Hello. I have been on various stimulants for ADHD over the years and I know to stay away from caffeine. I had an experience a few years back when I first started taking stimulants (Ritalin) and had a lapse in judgement and I drank coffee, which was followed by a pretty bad panic attack.
For the last few months I have been on Neucon 36mg. I take it at around 6am every morning. I am very careful about caffeine intake, although, today at work they were giving out hot chocolate and I drank a cup. I never thought anything of it because I know the caffeine content is minimal in hot chocolate. This was around 12pm. Started feeling a bit off maybe 40 minutes later. Then, approximately 1-2 hours later when I got home from work I became extremely disorientated, light-headed, tight chest, heart racing, and jaw chattering (once the jaw starting kicking in I knew it had to be anxiety related). I was so taken aback by the intensity of the reaction, it was so much worse than what I had experienced years ago when I drank COFFEE on Ritalin. My SO laid with me in bed and managed to calm me to the point of me falling asleep, I passed out for like 3-4 hours, woke up, and felt a lot better although still a bit out of it.
My question is, has anyone experienced something like this before? Was it really the hot chocolate that did all that? I wrote a list of everything I ate and drank that day and nothing else could have caused that effect besides the hot chocolate.