racetams and brain fog

[psychedelic food]

Ive been taking aniracetam for about two weeks at about 1500 mg per day and have really bad brain fog. Ive read other reports saying that racetams can cause brain fog. The optimal dose for piracetam is lower than the normal recommended dose. If i took a lower dose of aniracetam maybe 50 mg would this improve? What do you think is the reason for the brain fog associated with racetams?

 

[shibireru]

Aniracetam causes brain fog? That's rather euphemistic, isn't it? It makes you fucking stupid is what it does (to me anyways). It's a real and genuine nooatropic (take note of the privative a). Gee, I sure wish it were as easy to find nootropics as it is their antithesis.

I haven't found any amount of aniracetam to enhance cognition.

Anecdotal reports suggest that other racetams, particularly piracetam, don't have the cognition-blunting effects of aniracetam and indeed act as nootropics, but this may simply be because piracetam is so much weaker than aniracetam and anticipation or faith causes people to see cognitive improvement where there be none.

 

[Hammilton]

I have little experience with piracetam and none with Aniracetam, but a bit more with Keppra (levetiracetam). With relatively high doses of either, I never noticed any 'mental fog' but I found no recognizable cognitive benefits.

Interestingly, one of the two seizures I ever had (from tramadol) occured while I was on Keppra, and just like the month I took Topamax, I had terrible tingling in my feet.

Part of my search for a viable solution to my memory issues, but, like everything else, neither were of any benefit.

 

[Mr. White]

i only got 'brain fog' when i dose too high with piracetam or dont take a choline source too. Maybe drop your dose a little

Are you supplementing with a choline source (eg lecithin)? piracetam will increase your demand for choline.

 

[PsychedelicPeptide]

You need a choline precursor supplement. Piracetam gives me plain old headaches without supplementing, after a few days straight use. Eggs are the best readily available source, also some higher quality juices have it but you have to look at the labels.

I think piracetam is one of the best nootropics you can buy... perfect for studying/hard college years.

 

[Elinisti]

The choline supplements people usually recommend to use with racetams bring me the fog. I feel like a zombie and I hardly can talk. It seems that I've got too much of choline in my brain as it is. But racetams work great without choline for me.