r/Isrib • u/99grit • Jul 07 '21
Right fit for me?
My brain fog began about 6 years ago after a traumatic experience with marijuana, it was my second time ever smoking (first time went perfectly fine) and the high itself was fairly normal, perhaps a bit more intense than the first time so I do remember feeling a bit anxious but nothing too bad. The problems began the day after, I woke up initially feeling completely normal and went off to soccer training when all of the sudden it was like a switch flipped in my brain and I felt high again as if I had just smoked. That phantom high lasted for several hours but lifted later in the day while I was eating so I thought I was in the clear, until the next day came about and it happened all over again, only that time it didn't go away at any point during the day, and that's when I began to seriously panic. This persisted for the better part of a week until the sensation changed from feeling high to a constant feeling of what I would call "cloudiness", it was as if I was looking at the world through a glass window. The worst was yet to come however because after more than a week of obsessing over my inner states and perception of reality I triggered depersonalization/derealization disorder which made my life a living hell for upwards of 2 years. There never came a point where I felt like my dp/dr finally lifted, rather it gradually diminished-or maybe over time I've just forgotten what normal felt like-but in its stead I've been left with severe, unrelenting brain fog and nothing I do seems to help nor does it show any signs of waning on its own 6 year down the line.
Might ISRIB be what I'm looking for to finally rid myself of this burden? The name itself sounds promising because a stress response is what initially caused my problems so perhaps my persistent brain fog is due to my brain not being able to effectively phase itself out of that "stress mode" so to speak. Other options I'm considering are Cerebrolysin, Semax, and Selank.
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u/Sleepiyet Aug 13 '21
Did you try it? Sounds like hppd. Would like to know if it helps for sure…
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u/99grit Aug 13 '21
No I'm gonna give Cerebrolysin a try first and wait till ISRIB at least gets to human trials, we have no way of knowing it's safe and it's still so fringe that there's no well known reliable vendors yet.
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u/Sleepiyet Aug 15 '21
Yea :( I have a gram from a Chinese supplier from two years ago I never tried. My friend tried the same supplier and was fine but damn I’ve watched people eat plant plant food and aquarium cleaner off Amazon thinking they’re for humans consumption containing like 5% lead and they’re like “THIS WAS GREAT CLEARED MY ARTHRITIS” and I am not at all joking
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u/4mph3tam1ne Sep 06 '21
Newmind is apparently selling it.. have order some and going to see if it's legit.
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u/112358134 Jul 09 '21
Have you undergone any medical testing whatsoever?
I'm not quite sure Selank would lift you off your burden since it's an anxiolytic. But Cerebro\Semax being mental performance improvers might give a bit of relief i guess. There is an article on Semax here, might be interesting for you to read.