Posted 31 July 2013 - 12:49 AM
Yeah, two level teaspoons of pure caffeine powder would be on the Hunter S. Thompson side of batshit-crazy. Glad that's coffee you were talking about.
I've also cut sunifiram out of my stack for the time-being. I've been sticking to my C60-EVOO (1.5ml daily) and Piracetam (3x 1.6g daily), with occasional doses of Noopept and Oxiracetam. From the past few weeks, it seems that a total of 4.8g of Piracetam daily, along with choline supplementation and the C60, is the most effective stack for my needs. I've been able to program late into the night every day without any fatigue, keeping up pace with a ridiculously tight deadline, and little need for caffeine.
As zeropoint said, and as I think I've already mentioned, after four hours I would crash pretty hard with the sunifiram in the stack, and tolerance seemed to build up fairly quickly. Overall I feel substantially better on a daily basis without the suni in my system, and my tolerance to caffeine has returned to normal. The suni definitely had positive effects, and other than crashing so hard after four hours, I didn't get any negative side-effects, but it doesn't seem to benefit my brain chemistry or complement my current stack. That research on sunifiram and schizophrenia is really interesting though; does a lot to explain why the suni suppresses visual hallucinations when mixed with psychedelics while also accentuating the weird physical sensations.
Sadly, Noopept is really rough without suni to round it out --- yesterday, I got so irritable after taking noopept that I started acting like a crotchety old man (which let me tell you, is not endearing behavior in a 30-year old). I will be dropping the noopept for now too.
It's also worth mentioning that on sunday night I tried 678mg of oxiracetam in a single dose (about an hour after my third normal daily dose of piracetam). According to smarternootropics.com, a total daily dose of 2035mg oxiracetam is supposedly the correct amount for my approximate body-mass, when I was only taking 300 -- 600mg daily before. I didn't get extremely tired right away, but when I did, I went right to sleep, slept really deep, had wild and vivid dreams, and was out cold for 12 straight hours. The next day I felt like absolute crap. So yeah, not feeling so confident about smarternootropics' recommended dosings anymore... but I suppose it's possible that 508.75mg 4x daily is better than 678.33mg 3x daily. I'll have to try it again when I have nothing important to get done.
Next up on my personal trials list are Aniracetam and Adrafinil, while I wait for NSN to restock Unifiram and get their supply of Coluracetam. I've decided to pass on Nefiracetam altogether.
Since aniracetam is lipophilic, I figure it will pair better with the daily dose of C60, but I will probably have to start taking Omega-3s again too. I'll be swapping out the piracetam from my stack for the aniracetam as soon as it arrives.
I will try the sunifiram again with the adrafinil, once I know at what point my body finishes metabolizing it into modafinil. It normally would only take 10 minutes for the suni to kick in, so if the adrafinil takes 40--60 minutes to metabolize, I figure I should stagger the doses with those timings in mind so they both kick in together.
Anyone else stacked sunifiram + adrafinil + aniracetam + c60, without any other drugs/medications in their system?
And, how do adrafinil and/or modafinil mix with normal amounts of coffee and cigarettes? Should I substantially lower the normal dose of adrafinil (which, at least on other topics around here on Longecity, seems to be about 300mg compared to the normal 200mg dose of pure modafinil)? Or should I just not mix coffee with adrafinil, period?