Current Events > I need to be awake and alert, but caffeine isn't cutting it anymore

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Is there anything stronger that I can easily get?

Legally, obviously

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You could lock yourself in a room with a rabid Raccoon. I challenge anyone to sleep through that.

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Powerthirst.

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Electrolytes (mostly potassium and magnesium) and B12.

Edit: MCT oil as well, go for C10 or C8. The post beneath me reminded me. But go easy on it, it has a tendency to give people bowl issues if you do too much without being used to it.

I use this for my pre-workout or coffee replacement when I need energy.



I'll take it with a 200mg tablet of magnesium glycinate. Has 1000mg of potassium, some trace minerals, and I'll add some sea salt.

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Mct oil and sea salt in your coffee.

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I take medication for depression. I'm thinking of stopping it for a while. It helps, but makes me kind of tired.

Right now it's more important for me to be energetic enough to give 110% at work, do a bunch of housework, and only sleep 3 hours a night.

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I mean Adderall

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Have you tried amphetami-

Accolon posted...

Legally, obviously

oh...

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inloveanddeath0 posted...

I mean Adderall

Nice save

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You know what to do

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Hydrate

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Accolon posted...

and only sleep 3 hours a night.

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Kratom, but don't overdo it.
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Adrafinil

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I sleep for 8 hours and still feel tired at times soo

Only legal advice is only use caffeine when actually needed for work - cut out any caffeine intake if off the job.

And dont want to get too much into the specifics but from having been there and done that with stimulants, controlled usage of caffeine is actually pretty damn effective for pure wakefulness/alacrity. You gotta supply the interest and brainpower on your own but it is powerful if managed correctly. And dont forget about caffeine pills.

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ToPoPO posted...

I sleep for 8 hours and still feel tired at times soo

the dog sometimes does me in if she somehow walks over 1 hour and a half. i try to resist the sleep but it always gets me in the middle of the day for a few hours.
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Red Line


$3.20 at 711

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DespondentDeity posted...

Adrafinil

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start going to bed at a decent hour

Questionmarktarius posted...

start going to bed at a decent hour

That's not currently an option.

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Accolon posted...

That's not currently an option.

Well, shit.
Just buy a bag of coffeebeans and chomp on them directly.

Bath salts

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DespondentDeity posted...

Adrafinil

Is this OTC? Buyable online or do I need prescription?

Tryhaptaward posted...

Is this OTC? Buyable online or do I need prescription?

Buyable online. Nootropics depot.

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DespondentDeity posted...

Buyable online. Nootropics depot.

Capsules or powder?

Tryhaptaward posted...

Capsules or powder?

Capsules unless you want to invest in a scale, you can't eyeball powder and you'll definitely want measured doses. 300mg is a good dose for all day wakefulness, but if you find it interfering with your sleep schedule, you might switch to powder and start moving up from 100mg until you're getting what you need out of it. I just have a $25 Gemini-20 milligram scale that's accurate to +-3 milligrams, plenty good enough for doses of 50mg and up.

If you're gonna take this daily you should take a full week off for every three weeks you're on it. My physician had said that you could take 2 weeks off every 8 weeks when I was on Modafinil, which Adrafinil is a pro-drug of, but if I took it more than two or three weeks in a row I would get extreme brain fog and symptoms of fatigue while fully awake and unable to sleep.

There's also no mood lift or really any kind of subjective effect that makes taking this a fun experience, so it's pretty easy to quit it even after an extended period of time. You may have increased focus due to the alertness, but you won't feel increased interest like you would on a narcotic stimulant.

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Wasabi powder.
Just cut out a line and snort it. Shit'll wake you right the fuck up.

DespondentDeity posted...

Capsules unless you want to invest in a scale, you can't eyeball powder and you'll definitely want measured doses. 300mg is a good dose for all day wakefulness, but if you find it interfering with your sleep schedule, you might switch to powder and start moving up from 100mg until you're getting what you need out of it. I just have a $25 Gemini-20 milligram scale that's accurate to +-3 milligrams, plenty good enough for doses of 50mg and up.

If you're gonna take this daily you should take a full week off for every three weeks you're on it. My physician had said that you could take 2 weeks off every 8 weeks when I was on Modafinil, which Adrafinil is a pro-drug of, but if I took it more than two or three weeks in a row I would get extreme brain fog and symptoms of fatigue while fully awake and unable to sleep.

Alright, thanks for the tips; I'll be utilizing this over the Summer and when I'm back to class in the Fall