Apologies in advance for another overly long post! Thank you in advance if you read it and respond!
When I first started using nootropics seriously I went a few weeks dosing Noopept 10mg 3x daily with a few other racetams. The effect was, in short, pretty good. Prior to this I abstained from alcohol and all recreational drugs for probably about a month (not that I was a big drinker or drug user but I did occasionally drink and smoke a little weed). Anyway this period catalysed what I now see, looking back, as quite a transformative period in my life, and I believe Noopept did play a big part in this.
I had combined Piracetam and Oxiracetam before a few times but not experienced anything groundbreaking. Adding 10mg of Noopept to this was to me, like night and day - the motivation and sense of purpose I experienced as well as clarity of thought and the ability to finally think and act to escape the psychological prison I had been building up around myself for several years, and had previously felt utterly powerless to escape from, is something that for me, was quite revolutionary.
This is not purely subjective either - the work I do requires a fairly high degree of creativity and self-motivation and I was told by a friend of mine during this period that the work I had done was some of the best I had ever done. Other friends had commented that there seemed to be some sort of drastic change, or even "paradigm shift", as described by one, for the better.
Anyway after about 3 weeks I took a weeks holiday with friends where I did not take any nootropics because I didn't feel like trying to take a bunch of relatively unknown powders into another country. I did not experience any negative effects from abstaining - in fact quite honestly I felt like there was a lasting change in my mind. This holiday was another eye-opening and transformative experience for me as well for reasons which I don't feel like elaborating on in a public forum, but in any case coming back I am in a better state of mind than I feel I have been since probably about 10 years ago when I was in my mid teens.
ANYWAY, coming back I saw no reason to stop using nootropics so I pretty much just picked up where I left off, however it seems that now the subjective effect of Noopept specifically is just much diminished. I was very hesitant to remove it completely from my stack just because I feel it has played such a helpful part up to this point but that is maybe what I am going to do. I had a somewhat worrying incident a few days ago, when I had taken another few days break due to going away for a few days (in this country this time, just couldn't be bothered to carry all my supplements with me).
I dosed my usual 10mg Noopept with nothing else that morning, and then while I was on the phone to someone I had to leave my number and I literally just couldn't remember it at all - I know brain glitches happen to everyone but this incident has stuck with me for some reason, I ended up giving a scrambled mix of my actual phone number and a number I had several years ago and then had to call them back once I'd checked it and found it to be wrong. I have heard of noopept sometimes causing strange incidents of forgetfulness so again, I found this a little worrying.
One theory I have is that noopept played a part in helping me get on the way back to baseline after struggling for a long time with depression and anxiety, I have never been medicated or properly diagnosed and have tried to just push through it but it is extremely evident to me looking back the extent of these issues. Now that I have begun to overcome these however, perhaps the extent to which noopept can make any difference is also reduced.
In any case, your thoughts and experiences would be much appreciated.
IN SUMMARY - Was unhappy, took a regimen of Noopept 10mg 3x daily + Piracetam + Oxiracetam for 3 weeks, felt much better, took a week's holiday, found Noopept much less effective after coming back to it, although positive changes in mindset appear to persist and continue to develop.
Edited by Xenthide, 30 July 2013 - 06:20 PM.
