I am so freaking frustrated! No matter what I try I build up a huge tolerance to it in a matter of days.
I was recently prescribed dextroamphetamine (AKA Dexedrine) for ADD. I had requested it because when I tried it for a short time years ago it had worked great. But I can’t even use it regularly! The doctor prescribed taking 3 10mg tabs a day. I did, and the first day was great. I could concentrate like nobodies business, got tons done around the house and felt great. The next day, not so much, but it was still okay. The third day all I got was a little dry-mouth. By the fourth day, nothing. So I took six at once, I got a pretty good reaction, but the next day, nothing. It has been only three weeks and no matter how much I take there is no effect. I downed about twenty a few days ago (after building up to that) and I did not even get dry-mouth. After that I just quit taking the drug. I later told my doctor that I had taken twelve and he said that he had never even read of someone being able to take 120mg without reaction.
It is the same with everything. When I go to the dentist he has to inject me with novocaine at least three times before I just give up and bear the pain (at least I go to a guy that provides nitrous now). I can easily drink a twelve pack of diet soda and fall right to sleep. Drinking alcohol was fun for a few months, but now my tolerance is so high that I don’t get drunk, either nothing happens or I blackout.
That is another problem, I will only get a few negative side effects. Too much caffeine will only make me jittery with no extra energy. Alcohol only leads to blackouts, and stimulants, like the Dexedrine, have no effect but to leave me impotent (this goes away after a day or so.)
I am sure that this will all be great when I am attacked by a king cobra or live in an area that has water with extremely high arsenic levels, but it is currently a very serious problem for me. My doctor thinks that this may be the real reason why no anti-depressant has ever worked for me, and it only makes prescribing other medications a tedious and somewhat dangerous affair. Short of thirty years of hard drinking, is there any way to combat this? Is there any other type of stimulant that is very difficult to build a tolerance to?