I'm looking to try this for my inattentive ADHD/Sluggish Cognitive Tempo. Any of you guys have any success? Currently B vitamins, Fish oil, and vitamin D all help my symptoms which may be enhanced due to vitamin deficiencies, and I'm looking to try this supplement before trying stimulants such as Nuvigil since they build tolerance.
Yes, I'm having success. I didn't always have success with piracetam, and up until this point had only experienced glimpses of it. The drug was effectively then being a frustrating tease. It's been working for me consistently now for the last 3 - 4 weeks, the longest it ever has, and unlike the previous times which I've tried it, the effects only seem to be growing. I now take around 6 - 9 grams a day without any choline source, and have a fairly elaborate theory for why piracetam doesn't need choline after several weeks of dosage (If you're interested, a thread I made about it is in my user history). I feel convinced, at this point, that this is at least true for me. Others with deficits in acetylcholine may benefit from addition choline on a regular basis, so this all depends on individual chemisty. I'd suggest that people take a choline source for several weeks, then try without one, potentially using DMAE as an intermediate stage which increases choline levels without actually directly adding any additional choline to the body, as I understand it. If this works, and you may have to give it a couple of days, I think its probably preferable than the outrageous choline precursor doses a lot of people around here and elsewhere use.
Why would it be helpful for adhd-/sluggish cognitive tempo? Because the etiology for many of the symptoms of Adhd-pi can be caused by a lower speed of neural communication. This actually has the effect of weakening the storage and encoding of working memory, and there are studies which show this. Working memory is actually very largely responsible for the neural substrate of attentional faculties. I would guess that many neural circuits (I'm probably using fairly incorrect nomenclature here, I know) are somewhat dependent on signaling speed for proper functioning.
In any event, It might help you, it might not, but its probably worth a shot considering it's availability and affordability. I'd suggest getting enough cholesterol in your diet while you're taking it, and preferably getting enough exercise. Drinking enough water is also important, as I and others have found that piracetam can be dehydrating and that drinking more water is prudent. I don't always seem to know I'm dehydrated, either, so I have to be sure to drink water even if I'm not. I noticed that during one day I drank about 24 Oz of water and hardly had to urinate any more than would be usual.
I'd suggest a combination of piracetam and deprenyl, and if you want to go all out, throw in 100 - 200mg of modafinil a day. From one popular supplier, if you were to buy 60 tablets, this would cost around $145 with shipping, and if you were to take 100 mg a day (which may be plenty if you're also taking piracetam and deprenyl), this would last you 4 months, which is $36 a month, and seems reasonable enough to me. I just ordered 200 5mg selegiline tablets for $50, which is also very cheap. PM me for the best sources. In my opinion, this is probably the most effective nootropic-based adhd-pi stack you could go with. Keep it up the fish oil and vitamins, too.
500 grams of piracetam should also last you around 4 months. Its cost is negligible, and could be as little as $6/month. If you bought the same amount of deprenyl as me and from the same supplier, it would cost around $8/month. So, in total, for the awesome and effective adhd-pi stack that is piracetam, deprenyl, and modafinil, you would pay around $50 a month if you were to take it every day. I don't know about you, but that seems like more than fair game to me.
Edited by brain, 24 February 2010 - 03:30 AM.