Please bear with this really long post.
I suffered from a head injury a few years back and have noticed my memory was never quite what it was. Doing some research on brain supplements, i stumbled across nootropic's and the one that interested me the most was Noopept. I picked it due to its long term potentiation and ngf factors which for a head injury sounds perfect right? as with all things in life if something is too good to be true it usually is. I took 10 mg after I measured it on a scale sublingually, and after 5 minutes began to notice intense pressure in my head as well as a dissociative feeling. It was as if everything I saw was seperated by a window or like I was looking at life through a tv screen. It was night time when I took it I decided maybe Ill try to sleep it off. The next day, I woke up still with the dissociated feeling and in the daylight everything was so bright, colors look extremely saturated and everything looked sharp. It's as if someone put the color saturation and sharpness settings in a TV on high. These affects were extremely scary especially combined with the dissociation. It felt like I was in a video game and not in real life. After a week the color saturation and sharpness died down, but the dissociation remains. I still feel separated from what I see. If I look at an object or put it close to my eye I can see it, but can't feel it there if that makes any sense? Imagine, someone has their finger pointed at your face. You can kind of feel the presence of that finger, but ever since I took noopept I can't.
Some other symptoms I noticed were my depth perception is off. For example If I look at a plain wall its almost as if its zooming in and out like a pop up or a 3d movie. I feel like if I touch the wall my finger might go through it.
Also everything now has grainy look to it, almost as If im watching a film with grain. It looks exactly like the picture on the left http://www.digital-d...simages/dnr.png it doesn't block my view but it's really annoying and seperates me more from the world more. I looked online and read that the grainy vision is visual snow, and the detached feeling is derealization/depersonalization. the first few days I have had multiple panic episodes in fear that I might stay like this I am more calm now hoping this gets better eventually. Im desperate for some sort of supplement or drug that can help these feelings. I literally only took one dose of noopept, and have been beating myself up ever since. I had this gut feeling that I shouldn't take it I wish I would of listened.
I have been searching for people with the same experience and only found two people in similar circumstances.
https://www.reddit.c...e_careful_with/
and
http://www.longecity...e-9#entry628240
post #260 from Asteroceras
none of which I can contact. I honestly wish I saw these before I took noopept, there should be a sticky or some kind of forum dedicated to specific nootropics side effects.
to help deter people from taking something that might not be worth the risk. I had mild memory issues and it turned into something way worse.
as of right now I have been searching all over the internet looking for some kind of supplement advice or even medication advice.
I also would like to know how could noopept cause this. From what I gathered on the internet here is what I learned:
I learned visual snow is caused by hypermetabolism of the lingual gyrus, and depersonalization can be caused by kappa-opioid receptor antagonists and ndma antagonist.
Noopept affects ampa receptors,and deperonsalization/deralization can be cause by increased glutamate in non nmda receptors.
Also, my visual snow can possibly be caused by the increase in neural transmission in the lingual gyrus from the ampa in noopept.
I also have been reading about excitoxicity. I don't know if noopept can cause excitoxicity as I know it suppose to prevent it, but maybe taking it sublingually didn't give my body the chance to regulate it causing a surge of glutamate?
Honestly im just playing connect the dots. I don't have any knowledge on microbiology or chemistry. Maybe someone here who has experienced this, or has knowledge on the subject can chime in on how noopept caused this and what my next course of action should be.
Once again sorry for the long post and thank you for taking the time to read it.
Edited by hurricane12, 31 December 2015 - 03:50 PM.