Posted 18 August 2005 - 12:19 AM
Most literature suggests initializing a piracetam supplementation regime with a series of "attack" doses of 1600-2400mg 2 or even 3 times a day. Gradually subsiding over 3 or 4 days into a steady pattern of 800mg 2-3 times a day. Since the introduction of inexpensive bulk powder piractam I have come across more instances of what could be deemed "killer" doses, some even as high as 9 grams at once on avant labs....and on rec.drugs.smart a Creatine/Piracetam cocktail of 3g each was christened the Bababing mix last year. Personally I approach it for the long-run, much like a distance runner, pacing on smaller doses over longer periods of time. I tried the bababing and it doesn't work after the 2nd or 3rd day so you have to lay-off to feel the burst effect of cerebral activity.
Back in '94 at age 23 when I first began my investigations with piractam & liquid lechthin mix, back when you still had to order branded piracetam in pink-coated pills from european sources, I did 2 3-month courses in my final year of college, I too was concerned about "always" taking a pill. Generally the piracetam takes 1-2 weeks to sink in, for me it was a somewhat subtle difference which took some time to quantitatively or qualitatively "nail-down". The most prominent feature, again for me, was a distinct shift in my use of language. I could use it with more versatility, there was also seemingly spontaneous connections being made where ideas would just pop into my mouth which would make everyone burst out laughing or completely captivated, I could navigate sentance permutations and word choices while talking in realtime and even add almost rhythmic sycopation on top . I could also write better and think I was more creative on the whole. In some ways it is also good for enjoying life and having fun with people, not what many would expect from a nootropic. When I stopped 3 months later it was like if superman lost his special powers, there was a week where I noticed the lose of linguistic fluidity and having to think harder to put moderately complex sentance structures together without too many "ummms" and "ahhhs". About after a week I stopped noticing and things went back to how it was before piractam.
In the years since I have been here and there with it. Sometimes I could not make a pattern with it, or I was on a course of something else and was not sure of the interaction. The good thing was that I accomplished some major intellectual achievements without it, including teaching myself how to program computers. About a year and a half ago I got 700g of piracetam which is almost finished....when you start you do notice it but after awhile the effect do not seem so pronounced. I do take breaks, usually short minibreaks of 2 or 3 days where I come close to baseline, but sometimes I take 2 week breaks and just rest and vegetate so my brain activity is not so important.
You say you have ADD, which maybe it is just me but it seems like all the young people have that these days. When I go to ADD websites and read about what it actually is I get a case of cybercondria. Prehaps I had ADD, but just a mere 10 years ago people didn't do much about it, although some got ritalin, but it was usually cause their parents hauled them into a shrink cause they were caught smoking pot or something. Personally I quite happy to self-medicate with a daily prescription of a good racetam, instead of on some weird anti-depressive. Also get bioavailable choline, many go for AlphaGPC, personally I find it too much, but I am not very experienced with it.
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