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Hi all, I have suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome for most of my adult life and have been treated with prescription stimulants. Recently after moving, despite long documented history from sleep specialists and psychiatrists, apparently the doctors in the new state I live in don’t consider this a real diagnosis ? I have tried living without treatment for the past month or so but it is getting to be miserable, suffering through the work week and then spending all my free time sleeping. I have been looking into alternatives such as Flmodafinil, Cyclazodone etc and am looking for any suggestions from people. I have tried numerous herbal supplements etc and have not had success. I’d really appreciate recommendations/suggestions.

Seems like 10 years ago everyone was recommending piracetam, colouracetam, oxyracetam etc. now I don’t really see it being highly praised or recommended anymore.

What happened, are there just better nootropics out there?

Hey guys has anyone actually taken any compound that actually gave you photographic memory for some time? how long did the effect last? did you gert any side effects?

2 things in my life have given me consistently outstanding sleep.

Grape Seed extract - Somehow manages to make me feel refreshed and able to get right out of my bed even on 5 hours of sleep

MK 677 - felt like someone was massaging me the whole night, could sleep through a tornado, never slept deeper.

Of course, I can't continue to take MK 677 forever for the obvious reasons.

However, I do want to hear people's advice on other sleep aids that can provide a similar deep sleep/restorative effect, as I work a pretty demanding job that doesn't offer much time for sleep.

So in studies it does increase working memory in ADHD people. But a lot of reports on it suggest brain fog and fatigue (initial side effect in studies as well).

What has your experience been with it? Does it work as a nootropic including on top of stimulants?

Looking for something to help speak more fluently

These are the only compounds ive found that not only work but also stack well together.

Pretty straightforward but ive found this work better then phenibut and has less side effects.

Take ~1 hour before social event

• 1200mg aniracetam
• 400mg l-theanine
• 3g taurine

I cycle selank occasionally as well.

I’ve been seeing ads on FB for 200 mg Modafinil. Sounds good and requires a prescription but apparently they’ll set an apt for you. Hypothetically if I was prescribed this, would it even be safe? My question is centered mostly around the safety of this, as I have no idea about it.

I know for the long term:
- ACD856
- AF710B
- Neboglamine

Short term:
- PRL-8-53
- BPN14770
- Tropisetron
- Suritozole

Correct me if I’m wrong or add any I don’t know

Which one of those two compounds are stronger in terms of stimulation, motivation.

Been suddenly feeling apathetic the past week and a half and had no clue what was causing it. I started entering in every supplement I took and doing research on them—then a clear “winner” rose to the top. I started taking regular black pepper/ashwaganda supplements 3 weeks ago. And what I’ve found in side effects for this supplement is that it can cause an emotional numbness effect. I hate feeling so apathetic, it’s honestly reminding me of the depression I went through almost 15 years ago—like I was slowly on a downward spiral towards complete hopelessness.

Anyway, I immediately stopped it-so it’s only been 48 hrs without but I just was curious if anyone else had this happen with it?

I'll be upfront, I'm not really a supplements guy and I went in skeptical. My girlfriend swears by ashwagandha, and a while back she went out of her way to get me a jar, some French brand called Nutrimea, because she was sick of hearing me complain about being wound up all the time.

It's been sitting next to the coffee machine for a good few weeks. I kept meaning to try it and just didn't, mostly because part of me figured it was placebo and I'd be wasting my time.

Then work blew up. We're in the middle of a restructure, half my team's future is up in the air, and I'm stuck in the middle of it. I'm lying awake at 2am with my brain running laps, snappy with everyone during the day, wiped out but unable to switch off. Pretty much the exact stuff people say ashwagandha is meant to help with, so suddenly that jar looks a lot more interesting.

So before I start on it, I thought I'd ask around. For those who've taken it through a really stressful stretch, did it take the edge off, or is it mostly in your head?

I have severe performance anxiety. And my boss assigned me to make a speech in two days infront of about 200 people, and I wanna throw up just thinking about it. So ive been doing research and mostly came upon Propranolol and L-theanine. However just separate uses. I was wondering has anyone ever used both at once and how are the effects.

Been testing non-nootropic methods of enhancing cognitive function.

1. Meditation:

Been doing 5 minutes in the morning and 5 minutes before bed. Morning are much more focused and intentional, urges to look at my phone are more manageable. Sleep is much deeper, and so many dreams wow REM sleep is much crazier.

2. No Music

This was the biggest one. I was addicted to listening to music, putting on air pods when cooking, studying, walking, hitting the gym, and even just to go to the bathroom. I think I was just trying to escape my thoughts. I become more creative and intentional with my day. Being productive is easy now, when before it felt like all my thoughts were scattered and working was impossible.

3. Staring at Wall

Interesting technique. I just stare at the wall or at an outlet for 2-3 minutes whenever I feel very unfocused, or before a difficult task. Works really well surprisingly. I would recommend.

Let me know if you guys have any other suggestions.

There's a nootropic subreddit, the one missing the "r" in the name where the mod has a company that sells researchy sounding drugs with alphanumeric soup for names. To protect the innocent, let's call this company "Everyscam".

Ever wonder how Everyscam gets away with selling big-pharma's prized research drugs without being sued into oblivion to protect their intellectual property?

Most of those drugs are abandoned. Basically failed pharmaceuticals being sold as nootropics. The rights to some of them have been sold to different companies, who try to find a use for them. There's one, let's call it JUNK-356 that was first tried as a treatment for MDD. When that didn't work it got trialed as an adjunct for MDD. Then it got trialed for various deficits like autism. The original creator dumped it.

So what's the chances that JUNK-356 will make you smarter? Probably zero. But the placebo effect is strong. Nobody is immune to it. If you think it is making you smarter, you might actually study harder and do better on tests, just because you think you can. So I guess that's worth something.

At least most of these failed drugs are probably safe. The creators conduct extensive safety trials before the actual testing begins.