I take noopept 20mg daily sublingually or orally, and occasionally modafinil.

Modafinil works really well for me (300/400mg keeping me awake and FOCUSED but not buzzing/twitchy) but worked poorly for my brother (no noticeable effect at similar dosage).

Since taking noopept I have noticed more of a willingness and now desire to learn, something which was an issue in my past. It also seems to help me work for prolonged periods of time without getting burnt out. (anecdotal, could well be placebo effect but it works for me!) Feel free to ask me anything.

I take 1.5g of piracetam in the morning with a choline supplement. When I remember to, I take another 750mg around lunch to keep blood levels up. The half life of piracetam is reported to be around 4 hrs. It is one of those things that you don't realize is there until you notice that you've been focused and on task for hours without drifting off. It has also helped me expand my ability to hold larger object models in my head while coding. Also, it staves off that thing where you lose track of a word or thing you've been trying to remember. Great stuff.

For particularly taxing times, I have a bottle of oxiracetam that I use in conjunction with the piracetam. It reminds me of the heightened focus I used to get when I had prescriptions for Ritalin/Adderall growing up, yet without all of the nasty side effects. It was great a couple of hours before an exam during my masters program, or in the mornings right after my daughter was born.

I tried pramiracetam once. I got nothing but a bad headache from that.

I have a few samples of noopept around somewhere, but I don't think I've been brave enough to try them yet after the pramiracetam disaster.

Oh, and I've recently added 200mg of huperzine A to my morning regimen. Not sure how much it helps. Seems to be a decent replacement on the weekends when I don't want to take the full cocktail.

I took around 2g piracetam daily for a few weeks back in '09. I remember a general improvement in my mental visualization ability, dream recall and that's about it. There is no change in consciousness nor alertness (a theme I was curious about when I dabbled in the substance).

I stopped taking that because obtaining it OTC where I live is kind of hit and miss. The drug requires a prescription (generally to treat degenerative conditions common in the elderly) and some pharmacists are more hardline in that respect.

In hindsight, given it's a relatively recent compound and there's so little research on it, I guess it's for the best. I wonder if my "experiments" can have a negative impact in my health, especially my mental health; I hope the estimates regarding the safety of piracetam turn out to be correct.

I take Nootropil, 3200mg daily to help combat hypoxia damage from a bad habit I picked up about 20 years ago (smoking =). I can't say there are any noticeable effects of doing so that I wouldn't call placebo effects.

I used to take a much larger, and more structured regimen, and found it very difficult to keep everything balanced, some things increased the consumption of ACH so much that I had to start taking choline supplements, but if I screwed up my timing/doses, I'd hit nasty lows from too much choline intake. I gave up on it, as the only noticeable difference I had from the regimen was a more difficult job of timing, having to have a lot of pills around, etc.

I stick with nootropil due to its well-established safety, and minimal impact on overall chemical balance.

I took glycine, semaks (Met-Glu-His-Phe-Pro-Gly-Pro), piracetam for about several months, and, finally phenylpiracetam (it's called phenotropil in Russia) some time ago.

I've notice entirely no effect from any of this drugs with except of phenylpiracetam.

While I've used phenylpiracetam, I've noticed some effects: 1) I've got more physical endurance (I'm engaging in sports a lot) just from one doze of it; 2) My overall alertness arises; 3) My visual perception became more clear and vivid; 4) I was able to maintain focus for extended periods of time; 5) It was easy to wakeup and harder to sleep down earlier (my brain was like "so much ideas, need to think it all").

When I stop taking phenylpiracetam all of these effects gone away.

I take L-theanine in combination with caffeine. The difference is noticeable - caffeine normally makes me feel kind of shaky and jittery and L-theanine takes the "edge" off of it.

I take, daily, 100mg Caffeine, 200mg of L-Theanine (as Suntheanine), and 500mg of Rhodiola Rosea (3.6% rosavin 18mg, 0.9% salidrosides 4.5mg).

This is a fairly effective regimen, for me, for combating fatigue and maintaining focus. I simply keep a bottle of Suntheanine and another of Rhodiola Rosea at my desk and eat them with my morning water or tea. I haven't done any rigorous testing to prove to myself that these things are helping, but I am certainly convinced that they do.

I used to take piracetam 800 mg daily, apparently a low dose. I now take noopept, 20 mg daily.

I notice the texture of things more, and I constantly have a need to look at everything in my vicinity. It's not distracting however, and really helps with technical tasks.