all of them.
Huey Lewis and the News āNeed a new drugā flashed through my brain reading this topic header.
You mean āof allā, or āregular useā?
I went to this gem:
Iām going to have to say āone of everythingā.
I mean, my mindās only so big, and while meditation and various other non-chemical state altering things can be useful, when working on something complicated I tended to make it a habit to push my limits about (safely, of course, but the legal drugs like alcohol (and Fox News) are kind of the worst of the bunch in most cases)). Iāll often look at a problem, alter my state, and look at it again from a different angle, write things down, re-read, and so on. Itās like being a one-person project team some times, except without the communication issues.
So . . . Adderall was useful for some things, better for structure, helps with memorization, but hurt lateral thinking and creativity some, Phenibut is an AMAZING anti-anxiety nootropic and has itās own minor suite of effects, cannabis definitely has itās uses, as do the ātams (though really they all feel just like Piracetam to varying degrees), I havenāt dabbled in shrooms in a while and Iād give a lot for a couple more goes with LSD (which was freaking USEFUL! . . but itsā sadly been almost a decade). There are plenty of natural things with useful effects too.
No real use for the depressants though, I donāt get much useful out of them that I canāt duplicate with a small amount of alcohol, and really the odds of me solving a problem with them have been pretty slim. Still, have had an occasional gem and a combination of a drunk friend and a mildly buzzed self mishearing him gave us our proxy-authority system for the coopernation, so I canāt write it off completely.
I mean, our brains are the only things we are supposed to completely own, right? Why not hack the heck out of them?
Well, for now Iād have to say Advair, Zyrtec, Prilosec, and caffeine are my favorites. I couldnāt get along without them. Life in general sucks when youāre asthmatic, allergic, chronic acid stomach, and need a jump start to speed up the shuffling gait.
Otherwise, itās B&B in the winter, brown tequila margaritas in the summer, with a sprinkling of marijuana thrown in if I could only find some.
edit: I was on Prednisone for a bit to try and tame some nasal polyps, and that stuff was awesome. It shrank the polyps, cleared up the asthma and my mind felt like I was seeing everything with perfect clarity. Too bad the side effects are so horrible.
Well then.
(NSFW I suppose)
relevant (Six Flags is a US amusement park chain)
I couldnāt do his job for long. Just hosing the vomit out of the Tilt-a-Whirl would get me down pretty soon.
Sumatriptan Succinate (generic for Imitrex). 100mg so far and I think I need another 25.
I tried that combo once and it was my worst trip ever. Overwhelmingly tired and yet in such unspeakable agony that I couldnāt pass out.
Migraines do indeed suck.
Likes.
JK. mushrooms, hands down.
Ritalin. By a wide margin.
I wish I could play around with these ADHD drugs when there wasnāt so much at stake. Strattera is so inconsistent, and it lets me down at the worst times.
The NRIs routinely arenāt as effective for focus and distractability as dopaminergic drugs.
Problem being, dopaminergics are extremely addictive, easy to abuse, and do bad things like stunt your growth (if youāre a child) raise your blood pressure, clamp down on your personality, and often lead to problems with anxiety.
A few months back I tried Guanfacine, but it made me feel like I had dementia.
A few times I forgot where I was going and even who I was while driving on the freeway. Which scared the hell out of me. It also wasnāt helping much with distractability. I couldnāt stand the zonking out and suddenly being confused.
Iām on Modafinil now. Basically, every therapeutic thing ritalin does, so does modafinil, except the modafinil doesnāt have side effects (for me), and isnāt addictive in the same way.
If migraines were a street gang, Iād go to war with it with bottles and motorcycle chains, and IEDs.
The anxiety I get anyway, to a hilarious degree. I have low blood pressure and havenāt had problems with substance addiction, so that might be a better choice for me. I would be more concerned about personality, as apparently Iām a lot easier to live with on Strattera - which is important, even if I didnāt start using it for that reason. More often than not, the side effects seem to be the opposite of the ones advertised though, and I should really try a few other options before settling on one.
I drive about twice a year - I donāt trust myself to commute by car, as Iām lucky never to have zoned out and got into an accident yet. Driving rarely and on a trip works for me, and I make sure Iām alert and have a copilot.
Whatever the doctor gave me to get rid of that intestinal parasite, and got rid of years of painful problems, Iām going to to with whatever that was. I tasted metal for the whole two weeks, and the doctor himself was a jerk, but I havenāt had ulcer-like symptoms since.
Anti-parasite drugs are great, and being parasite free totally fucking rocks!