Insanely High Tolerance to Adderall, Switched to Ritalin. Will I even feel it?
I know the obvious fix is to take a long break without stimulants but I am desperately looking for some alternatives.
So. I (26f) was prescribed 20mg Adderall 3x a day. I abused the heck out of it for years. Fell into a meth addiction for about a year and 3yrs ago I got clean off meth, and after a while I could take my 20mg prescription & feel it working again now that the meth was fully out of my system (i would still misuse & take about 3/4 pills in order to “feel” it and of course run out of my bottle \~2.5 weeks before my refill and have to go without any for that waiting time)
For some reason, seemingly out of nowhere Adderall stopped working for me entirely. Didn’t matter if I took 6 20mg pills at once - felt nothing.
I have just been switched to Ritalin, thinking maybe my tolerance for amphetamine would not be the same on Ritalin as it isn’t technically an amphetamine. However, being as they are both still dopaminergic I am thinking that my brain’s receptors are just basically dead/depleted and worry that regardless of not having tolerance for Ritalin will be irrelevant and that it will be just as ineffective as Adderall has become.
The last 6 months without my medication working at all has caused a number of problems in my life (work, school, weight, focus, anhedonia, motivation, brain fog, the whole lot). Is there anything I can do besides cold turkey to try and hope after a long waiting period that ADHD meds will be effective for me again? Any suggestions or ideas are desperately appreciated.