Never really post anything on reddit, but I’ve been lurking on this subreddit for a while and thought I might share an experience which really shook me.

I’ve diagnosed ADHD and OCD which means I have access to certain prescription drugs, such as 70mg vyvanse, 60mg vyvanse, 5mg dexamphetamine tablets, 50mg sertraline, and 25mg strattera. Now don’t get me wrong, I take these medications the way I am meant to most of the time, yet in the last month or so I’d say I took more than my daily dose of stimulants, going from 70mg vyvanse and 10mg Dex to like 140mg vyvanse and 60mg Dex. Reason why? Not trying to chase that feeling which most people get when they first try an amphetamine, but rather get that rush/buzz which is really pleasant and helps me study for my exams. Yet yesterday I kinda stuffed up and took way more than I should have, which resulting in me ending up in the ER. Yesterday morning I took a liquid which makes my stomach have a more basic pH to allow the amphetamines to absorb better, and right after this I took a 6mg zyn and 70mg vyvanse. I won’t waffle the next 4 hours but from 12:00PM to 4:00PM I ended up taking 6 x 70mg vyvanse, 6 x 60mg vyvanse, 53 x 5mg dexamphetamine, and 1 more 6mg zyn. Reason? I always complain that I can’t feel my meds at my usual dose (I know I just ruined it with this event), and I s couldn’t feel it after 4 aswell until I started getting a shortness of breath and a very strong beating heart (around 127BPM sitting down). Funniest part is, I didn’t feel the buzz or anything at all, I genuinely believe I would’ve gotten a better feeling if I just took a one week drug break. Anyways, I went down to the emergency department as I realised the extent of the situation I just put myself in. Now I’m not sure if this was right, but quit a few sources online said that 5mg Dex = 15mg vyvanse, so once I calculated that I took around 1575mg of vyvanse (let the people know I did the conversion). Pretty much I ended up staying in hospital overnight as my blood pressure was around 142/100, resting heart rate going from 120-145 at its worst, and I got constantly questioned if I was trying to intentionally self harm myself (which wasn’t the case, I took this much for a bloody German essay I had due). Guess this post is just to remind people that just because you can’t feel it straight away doesn’t mean it’s not working, and I got very lucky because if it wasn’t for my tolerance to these meds, I may have ended up somewhere else (to put it in perspective, this was the largest amphetamine overdose my doctor has ever seen and I was 7x over the toxicity level).