Hey Anyone Trying
Lions Mane …,
taken it before - its good.
Current stack:
Tamarind tea
Spirulina and Chlorella
Turmeric and Ginger
Cilantro
Shilajit resin
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I Take Curcumin & Shilajit … Waiting For Lions Maine Delivery .
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I swapped the astralgus to day time
I thought this was an interesting idea about lithium as I was reading about inositol
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@shutterbug @anon82218445 @AmICrazyYet …
Reveiw & Thought on CBD,CBG,CBC,CBN Oils …
Mainly On CBD Oil…
Have never touched the stuff so far.
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Low quality evidence in favour of, nothing convincing.
I sort of feel like it is the case that the lobby behind recreational drug legalisation tends to try and seek medicinical legalisation through all sort research avenues. This generally targets chronic illness, I.e. it is an unpopular opinion war on drugs political advocates to have an view against using psychedelics in end of life cancer and ptsd in veterans. This then scales to pain, anexity, depression and then defacto drug seeking medicinal legalisation.
Don’t get me wrong I’m all for decriminalisation and I think the psychedelic renaissance is really important. I’m just really not fan of the way the argument is put forward for legalisation and the perturbation of the truth. It’s the same thing as some socialist groups not declaring they are communists outright. Also the alt-right’s involvement with right extremist wings. I mean I think if you want to have legalisation then state it up front. Pharmaceutical companies commonly test for various indications. I feel like this is the same from the legalisation perspective of street drugs targeting chronic disorders. I understand the pragmatics about it and medicinal value, I just dislike the disingenuousness of the logical argument people put forward. I think you would see an analogous argument for amphetamines put forward by people if it didn’t already have an indication for adhd.
To be honest my bar for what constitutes quailty evidence is pretty low in terms of treating something which is a chronic disorder, I also have a risk tolerance and willingness to try things it probably a bit higher then most. I figure that most of the supplements are pretty harmless which may or may not be true. I have tried CBD before and one thing I did notice was that it was great for sleep. It is something I plan to give a proper try in the future, mainly just for sleep
I’m going to restructure my stack following Mr Hope’s recommendation regarding night time dosing. I got a brass compact that I have upcycled as a pill box and placed it on my key rings to try afternoon dosing. Won’t swap to this for another couple of week.
Day
Tadalafil ~2.5mg
Vitamin C 1000mg
Bupropion ~32.5mg
Selenium 200mcg & Vitamin E 20mg (Every fourth day)
Zinc 50mg (Every second day)
Vitamin D 1000iu (Every second day)
NAC 1400mg
Curcumin 500mg
Astragalus extract 50mg
Chondroitin & Glucosamine 600/750mg
Lion’s mane 500mg
Beta-Alanine 1400mg
Collegen 10g
Creatine 5g
MSM ~2.5g
Afternoon
L-thanine 200mg
Ubiquinol & PQQ100mg/10mg - ALA 500mg (Alternating days)
Garlic 1200mg
Acetyl-L-carnitine 500mg
NALT & DL-Phenylalanine ~133/333mg
Sabroxy 390mg
Beta-Alanine 1400mg
Night
Latuda 15mg
Vitamin C 1000mg
Magnesium ~600mg
NAC 1400mg
Collegen 10g
Guanfacine 1mg
Taurine 700mg
Status update
Tinnitus is slightly reduced
Sleep is still poor
Hypomaina/elevated mood is nonexistant and was squashed by reductions of AD and additions of guanfacine/lithium
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A bit surprised you don’t have a couple more supplements that target sleep in your nightstack. And taurine might be better to take in afternoon, at least for me it works like a energy booster.
I would recommend considering some of these: tryptophan, melatonin, l-serine, B6, reishi, black seed oil, and cbd as mentioned.
I actually do take melatonin forgot to mention and guanfacine is quite strongly sedating.
Black seed is interesting but something which I would probably use for immune health if anything. It has similar moa to berberine and metformin also so mighr avoid for exercise reasons.
I order most of my stuff of iherb so since l-serine isn’t available I’d probably use PS
Reshi is anti-androgenic so I would be inclined to avoid
Tryptophan is an option.
