Adderall and Online Poker

[ipp147]

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I've been doing it for 2 years, and I am serious. Is there a problem?


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doing it for 2 years? your top-post says this:

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I've never actually tried the stuff, and am cautious to do so.

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i'm either missing something, or you are not being honest with us.

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I think he means professional poker.

[bigalt]

for some reason this reminds me of ron jeremy talking about viagra.

He's a little bitter about how it's leveled the playing field in the industry, but won't touch the stuff himself. It can become a crutch so quickly. So you use it once on the job for a particularly tough scene. Then maybe you use it for a really big date. Then all of a sudden you find yourself using it habitually.

[chicagoY]

As with anything my friend, the more you use a drug the more of it you need to get the same effect. For the record, while I've never tried to play poker with it, Adderall and Ritalin were the best drugs I've ever taken. Amazing! With Adderall, there is all the productivity of Ritalin without the psychological high. Opt for Adderall as its less the DEA villian I believe.

[chicagoY]

No, Adderall will do all the things you say...but it sounds like you're already doing great, so why bother with the drugs?

[Terry]

My personal experience. Judgmental, moralistic, or misinformed replies will be ignored.

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Provigil ... Just smooth, subtle focus

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My experience, exactly. Incredible focus, particularly at hand reading. However, I got severe double vision and extreme sensitivity to light; even looking at the TV required squinting my eyes down to tiny slits. No goot.

Ritalin: was very uncomfortable for me; kinda weird scary impending doom feeling. No goot.

Adderall: Definite increase in focus but big problem channeling the focus. I would come across an interesting word and spend the next 14 hours googling link after link for “splogs” or “lockpicking” or “natalee holloway” and got in very little poker time. The major effect for me was a distinct reduction in showering, shaving, tooth brushing, and eating. No goot.

[suzzer99]

This has me curious. I don't really believe in any of these newly diagnosed illnesses that all of a sudden 50% of the population has. But I may have some kind of ADD. I am very very easily distracted and not really comfortable unless I'm doing 20 things at once. But computer programming has been such a perfect occupation, because I think it's one of the only thing that can pull me into complete focus. When I first started learning internet programming, I would listen to techno music and just completely zone into trying to figure out the programming problems in front of me. I would often listen to the same CD 2-3 times because I couldn't be bothered with trying to pick one and then loading it up. 8 hours would go by in a heartbeat. I believe this could be hyper-focus?

Anyway, this has my wondering if I should stop watching TV and surfing 2p2 while playing and start listening to music. I'm wondering if anyone else has opinions/experience on these different environments.

I just wish PS would hurry up and send my damn dell gift cert, so I can get my laptop and start 8-tabling. Then I don't think TV or 2p2 will be much of an option.

[SoHotRightNow]

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We may not know the downside of these things for 30 years, as in long term health problems or all the wrong places to prescribe them. Only one way to find out that second thing - you are the guinea pig. I can't tell you how many Paxil-misdiagnosis horror stories I've heard--mariages almost ruined, people almost killing themselves--all because they are naturally kind of shy. They've dialed way way back on Paxil prescriptions since the early days. May happen with Adderal, Concertor, Focusin, too.

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Focusin? All those bald children should be arousing suspicion...

I know its not a funny subject, but I had to respond to the obscure simpsons reference.

[suzzer99]

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We may not know the downside of these things for 30 years, as in long term health problems or all the wrong places to prescribe them. Only one way to find out that second thing - you are the guinea pig. I can't tell you how many Paxil-misdiagnosis horror stories I've heard--mariages almost ruined, people almost killing themselves--all because they are naturally kind of shy. They've dialed way way back on Paxil prescriptions since the early days. May happen with Adderal, Concertor, Focusin, too.

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Focusin? All those bald children should be arousing suspicion...

I know its not a funny subject, but I had to respond to the obscure simpsons reference.

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Very nice. I was wondering if anyone was going to catch that.

[goodguy_1]

check out a few threads on adderall:
http://www.erowid.org/experiences/su...etamines.shtml

-here's one of them:


Addiction & Self-medication
Adderall
by Dr Smooth

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DOSE : 30 mg oral Amphetamines (pill / tablet)

BODY WEIGHT : 140 lb


Don't get me wrong, I'm not an uppers guy. I've generally held them in a light of skepticism, as they seem highly addictive (and lo, I am an addictive type of guy) and altogether not my style.

I think I've changed my opinion, perhaps. Yesterday, Nov 2, I left school and came back home to do laundry and homework, luckily the folks were away at the beach. I began trying to do all the homework I'd told myself I'd do, but to little avail. Around 5:30pm I took a single pink/yellow-ish pill of Adderall that someone had given me several months prior. Actually, to be specific, I simply tucked it betwixt my gum and cheek, and pretty much forgot about it.

Having only one previous experience with a serious stimulant, a single dose of ritalin a long time ago, I did not _know_ I was affected. I didn't realize until I looked down at the computer screen and realized I was two pages over the length requirement for a paper I'd been dreading and had been rather quite uninterested in.

At that point I started getting agitated, but in a supremely pleasant way. I began wandering around my house, turned on the PBS newshour around 6:20 but found it intolerably slow, and began reading two different magazines, organizing the bookshelf and cleaning the cat box pretty much all at once.... yeah it sounds insane but my mind just kept jumping. I was focused completely on any single thing, like a train on a straight track except for that my train kept suddenly jumping to other straight tracks. At the same time I kept an awareness of all the other tracks.

Realizing how excited I had become and how I was not accomplishing anything that actually _had_ to be accomplished (other than the catbox, I suppose.... yeah dependent species..) and buckled down and finished my paper, elaborating heavily on my first draft. After that my mind quit racing so much, my body, specifically skin still felt sensitive, like on kind bud with damiana, and I felt fine. I headed to the other part of the house, and went into my stepdad's storage room. I immediately began ransacking things, just out of curiosity. At this point I had a couple glasses of coke, and a cigarette. Though curiously I had _less_ of a physical desire to smoke than usual after a few hours.

I then discovered an old guitar in the closet and, despite not being musically inclined, immediately picked it up and started 'playing' for a good half-hour. For the first time I actually seemed to understand the guitar, at least rudimentally.

Around 9:30 or 10 I felt completely sober and drove downtown to see if I could find any of my friends from back in High School. Driving was exceptionally fun, by the way.

Upon arrival I found many people I had never met before but I sincerely enjoyed talking to them, and had very interesting conversations. I was not shy, but not drunkardly amiable.

To cut to the chase, I felt NORMAL. This is the way I am supposed to be, I was alert (not so common), very social, focused, intelligent (I beat someone in chess who has ALWAYS beaten me), and over all content with the world. What could be better than sitting out on a nice night conversing with people. It didn't matter to me whether I got '[censored] up.' I was already perfect.

Though I got little sleep last night I felt fine about it, and I'm not really tired today. I had fascinating logic trains, around sunup I decided I should sleep and took a gram or so of Tryptophan, but it didn't phase me.

My addictions to caffeine and nicotine became only supplements, and unnecessary at that, because the amph was doing the job quite nicely. I do admit that right now I would _really_ enjoy having another pill, which is sort of alarming. While there is a temporary glut in Adderall in one of my circles right now, I am going to try and use tyrosine instead. Still, amphetamines have a respectable place in my drug pantheon.


Exp Year: 2001 ID: 10365
Added: Sep 1, 2004 Views: 13070





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[Grey]

So ... how does one get Adderall? I've read that you can get it from internet sites- but have no idea which ones to trust.

PM if need be.