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Discussion => Drug safety => Topic started by: TheYowie on October 31, 2012, 10:43 pm
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Look, basically I'm a miserable bastard and decided recently to do something about it. While I'm happy-ish most of the time, I can get pretty depressed, apathetic, lazy, bummed - not enough to cease functioning, but enough to realise that I'm not doing/getting what I want because of my negativity, and that I'm generally a downer to be around.
So for the past week I've been trying out Modafinil. Self-medicating, 200mg a day, first thing in the morning.
Generally, it's a step forward. Enough of a mood lift to make a difference, I can definitely get off my arse and do things without talking myself down, and socially I feel I can talk to whoever, and I feel like I'm less spacey and live in the moment more. It's not a bad place to be.
Big downside though - 200mg has a fucking long half-life. Even taking it at 6am, by 10pm that part of my brain which I need to switch off to sleep doesn't really want to, so I struggle to get to sleep and stay asleep. Ironically though after a week of this I don't feel tired when I wake up, despite a week of very average sleeps. If I was having that without Moda I'd be a train wreck.
So next on the cards, is a week at 100mg to see what that does.
What's your experience on low dose daily stims/nootropics?
I'm especially keen to hear from the less extreme cases - people who just want to turn themselves into a better version of themselves.
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So I'm super late to reply to this but;
I'm looking to try modafinil for the same reasons. In the past I have used vyvanse for a daily 'boost' of making myself a more productive, awake version of myself. Upside: in my business I accomplish a lot without completely neglecting my social responsibilities. Downside: after a few days I feel like crap, lose weight, and one winter I'm completely convinced vyvanse was the source of me getting a really bad chest cold for about a month (in part due to forgetting to eat and generally neglecting sleep/health).
I'd love to hear your thoughts on using modafinil daily if you're still doing that. :)
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I supp every morning with 7-8 g piracetam. Not quite a "low" dose, but noticeably effective in producing cognitive enhancement, plus it's a great synch with my much beloved 25i (as well as numerous other substances). I've heard rumors that piracetam supposedly combats amphetamine toxicity, and with 25i being a relatively new member of the phenethylamine family, my daily supplementation with piracetam gives me a warm sense of security. Let's just hope that sense of safety is rooted in legitimacy ;)
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I just bought noopept after reading about it somewhere here.
I about did half a gram. Didn't feel much.. if anything at all.
Gonna try again tomorrow's morning.
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Even if you switch to something "heavy" like amphetamine or methamphetamine, provided you never, ever, ever go above clinically approved dosages... the side effects and dangers are extremely minimal. There's a reason adderall and dexedrine are so commonly prescribed long-term for treatment of ADHD.
If you don't become an addict, there really is almost no risk. Still... that's one fucking HUGE "if," right there.