But you’re right I could use more. I could add gaba, tryptophan and PS. I might look to add some of these in my next order
Thank you for the suggestion. I felt I had sort of ran out of stuff with my sleep.
Also Taurine acts on gaba receptors and I saw it in a sleep formula. Ashwaganda is also another option which I have lying around
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@AmICrazyYet …U Take All This Supplement At Once … Is It Helping …??
I take Curcumin,Shilajit Seroquel 400 … Lions Mane Waiting & Placing An Order For CBD Oil …
I Skip Seroquel Yesterday Couldnt Sleep Last Night And My Gut Is Like Inflated Ballon …
Headache,Anxiety.Agression Sadness Anger Because Of Insomnia …
God Bless …
I get the impression that some of you over dose a little bit on alternative meds.
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It’s definitly not for everyone taking big stacks. I wouldn’t recommend it unless a person has studied it in some form. I have studied natural medicine, but even despite that I have made mistakes relying too much on theory instead of individual response, but I have learned.
I recently cut back a lot of what I was taking and I plan to keep it that way. Now I mostly take vitamins and a few sleep aids. Has to be said sleep improved the last month which I have desperately tried to fix for many years, so the main reason for taking a big stack has gone.
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Hard to tell what difference it makes since I take them as a full cocktail. When I have come off my cocktail in the past yeah, I have done poorly MH wise. So I think it helps, to what degree and what is doing what I can’t tell you exactly.
You shouldn’t skip, if you don’t want to take it, then you’d probably do well just to take less.
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Previously I broken up Lurasidone tablets into quarters and approximate eighths (eighths are hard to cut accurately). Since I was making pill boxes for 4 weeks and using quarters and eighths to approximate the ~15mg was indeed accurate over the month. Given the therapeutic efficacy of antipsychotics like antidepressants can take a month, give or take evening out my antipsychotic dosage to 15mg over 4 weeks is no issue in my eyes.
I got some milligram scales with an error of +/- 2mg using a calibrated 50 of mg weight, assuming any discrepancy in the weights is static, which may not be the case since I don’t know the ins and outs of scale calibrations. Still no major issue. Wanting to go for a dosage reduction, using mg scales 40mg Lurasidone tablets come in at 165mg whole. Using approximate 10% dosage reduction steps would make for 13.5mg, I have chosen to go for something a little more aggressive ~53mg tablet weight.
- 165/53 = 3.113
- 40/3.113 = 12.850
Weight the quarters and breaking up the eighths on the scales to make 53mg I am using 000 capsules I have to re-capsule the smaller amounts. Thus reducing the dosage to 12.85mg of Lurasidone, my first time under 15mg. I am currently removing the bupropion and will do my best to avoid coffee and drink black tea. I am also introducing CBD, and lithium is returning to the mix. I may add ashwagandha and have ordered some GABA, PS and Tryptophan as per discussion with Mr_Hope.
Hopefully, I don’t get too depressed for the crash of the NDRI AD also since lurasidone is a Bipolar-antidepressant.
Wish me luck 
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Good luck with it 
Thank you!
I actually just figured out that after increasing back to 20mg due to stress, I had a day where I took 1.25mg zyprexa additional and it has induced a muscle dystonia in my right cheek causing a TMJ. A decrease is definitely in order!
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TMJ was definitely related to dystonia and antipsychotic dosage. I’ve ended up reducing to 10mg latuda because of the TMJ. The dystonia is reducing but not as quickly as I had hoped. Positives symptoms are holding short term. I’m a bit more paranoid but not intrusively so.
More confident the tinnitus is linked to Bupropion since coming off. I feel good, maybe I can come off the antidepressant altogether. I have a love hate relationship with Bupropion ever since the tinnitus. I’m going to look at reducing the guanfacine since it works in a opposing fashion to yohimbine. Maybe a bit more a2a activation will improve my mood without needing the Bupropion.
I’m hoping I can make up some of the focus and attention by increasing ALCAR.
I’m going to start doing blood work.
Stack will undergo a major change with this next revision.
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i see you take latuda but its very low ineffective dose. why you took such low dose? you take any other antipsychotics?
Latuda was effective enough for me at 15mg, I’m trying to taper off meds