all of them.
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Huey Lewis and the News “Need a new drug” flashed through my brain reading this topic header.
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You mean ‘of all’, or ‘regular use’?
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I went to this gem:
I’m going to have to say ‘one of everything’.
I mean, my mind’s 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)). I’ll 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. It’s 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 it’s own minor suite of effects, cannabis definitely has it’s uses, as do the ‘tams (though really they all feel just like Piracetam to varying degrees), I haven’t dabbled in shrooms in a while and I’d give a lot for a couple more goes with LSD (which was freaking USEFUL! . . but its’ sadly been almost a decade). There are plenty of natural things with useful effects too.
No real use for the depressants though, I don’t get much useful out of them that I can’t 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 can’t 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?
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Well, for now I’d have to say Advair, Zyrtec, Prilosec, and caffeine are my favorites. I couldn’t get along without them. Life in general sucks when you’re asthmatic, allergic, chronic acid stomach, and need a jump start to speed up the shuffling gait.
Otherwise, it’s 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.
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Well then.
(NSFW I suppose)
relevant (Six Flags is a US amusement park chain)
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I couldn’t do his job for long. Just hosing the vomit out of the Tilt-a-Whirl would get me down pretty soon.
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Sumatriptan Succinate (generic for Imitrex). 100mg so far and I think I need another 25.
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I tried that combo once and it was my worst trip ever. Overwhelmingly tired and yet in such unspeakable agony that I couldn’t pass out.
Migraines do indeed suck.
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Likes.
JK. mushrooms, hands down.
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Ritalin. By a wide margin.
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I wish I could play around with these ADHD drugs when there wasn’t so much at stake. Strattera is so inconsistent, and it lets me down at the worst times.
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The NRIs routinely aren’t 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 you’re 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 wasn’t helping much with distractability. I couldn’t stand the zonking out and suddenly being confused.
I’m on Modafinil now. Basically, every therapeutic thing ritalin does, so does modafinil, except the modafinil doesn’t have side effects (for me), and isn’t addictive in the same way.
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If migraines were a street gang, I’d go to war with it with bottles and motorcycle chains, and IEDs.
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The anxiety I get anyway, to a hilarious degree. I have low blood pressure and haven’t had problems with substance addiction, so that might be a better choice for me. I would be more concerned about personality, as apparently I’m a lot easier to live with on Strattera - which is important, even if I didn’t 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 don’t trust myself to commute by car, as I’m 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 I’m alert and have a copilot.
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Whatever the doctor gave me to get rid of that intestinal parasite, and got rid of years of painful problems, I’m going to to with whatever that was. I tasted metal for the whole two weeks, and the doctor himself was a jerk, but I haven’t had ulcer-like symptoms since.
Anti-parasite drugs are great, and being parasite free totally fucking rocks!
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