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#1 RonBurgandy

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Posted 08 January 2015 - 05:02 AM


I have a pretty extensive history of drug and supplement use, pretty much anything on the radar and off. I've noticed though, in the past year (about the time I stopped smoking weed), I have become incredibly sensitive to anything under the sun. For example, a few years back I could knock out 6 cups of green tea on top of 30mg of Adderall and not even break a sweat. At this point I have dropped amphetamine use, for obvious reasons... But what bothers me is I can't even drink a cup of green tea in the morning without feeling hyper-stimulated for a good 12+ hours. I've noticed a trend of anything that works on the PKU pathway seems to be a culprit. Any suggestions to what would help manage this issue. I'm concerned because lately I've noticed heightened anxiety and increasing OCD to the point of it starting to have a negative effect on my social life. Does this sound hormonal imbalance, or rather nuero-chemically related? At this point I'm considering hitting up the labs to get some bloodwork taken, particularly interested in my Test/Cortisol levels.

 

About me: 29, Caucasian, 5' 8", 155lbs athletic, high fitness level, balanced diet, low stress job, single.

 


Edited by RonBurgandy, 08 January 2015 - 05:05 AM.


#2 molecular joy

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Posted 11 January 2015 - 09:26 AM

Any suggestions to what would help manage this issue.

 

Sure, take a break from eating weird chemicals that have no business being in your diet in the first place?

 

I mean what exactly are you looking for advice with? How to continue to take strange chems that destabilize the brain, without having your brain destabilized? We'd all love to help, but it's an impossible problem.

 

Why do you feel you need to take all that stuff anyway? What incredible amounts of work do you have to get done, that it requires amphetamine use? Or did you just take the stuff recreationally? How does that work, can you expand on that a bit?

 

And if you look at the anxiety, wasn't that always there, and you were just using a bunch of drugs to distract / disconnect yourself from it? It's effective for a while, but there comes a point when you've been sweeping just too much of it under the rug, and it'll start to show. 


Edited by molecular joy, 11 January 2015 - 09:27 AM.


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Posted 11 January 2015 - 04:13 PM

I´ve noticed a very high sensitivity to coffee when I stopped to somke cigaretts for 2 weeks and the cofeine feeling was indeed unpleasurable.

I believe to read somewhere that high Cortisol cant allways be deteced, because the high level could occur regionally i.e. the brain.

So I would rather look for some advise form a Doctor before getting the levels tested, because they know the interactions & etc.

 

From my amateurish view, I would say its a neurologic imbalance of receptors, but I cant tell neither why You have become so sensitive,

nor what was the exact mechanism of my nicotine withdrawal.

 

You could ask the doctors on reddit, (hopefully there are real ones) :

http://www.reddit.com/r/Psychiatry/

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskDocs/


Edited by Flex, 11 January 2015 - 04:16 PM.


#4 RonBurgandy

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Posted 11 January 2015 - 06:06 PM

Thanks for the suggestions... In response to Molecular' post; I realize what you're saying, and I have made many lifestyle changes in order to ditch the potentially harmful stuff in the past ten years. What's done is done though, and unfortunately I was not as informed (at own fault) when I was playing with fire in my early twenties. The Adderall was prescribed to my for ADHD (diagnosed in Elementary), was on Ritalin when younger but later switched to Adderall in college. My prescription was 2x15IR, but most of the time I would only take one to avoid potential insomnia associated with stim use. I was off medication in later high school and early college, though struggling in college resulted in me getting back on my script. Needless to say, now I am well aware that I could have made changes to my diet and lifestyle to avoid having to go back on medication. This is neither here nor there, as I am rather trying to get some input as to what particular changes may have occurred in my body that facilitated this sensitivity, and whether its something I need to address with dietary modifications and/or with my physician. 



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#5 molecular joy

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Posted 11 January 2015 - 09:17 PM

Well of course what's done is done. No going back now. 

 

What I'd like to bring to your attention now is: have you developed effective ways of decreasing anxiety, without using chems or smoking or drinking? 

 

Many people distract with electronics, or distract with chems of various kinds. Do you have other, healthy strategies to bring it down?

 

For me it's skin contact (hugs, massage, making out, sex) and/or physical exercise. Trying to eat, drink or pill one's way around these two, is IMO a very unhealthy proposition. Massage or sex for instance, they bring a lot of anxiety down with zero side effects on kidneys, liver, etc. To get a comparable effect from just pharma pills, one would have to put a lot of stress on these organs, and they don't really put the mind at rest, not really. 

 

As you may have noticed, the high fitness level alone isn't sufficient to dispel anxiety. Exercise releases Endorphins, great effects on body and mind, but if you haven't had orgasms and oxytocin releases in weeks and months, that will start to get you more and more on edge over time. On the other hand if you're in even a decent relationship (so not great, amazing, awesome) and have a bit of a belly, you'll feel fine.

 

I know it's a bit of a Catch 22, girls would help with anxiety, but anxiety itself makes it more difficult to get girls interested, so it is what it is  :laugh:







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