focalin is dexmethylphenidate and its twice as potent as methylphenidate(ritalin, concerta, etc)..im suppsoed to take 40 mgs daily and it does help with my minor symptoms and gives me quite a stimulant effect, but for me and my addictive personality its like playin with fire. it cna be very addicting simliar to adderall and other amphetamines, so be very very careful, the mental addiction can be quite debilitating..-christos
it is an amphetamine i think...one way to get started with quitting any drug is to stop snorting it...it would be a huge first step....stopping amphetamines is very similar to quitting cocaine..keep posting
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