I went 3 days at 5mg/day then 2.5mg for a day and the last two days off. I am going to try 1.25 mg 2x/wk or possibly 3x/wk. That is about what Knoll recommends as I turn 35 this summer. I feel fucking great though I need to force myself to get less sleep. All I did was study constantly til after my midterm last Thursday, when I started dep. Like some have said, studying chemistry all the time isn't exactly entertainment. I wasn't so happy but I was focused and getting somewhere. Now, and with the sun shining in Boston, I feel like chucking this whole Harvard deal and moving back to Cali, fill out this USC grad school app, set up my ebb&flow and start mountain biking again. I also used to be heavy into martial arts and bodybuilding and feel like doing that again despite my joint issues. As to that, I am prescribed neurontin but I only take 300mg once or twice per week at bed time. I am diagnosed ADHD and prescribed dex but I don't take it (less than half a gram lifetime use, none in the last month) also I'm prescribed remeron but I've never tried it. The rest is as follows:
Docusate calcium 240mg (for ibs)
N acetyl-l-cysteine 500mg x2
Piracetam 1600mg x2
AGPC 250mg x2
R ALA gel (66mg + 34mg R dihydrolipoic) at night
Green tea 200mg
Grape seed 100mg
Vitamin C and E 30mg & 30iu
Pine bark 100mg (pycnogenol)
Fish oil 1000mg omega 3 (180mg EPA, 120 mg DHA) x3
Borage/flax oil 1200mg
Milk thistle 250mg x2
ALCAR 500mg at midday (may stop this)
Multivitamin
2 scoops living fuel -
http://www.livingfuel.com/LFP_02.htm at breakfast
I don't smoke (no pot either for the last year) and I drink a few bottles of wine per year. I have some L-phen and pyritinol on the way. The best nootropic effect I've produced is just living fuel, piracetam and agpc, with the exception of the milk thistle, multivitamin, fish oil and docusate calcium, the rest of the stuff was thrown in for the dep. ALCAR by itself seems to space me out a bit but stopping that didn't help the dep feeling. The RALA seems to make me sleepy so I moved it to bedtime.