Hi all!
Great forum here!
(avant lab rec'd this site) [thumb]
I've perused thru the immediate posts here and just thought to start a new thread.
I have the opposite problem of Chronic fatigue, and that is insomnia.
I steer clear of all rx meds for obvious reasons...
I am a true believer in nootropics, period. All thru my days/yrs of school/ college/grad school I was always struggling for the grades and thought keeping up and pulling all nighters on top of that was the answer.
I know sleep is indeed important, but a lifetime of chronic insomnia I'd go to bed when the chickens went to roost, only to awaken an hour later and remain wide awake until 2-3 am. The next day my head would feel it was in a fog. I tried the caffeine boost, but quickly got off it.
I've been on the following combo for sev'l months and have had Tremendous (!!!) results. At first, it increased my energy too much and I went days on end w/o sleep...but surprisingly did not feel tired as I had in prev yrs.
But I knew this was bad, and just wanted normal sleep.
I added L-theanine back to my diet and that did the trick.
I have a very busy, high-risk and demanding job and alertness is absolutley essential; and the days are long (fly helicopters sunup-sundown offshore) and shifts are non-ending.
OK so here's my daily stack:
piracetam: 6400mg
vinpocetine: 40mg
Alpha GPC: 600mg (the ONLY choline! all other cheapos are a waste of $$$!)
galantamine +: 16mg (take w/ food before bed; can cause insomnia/nausea)
L-theanine:200mg
OR
Phenibut + L theanine: (GREAT combo for calmness. I got a lady who is a psycho/ bipolar/manic (whew!) off that Zoloft (200mg!!!) crap and onto this....180 turn around!) but one has to watch being on phenibut long term...so Ive read
and in add to the vits:
B6:50mg (100 makes me nauseous)
C+ :1000mg
A
borage oil/E
flax
biotin
folic
and fruit and veg tabs from swansons (cheap and great for times w/ poor diets)
Lastly, my husband and I both did the Dr Natura cleansing. although both of us are in great health anyway, we both worked overseas and thought it wouldn't hurt. I can't say enough abou tthat program, but that is a different thread. It works and really keeps you incredible r-e-g-u-l-a-r! (and I thought I was fine in That dept!)
WIth this Stack, I have excellent energy thru the day (as I always did) but my Mental clarity, thoughts, even creativity have skyrocketed!
Then I seem to wind down naturally at night and actually SLEEP for more than 2 hrs straight (now can get 6-8 thru night) which was never heard of in my entire life! (And the LD's are more frequent, incredibly vivid, and controlled!)
I also listen to a lot of hemisync...that has improved my creativeness and helps me F-O-C-U-S! This has greatly helped keep my intuition sharply honed as I also depend on it daily to keep my derrier (and aircraft) out of the water!
alright, sorry for being long-winded [tung] but I wanted to share My success with my findings. I know there are many more cognitive enhancers out there, and would like to learn more from You! [thumb]
Maybe others can post their "stacks" and provide their results, and what they want to gain from nootropics, etc!
thanks!
ofp
Edited by oilfieldpilot, 16 October 2005 - 04:50 PM.